TCA Press Tour: Yoko Ono promises that we don’t know everything about John Lennon…yet by Joy Press, LA Times August 5, 2010 | 8:05 pm Looking striking and tiny in her rakish fedora and trademark sunglasses, Yoko Ono spoke to journalists at the television critics press tour about the upcoming “American Masters” film “LennonNYC,” which will [...]
By Sarah Rodman, Boston Globe The Smithsonian Channel may not be the first place music fans think of when considering “music on TV’’ options. But between programming on undersea edens and classic court cases, the cable network has programmed some engrossing and offbeat musical fare on everything from free jazz to traveling blues. Sunday night [...]
www.tibetinsong.com About Tibet In Song In 1995, a young Tibetan musicologist named Ngawang Choephel travelled to Tibet to make a documentary about traditional Tibetan folk music and dance. After filming for two months, the Chinese government arrested Ngawang, held him incommunicado and sentenced him to 18 years in prison, saying that the Fulbright scholar had [...]
Subway Gallery hosts TEENAGE BEDROOM an installation by renowned New York rock photographer Bob Gruen. We have invited Gruen to present an exhibit he first produced in 2007 for his solo exhibition “Rockers” at the FAAP University Museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several versions of TEENAGE BEDROOM have been exhibited since, including an installation consisting [...]
Including JOHN LENNON IN NYC by Allan Tannenbaum
Facebook event here.
THE PUFFIN ROOM
435 Broome St Manhattan, NY 10013 in SoHo between Broadway and Crosby [map]
3-18 April 2010; Friday-Sunday 1-7pm
Tel: (212) 343-2881
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Website: http://www.puffinroom.org
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Iain Macmillan Retrospective
Abbey Road, the Swinging 60′s, John & Yoko and Dundee
27th February until 3rd June 2010
Discovery Point Café Gallery, Discovery Quay, Dundee, DD1 4XA, Scotland.
FREE admission
Yoko says: “I am so glad that Iain is getting some recognition. He was a incredible photographer.”
by Randy Patterson, Boomerocity Elvis. Aerosmith. Elton John. The Stones. Alice Cooper. Zeppelin. Lennon/Yoko. Dylan. Frampton. These artists and icons dominated my mind (besides girls) in my youth. Photo’s torn from my favorite rock magazines and posters purchased in the store (for the astronomical price of $1!) hung on my bedroom walls. The images are [...]
“In a country divided, only together can they survive.” On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing tens of thousands of United States citizens of Japanese ancestry out of their homes and into internment camps isolated in the austere terrain of the American desert. Kenneth Handa is an adolescent Japanese-American, [...]
LUNAR GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY DESIGNATES “PEACE CRATER” TO HONOR JOHN LENNON New York USA (9 October 2009 LT) — The International Lunar Geographic Society has announced that a crater on Luna, Earth’s Moon, has been renamed to honor musician and peace activist John Lennon. The crater, which is located in the Moon’s Lacus Somniorum (“Lake of [...]
NEW YORK IN THE 70s – The photography of Allan Tannenbaum An Exhibition and Sale of photographs by Allan Tannenbaum, documenting the New York music, art, show biz, night club, social scenes. The show opens on May 29th and runs through June 25th, 2009. This exhibit will celebrate Allan’s fabulous and amazing photographs documenting this [...]
Mark Boyle Yoko Ono David Medalla CONSTELLATION is an exhibition of CLAY PERRY’s photographs of London’s avant-garde art scene in the 1960s, shown together with works from the time. In the midst of 1960s ‘Swinging London’, Clay Perry was the photographer for the avant-garde art scene, documenting a constellation of the most innovative international artists [...]
Yoko Ono presents an award of recognition to La Monte Young at Ono’s COURAGE AWARDS FOR THE ARTS at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Feb. 1, 2009 - Photo by Bob Gruen. Yoko Ono announces today, February 1st, 2009, the presentation of the first COURAGE AWARDS FOR THE ARTS from her at the [...]
The Price of Silence Created in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) set forth the basic rights of every human being, yet 60 years later in places the world over, violence, poverty and oppression hold sway. To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR, and to remind the world that violations of Human [...]
Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po works in his family’s noodle shop while daydreaming about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the world of Kung Fu and study alongside his idols-the legendary fighters Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey-under the leadership of their [...]
Warrior/pacifist princess nausicaa desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. This film is anti-prejudice, anti-cruety, and anti-war, without being preachy at all. A very good film for children. Enjoyable for adults, as well. One of my DVD recommendations for 2009. yoko // Share|
An exquisitely animated, overwhelmingly acclaimed adventure epic. Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. Once there, he becomes inextricably entangled in a bitter battle that matches Lady Eboshi and a proud clan of humans [...]
The Iceland Post Company recently published a book on Yoko Ono’s IMAGINE PEACE TOWER in cooperation with the artist. The tower was erected on Reykjavík’s Viðey island on October 9, 2007, in the memory of her late husband John Lennon. The 100-page book, simply entitled IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, contains a wealth of information on Ono’s [...]
Synopsis: Two strangers, Patti Quigley and Susan Retik, formed a common bond in their grief when both lost their husbands on Sept. 11, 2001. This documentary chronicles what they did with that unimaginable loss, traveling to Afghanistan to meet women there also widowed by violence. Director Beth Murphy follows Quigley and Retik as they [...]
Dear Ben, Right now I am in Tokyo feeling all nervous before my appearance in a very big John Lennon Tribute Concert this evening. But my PA just put your new video on her computer screen for me. The way you did it made me choke up. You did it so well. Just right. Thank [...]
Dear Sungha Jung, I just witnessed your performance of ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE! Thank you for a beautiful performance. John Lennon would have been happy that you performed his song so well. Lots of love, Yoko Ono Lennon // Share|


































