Barbara Brussell

Babs Celebrates Babes

On the music scene, the warm humor and exquisite vocal flourishes of the eclectic, electrifying Barbara Brussell are causing a power outage down at the Metropolitan Room in Chelsea. For the next four Thursdays at 10 p.m. she’s celebrating some of the women who bucked trends, stormed barricades and invaded a songwriting world dominated by men. The 50-year career of the great Dorothy Fields is a highlight, along with songs by Carolyn Leigh, Marilyn Bergman and Betty Comden—all, amazingly, collaborators of the late Cy Coleman.  read more »

Post-Oscar Crash For Halle Berry

Oscar-winners aren't having much luck these days.  read more »