http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/ en Copyright 2012 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:10:27 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ballads of Rusty Magee at the great Soundtrack Series at Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker. Come on down and hear stories inspired by songs. Also, my band, THE CYNTHIA KAPLAN ORDEAL, once again has some awesome gigs coming up with the excellent and very tall songman Sean Altman and the luscious percussionist Mike Hunter (height unknown). Don't blame me if you bring children under 15 and they turn into pimps and hos. Also, don't forget to check out my video of Merry Christmas to You! And send it around to your friends. And friend The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal on Facebook. And donate to some worthy cause! In fact, if you bring a printed receipt from a December donation to a gig, I'll give you a free CD. Unless I don't like your cause, and then you can forget it. Sat. Dec. 15, '12 Towne Crier Pawling, NY (845) 855 1300, $17.50 advance, $22.50 day of show, 8:30 show, 130 Route 22. Sat. Dec. 22, '12 Milkboy Coffee Ardmore, PA 610.645.5269, $15 advance/ $18 day of show, 8pm, 2 East Lancaster Ave.. Sun. Dec. 23, '12 Cafe Nine New Haven, CT 203-789-8281, $15, doors 7pm for 8pm concert, 250 State St zip 06510. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Mon. Dec. 24, '12 Club Passim Cambridge, MA (617) 492-7679, ALL AGES. $18 advance, $20 day of show , 6PM & 8:30PM, 47 Palmer St. (Harvard Square) zip 02138. Club Passim is the best listening room in town and a great vegetarian restaurant, too. Tue. Dec. 25, '12 City Winery New York, NY (212) 608-0555, $20, 7pm show, 155 Varick St. (btwn Spring and Vandam), info@citywinery.com. CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS. Holy hell-freezes-over: my estranged What I Like About Jew partner Rob Tannenbaum will join for several of our co-writes! Wed. Dec. 26, '12 Mexicali Live Teaneck, NJ $15 presale / $20 day of show, doors 6pm for 7pm show, 1409 Queen Anne Road. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS. DINNER SEATING BEGINS AT 6PM. Dining area & stage are in the same room, so come eat before or during the show. For dinner reservations: Email reservation@mexicalilive.com or call 201-833-011. Thu. Dec. 27, '12 Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery Brattleboro, VT (802) 387-0599, $18 advance, $20 day of show, 7:30pm, 139 Main Street, 802concerts@gmail.com. CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS ]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2012/11/hey_again_december_2012_gigs.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2012/11/hey_again_december_2012_gigs.html Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:10:27 -0500 Merry Christmas to You! And send it around to your friends. And friend me on Facebook. And send a Christmas ham. And money. Okay, here are the gigs: Sat. Dec. 17, '11 Towne Crier Pawling, NY (845) 855 1300, $17.50 advance, $22.50 day of show, 8:30 show, 130 Route 22. Mon. Dec. 19, '11 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA $15 advance, $18 day of show, doors 5:30, show 7pm, 20 Center Street . Buy tix online or call the box office 413/586-8686 M-Sa 9-6 Su 12-5. Tue. Dec. 20, '11 Nightcat Easton, MD, USA Wed. Dec. 21, '11 The Birchmere Alexandria, VA $25, 7:30pm. 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA 22305. Phone: 703-549-7500. CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE TICKETS Thu. Dec. 22, '11 Milkboy Ardmore, PA 610.645.5269, $15 advance/ $18 day of show, 8pm, 2 East Lancaster Ave.. $15 advance tix click here Fri. Dec. 23, '11 Caffe Lena Saratoga Springs, NY 518-583-0022, $18 advance, $20 at door, $16 advance for members ($18 at door), 8pm show, 47 Phila St.. Sat. Dec. 24, '11 Joe's Pub New York, NY 212-967-7555, ALL AGES. $20 advance, $25 day of show , ONE SHOW: 7PM, doors 6:30, 425 Lafayette St., info@joespub.com. JEWMONGOUS' annual Christmas Eve Extravaganza at the newly renovated Joe's Pub, the best listening room in town and a great restaurant, too. Special guest Cynthia Kaplan and more tba. Tue. Dec. 27, '11 Mexicali Live Teaneck, NJ $15 presale / $20 day of show, 1409 Queen Anne Road. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS. DINNER SEATING BEGINS AT 6PM. Dining area & stage are in the same room, so come eat before or during the show. For dinner reservations: Email reservation@mexicalilive.com or call 201-833-011. Thu. Dec. 29, '11 Club Passim Cambridge, MA (617) 492-7679, ALL AGES. $18 advance, $20 day of show , 7PM, 47 Palmer St. (Harvard Square) zip 02138. Club Passim is the best listening room in town and a great vegetarian restaurant, too. No booze, though, so get liquored up in advance. ]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/12/hey_december_2011_gigs.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/12/hey_december_2011_gigs.html Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:16:30 -0500 The New Jack Paar Show! It's May and we're back at a shiny new time: 9:30 p.m. What's the New Jack Paar Show? It is the live talk/variety show hosted by humorist and CBS Morning Show commentator Nancy Giles and and author and comedian Cynthia Kaplan. What happened to April's show? It was a cruel month. Move on. This month's guests: Ann Leary: Breaking news: Ann is sitting in for Nancy, who is "busy." (Read: alternate Endeavor crew member. You didn't hear it here.) Anyway, Ann is the author of the hilarious memoir An Innocent, a Broad and the acclaimed novel Outtakes from a Marriage, and is the co-host with fellow authors Julie Klam and Laura ZIgman of NPR's new radio show "Hash Hags." Tom Shillue: Tom is originally from Norwood, Massachusetts and is a writer and comedian who has been seen in his own Comedy Central Presents stand-up special, on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and in his own segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His autobiographical monologues have become a fixture in the New York downtown comedy scene, at shows like Moonwork's Evening of Original Works. Tom was recently named New York's "Best Storyteller" at the annual ECNY awards. Julie Klam: Julie has written for tons of magazines including Rolling Stone, O, and The New York Times Magazine. She was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding writing on Pop-Up Video. Her most recent book was the New York TImes Bestseller You Had Me At Woof . She lives in NYC with her husband, daughter and dogs. Julia Darling: Julia is one of those rare artists who has built a career outside of the music industry--which is just a way of saying "it's really hard to get record deals." She did, however, release her third album earlier this year and continues to write, record and play music. (Editor's note: That album, Everything that has Happened Since Then is in heavy rotation at Cindy's house.) Steven Seagal: A friend of the NJP Show, the actor and martial artist stops by for a casual catch-up with Cindy and Ann. A not-to-be-missed three-way. Friday, May 20th at 9:30 p.m. (doors open 9:00) The Laurie Beechman Theater @The West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street Reservations: 212-695-6909 Cover charge: $5cover/$15 minim Eat the excellent dinner food or drink the whole minimum--your call Our motto: Come if you can; don't if you can't. p.s. Don't forget to "like" the Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal on Facebook. And why not get the album FANGRY on iTunes or cdbaby.com? Dudes.]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/05/people_of_the_web_the_few_the.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/05/people_of_the_web_the_few_the.html Wed, 11 May 2011 17:35:09 -0500 Jenny Allen‘s essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, Vogue, Esquire, among others, in the New Yorker's new humor anthology“Disquiet, Please!” and in In The Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After 50 (Simon & Schuster). She is the author of a book of fables for grown-ups called The Long Chalkboard, illustrated by her husband, Jules Feiffer. She performs stand-up comedy in Manhattan, has appeared in Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell, and at The Moth. Her show, I Got Sick Then I Got Better was produced at New York Theatre Workshop in 2009 and was extended three times. I Got Sick Then I Got Better has been seen in theaters, hospitals, universities and at cancer conferences around the country. Ms. Allen received the 2010 “It’s Always Something” award from Gilda’s Club NYC. jennyallenwrites.com. The Bitter Poet's full length show, “Looking For Love In All The Wrong Black Box Performance Spaces” appeared in the FRIGID New York 2011 Fringe Festival at Under St. Marks Theater, was selected “Best Of Festival” at FronteraFest ’10 in Austin, TX and was selected for the Piccolo Spoleto Fringe Festival in Charleston, SC. The Bitter Poet has performed in NYC at Dixon Place; PS122 Schoolhouse Rocks; The P.I.T.; La MaMa; Theatre For The New City, and many others. Kevin Draine (aka The Bitter Poet himself) lives in New York City and has appeared in the cult classics, Puddle Cruiser and Final Rinse and is the narrator for Animal Planet’s Dogs 101/Cats 101/Pets 101. www.thebitterpoet.com. Pat Candaras is a stand-up comic, writer, storyteller and actor. Her television credits include playing a judge on NBC's Law and Order; performing stand-up on Nick at Nite's Funniest Mom 3 and as a featured storyteller on the storytelling series presented by The Moth on the TRIO network. Pat was also a featured artist in a documentary presented on BBC in conjunction with the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Pat performed her one person show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival. In 2007 the producers of the Montreal Comedy Festival presented Pat as one of the NEW FACES OF COMEDY. www.patcandaras.com. The E-Trade Baby: In his first Off-Broadway appearance.* Important info: Friday, March 18th at 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30) The Laurie Beechman Theater @The West Bank Cafe 407 West 42nd Street Reservations: 212-695-6909 Cover charge: $5cover/$15 minimum Excellent dinner food or drink the whole minimum--your call Our motto: Come if you can; don't if you can't. *Okay, that's a bald-faced lie. It's his second Off-Broadway appearance.]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/03/new_jack_paar_show_march_madne_1.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/03/new_jack_paar_show_march_madne_1.html Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:47:32 -0500 Celebrate the fourth day after Valentine's Day with us! Check out the new rockbottom cover charge! What's the story with that? What's the New Jack Paar Show? It is a live talk/variety show hosted by humorist and CBS Morning Show commentator Nancy Giles and and author and comedian Cynthia Kaplan. There will be music, comedy, and very possibly the literary arts will be represented. And, of course, special guests every month. Yeah, who? Deb Margolin: Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company whose new play Imagining Madoff was presented at Stageworks Hudson this past summer. She is the recipient of a 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, and in 2008 she won the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright award. A compilation of Deb's performance pieces and plays, Of All the Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO has been published by Cassell/Continuum Press. Deb lives in New Jersey, which she denies. Susan Burns: Susan Burns is a proud West Bank Alumna and a writer, comic,and actor. She is a founding member of the Seaside Shakespeare Company, a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and a member of the Actors Studio. Susan has initiated and produced an Evening of Storytelling at the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, where she will be doing her Comedy Extravaganza this coming Labor Day, an evening which has featured West Bank stars like Nancy Giles and Scott Blakeman. Singer-songwriter Greg Naughton! Greg can usually be found gigging around NYC backed by his band The Stark Naked Sole or touring with the trio The Sweet Remains. Surprise Guest TBA: This guest is such a remarkable artist that if we reveal his identity there will be a line around the West Bank starting yesterday. Okay, it's Prince. He'll pay a couple of his hits, back Cindy up on some of hers, and then do a duet of When Doves Cry with Nancy. Important info: Friday, February 18th at 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30) The Laurie Beechman Theater @The West Bank Cafe 407 West 42nd Street Reservations: 212-695-6909 Cover charge: $5cover/$15 minimum Excellent dinner food or drink the whole minimum--your call Our motto: Come if you can; don't if you can't. Next New Jack Paar Show: Friday, March 18th, 7 p.m. http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/02/yet_another_new_jack_paar_show.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2011/02/yet_another_new_jack_paar_show.html Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:25:20 -0500 here or by searching for The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal on You Tube. Also, the album can now be downloaded from both Digstation and CDBaby! Lastly, don't forget to check into the Gigs page for the last leg of the holiday tour! Cambridge, Brattleboro, NYC, Skokie, here we come. The Christmas Eve show at City Winery in NYC is going to be raucous. Wear your nicest underthings. Cheers!]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/12/youtube_or_bust.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/12/youtube_or_bust.html Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:56:54 -0500 HERE right now at digstation. If you're lucky, Kaplan will sing and play guitar, and then you'll laugh until you can't breathe." —Time Out New York I am appearing at the excellent Show & Tell Reading Series at Union Hall in Brooklyn and also touring the eastern seaboard with Sean Altman. Liquor up; we're coming to YOUR city. Maybe. There will also be a special New Jack Paar Holiday Show. Stay tuned for the date. Here's the schedule: Wednesday, December 1 Piermont, NY Turning Point Café Sean Altman’s Jewmongous featuring The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal 468 Piermont Avenue 845-359-1089, $20, doors &pm for 8 pm concert. Celebrate the first night of Hanukah at this beautiful, intimate venue, attached to a great restaurant. Saturday, December 4 Washington, DC Sixth & I Sean Altman’s Jewmongous featuring The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal 600 I Street NW. Doors 8pm for 9pm show. 18yrs+. Tickets $15 through Nov. 24th, $20 after, and include snacks. Cash bar. Tickets can also be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. All seating is general admission. Monday, December 13 Brooklyn, NY SHOW & TELL READING SERIES Union Hall 702 Union Street 718-638-4400, $5, doors open 7:30 Special Christmas show! Cindy will read from her second book and play guitar, almost at the same time. Wow. Saturday, December 18 Philadelphia, PA Tin Angel Sean Altman’s Jewmongous featuring The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal 215-928-0770, $15.00, 7pm doors, 7:30 show, 20 South 2nd St. Holiday Comedy Song Extravaganza with special guests Matt Detro on guitar and comedienne/author/physician Robin Altman. Wednesday, Dec. 22 Cambridge, MA Club Passim Sean Altman’s Jewmongous featuring The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal (617) 492-7679, ALL AGES. $18 advance, $20 day of show , ONE SHOW: 7PM 47 Palmer St. (Harvard Square) JEWMONGOUS' annual Holiday Extravaganza. Club Passim is the best listening room in town and a great vegetarian restaurant, too. No booze, though, so get liquored up in advance. Thursday, December 23 Brattleboro, VT Hooker-Dunham Theater Sean Altman’s Jewmongous featuring The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal (802) 254-9276, $16 adults / $8 students, 7:30pm, 139 Main Street. Ski bums: Don't miss this one! Friday, December 24 New York City City Winery (212) 608-0555, $20 advance, $25 day of show, 8pm, 155 Varick St. (btwn Spring and Vandam), info@citywinery.com. JEWMONGOUS with special guests The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal performing hits from their debut album, Tammy Faye Starlite, Goddess Perlman of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and more tba. Saturday, December 25 Skokie, Il (Skokie, holy shit, we’re going to get our asses kicked.) Skokie Theater Sean Altman’s Jewmongous featuring The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal $20, 7pm (doors 6:30) & 9pm (doors 8:30).]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/11/cindys_december_gigs.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/11/cindys_december_gigs.html Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:06:41 -0500 "The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal is the love child of Jonathan Coulton and Tenacious D, had they been a couple, or, really, a threesome."--Rolling Stone Magazine. Okay, I said that, not Rolling Stone. Whatever. What? you exclaim. She has a band and sings songs? What the fuck? I thought she was a writer. Well, I have also been writing and performing comedy and music, sometimes the two together, for lo these three hundred years or so. And I want you to hear it. Or, preferably, buy it. FANGRY will be available at http://www.digstation.com by November 5th, and is coming soon to CDBaby and iTunes. The actual cd will also be sold by CDBaby, by me at gigs or at other times, or possibly just handed to you, if you are very nice, or bartered or as part of an in-kind trade. We here at www.cynthiakaplan.com are also revamping the site to include music tracks and lyrics and gig info and all other band related stuff--all for your listening and reading pleasure. Also, you can visit The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal on Facebook by clicking here and become a fan, find out about gigs, post, uh, postings, and be the first to see the cover art. So listen, buy, visit, and most of all, sing the songs. Because that's what it's all about: you.]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/11/dear_four_people_a_week_who_vi.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/11/dear_four_people_a_week_who_vi.html Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:03:33 -0500 Another New Jack Paar Show! Nancy Giles and Cynthia Kaplan are back with another show? So soon? Yes! And we plan to be going monthly starting in 2011, with one more show possibly coming up this year. What's the New Jack Paar Show? In case you haven't been to one, it is a live talk/variety show hosted by humorist and CBS Morning Show commentator Nancy Giles and and author and comedian Cynthia Kaplan. There will be music, comedy, and very possibly the literary arts will be represented. And, of course, special guests every month. Who? Since you ask, on Monday, October 25th you will see: Mary Testa: A two-time TONY nominee, singer Testa has starred in such Broadway hits as On The Town, 42nd Street, Guys and Dolls, Xanadu (it ran and ran!) and Chicago, and has collaborated with the composers William Finn and Michael John LaChiusa. She has appeared in television and film, notably a regular on Whoopi Goldberg's Whoopi, as well as on Sex and the City and the recent Eat Pray Love. Alyson Palmer & Tony Salvatore: Alyson is a member of the award-winning powerhouse rock band known as BETTY. Since 1986, Betty has recorded eight albums, has toured the world, and their music has been heard on television shows, in movies, in their own off-Broadway show, Betty Rules, and on the cable hit The L Word. Tony is the multi-talented guitarist behind the Tony Salvatore Trio, BETTY and Pleasuredog. He has performed with Jane Siberry, Tracy Bonham, Taj Mahal, GE Smith (SNL), and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, among many others. He is also Cindy's guitar guru. Kathryn Rossetter: An actor, director and teacher, Kathy has appeared on Broadway, in films, on television, and in several acclaimed one-woman shows. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Theatre fellowship for developing the one-person show. Her current work, "Starving, Hysterical, Naked" is the result of that fellowship and is in development in NY. Matt Damon:* International film star who also makes amusing forays into television and music video. Possible Surprise Literary Guest: Dude is too famous to be pinned down. When and Where? Monday October 25th at 7 p.m. The Laurie Beechman Theater @The West Bank Cafe 407 West 42nd Street Reservations: 212-695-6909 Cover charge: 10 smacker cover/15 smacker minimum Full bar and excellent dinner food *subject to availability http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/10/another_new_jack_paar_show.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/10/another_new_jack_paar_show.html Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:23:22 -0500 Humorist and CBS Morning Show commentator Nancy Giles and I, Cynthia Kaplan, are returning to the West Bank Cafe with our award-winning live talk/variety show. Modeled, sort of, after the late Jack Paar's classic television program, The New Jack Paar Show will once again feature Nancy and my typically HILARIOUS take on current events, plenty of comedy and music, and special guests. What guests you ask? Well, on Monday, October 4th you can expect to see: GREGORY & JAMES WOLFE are founding members of the remarkable, long running downtown comedy show Moonwork. They have appeared on MTV and HBO (When they didn't have so much grey in their beards). After many open mic nights they are proud and excited to have their first real gig to show case their "Totally Appalachia" set.) ANN LEARY, author of the hilarious memoir An Innocent, a Broad and the acclaimed novel Outtakes from a Marriage, is also the host of NPR's In House with Ann Leary, a show about interesting people and their homes. SEAN ALTMAN The Washington Post calls Sean's renowned comedy song act JEWMONGOUS "bawdy with a wicked, modern streak," the Boston Globe raves "the tunefulness of the Beatles and the spot-on wit of Tom Lehrer," and Sean's mother chides "Your brother the MD makes a better living." Check out www.jewmongous.com and see JEWMONGOUS Christmas Eve at City Winery with special guest Cynthia Kaplan. Plus, Nancy will probably do some stuff from one of her acclaimed one woman shows, and I will sing songs from FANGRY, my soon-to-be-released comedy/rock album (or cock album, as they say in the business.) Don't miss it! Bring a friend if you have one. Monday October 4th at 7 p.m. The Laurie Beechman Theater @The West Bank Cafe 407 West 42nd Street Reservations: 212-695-6909 Cover charge: only ten smackers Full bar and excellent food Next New Jack Paar Show: Monday October 25th. Guests TBA. Possibly Matt Damon. http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/09/the_new_jack_paar_show_is_back.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/09/the_new_jack_paar_show_is_back.html Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:59:21 -0500 Hello Friend! Just serving notice that I have and excellent Passover/Erev Easter show coming up at the 92nd Street Y in Tribeca. I don't know why they still call it the 92nd Street Y when it is not on 92nd street but that is their business. Frankly, I don't care. Anyhow, I am joining the gleamingly talented Sean Altman and his rocking Jewmongous show (as I often do) for one night only--Saturday, April 3rd. Please come. I'm hoping there is going to be alcohol there, but if you are worried about it, feel free to tank up beforehand. Here's the info: Place: The 92nd Street Y Tribeca Reservations: 212.601.1000 Address: 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013. 8:00pm door, 9:00pm show. http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/03/here_comes_peter_cottontail.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2010/03/here_comes_peter_cottontail.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:30:43 -0500 Hi to the Twelve of You, I wanted to let you know I am reading from my latest book, Leave the Building Quickly, or from my firstest book, Why I'm Like This, I haven't decided which yet, this Tuesday night, December 8th at Happy Ending Bar. Joining me, or I'm joining them, are the wondrous Alix Strauss, reading from her new book about celebrity suicide, and the New York Times bestselling A.J. Jacobs, that show-off, reading from his latest tome. This will be fun. Maybe you'll hook-up with someone there. Who knows? Anyway, come on down. Here are the details: Happy Ending Bar 302 Broome Street New York City 212-334-9676 Tuesday, December 8 7 p.m. Door, Readings from 8-10 p.m. There will be alcohol! http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2009/12/come_one_come_all.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2009/12/come_one_come_all.html Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:00:18 -0500 The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment. Second, Alix Strauss' Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, & the Notorious. May I just say that my own books are still available for sale.]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2009/09/september_2009_gigs.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2009/09/september_2009_gigs.html Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:05:20 -0500 Dear Friends and the Like, Here it is the holidays and once again I will be performing my small music/comedy extravaganza in Sean Altman's large music/comedy extravaganza, the famed Jewmongous. I will join the always sold-out East Coast tour in Philly, D.C. and New York and hope that any or all of you in the general vicinities of those cities will come spend a couple of hours laughing with us but not singing along because we don't like that. There is alcohol available at all venues, which I would recommended. There is food as well, but that's up to you. Eat, don't eat, I don't care. Happy Obama, Cindy Kaplan/Cynthia Kaplan (for those of you who still don't realize we are the same person.) The schedule follows: Tue. Dec. 23, '08 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA 215-222-1400, $20 advance, $23 day of show, save $2 on advance *cash* tix, 7:30pm (doors 7pm), 3025 Walnut St. Tickets click here.. With guest Cindy Kaplan. Wed. Dec. 24, '08 Jammin' Java Vienna, VA 703.255.1566, $17.00 advance / $20.00 day of show, 6pm doors, 7pm show, 227 Maple Ave East / 22180. Christmas Eve with the tribe! With guest Cindy Kaplan. Fri. Dec. 26, '08 The Cutting Room New York, NY (212) 691-1900, tix $20, 7:30pm & 9:30pm (doors 7pm and 9pm), 19 West 24th St btw Broadway & 6th Ave. With guests Cindy Kaplan and Tammy Faye Starlite. Prudish Parental Advisory: Due to adult themes and language, JEWMONGOUS is not recommended for children under 13 unless you're raising them to be sailors. http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2008/12/last_minute_holiday_gigs_for_t.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2008/12/last_minute_holiday_gigs_for_t.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:24:20 -0500 Leave the Building Quickly has come out and is available at your local bookseller or from your favorite web bookseller. It is a very good paperback, if I may say so, and I may. Big-ish news! I will be reading from said paperback at the wondrous and hip Happy Ending Reading Series on Wednesday, May 28th at 8:00 p.m. There will be other fine authors and music and alcohol--everything you could possibly want on a Wednesday night. Of course, if you're looking for a hook-up, you're on your own. But you might want to come down anyway. I have some excellent single friends. And sometimes, I...oh, never mind. Here are the details: HAPPY ENDING BAR 302 Broome St. Between Forsyth and Eldridge SHOW STARTS AT 8pm DOORS OPEN AT 7pm The bar has a pink awning and says "health club" on it. HE is stenciled on the front door. J,M,Z,F to Delancey B,D to Grand St Go Democrats! Also, coming soon: Confessions of Cap'n Scruffy. Don't ask.]]> http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2008/05/attention_democrats_and_other.html http://www.cynthiakaplan.com/breaking-news/2008/05/attention_democrats_and_other.html Mon, 19 May 2008 11:31:18 -0500