Restaurant Review: Chateau Royale | The New Yorker

The onslaught of intensity works, thanks to choices the restaurant makes in portioning (not overlarge) and service (not over-rushed), which gives the palate a bit of time to regroup between happy sighs. In this respect, Chateau Royal…
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Restaurant Review: Chateau Royale

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Self-Titled Summer | Suzanne Vega (1985, US)

Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 820 on The List, submitted by shiawase. Though many people likely only know of this artist via DNA's dance remix of "Tom's Diner", this singer-songwriter was an important part of the folk music revival and Greenwich Village music scene boom of the early 80s. The album we look at here is Vega's debut, a collection of stories presented in a stripped-back neo-folk style. And Vega is still going strong! She just released her 10th studio album, Flying with Angels, and is currently touring Europe/UK until the end of the year.

Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/09/15/self-titled-summer-suzanne-vega-1985-us/

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/ca/i/1429191144

Happy listening!

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Self-Titled Summer | Suzanne Vega (1985, US)

Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 820 on The List, submitted by shiawase. Here’s a quick rundown:

• Point of origin(s): Born in California (in 1959) and raised in New York City, as a college student singer-songwriter Vega became part of the folk music revival and Greenwich Village music scene boom of the early 80s. Vega was part of Jack Hardy‘s songwriters’ group at the Cornelia Street Cafe, from which a cooperative and monthly anthology (The CooP/Fast Folk Musical Magazine) arose to give an outlet for independent artists to perform and put out their first recordings. Vega’s first was “Cracking” on the inaugural Fast Folk comp (February 1982), followed by a handful of other songs on subsequent Fast Folk issues over the next three years.[1] A year after Vega was signed to A&M Records, in May 1985 she released this, her debut album, which includes most of those Fast Folk songs (with the exception of “Tom’s Diner” and “Gypsy”, both of which would end up on Vega’s second album) plus more. Vega also performed the entire album (plus “Tom’s Diner” and “Gypsy”, as well as some great monologues) as a solo acoustic set at the SpeakEasy club in Greenwich Village the week the s/t came out. This lovely performance was released as a radio broadcast to promote the album; in 2014, the recording was finally released as an album (though possibly unofficially?), Live at the Speakeasy (also found under the title Live in New York 1985).
• Tasting notes: Masterful storytelling via stripped-back contemporary folk/neo-folk, acoustic guitar
• Standout track: The album’s first single, “Marlene on the Wall”; also “Small Blue Thing” and “The Queen and the Soldier”. I also really dig all the live Speakeasy versions.
• Where are they now?: Vega’s s/t was a hit, as was her addition to the Pretty in Pink soundtrack (“Left of Center“) in 1986 and then her second album, Solitude Standing (1987). In 1989, she became the very first woman to headline the Glastonbury Festival. The following year then saw Vega’s biggest hit – indeed what most people know her for – being a remix of “Tom’s Diner” by British electronic dance duo DNA. Though originally showing up in clubs as an unsolicited bootleg titled “Oh Susanne”, Vega soon gave DNA permission for an official release. Around the same time, this song garnered Vega fame for a rather random reason, as the original a cappella version was used as the test song when the MP3 format was being developed by Karlheinz Brandenburg, particularly to see how the human voice fared with its compression algorithm. Brandenburg refined the algorithm until Vega’s voice sounded right, and christened Vega “Mother of the MP3”.
  Vega has gone on to do many other wonderful things, including: experimenting with the folk genre, winning many awards, being featured on a number of soundtracks, becoming a published author, becoming a playwright (with “Barely Breathing” Duncan Sheik!), hosting a Peabody Award-winning radio series, acting in an off-Broadway musical, and starting her own recording label and re-recording her back catalogue.
  Vega just released her 10th studio album this last May, Flying with Angels, and is currently touring it with dates in Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, England, and Scotland still to come.
• Websites: Artist website, Bandcamp, Wikipedia

Happy listening!

• Songlink: Suzanne Vega – Suzanne Vega
• Discogs: Suzanne Vega – Suzanne Vega

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#OTD (Aug 18) in 2017, #Genovese Crime Family big shot Venero 'Benny Eggs' #Mangano dies in #GreenwichVillage, Manhattan, at the age of 95.

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Venero "Benny Eggs" #Mangano, longtime power in the #Genovese Crime Family, passed away in #GreenwichVillage #OTD (Aug. 18) in 2017. His story was posted to the Mafiahistory.us website at that time.

https://mafiahistory.us/a033/f_venman.html

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20 Great Restaurants in New York City’s Greenwich Village

The New York City dining landscape is not for the indecisive. There are roughly 20,000 restaurants here and new spots are opening daily. If you had to pick a neighbor…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2210167/20-great-restaurants-in-new-york-citys-greenwich-village/