Arts & Leisure
The Long Blue Line
Irma Rivera grew up in the East Village of Manhattan in a Puerto Rican family, was schooled in the City, and joined the ranks of the NYPD in 1982 a...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Notre Dame, AIF dinner, and meeting the Taoiseach
I attended a conference relating to the Irish language in University of Notre Dame last week. It was my first time there and I was really taken wit...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Selling albums, playing house concerts in tough economy
In February, something unusual happened that received scant notice in the mainstream press: the worst sales total in SoundScan history for an album...
May 18, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Browning retiring from World Music Institute
Within a couple years of their immigration in 1980 to Portland, Ore., I saw former Bothy Band members Kevin Burke on fiddle and Micheal O Domhnaill...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Light-hearted take on a classic Irish play
"The Shaughraun" By Dion Boucicault • Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd St., NYC • Through June 12, 2011 Dion Boucicault's "The Shaughraun," w...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
An afternoon of song, stories
Between the Lines / Peter McDermott We've mentioned in the Echo the alliances involving writers and musicians in recent times - most notably betwee...
May 11, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Fiddler spins gold from silk
London-born, Portland resident fiddler Kevin Burke, now age 60, has lost none of the spellbinding silkiness in his playing. Though his parents hail...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Ireland is changed, changed utterly
I was at home in Ireland last week renewing my visa. The weather was unbelievable -- so amazing that I didn't want to come back to New York. That's...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Stiller disappoints in ‘Leaves’
“The House of Blue Leaves” By John Guare • Walter Kerr Theatre, 218 W. 48th St., NYC • Open-Ended Run Alone among the plays of the Irish-American d...
May 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
A concert of sparkling tunes, songs, and wit
"Did you hear about the two blondes who walked into a building?" Seamus Begley asked the audience. "Wouldn't you think one of them would have seen ...
April 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
Reasons to stay
Michael Leach's latest book "Why Stay Catholic?" is about the "good stuff in Catholicism. Beautiful Catholic ideas we never hear about, even from t...
April 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Arts & Leisure
'Horse' of a different color
"War Horse" By Nick Stafford • At the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC • Open-Ended Run You probably won't ever forget the ears. If y...
April 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff