Marc Ribot

City Realty has an update on Blue, the 16-story, Bernard Tschumi-designed residential condo building at 105 Norfolk Street just off Delancey Street.

According to the Web site, the building will be topped out in May and will be ready for move-ins by the fall. Prices for the 32 units range from $745,000 to $3.95 million!  read more »

All this is happening just next door to Tonic, the avant-garde nightclub that frequently hosts musicians such as John Zorn and Marc Ribot. It's a curious juxtaposition of the building and the club: Will the Wall Street types stop by the club for a nightcap to the soothing sounds of Electric Masada or Painkiller? Or will the club start getting a lot of noise complaints?

-Matthew Grace

For the past 15 years, the major jazz labels have been relying on the middle-of-the-road tastes of a  read more »