Podcasts about theater district

Allan and Alana Johnston (The Disinvited, Nature Talks To Itself) explore Downtown L.A.'s Theater District. Along the way they admire vintage vaudeville and silent movie theaters, ride the world's shortest incline railway, and visit an extravagant Apple store.

Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has left the DC art community reeling. How is DC's vibrant but sometimes overlooked theater community dealing with the fallout? Chad Dexter Kinsman, arts administrator and host of Theater District podcast explains what all of this means for the future of theater in the District.  Want some more DC news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey DC. You can also become a member, with ad-free listening, for as little as $8 a month. Learn more about the sponsors of this March 18th episode: Urban Pace The Pew Charitable Trusts Babbel - Get up to 60% off at Babbel.com/CITYCAST Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Friday's show: We preview the Theater District Open House, which returns on March 10 for the first time since 2019. The event is an opportunity for arts enthusiasts to learn more about the city's theaters and arts organizations and to preview their upcoming seasons.Also this hour: From layoffs at Sesame Street, to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick wanting to rename the New York strip, we discuss The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week.Then, a new documentary short highlights the resilience of Houston's Asian-American community during a period of anti-immigrant fervor. We talk with actor Nik Dodani, the director of Houston Rising.And we visit the final event of Doomsday Wrestling, a comedy wrestling show which held its last matches recently after the death of its creator.

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Bret was a bit of a homebody last week as he prepared for CREATE: The Event for Emerging Restaurateurs, a conference that Nation's Restaurant News is hosting in Nashville this week, but he did enjoy traditional Jewish brisket for Rosh Hashannah at a friend's home in Manhattan.  Pat attended two Broadway shows that were preceded by tasty and affordable meals, which can be hard to find in New York City's Theater District. She had a prix fixe pre-theater dinner of creamy parsnip soup, grilled swordfish with vegetables, and baklava at Kellari Taverna for $55, and before a Saturday matinee, she had a tasty and reasonably priced brunch at Boqueria, which was less than $20 per person (before tip) — an extreme rarity in Midtown Manhattan. The co-hosts also discussed the Chicken Big Mac, which McDonald's is launching on Oct. 10, replacing the two all-beef patties with breaded and fried chicken patties. Like the original sandwich, the new version has special sauce, lettuce, cheese, and pickles, but no onions. Bret wondered about that, which led to a discussion on the role of onions on a chicken sandwich and whether, in fact, they have a role to play at all.  Then he shared an interview he had done with Rob Levitt, head butcher and chef de cuisine of Publican Quality Meats in Chicago. Levitt shared his passion for butchery and his appreciation for One-Off Hospitality's leader and chef, Paul Kahan. He also discussed his appearance on the hit TV show "The Bear," streaming on Hulu, in which he played himself.

Music has always been a part of Todd Hearon's life and following a brief break for other creative pursuits, he's returned with a three-part album release and in this interview, we dive right into what this is all about. The Texas-born songwriter goes into the story behind his most recent release, “Impossible Man” and how it follows his 2021 and 2023 albums, “Border Radio” and “Yodelady.” We also talk about his musical hiatus to go to grad school in Boston and co-found The Bridge Theater Company, an independent troupe in Boston's Theater District. Todd shares how his poetry and other writings blend with his music, and gives us the story behind Myrtle, his 1950 Gibson J-50. Opening the interview is an excerpt from “Guillotine” and closing things out is the song “Looking Glass,” both of which are from the new album. 

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Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating at a New York City restaurant with a “C” rating. Dr. Don - not risky

Join us for an extraordinary deep dive inside the most transformative decade on Broadway through gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers - shows that changed the history of the American theater. Host Michael Riedel, author of the best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, has created a companion podcast featuring his never-before-heard, taped audio interviews with legendary artists from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone, and so many more. Michael presents the drama behind the decade's mega-hits and shocking flops, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on. Enjoy Singular Sensation: The Podcast everywhere you get your podcasts or use http://bpn.fm/singularsensation to listen and learn more, and be sure to get the book here: https://amzn.to/4cNdfO3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Join us for an extraordinary deep dive inside the most transformative decade on Broadway through gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers - shows that changed the history of the American theater. Host Michael Riedel, author of the best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, has created a companion podcast featuring his never-before-heard, taped audio interviews with legendary artists from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone, and so many more. Michael presents the drama behind the decade's mega-hits and shocking flops, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on. Enjoy Singular Sensation: The Podcast everywhere you get your podcasts or use http://bpn.fm/singularsensation to listen and learn more, and be sure to get the book here: https://amzn.to/4cNdfO3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for an extraordinary deep dive inside the most transformative decade on Broadway through gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers - shows that changed the history of the American theater. Host Michael Riedel, author of the best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, has created a companion podcast featuring his never-before-heard, taped audio interviews with legendary artists from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone, and so many more. Michael presents the drama behind the decade's mega-hits and shocking flops, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on. Enjoy Singular Sensation: The Podcast everywhere you get your podcasts or use http://bpn.fm/singularsensation to listen and learn more, and be sure to get the book here: https://amzn.to/4cNdfO3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for an extraordinary deep dive inside the most transformative decade on Broadway through gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers - shows that changed the history of the American theater. Host Michael Riedel, author of the best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, has created a companion podcast featuring his never-before-heard, taped audio interviews with legendary artists from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone, and so many more. Michael presents the drama behind the decade's mega-hits and shocking flops, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on. Enjoy Singular Sensation: The Podcast everywhere you get your podcasts or use http://bpn.fm/singularsensation to listen and learn more, and be sure to get the book here: https://amzn.to/4cNdfO3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for an extraordinary deep dive inside the most transformative decade on Broadway through gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Sunset Boulevard, Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers - shows that changed the history of the American theater. Host Michael Riedel, author of the best-selling book Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, has created a companion podcast featuring his never-before-heard, taped audio interviews with legendary artists from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Patti LuPone, and so many more. Michael presents the drama behind the decade's mega-hits and shocking flops, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on. Enjoy Singular Sensation: The Podcast everywhere you get your podcasts or use http://bpn.fm/singularsensation to listen and learn more, and be sure to get the book here: https://amzn.to/4cNdfO3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maria Manaura, 32, has found herself facing law enforcement on no less than eight occasions in the half-year since she arrived from Venezuela. Currently, she resides at the once-renowned Row NYC Hotel, a property formerly lauded for its prime Times Square location and enviable view of the Theater District. However, the hotel's reputation has been tarnished by increasing incidents of drug-related activities and violence, compounded by the astonishingly high taxpayer cost of $500 per night for each of the 1,300 rooms housing migrants like Manaura. Manaura was recently caught up in the legal system again, accused of stealing a woman's cellphone on the No. 6 train. Rather than facing immediate imprisonment, she was charged with grand larceny and resisting arrest but was granted supervised release by Judge Jay Weiner. This decision essentially permitted her to return to her city-provided accommodation, just in time for her city-sponsored meal. Citing such incidents raises questions about the sense behind granting prolific offenders like Manaura continuous support at the expense of city dwellers. The fact that taxpayers are funding the hotel rooms and complimentary meals for those repeatedly involved in criminal activities can easily be perceived as an enabling factor for such behavior. We're made to look like easy targets, despite paying their bills. This kind of policy appears to be transforming New York City into a haven for international theft rings and migrants who are unfortunately involved in criminal activities. While the average law-abiding citizen foots the bill, these individuals enjoy hotel accommodations and thrice daily meals, along with numerous other benefits. The deterrents for bad behavior seem rather limited. For more than a year now, New York City has been adopting an overly accommodating stance with migrant individuals who have demonstrated histories of criminal activity. Not only are such individuals offered shelter, but they also receive comprehensive meal plans, essentially permitting them to continue living and acting as they have been, often to the detriment of the city and its other inhabitants. Approximately a year ago, several migrant individuals with criminal records were apprehended and found to have stolen over $12,000 worth of merchandise from Macy's Roosevelt Field. Upon their arrest, Patrick Ryder, the Nassau County Police Commissioner, expressed concern about the possibility of organized theft groups directed to commit crimes in the city. Interestingly, two of those arrested were living at the Watson Hotel on West 57th Street, accommodations secured by none other than the city's taxpayers. Fast forward to a recent incident in Times Square, where two NYPD officers faced assaults at the hands of migrants involved in retail crime. On that day, a gang of migrants had decided to target Aldo's, leading to a chase and eventual confrontation with the police who had been charged with halting their actions. Many of those arrested had prior criminal records, with their modus operandi appearing to revolve around organized theft, often involving mopeds or scooters for quick getaways. Earlier this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiated an aggressive enforcement operation targeting international retail-theft rings. However, resistance from New York's Democratic leaders to cooperate with ICE could spell trouble for local businesses and citizens. Given the state's criminal justice policies, it seems to be a preferred destination for criminal enterprises, according to Representative August Pfluger of Texas. Pfluger detailed to a House hearing a few months back how international crime rings were capitalizing on the perceived leniency of the Biden administration. These groups find attractive the policies in blue states such as New York, where low bail limits and shifting classifications for crimes seem to provide them with fertile ground to operate. A particularly striking detail mentioned by Pfluger was how retail-theft gangs, based out of Florida, were deciding to operate in New York, where they apparently perceived the risk of serious repercussions to be decidedly lower. Despite these worrying facts, it seems the city might be providing an even greater incentive for such individuals to make their way to New York. Just recently, Mayor Adams signed off on contracts adding up to $137 million worth for additional hotel rooms, specifically for housing migrants under city supervision. Not content at providing accommodation, the Mayor also revealed plans to provide migrants with access to debit cards. These cards will allow migrants to credit up to $1,000 a month, intended primarily to facilitate the purchase of food and to cater to their culturally-preferred diets. This places these migrants on comparable economic footing to low-income yet law-abiding New Yorkers. While these initiatives might be driven by genuine intent to help, the potential misuse of these debit cards cannot be ignored. Though the rules demand migrants sign sworn affidavits stating they will only use the funds for food and crucially-needed baby supplies, the true enforceability of these rules is dubious. Unfortunately, the resulting situation is one devoid of much humor. It is a disconcerting thought that New York might be unwittingly encouraging individuals with less than noble intentions to take advantage of the city's policies under the guise of seeking asylum. New Yorkers are known for their broad-mindedness and hearts full of compassion, but that should not intrude upon their common sense. It is high time the city starts making tough but necessary decisions in order to ensure the overall well-being of all its residents. By doing this, the city can aim to strike a balance between providing aid and maintaining security, thereby ensuring that the city remains a place where everyone can feel safe, while also continuing to welcome those who truly seek a better life and contribute positively to society. Not every migrant is a potential troublemaker, and it is important to remember that. However, New York should also consider the kind of example it is setting by treating those engaged in criminal activities so leniently. The city might need to reassess its priorities and make certain the actions taken align with the best interests of each and every one of its residents. Promoting the welfare of all should always take precedence, after all. 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New art installations in Downtown Boston are turning a lot of heads and starting a lot of conversations. WBZ's James Rojas is in the theater district where something funny is happening.

In this episode, Steve is joined by Six: an extraordinary and passionate part of the team at Saint Kate The Arts Hotel smack dab in the middle of the Theater District in downtown Milwaukee. What's the experience like at Saint Kate? What makes the experience, food, and drink unique? Why is Saint Kate perfect for everything from gathering with friends to the before and after stop when you're downtown to see a show? Why is it a perfect place for locals to stay, yes stay, anytime? Is there still a secret spot in the hotel? What holiday events are coming up? (here's a hint: https://www.saintkatearts.com/holidays) All of this and more in a high fun and high energy episode with Six. Experience Milwaukee has its home studio in Transfer Pizzeria Cafe. Our official beer partner is New Barons Brewing Cooperative. We are sponsored in part by VISIT Milwaukee. And don't forget to check out our daily text at TextMKE.com. Thanks for listening. Love you, Milwaukee.

LaChanze isn't just a Tony winning Actress; she's also a Tony winning Producer. And it's nearly your last chance to see a couple of the amazing productions she has on Broadway right now. On this episode, Tamsen takes a walk with LaChanze through Manhattan's Theater District. Plus, Australian pop sensation Betty Who is now on Broadway in Hadestown. She sits down with Paul Wontorek.

Justin Torres, Manager of Petterino’s Restaurant, joins Steve to talk about the eatery located just off of Michigan Avenue in Chicago’s Theater District. They discuss the theater scene and what Petterino’s can do to enhance your experience. Additionally, Justin highlights some of the featured menu items. Justin rounds off the segment by talking about his […]

In this episode, Steve chats with Dana Johnson, General Manager of the Saint Kate hotel, the Arts Hotel that offers a modern luxury experience with an artful twist. It's also the hub of Milwaukee's Theater District. In addition to the many guests the hotel hosts each day, Saint Kate is also a terrific spot for locals to mix it up! One of the most approachable spaces in downtown Milwaukee, you can enjoy amazing food and drink (before and after those holiday shows), live music, seasonal events, and, of course, amazing art around the beautiful spaces throughout the hotel. Learn more at www.saintkatearts.com, then get over there and check it out for yourself!

Town Square with Ernie Manouse airs at 3 p.m. CT. Tune in on 88.7FM, listen online or subscribe to the podcast. Join the discussion at 888-486-9677, questions@townsquaretalk.org or @townsquaretalk. Houston is home to one of the largest and most diverse theater districts in the country. With plays, musicals, the ballet, opera, symphony and more, there's something for everyone.  We start the conversation by discussing Houston's Theater District and the cultural and economic impact on the city, particularly during the holiday season. Then, an ensemble of representatives and performers from Houston's major theater companies share the special productions you can enjoy during the holidays. Houston Ballet The Nutcracker November 25 – December 27, 2022 Brown Theater at the Wortham Theater Center HoustonBallet.org Jubilee of Dance December 2, 2022 Brown Theater at the Wortham Theater Center HoustonBallet.org Houston Grand Opera El Milagro Del Recuerdo December 8 – 18, 2022 Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center HoustonGrandOpera.org Houston Symphony Home Alone – Film with Live Orchestra December 3, 2022 Jones Hall HoustonSymphony.org Handel's Messiah December 9, 10 & 11, 2022 Jones Hall HoustonSymphony.org A Very Merry Pops December 15, 17 & 18, 2022 Jones Hall HoustonSymphony.org Ho-Ho-Holiday! Polar Express, Frozen & More December 17, 2022 Jones Hall HoustonSymphony.org Theatre Under the Stars Mary Poppins December 6 – 24, 2022 The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts TUTS.com Alley Theatre A Christmas Carol November 18 – December 30, 2022 Alley Theatre AlleyTheatre.org What-A-Christmas December 2 – 24, 2022 Alley Theatre AlleyTheatre.org Performing Arts Houston Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show December 4, 2022 Jones Hall PerformingArtsHouston.org Cirque Dreams Holidaze December 23 – 24, 2022 Jones Hall PerformingArtsHouston.org Main Street Theater The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley November 19 – December 18, 2022 Main Street Theater – Rice Village MainStreetTheater.com Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella November 11 – December 23, 2022 MATCH MainStreetTheater.com A.D. Players A Texas Carol November 30 – December 23, 2022 The George Theater ADPlayers.org The Ensemble Theatre A Motown Christmas November 17 – December 24, 2022 The Ensemble Theatre EnsembleHouston.com STAGES “Houston for the Holidays” November 18 – December 24, 2022 Rochelle and Max Levit Stage at STAGES StagesHouston.com Panto Snow White and the Seven Dorks November 25 – December 24, 2022 Lester and Sue Smith Stage at STAGES StagesHouston.com The Music Box Theater A Beatles Holiday Cabaret December 2 – 28, 2022 The Music Box Theater TheMusicBoxTheater.com Queensbury Theatre Tribble School Dance Concert December 2 – 3, 2022 Queensbury Theatre QueensburyTheatre.org New Year's From Around the World ECHOrchestra December 30, 2022 Queensbury Theatre QueensburyTheatre.org Ars Lyrica Houston ArsLyricaHouston.org DaCamara Dacamera.org Houston Saengerbund HoustonSaengerbund.org Guests: Hillary Hart Executive Director, Theatre Under The Stars Chair of the Board, Theater District Houston Dr. Doni Wilson Professor of English, Houston Christian University Arts Writer, Houston Chronicle David Rainey Resident Acting Company Member, Alley Theatre Plays Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Lee Strickland Director of Artistic Programs, Performing Arts Houston Rebecca Greene Udden Founding Artistic Director, Main Street Theater Jayme McGhan Executive Artistic Director, A.D. Players at the George Theater Eileen Morris Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre DeQuina Moore Actress & Star, “Houston for the Holidays” Kristina Sullivan Executive Director, Queensbury Theatre/Tribble School for the Performing Arts Cast Member, Music Box Theater Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues. We also offer a free podcast here, on iTunes, and other apps

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Carter Conlon is the General Overseer of Times Square Church, Inc. in Manhattan. He joined the pastoral staff as associate pastor in 1994 at the invitation of founding pastor David Wilkerson author of the book The Cross and the Switchblade, and was senior pastor from 2001 to 2020. Times Square Church is an interdenominational church with over 10,000 people in attendance, representing over 100 different nationalities. Times Square Church also recently welcomed 900+ home satellite fellowships worldwide as it continues to expand its reach. Conlon was born and raised in Noranda, Quebec. He graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario where he received a bachelor's degree in law and sociology. In 1987, he left his 12-year career as a police officer to enter full-time ministry. Times Square Church is an interdenominational congregation located at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on 237 West 51st Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City. Times Square Church was founded by Pastor David Wilkerson in 1987 and bought the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1991.

In this special edition of VLX we interview Chris LeBron, a boricua born and raised in Hells Kitchen in Manhattan who is now seeking to represent that district in the New York State Assembly. He is a political strategist, Community Board 4 member, and one of at least four candidates in the competitive race to replace, Richard Gottfried, who is retiring after serving in the  Assembly District 75, for 52 years. As a result of the most recent Census, the district has been newly redrawn to include Times Square's Theater District, Hells Kitchen and part of the Upper West Side.For more information visit: hchrislebron4ny.com

Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line from Random House, numerous cookbooks, and host of the television series AVEC Eric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line from Random House, numerous cookbooks, and host of the television series AVEC Eric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line from Random House, numerous cookbooks, and host of the television series AVEC Eric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line from Random House, numerous cookbooks, and host of the television series AVEC Eric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the first episode of a new Broadway Nation mini-series that explores what I am calling, “The Other Broadway”.  Today when we see or hear the word “Broadway”, we most likely think of New York's Theater District and it's 41 active theaters nestled in and around Times Square (where today 36 plays and musicals have thankfully returned to the stage!)  Or that word evokes the legendary cannon of shows that have played in those theaters, most especially those great, glorious Broadway musicals that up until now have been the principal subject of this podcast. That, however, is really only part of what “Broadway” has meant to most people during the first half of the 20th Century – when Broadway was at the center of American culture.  For more than 5 decades the word “Broadway” meant not just the performances in the legitimate theaters – those Plays, Musicals, and Revues.  But also, or even more so, it meant the Nightlife that surrounded them.  From the 1910s through the 1950s there were hundreds of cabarets, speakeasys and nightclubs crammed into the Theater District.  And they epitomized “Broadway” just as much as what was happening in the theaters,  In fact, the most famous songs about Broadway – those anthemic tributes that you hear on every Tony Awards show and every Broadway themed occasion such as “Give My Regards To Broadway”, “Lullaby Of Broadway” and “On Broadway” – all have lyrics that are much more about the nightlife than they are about the shows. During this series I will lead my listeners on a late night tour of Broadway's most famous hot spots including Rector's, Reisenweber's, The El Fay Club, Club Durant, Club Richman, The Hotsy Totsy Club, Club Alabam, The Silver Slipper, The Pansy Club, The Stork Club, Casa Lopez, La Conga, 21, The Parody Club, The Rainbow Room, The Latin Quarter, El Morocco, The Astor Roof, The Cotton Club (it was in Times Square for a while), Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, The Copacabana and many more. There you will rub elbows with such stars as Vernon & Irene Castle, James Reese Europe, Sophie Tucker, Clifton Webb, George Raft, Rudolph Valentino, Gilda Gray, Texas Guinan, Ethel Waters, Florence Mills, Helen Morgan, Harry Richman, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Desi Arnaz, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Fats Waller, and Clayton, Jackson, & Durante to name only a few. However, before we venture out into the night, we need to look back to the origins of this other side of Broadway, so in this first episode I explore exactly where New York nightlife began. I hope that you enjoy it.  I am now entirely obsessed and fascinated by this subject! Please let me know what you think!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Queens of the Mines paperback, ebook, and hardback novel now available on Amazon.    In this episode, we dive into the life of Isadora Duncan.   In How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the film from 2003, Kate Hudson's character Andy dons a yellow diamond necklace in one scene that they call the “Isadora Diamond”. That $6 million 80-carat yellow diamond in the necklace was designed by Harry Winston and is named after Isadora Duncan. whose philosophy earned her the title of “the creator of modern dance”.   Angela Isadora Duncan, was born in San Francisco on May 26, 1877. The youngest of the four children of banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, Joseph Charles Duncan and Mary Isadora Gray. Soon after her birth, Joseph was caught embezzling from the two banks that he was hired to set up. He used the money to fund his private stock speculations. Joseph was lucky to avoid prison time. Her mother Mary left Joseph and moved the children to Oakland to find work as a seamstress and piano teacher. The family lived in extremely poor conditions in Oakland and Angela Isadora attended school until she was ten years old. School was too constricting for her and she decided to drop out. To make money for the family, Angela Isadora joined her three older siblings and began teaching dance to local children. She was not a classically trained dancer or ballerina. Her unique, novel approach to dance showed joy, sadness and fantasy, rediscovering the beautiful, rhythmical motions of the human body. Joseph remarried and started a new family, they all perished aboard the British passenger steamer SS Mohegan, which ran aground off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula of Cornwall England on the 14th of October in 1898. Only 91 out of 197 on board survived.  Eventually, Angela Isadora went east to audition for the theater. In Chicago, she auditioned for Augustin Daly, who was one of the most influential men in American theater during his lifetime. She secured a spot in his company, which took her to New York City. In New York, she took classes with American Ballet dancer Marie Bonfanti. The style clashed with her unique vision of dance. Her earliest public appearances back east met with little success. Angela Isadora was not interested in ballet, or the popular pantomimes of the time; she soon became cynical of the dance scene. She was 21 years old, unhappy and unappreciated in New York, Angela Isadora boarded a cattle boat for London in 1898. She sought recognition in a new environment with less of a hierarchy. When she arrived, ballet was at one of its lowest ebbs and tightrope walkers and contortionists were dominating their shared music hall stages. Duncan found inspiration in Greek art, statues and architecture. She favored dancing barefoot with her hair loose and wore flowing toga wrapped scarves while dancing, allowing her freedom of movement. The attire was in contrast to the corsets, short tutus and stiff pointe shoes her audience was used to. Under the name Isadora Duncan, she gave recitals in the homes of the elite. The pay from these productions helped Isadora rent a dance studio, where she choreographed a larger stage performance that she would soon take to delight the people of France.  Duncan met Desti in Paris and they became best friends. Desti would accompany Isadora as she found inspiration from the Louvre and the 1900 Paris Exposition where Loie Fuller, an American actress and dancer was the star attraction. Fuller was the first to use theatrical lighting technique with dance, manipulating gigantic veils of silk into fluid patterns enhanced by changing coloured lights.  In 1902, Duncan teamed up with Fuller to tour Europe. On tour, Duncan became famous for her distinctive style. She danced to Gluck, Wagner and Bach and even Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Female audiences adored her despite the mixed reaction from the critics. She inspired the phenomenon of young women dancing barefoot, scantily clad as woodland nymphs who crowded theaters and concert halls throughout Europe. Contracts and the commercialization of the art while touring distracted Isadora from her goal, educating the young on her philosophy of dance. "Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement. Let us first produce a beautiful human being. let them come forth with great strides, leaps and bounds, with lifted forehead and far-spread arms, to dance.” In 1904, she moved to Berlin to open the Isadora Duncan School of Dance. The school had around 20 students who mostly had mothers who were the primary breadwinners, and the fathers were either ill or absent. The school provided room and board for the students. For three years, her sister, Elizabeth Duncan was the main instructor, while Isadora was away, funding the school from tour. Elizabeth was not free spirited like her sister and taught in a strict manner. During the third year, Duncan had a child with theater designer Gordon Craig. Deirdre Beatrice, born September 24, 1906. At the school, Duncan created a new troupe of six young girls. Anna, Maria, Irma, Elizabeth, Margot, and Erica. The group was called the "Isadorables", a nickname given to them by the French poet Fernand Divoire. At the start of World War I, the Isadorables were sent to New York with the rest of the new students from Bellevue.  Occultist Aleister Crowley founded the religion of Thelema. He identified himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. Isadora and her bohemian companion Desti fell into his circle after meeting him at a party. Crowley fell in love with Desti and she became a member of Crowley's occult order.  Crowley published widely over the course of his life and wrote that Duncan "has this gift of gesture to a very high degree. Let the reader study her dancing, if possible in private than in public, and learn the superb 'unconsciousness' — which is magical consciousness — with which she suits the action to the melody." Duncan had a love affair with Paris Singer, one of the many sons of sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer. The fling resulted in a son, Patrick Augustus, born May 1, 1910. A year later, Isadora was dancing on tables until dawn at the Pavillon du Butard hunting lodge mansion in the gardens of Versailles. Paul Poiret, the French fashion designer and founder of the haute couture house, known to throw lavish parties, was recreating the roman festival Bacchanalia hosted by Louis XIV at Versailles. On the table in a Poiret Greek evening gown, Duncan tried to not knock over the 900 bottles of champagne that were consumed by the 300 guests. The following year Isadora acquired the Hôtel Paillard in Paris,  which she turned into her new temple of dance called Dionysion. Dionysion was the name of a poem  that Crowley  had published.   Which   maakes m e  curious  how far into Crowleys cult did Isaadora dive? On a rainy afternoon Annie Sims, Isadora's nanny, loaded the children into the car for a drive to meet Isadora in Versailles. Morverand, the chauffeur, had only just pulled onto the road, when a taxi-cab bolted towards the car. Morverand jammed on his brakes, causing the engine to also stop. He got out of the car to check the engine, and turned the starting lever and the car bounded forward towards the river, down the river bank and plunged down 30 feet into the Seine. Morverand was left standing on the street. In the downpour of rain, few were out and about. The only witness, a young woman who watched the car exit the gate then crash, ran back to Duncan's house. Augustine, Isadora's brother, was the  only one home. Augustine ran to the scene, seized Morverand by the throat and knocked him down on the bank. A crowd of boatmen stopped the fight and began looking for the sunken car. The search lasted an hour and a half. A motor boat that was dragging the river discovered the car, which was hauled to the surface, where the bodies of the nanny and Isadora's two small children were found inside. Two doctors made efforts to save them but there was no luck. Morverand gave himself up at the police commissary. He explained that he did not understand how the accident happened. All of Paris was sympathetic.  Isadora went through a depression while mourning her children, and spent several months on the Greek island of Corfu with her brother and sister. She then went for a stay at the Viareggio Seaside Resort in Italy, where she met the beautiful and rebellious actress Eleonora Duse. Duse wore men's clothing and was one of the first women in Italy to openly declare her queerness.  The two had a romantic fling in Italy yet Duncan was desperate for another child. She became pregnant  after begging the young sculptor Romano Romanelli, basically an Italian stranger to sleep with her. She gave birth to a son on August 13, 1914 but he died a few hours after birth. She immediately returned  to the States. Three months later Duncan was living in a townhouse in Gramercy Park in New York City. Dionysion was moved to Manhattan in a studio at 311 Fourth Avenue on the northeast corner of 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue. The area is now considered Park Avenue South. One month later, The Isadorables made their American debut on December 7, 1914 at Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony.  Mabel Dodge, who owned an avant garde salon at 23 Fifth Avenue, the point of rendezvous for the whole of New York's of the time, described The Isadorables: "They were lovely, with bodies like cream and rose, and faces unreal with beauty whose eyes were like blind statues, as though they had never looked upon anything in any way sordid or ordinary". Duncan used the ultra modern Century Theater at West 60th Street and Central Park West for her performances and productions. The keys were gifted to Duncan by Otto Kahn, sometimes referred to as the "King of New York". Kahn was a German-born American, a well known investment banker, appearing on the cover of Time Magazine. He reorganized and consolidated railroads, was a philanthropist, a patron of the arts and served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Opera. Isadora, somehow, was evicted from the Century by the New York City Fire Department after one month. Duncan felt defeated and decided to once again leave the States to return to Europe to set up school in Switzerland. She planned to board the RMS Lusitania, but her financial situation at the time drove her to choose a more modest crossing. The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.   During her voyage to Europe, Isadora discovered that their manager had arranged for a tour for the Isadorables without her. She was so upset that she stopped speaking to her students, despite the man's actions being completely out of their control. After struggling to keep afloat there, the school was dispelled and the younger students sent home to their families. The girls eventually made up with Duncan and in 1917 Isadora adopted all six Isadorables. Yet troubles ensued. The Isadorables were living in Long Island and Isadora urged them to leave New York. Each girl, except for Gretel, had fallen in love and did not wish to go. When Isadora found out her brother Augustine assisted the group in a performance at the Liberty Theater, she forbade them from continuing, producing a legal contract which prevented them from separating from her. They had no choice but to cancel their time at the Liberty. The girls eventually left Duncan a few years later but stayed together as a group for some time. While Duncan ran another school in Paris that was shortly closed due to World War I, the girls entertained troops in the US.  Isadora Duncan went against traditional cultural standards. Her scandalous love life as bisexual made her a controversial figure on the front pages of the papers. She was a feminist, a Darwinist, a Communist and an atheist. Her leftist sympathies took her to the Soviet Union at the end of the Russian Revolution. To her, it seemed to be the land of promise. Duncan opened a school in Moscow and Irma, one of the Isadorables, took the teaching position at the school while Isadora toured and performed. She met the poet Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin, eighteen years her junior in Russia and they were married in May of 1922, even though matrimony was against her beliefs. Together, they left for a US tour. Fear of the “Red Menace” was at its height in North America, and the couple was unjustly labeled as Bolshevik agents.  On tour in Boston, she waved a red scarf and bared her breast on stage in Boston, proclaiming, "This is red! So am I!" For this, her American citizenship was revoked. As she left the country, Duncan bitterly told reporters: “Good-bye America, I shall never see you again!” Yesenin's increasing mental instability turned him against her and they were ultimately unhappy. He returned alone to the Soviet Union after the tour and committed suicide. Her spotlight was dimming, her fame dwindled. For a number of years she lived out public dramas of failed relationships, financial woes, and drunkenness on the Mediterranean and in Paris, running up debts at hotels. Her financial burdens were carried by a decreasing number of friends and supporters who encouraged her to write her autobiography. They believed the books success could support her extravagant waywardness. On September 14, 1927 in Nice, France Duncan was asked to go on a drive with the handsome French-Italian mechanic Benoît Falchetto in a sporting car made by the French Amilcar company. Desti sat with Isadora as she dressed for the occasion. Duncan put on a long, flowing, hand-painted silk scarf created by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov. Desti asked her to instead wear a cape in the open-air vehicle because of the cold weather, but Isadora paid no mind. A cool breeze blew from the Riviera as the women met Falchetto at the Amilcar. The engine made a rumble as Falchetto put on his driving-goggles. Isadora threw the enormous scarf around her neck and hopped in. She turned to look at Desti and said "Adieu, mes amis. "Je vais à l'amour", "I am off to love'. They sped off and Isadora leaned back in her seat to enjoy the sea breeze. The wind caught her enormous scarf that, tragically, blew into the well of the rear wheel on the passenger side, wrapping around the open-spoked wheel and rear axle. Isadora was hurled from the open car in an extraordinary manner, breaking her neck and nearly decapitating her. Instantly killing her.  At the time of her death, Duncan was a Soviet citizen. Her will was the first Soviet citizen to undergo probate in the United States.  In medicine, the Isadora Duncan Syndrome refers to injury or death consequent to entanglement of neckwear with a wheel or other machinery. The accident gave rise to Gertrude Stein's mordant remark that “affectations can be dangerous.” Duncan was known as "The Mother of Dance" was cremated, and her ashes were placed in the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. On the headstone of her grave is inscribed École du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris ("Ballet School of the Opera of Paris"). Duncan's autobiography My Life was published in 1927. The Australian composer Percy Grainger called it a "life-enriching masterpiece."  A plaque commemorating Isadora Duncan's place of birth is at 501 Taylor Street on Lower Nob Hill, fittingly near the Theater District in San Francisco. San Francisco renamed an alley on the same block from Adelaide Place to Isadora Duncan Lane. 

On today's episode of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer's guest is Lynn House, National Spirits Specialist and Portfolio Mixologist for Heaven Hill Brands, a role she's been at since 2019. Lynn has had a long and extensive career in the beverage industry. Her previous roles at Heaven Hill include National Brand Educator and National PAMA Brand Ambassador. She was a 2019 National Finalist for Best American Bar Mentor at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards, as well as a 2017 and 2018 top four National Finalist in the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards for Best American Brand Ambassador. Prior to working at Heaven Hill Brands, Lynn served as Chief Mixologist at Blackbird Restaurant in Chicago. Today's show also features Shari's PR tip to be a true brand ambassador; Speed Round; Industry News Discussion; and Solo Dining experience at Russian Samovar, a family-owned Russian piano bar in NYC's Theater District, which stands with its family and friends in Ukraine.Photo Courtesy of Lynn House.Listen at Heritage Radio Network; subscribe/rate/review our show at iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify. Follow us @allindustry. Thanks for being a part of All in the Industry®. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support All in the Industry by becoming a member!All in the Industry is Powered by Simplecast.

Nick and Simon talk about Birdland the  jazz club which  started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one night in 1979 for the 30 year anniversary. A revival began in 1986 with the opening of the second nightclub by the same name that is now located in Manhattan's Theater District. The current location is in the same building as the previous headquarters of The New York Observer.

The majority of the New York City Council members are new and are part of a class that is the most diverse and progressive in city history. Over the next year Brian Lehrer will get to know all 51 members. This week, Councilmember Erik Bottcher talked about his priorities for District 3 (which covers Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, Flatiron, Hudson Square, Times Square, the Theater District, the Garment District and Columbus Circle), like the need for more robust mental health services, and why he's "had it" with the way New York City deals with trash. 

Ahead of the opening of Guy Fieri's Kitchen + Bar in the Theater District, food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio to share his thoughts on the celebrity chef's second restaurant in Boston. Fieri, known for his eccentric taste in food, included menu items from his other restaurants, such as trash can nachos from Guy Fieri's Tequila Cocina and Guy's Famous BBQ Bloody Mary. Diners can also order specialties like Cajun chicken Alfredo, hot pastrami grinders, and candy apple sangrias. “It's like somebody has said, ‘let me think of everybody's secret food desires, and I'm gonna let it run rampant,'” Kummer said. “‘Here it all is, come on and let let loose your secret desires.'” Restaurant critics have largely panned Fieri's restaurants, though Kummer notes that Bostonians should give Guy Fieri's Kitchen + Bar a chance. “Enjoy yourself: nothing should be forbidden,” Kummer said. “This is about being libertine and being indulgent, which everybody needs to be every so often or else the food police are really going to be out of business.” Kummer is the executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Looking for unique bucket list ideas in Calgary, Alberta, Canada? In this session of The Everyday Bucket List Podcast, listen to local, speaker & best selling author Tyler Foley. You'll want to pack you bags and visit after hearing this episode! Get details about the Theater District, A Harry Potter themed spot, excellent hotels. Plus, enjoy skiing, parks, pathways and other outdoor activities. Also, hear about one of the most romantic things to do. Show Notes: Click the link below or copy and paste it into the browser. Plus, please leave a review. bit.ly/3BGX3KK

6/23/21 Welcome to the first episode of Mass Reboot, a summer podcast series about restarting Massachusetts after COVID-19 and what we lost along the way. Each week, we'll dive into a sector of life in the Commonwealth, exploring how the pandemic hit it, how it adapted, and how the people inside it envision a new normal. This week: Art. Hosts Libby Gormley, Steve Koczela, and Jennifer Smith of The Horse Race are spending time in Boston's Theater District and Dorchester, then taking a wide view of the Massachusetts arts world over the past year. Joe Spaulding, CEO and President of the Boch Center, describes the shock of a silent Wang Theatre and the long and unsteady road back to a vibrant performance space. Emma Leavitt, of the Dorchester Art Project and Brain Arts, recounts the struggles of the local arts program to continue supporting and reaching its diverse arts community. As for impacts across the state, and the long-term inequities that still exist in the arts space, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Michael Bobbitt breaks down the scale of creative losses and the need to rethink arts sector power structures. Next week: Home. — Mass Reboot is a production of The MassINC Polling Group, in association with CommonWealth Magazine. Our music is from Blue Dot Sessions. To help us make more episodes, donate at patreon.com/mass_reboot. A big thank you to our sponsor this week, Rasky Partners. They're a long-time supporter of ours and a nationally recognized government affairs and communication firm. For over 30 years the team at Rasky has worked with all types of organizations, large and small, helping each one reach their business objectives through advocacy and storytelling. Find out more about Rasky Partners at rasky.com.

6/23/21--Welcome to the first episode of Mass Reboot, a summer podcast series about restarting Massachusetts after COVID-19 and what we lost along the way. Each week, we'll dive into a sector of life in the Commonwealth, exploring how the pandemic hit it, how it adapted, and how the people inside it envision a new normal. This week: Art. Hosts Libby Gormley, Steve Koczela, and Jennifer Smith of The Horse Race are spending time in Boston's Theater District and Dorchester, then taking a wide view of the Massachusetts arts world over the past year. Joe Spaulding, CEO and President of the Boch Center, describes the shock of a silent Wang Theatre and the long and unsteady road back to a vibrant performance space. Emma Leavitt, of the Dorchester Art Project and Brain Arts, recounts the struggles of the local arts program to continue supporting and reaching its diverse arts community. As for impacts across the state, and the long-term inequities that still exist in the arts space, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Michael Bobbitt breaks down the scale of creative losses and the need to rethink arts sector power structures. Next week: Home. -- Mass Reboot is a production of The MassINC Polling Group, in association with CommonWealth Magazine. Our music is from Blue Dot Sessions. To help us make more episodes, donate at patreon.com/mass_reboot. A big thank you to our sponsor this week, Rasky Partners. They're a long-time supporter of ours and a nationally recognized government affairs and communication firm. For over 30 years the team at Rasky has worked with all types of organizations, large and small, helping each one reach their business objectives through advocacy and storytelling. Find out more about Rasky Partners at rasky.com.

The longest shutdown in the history of Broadway has an end in sight. If all goes according to plan, many theaters will reopen in September. When the theater district went dark it starved New York of a $1.75 billion industry. The loss of tourists in the Theater District had a ripple effect and many businesses closed for good. When the lights come back on, more than 12,000 people will return to an art form that is part of the heart and soul of New York City. Jagged Little Pill producer Eva Price reflects on the long journey to the return of theater on the Great White Way.

What a big week!  This is the first Bright Side Home Theater Podcast that has a contest attached to it!  You will have to listen to find out who won but thank you and congratulations to GC for the hard work and attention to detail for winning the first Bright Side Contest!  But lets not bury the lead though, District 9 is a fantastic Home Theater movie and DJ's really excited to break it all down in the way that only he can.  Push Play.

Since studying vocal performance at NYU and Mannes College of Music, Greg has toured in several productions with Philip Glass, and performed in pieces created by avant-garde luminaries Meredith Monk and Anthony Braxton.His show, "BABALU-CY! The Art of Desi Arnaz" debuted at Metropolitan Room in 2007, won a Backstage Bistro Award in 2008 and went on to an Off-Broadway run at the Actor’s Temple in New York’s Theater District. A presentation of the show at Hofstra University’s Monroe Center Theater in 2010 brought him to the attention of the team that took over the Xavier Cugat Orchestra after Cugat retired. One thing led to another and Greg went from portraying the great Cuban American bandleader to becoming an actual bandleader himself, adopting his birth father’s family name in the process. And he grew up blocks from Eric Ruben!Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/ReallyLegalPodcast)

…not everyone can afford to donate a certain percentage of their money, not everyone can afford to volunteer their time because they're working so much. If you can, this is your generosity to the world, this is your generosity to all the people that cannot. And I think that's kind of our duty and our privilege. What is the max generosity that you can live with, with your food choices, with your time, with your money choices.  - April Tam Smith April Tam Smith is the co-founder of PS Kitchen, a plant-based restaurant in the Theater District in New York City that gives away all of its profits and hires people in need of a second chance. By day, April is a managing director at a large New York City investment firm. While spending her days on Wall Street and nights at the restaurant, she still somehow finds an amazing amount of time to give to and serve in other communities throughout New York City, as well as around the world. April and I sat down at PS Kitchen to talk about what it means to give, to be radically generous, to live a life of service, and the insane amounts of energy that she has - not only to do all of the above, but to do it with grace, joy, and a boundless love of life. April is an inspiration. After hearing her story I couldn’t help but rethink about what it means to be a human walking around on this planet and how we all can be doing it a little bit better.

Are you tired of the Cuomo's yet? We are! But their hypocrisy just keeps getting more and more outlandish by the day. In the latest Cuomo scandal, Chris Cuomo's wife, Cristina, was caught exercising indoors at a Jimmy Choo store, in close quarters with no masks! These people who make the rules and shame others for not following them, don't follow the rules themselves. Also on today's episode we go across the pond do discuss some great news from Britain. Britain has secured nearly 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is down playing the victory -- but it's a step in the right direction. Also in the U.K., London's Theater District is struggling to bounce back after the virus. Phelim has some interesting ideas on why one show in particular is struggling. Lastly we bring you a great piece of art to reflect on pandemic times as well as a brief conversation about unemployment extensions in the U.S. We hope you enjoy today's episode. Help us keep going by becoming one of our amazing monthly givers! Donate here: https://unreportedstorysociety.com/donate/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ap-scoop/message

Picture an Irish Bar in New York City's Theater District... FEATURING: Terry Walters as Tammy, Rob Morrow as Chip, Debbon Ayer as Belinda, Bradley White as George, and Constance Forslund as Gloria

My Korea: Traditional Flavors, Modern RecipesBy Hooni Kimwith Aki Kamozawa Intro: Welcome to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery By The Book with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City, sitting at her dining room table talking to cookbook authors.Hooni Kim: Hi, my name is Hooni Kim and I have just written My Korea: Traditional Flavors, Modern Recipes.Suzy Chase: As a Korean chef, you're constantly thinking about Korean food and its place in American culinary culture. You have two restaurants here in the city, Danji and Hanjan. Danji received a Michelin star in 2011 and 2012. The first ever Korean restaurant to receive a Michelin star. That is extraordinary.Hooni Kim: Oh, thank you.Suzy Chase: So, now here we sit in the epicenter of the pandemic and life's been turned upside down. We have a broad sense of what's happening in the restaurant industry, but it would be so great to hear how you and your two restaurants are dealing with the Coronavirus situation.Hooni Kim: You have caught me at a very sort of tumultuous time, not just me, but all the chef friends that I know and all the restaurant owners. I think we are now three weeks in. I think next week is the fourth week of this situation. I will let you know that Danji, which was the restaurant that you were talking about receiving the first Michelin star for a Korean restaurant is right in the middle of the Theater District and we closed as soon as the theaters closed, which was two days before the city mandate that all restaurants had to close for in dining. So Danji hasn't been open for a month now. Fortunately my other restaurant, Hanjan, we were able to pool our resources, my chefs, people on salary that who have been with me for eight ... my manager at Danji's over nine years.Hooni Kim: We understood that ordering food to go was going to be very common, but I personally and a lot of my friends didn't want to order a big meal every single day, two, three times a day to go out and eat. So what we did was figure out a bunch of Korean dishes that held well in the refrigerator and the freezer and we sort of made a meal kit for a family of four that could last two, three meals. And we decided to sort of sell that. And I would do all the deliveries myself. I still do. And we started that right away, even before the restaurants closed because we knew this was going to happen. And I think the first day we sold 10 and we were very proud. We were so happy that week we ended up selling about 80. I had to hire more staff to cook more because the following week we sold 100. Last week we sold 130 and we finally figured out that I can only deliver 30 a day and that's the maximum that I could personally deliver. So this next week we are capping it at 150 and we have just sold out yesterday of this entire week.Suzy Chase: Oh no, I was going to order.Hooni Kim: Well, no, I got your email yesterday so you're in it. And I didn't reply because I hadn't replied to anybody else. But yes, you're on the list. And we did sell out yesterday. Yeah.Suzy Chase: That is awesome.Hooni Kim: Thank you. I mean it was my mother and my manager, they suggested it. I thought it was a great idea and when we started it was just four people. Now we have eight people working at the restaurant. So we have staff that's making money in this situation. And that's I think the biggest sort of pride that I have.Suzy Chase: You know, it's almost like your version of home food or what do they call it in Korean, Jip BapHooni Kim: Jip Bap yeah.Suzy Chase: It's kind of for your version of that.Hooni Kim: Yes. You know, a lot of Korean food the traditional kind sits well in the fridge. All the banchans are meant to sort of, you make it once and you eat for a week. Kimchis can last months and years. Even the stews, they taste better the second day. So, it's more delicious when I make it and then deliver it later in the night and they eat it then or the next day it actually tastes better because the flavor set more, they settle more, they meld more, the soy sauce, any sort of fermented soy, soybeans, those sauces develop more through time after it's cooked. Every week we change our menu and I study the dishes that might hold better or even become better once the food is delivered. So, that's been interesting. But that's sort of what we're going for. The real traditional Korean foods that Koreans consider [foreign language 00:05:07] that can hold well in a fridge and a family can enjoy for two, three days. That's the whole point.Suzy Chase: So what's the best way we as a consumer can help you and other restaurant stay afloat?Hooni Kim: You know, I don't know. A lot of restaurants are selling gift certificates now and they're not free because we sell too much of it now and we spend that money later on. Our revenue's going to fall because of those gift certificates. It's a very short term sort of fixed. But I don't know if that's really going to help us in the long run. I'm also not comfortable asking for handouts. You know, I think a lot of restaurants are asking for freebies, but I just don't feel comfortable.Hooni Kim: I just feel like nothing is free in this world and I've never taken a handout ever running my restaurants and making sure my staff is paid fairly. And it just takes a lot for me to go that route. The reason why I decided to do these deliveries and the reason why I personally do the deliveries is because I want this to grow so that I can hire all my staff back even if they're not making as much money as they did before we'll get there. As long as my restaurants reopen, I can hire all of them back and with time they will get to where they were before. And that is my goal. But asking my customers who have enjoyed supporting us this whole time for a freebie, for me, I'm just a little uncomfortable.Hooni Kim: So to answer the question, how can you help us? I think the best way to help us really is as soon as our restaurants are ready to open for you to come flooding back. I'm sure many people are sick and tired of ordering delivery food or even cooking at home and are just itching and wanting to go out to restaurants, which we took for such granted going to a bar and sitting down ordering a beer. Wow, that sounds so good now.Suzy Chase: There's a picture in the cookbook of, I think it's Hanjan, it's your other restaurant that's like a pub and I was just staring at it. All the people were just sitting right next to each other drinking, eating. It felt like a lifetime ago when we were all doing that.Hooni Kim: And that's what worries the most. Most restaurants in New York City are built to sort of crowd people in. Right now, that's very uncomfortable and for a restaurant to function even after we open at 50% of capacity because that's sort of the physically safe thing to do, we're not built for that. We will fail. We will fail within two weeks if we don't get very close to the numbers that we were doing because we were making 5% margins anyway. If we get a 20% drop in revenue, we're done.Hooni Kim: That is what worries me the most. This culture of staying away, being apart, the social distancing, if that carries over to the restaurants we're done, unless you're a very fine dining restaurant that charges $300, $400 per person who can sort of afford to social distance tables. 90% of New York City restaurants aren't designed that way. We are designed to pack people in because real estate is very expensive, not just real estate. Everything is very expensive here and even with that, our budgets being 5% at most, 10% I'm just very afraid that we might not go back to ... or it will take a lot of time to go back to where we were a month ago.Suzy Chase: Well, I know we're all rooting for you and we're here to support you any way we can.Hooni Kim: Thank you very much.Suzy Chase: So now moving onto the cookbook.Hooni Kim: Wow, that was depressing, huh? I'm sorry.Suzy Chase: To happier times. Your cookbook, My Korea, is deeply personal and heavily researched. And when I say heavily, I mean it took you seven years to write. Why so long?Hooni Kim: To be perfectly honest, when I was first approached to write this cookbook, I had just opened on Danji, it was my first year. Basically what they said was my menu just read like the chapters. So I thought that's one of the things that when you become a chef, you do. You write a cookbook. So I said, "Sure." Little did I know that I didn't have the story to share. The story that I shared, everything was at Danji. A lot of the things you couldn't put into words. So the story of Danji, a story of me, wasn't a good book. And my first editor pointed that out. You know, we all have writers because we just don't have the time or the skills to write a book. I am not a very good writer or I wasn't. I'm much better now.Hooni Kim: I'm still not a good writer, but much better than when I first started. And I thought the process would be, I tell stories and the writer writes it. Not the best way. So by the third time, my first two manuscripts were rejected. They weren't good enough for my editor. The third time, I wrote it myself and my writer basically fixed what I wrote, grammatically, helped me write all the recipes because I am used to describing how to cook to my cooks, not to home cooks. So fixed a lot of the recipe lingo and having to write this myself just changed what I wrote. Instead of sort of sharing my stories, I first had to sort of look within and find what is my story. And that's why I went really back to my first memories of liking food. And to be honest, I had forgotten a lot of the stories that I write about when I was a kid.Hooni Kim: It wasn't a part of my first two manuscripts. When I started writing the book, memories from 35 years ago, 40 years ago, came alive again. Yeah, I mean, starts right with the intro. I go way back from my first memory of food, which was in the island of Soando and Busan, eating the rice cakes off the street and that is my first memory of food and that's where we start.Suzy Chase: Do you think you can credit Maria Guarnaschelli with tapping into something inside of you to really dig deep and get these memories?Hooni Kim: Completely? Maria Guarnaschelli wasn't able to finish the book because she retired right before we were able to go into print, but she would not let me, allow me to publish my first two versions, which I thought they were good books, but so relatively lesser than what I was able to write when I wrote it. And it's not even the difference of writers because the second manuscript, I have the same writer as this manuscript or this book, the published book. So it wasn't the writer, it really was just me sitting down and looking within and trying to remember why I started cooking, how, and I would've missed all that out if Maria Guarnaschelli would have just went ahead and published a decent book, but not the best book that I could write. So I still thank her.Suzy Chase: Speaking of food memories, can you tell us about your first taste memory with Korean street food?Hooni Kim: Yes. It was in Busan. I must've been four years old and this was when I had come back to Korea to see my maternal grandmother living in Busan. My cousins are all older than me and they were used to the Korean street food. They didn't think that I would like spicy food, so they would let me partake. But one day they let me and, and it was spicy rice cakes, tteokbokki. And at that time for one penny, you got a toothpick.Hooni Kim: And with that toothpick you had to choose because it was rice cake and fish cake that you could pick one. And I remember taking the rice cake because it was called rice cake. So I thought the rice cake must be better. Tried it and the flavors just exploded in my mouth. It was uncomfortable. Too much flavor for a four year old. It was spicy, salty, sweet, and the gooey, soft texture almost just melting in your mouth and ... it's the first time I had rice cakes. It was actually the first time that I had something spicy that I really enjoyed. You know, that was my introduction to a Korean street food 44 years ago.Suzy Chase: And I think it was a lot for you to taste because weren't you living in London at the time?Hooni Kim: Yes. I had moved to London when I was three years old with my mom and I was actually attending boarding school at that time, three hours away from London. So we weren't used to eating anything spicy. I remember I was the only Asian in my boarding school and I was the only Asian in the town. And we would take field trips to town and these old ladies would come around touching my hair because they had never seen straight black hair before. This was in the 70s. So this was a long time ago and it started when I was four. But every summer my mom would send me back to Korea just because she didn't want me to lose sight of where I was from, my culture. My grandmothers were still alive from both my mom and my father's side. So they needed to see me.Hooni Kim: So every summer until even after high school, when I started college and it was basically up to me to decide myself, summer vacations, I would end up going to Korea because it was habit. I enjoyed it. The Korean food has always been different with ingredients grown in the Korean terroir, Korean food as good as it is in the US just doesn't compare to Korean food eaten in Korea.Hooni Kim: I knew there was a difference between Korean food in Korea, Korean food in the US and I wanted to bring the Korean ingredients to the US to really show New Yorkers, Americans, this is the Korean food that I know. This is my Korea. And that's what I wanted to share. And Danji was born.Suzy Chase: So when you realized that there was a difference between Korean food here and Korean food in Korea, what were some of the differences you saw between like Koreatown and the food from Korea?Hooni Kim: You know, 40 years ago, food in Korea didn't have many chemicals. There weren't preservatives. The trade wasn't going on. It was more expensive to bring vegetables from China or Japan than to grow in your country, which is completely the opposite now, for most countries. Local produce was not more expensive. It was cheaper and that's all you used. Preservatives were expensive, so buying canned sauces only rich people could do that. MSG was so expensive in the 70s that only rich people could sort of use MSG. So all of these chemicals, which we find in fast food, cheap food these days, Koreans didn't cook with them until late 80s so the food that I know that I remember, the Korean food that I fell in love with, where just what we consider now fine dining, local produce that doesn't have preservatives, pesticides, flavor enhancers, just all natural food. That's still what I consider real Korean food.Suzy Chase: I want to hear about your second taste memory and gim your favorite food to eat when you visited your paternal grandmother?Hooni Kim: Yes. Wow. So my mother used to, not even joke, but she would say, "Your paternal grandmother lives in the furthest place on earth." And what she meant was to get there from both New York and London you take a plane and back then there were no direct flights. It was too long. So you'd stop at Anchorage, Alaska, for a couple hours to refuel, and then you couldn't fly over the Soviet union because of the Cold War. So instead of going the fast route, you would have to go all the way around. Basically what is a 14 hour flight used to take 20 hours with a stop in the middle.Suzy Chase: Oh, my God.Hooni Kim: So that's not all because then you arrive in Seoul and then Korean transportation back then wasn't as good as as it is now. So from there on we would take a little, local plane to a city called Quanzhou an hour. From there on, we would have to take a bus, a two hour bus to this city near the coast called Wando. And from Wando we would have to take a ferry about two hours close to the island that my grandmother lived in Soando, but Soando was too small that it didn't have a dock for a large ferry. So a boat, a little fishing boat would have to meet the ferry 45 minutes in the middle of the ocean.Suzy Chase: What?Hooni Kim: Yeah. We will have to transfer in the middle of the ocean with no bridges. So for me, being little, they're just carrying me and throwing me onto the small boat. And that was the scariest, scariest ... I still can't swim because of that because I was so scared. And it was a 45 minutes on a small, I call it a tong tong boat because that's the sound that the motor made and we'd go 45 minutes in while being very seasick and from there on to my grandmother's house will be a 30 minute walk. Three days.Suzy Chase: Oh my goodness.Hooni Kim: Yeah.Suzy Chase: Would you describe this island? I want to do a whole podcast about this island.Hooni Kim: This island had one phone, it had one market and that market had the phone line that didn't have numbers, digits. You call and then it connects you to an operator and you would verbally tell them the number that you wanted to call. But on that island nobody had phones. So basically it was a connection to sort of the outside islands or the cities or even so. That's the phone that my grandmother used to call me to England and through to New York. Electricity on the whole island would go off at 9:00 PM I think the island had three TVs when I first started and we would all go visit these houses to watch the TV. For me, we had a TV, I don't say it was a new new thing, but to most of the younger it was still a fascinating machine to to sort of see motion in a box.Hooni Kim: My memory is just going to a friend's house or a relatives house and watching black and white TV until nine o'clock and then going home. Nobody bought food at the stores. You know you bought alcohol at the stores if you didn't have enough or making it home. All the food was grown in your backyard. They had a communal rice paddy that the whole village farmed together to share. The whole island got together in November and did Gimjang, which is a sort of mass kimchi making for the entire year. Wando or ... that's South West area of Korea is famous for seafood and also famous for seaweed, Kelp as well as gim all around our farmhouse had gim. I guess people would know that as Nori or laver, it'd be dry. And that's what we would have breakfast, lunch and dinner with kimchi for a meal.Hooni Kim: Every time I go to Korea, every new restaurant I go to, every new brand of gim or nori that comes out, I try it because I want to find the closest thing that I remember. And nothing, nothing could come close or have come close to the Kim that I had on that island.Suzy Chase: So, your father passed away when you were two.Hooni Kim: Yes.Suzy Chase: Did visiting your grandma on the island kind of make you feel connected with your dad?Hooni Kim: You know, I was so young and I had never known my father, him passing away when I was two, before I could sort of remember anything. So I was fine with not having a father. I did get a sense that instead of me having a connection, my grandmother felt that connection with me a lot more. And it never changed. Every time I was there, I would never see her sleeping. When I went to sleep, she was holding my hand. When I woke up in the morning, I found her holding my hand. So I knew that half the time, maybe it wasn't me that she's thinking about, but it was my father that she had lost, she was thinking about.Hooni Kim: So I hated going there. You can imagine living in the city and then go into a farm that smelled like pig dung everywhere. You know? I understood why I was there. I complained, but I still went because there was a time when I didn't actually go. I did go to Korea, but I didn't go to Soando island because my mom couldn't make it and I was too young to be able to go by myself and I felt really guilty the entire year. So after that, I made sure that I went.Suzy Chase: Yeah. And it touched me because your dad was an only son and you were the only grandson of her only son.Hooni Kim: I have an only child, so ...Suzy Chase: Oh my gosh.Hooni Kim: Yeah. Not by choice, but yeah, we have one son.Suzy Chase: Yeah, same here. We had one, we tried for another, we didn't ... it's New York City, so ...Hooni Kim: Yeah, it's New York city, we started late.Suzy Chase: Yeah, same here.Hooni Kim: Yeah.Suzy Chase: So in the cookbook you have a recipe for dashi, which has been a mystery to me. Can you describe dashi and the process of making it?Hooni Kim: Basically dashi comes from Kelp, which is a dried, thick seaweed. And in Korean it's called Tashima. In Japanese it's called Khombu and there's a lot of nutrients and there's a lot of natural glutamates. We're trying to make that MSG man made flavor in natural form. And that's why you want to keep the nutrients of this Kelp. You want to keep the glutamates or you want to keep the flavor and that's why we don't boil it.Hooni Kim: We sort of heat it in hot water for a long time to sort of get all that flavor from that kelp. We also add shitake mushrooms and I like to add anchovies, dried anchovies. And what that acts is as a base, anytime the recipes call for water, I use dashi. Anytime it calls for, you know, like a French restaurant, Daniel ... I don't ever remember cooking with water. It was always veil stock, chicken stock, vegetable stock. Anytime we needed liquid it was one of those stocks because you never want to waste our efforts to sort of add more flavor to food. So that's sort of the same principle that I applied to Korean cooking and especially in my restaurant. And in this book, rarely use water. Water is used to make dashi.Suzy Chase: The other day I made your recipe for kimchi and brisket fried rice on page 228. Can you describe this dish?Hooni Kim: The star is the rice and of course in the kimchi fried rice, the kimchi is going to be the main flavor of the rice, but the flavor that comes out of brisket beef has a very sweet flavor because brisket is very fatty and people don't like brisket too much to sort of saute because it has a hard texture, but if you slice it really thin and you sort of cut it up and you get all that fatty beefiness into this fried rice, you get the sweetness and the fried rice that actually really helps the flavor of the kimchi because kimchi in itself is sort of acidic, sort of sour and to have a naturally sweet fat from the beef flavor the rice alone, it works. And we serve it at my other restaurant Hanjan, my second restaurant, this exact same way.Suzy Chase: Now for my segment called My Favorite Cookbook. What is your all time favorite cookbook and why?Hooni Kim: This cookbook, I have it. I study it like it's the Bible. I practice my Korean and my Chinese characters because there's just so much in this book about Korean cuisine that I still need to study to become a real Korean chef. It's called Dongui Bogam. A lot of Koreans, a lot of people don't even consider it a cookbook. It's the first medicine book ever written in Korea. But in Korea, medicine was practiced with food in the beginning. So this book is all about these Korean ingredients, how to prepare it and what it is used for as a doctor to improve one's health, to fix certain diseases. And to me, it's ... so what is important as a chef? I mean, yes, I cook good food, I cook delicious food like every other chef who's been cooking for 30 years. But to apply it to our health, that's I think another degree that we as chefs can sort of challenge ourselves on. And for me, I want to cook delicious food that is healthy.Suzy Chase: Where can we find you on the web, social media and where can we order food for delivery here in New York City?Hooni Kim: I'm not going to point out my restaurant. I think there are so many Korean restaurants that just started Caviar delivery, DoorDash, Postmates, I don't know what these delivery things are called, but Jua is a small restaurant that just opened a month ago that they're struggling to sort of stay running because of this situation. I think you should order delivery from them. Atoboy they just started delivery. There are all of these small independent Korean restaurants that you should order delivery from. We should support these small restaurants as well as my restaurants, but you can find me at hoonikim.com it has all of my information on my restaurants, but also on Instagram where I'm the most active at @hoonikim and that's where I'm at.Hooni Kim: I'm also delivering food to 30 families Monday through Friday every day because I feel like I'm the best delivery person in my staff and I'm the only one who has an SUV. We might be able to survive right now with these takeouts, but how's it going to be when we are able to open again? And people are uncomfortable going out as much as they used to. We don't know. And I think that's the toughest part. We're not in control and we don't know what's going to become of our industry. The best thing you guys can do is actually order the take out, the delivery food, and especially when this is all over, come and support us. Come dine at our restaurants and that will be amazing.Suzy Chase: We can't wait.Hooni Kim: Thank you so much.Suzy Chase: So thank you for sharing your love of Korea with us all. And thanks for coming on Cookery By The Book podcast.Hooni Kim: Thank you so much for having me, Suzy.Outro: Subscribe over on Cookerybythe Book.com and thanks for listening to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery By The Book.

EP190 - Marketplaces Deep Dive   This episode is a deep dive into Marketplaces. Background Product Marketplaces Today Trends in Product Marketplaces Trends in Non-Product Marketplaces Recommended Resources Jeff Jordan a16z Blog Page (@JEFF_JORDAN) Andrew Chen a16z Blog Page (@ANDREWCHEN)  Action Items Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 190 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, September 30. 2019. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 190 being recorded on Monday September 30th 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners hey Jason do you know what kind of show we are going to do today. Jason: [0:46] I'm guessing a deep dive, Jason and Scott show. Scot: [1:02] That's right we are going to do a deep dive into everyone's favorite topic will at least mine marketplaces. Jason: [1:09] I sort of assumed that you assumed whatever your favorites were where everyone else's paper. Scot: [1:15] Of course yeah and so we've done deep Dives on Amazon well done a couple other topics in marketplaces come up a lot. I thought this is a good time to talk about marketplaces cuz there's actually a lot of innovation going on in market place has a lot of changes and then. The ratchet here together and I'm speaking on at a B2B show tomorrow called B2B next and I'm talking about marketplaces and how that impacts B2B folks. Jason: [1:41] But it should be said that you probably created a bunch of fascinating unique content just for the podcast and you might reuse it but you're not just giving us the. Scot: [1:50] Oh no this is totally custom for our listeners. Jason: [1:52] William you of course are the marketplace Guru but so I am super excited to hear your latest updated take on how marketplaces are doing and where they're going so take it away is God. Scot: [2:05] Yeah yes it is the first thing I want to do is just the down-low backgrounds are all on the same page and the number one question that comes up is what is a Marketplace and I think everyone out there has their own definition I have a pretty broad definition of marketplaces because then I think. That helps us not talk about the different flavors and. You know some of the pros and cons of those flavors some people have a really tight definition of marketplace is a lot of times it's funny you get into these late-night over beer discussions around well is that a Marketplace or not. Azure me simply a Marketplace. Jason: [2:37] People in the world get into a late night beer conversation about. Scot: [2:40] You'd be surprised especially at the people you and I hang out. Jason: [2:45] Imagine if the channel advisor conference is that happens a lot but yeah. Scot: [2:49] There's actually Prime more discussion around what's not a Marketplace and what is anyway my kind of loose definition of a Marketplace is a venue where buyers and sellers come together to meet and buy stuff. The meeting is just part of the fun of it all but it's really a a way for buyers and sellers to meet each other or transact and and. How many conomic kind of exchange is that that you're definition. What will talk as we go into different types of marketplaces so we can kind of talk about you the different flavors with in that room. Jason: [3:23] No I don't that's not a controversial definition to me I guess the Nuance buyers and sellers come together to buy stuff like I probably would say buy stuff from each other like to me that's the. Scot: [3:36] Exchange so what's interesting is when you look at the data out there. The trend is marketplaces are growing faster so marketplaces is Corinne Gartner a growing 23% year-over-year in the US versus kind of 15% of eCommerce now they're part of that 15% so it's actually probably like. 12% or 10% - marketplaces the number of marketplaces exploding if you look at markets like China over there over 90% of transactions are on a Marketplace so you hear the US were at something like 55 60% and you have a lot of people would would predict that at some point we may actually get because marketplaces are growing so fast in there so many new ones popping up maybe we'll look more like China down the road so that begs the question why are these marketplaces so popular and I can look at five areas where marketplaces add value in in today's world in this kind of layers in with changing consumer behavior for the consumer has changed more in the last 10 years in the last hundred so consumers Love convenience what were my favorite Jeff Bezos isms is people asking you I'm starting a company what should I. [4:49] What should I bet on and his recommendation is bet on things that won't change so instead of picking something that's like the hot new thing that on something that's not going to change and this is why I consumers like marketplaces because they bring elements that that you know people are just going to love more of down the road so convenience no one. People dye their time more and more so convenience is a good one selection so if you're going to go to Avenue B at a physical location or website or an app for what not you know the more you have to buy from assuming you can navigate it the better off I'm people of Valium so in addition to convenience bball is love to save money I'm and then the those are pretty tangible and we can measure them the ones that are little bit harder to measure our trust. So a lot of the value provided by marketplaces is giving the buyer and seller this kind of trust umbrella to to make sure that if something goes wrong in the transaction and can be unwell and then. [5:48] You another thing that's really helped the surge of marketplaces is the increase of mobile traffic so a lot of bubble places we'll talk about have elements that they give mobile kind of the Titan with the phone that's obviously helped Amazon and eBay so when he when you're when you're we're out and about the more products in your hand the better off so mobile has been another area that's really cause to search here and then the creation of a lot of the new marketplaces can be put back. [6:19] Mobile the surgeon mobile the last one the last trenda I spend a lot of time thinking about it and we've had Casey on the show is that this bifurcation this is value or any consumer versus the convenience or any consumer and what are things that I think a lot of. People I talked to in the industry that don't get is you like okay convenience I get it but then there's like this addictive element of convenience so you know you and I are big Starbucks user so once you've used the mobile app functionality of Starbucks then the next time you get in that Starbucks line even though I happily waited there for years before the mobile app came out. When should when you get back in that line it just feels like it's taking 10 times longer than it should server example I checked into my hotel hear the lock didn't work they sent for someone to come they didn't come in 5 or 10 minutes it felt like an eternity so I just went it was easier to go get a new room then then to the Other Extreme tips of people are addicted to zero friction and decreasing friction and that's going to be a theme that you'll see when we talked not openly about why are marketplaces so popular vote but wire what are the next wave of marketplaces. Jason: [7:30] I totally buy that song like the focus on these sort of a bum Evergreen benefits. Scot: [7:37] So those are the benefits that marketplaces Bluebird by a lot of people are familiar with this kind of Amazon flywheel I was one of the first people to use it now it's kind of overdone but yeah it it shows this is one of the reasons marketplaces are growing so rapidly is you have this this virtuous cycle a lot of people call it Network effects where you know you. If I will get started off with selection is anger point so he could to resolve selection that brings more consumers in that means more sellers come to your platform cuz they're going after the buyers and that brings more selection that's one leg of the flywheel and then the other leg is once you get enough selection you start have overlapping selection now you have competition prices go down that's kind of this classic flywheel this built on these consumer preferences that that are causing marketplaces to grow faster than individual consumer things. Cool so you know if you're most of our listeners are kind of what I would classify as retailers or brands of all sizes why should you care. The boy that says it's kind of largest segment of e-commerce it's growing and we want to do on this one is actually kind of turn your head sideways a little bit and talk about Sony's new models and then I think that will help you dick even most retailers are already kind of cross the chasm of thinking about should I sell on a Marketplace or not there's a couple of new ways to think about marketplaces I wonder who's here if they will talk about. [9:06] Let's talk about the the types of first of all let's listen to these couple terms so we talked about marketplaces one of the things we talk about is we use this slang one piece repeat. I'm a third-party Marketplace is a Marketplace like eBay where just sellers are are there and it's only sellers involved. I'm a first party transaction is where is a traditional retail transaction. So Amazon's one of those marketplaces that's kind of unique in that you have first party meeting Amazon is departing and third-party meeting through other sellers. I'm so we would tend to use more talk about marketplaces as an industry we tend to use this one p3p kind of language. I'm your specific to Amazon a lot of people within just Amazon Silo Amazon has two platforms vendor Central and Seller Central so vendor Central is the one p platform so if you're going to sell on Amazon to use that. I'm in the 3p platform is vendor Central those things are emerging as as a popular strategy has become to do both which is even kind of more mind-bending. So it's those are just some binoculars to make sure one understands cuz we'll start to use those another common language is gmv gross merchandise value or volume depending on who you talk to I'm in weird catching there is just like the payments world you have kind of two measurements you have Revenue but it's a derivative of the transactional value going to the system I'm in the payments roll we use TPB a lot of times is that. [10:36] Kind of a transaction processing volume and then gmv is the value of the goods going through the marketplace and then the formula is the most Mark marketplaces have a a commission. Take rate are there a lot of different names for I prefer take rate the fees they charge for transacting on their platform the revenue is is essentially gmv X take rate equals the revenue of the marketplace so those are bunch of terms I just wanted to lay out there. Jameson. Jason: [11:07] I think it's the big ones a question I often get and I'm curious what your answer is is what happened at 2 p. Scot: [11:15] Yes or some people call Dropship to pee so so that would be second-party yep so you know if you want to kind of stretch at you can you can kind of say a Dropship relationship is is kind of a 2p. Jason: [11:30] Yeah I just like to say it's it's not it's not a sequence it's we're talking about first party things and third-party things not counting. Scot: [11:37] Yeah yeah there's no fourth party stuff there could yeah I don't know if you have to the types of products are the types of marketplaces so so, I just mentioned so eBay is a pure third-party Marketplace a lot of people are familiar with some of the Chinese marketplaces like tmall and taobao all those are all pure third party then you have your Amazon introduced this idea of what I would call hybrid Marketplace so you have some first-party some third-party all the other retailer type marketplaces are like that so Walmart Sears Etc they would be this hybrid kind of a thing there's. If you're on a Marketplace and you can't tell you no it's a market Place item but you can't tell who the seller is I call that a Dropship Marketplace yeah there's probably some other way there to Brand it where the seller is masked so you're essentially you know you're buying from this these kind of sellers back there but they're not identified in their own way that's how all Overstock works for example in a couple of the new marketplaces will talk about. What are those all of this stuff I just described are what we call two-sided marketplaces so there's a buyer and a seller. [12:49] What are the interesting things in The Last 5 Years in this is kind of probably part of the Advent of of the rise of the smartphone in the mobile world is 3 sided marketplaces so you add this third side I'm a classic example here is the food delivery companies so you have the buyer who is the hungry consumer not like you and I right now it's around dinner time and then the seller is typically restaurant it may actually be a commercial kitchen is kind of coming up as another thing. [13:14] That's two sides of the marketplace but the two of us unless we're going to go pick up the food the two of us can transact until we have that third side which is typically the delivery Marketplace so a lot of this was born from realizing with the ride sharing apps Uber lifting the big ones and then Dede in the. [13:35] In China's accident D D D D D D anyway. To that created this this kind of ability to say hey there's there's a fair number of gig workers out there that are willing to move something from point A to point B. Plug them into this Marketplace and now we've got a three-sided Marketplace that's one example you're now seeing. Obviously ubereats kind of participates that in themselves but now you're seeing furniture delivery all kinds of marketplaces now that are on this three sided so that the third leg that most of you they're familiar with product marketplaces is new is the the middle infrastructure Logistics kind of marketplace to get to plugged in on that side. Jason: [14:20] And is I can imagine that a little bit of a gray area like. How much value that that middleman provide sort of designates whether it's a two party or third-party market like cuz you you could look at Amazon and say. Like even on their third party sales when they're doing fulfillment by Amazon and adding all all this value to the sale that that could be a 3 of 3 sided Marketplace. Scot: [14:47] Where to get super technical at kind of think if if if the buyer or seller is providing the logistics it's a two-sided Marketplace. But an example where would be a three-sided Marketplace is Amazon does have Flex which is a driver Marketplace so so if your order came through Flex I would argue that's a three-sided Marketplace but if Amazon was employed the drivers now on Amazon does have this hold delivery program which is kind of sin cholita 99 so yeah so so if I think increasingly more and more of it is three sided. [15:19] Yea nice things blurry over time, so that's kind of where we are and that's the history so it said you can look at the size out there the biggest Marketplace operator I put elastics here cuz why these China Chinese companies that when they report these DMV numbers their there they're not gaap accounting there's a lot of craziness that goes on in the China market around did a transaction really happen or not. I'm and there's there can be a bigger disconnect between the DMV and the actual Revenue the company silver example Alibaba has a Marketplace called. A cowbell where and in an Ali Baba itself to be to be Marketplace really buyers and sellers meet and it's more of an ad platform and then you know they make some assumptions and say that's the gmv they're not actually collecting. A rake. Take Kratom from that Marketplace so I think I actually just recently taobao. What's London's weeaboo tencent. So so tencent Alibaba and JD depending on your kind of which day do you look at and believe there there's a largest ones out there and and that's because you have the Chinese e-commerce markets already bigger than the US and then 90% of its marketplaces and and the others there's there's a kind of race they all have to, put out bigger and bigger DMV numbers hard to tell how much of that is true. Jason: [16:45] I sometimes think of it they now LG is like a Craigslist where. Craigslist probably classified ads like facilitated a lot of sales but Craigslist wouldn't know. Exactly how much sales they they fulfilled so you can imagine them reporting some estimate of how much sales were generated then there may not be perfectly at. Scot: [17:08] Yeah what they do is just the way you and I we were kind of napkin diagramming this we would say well yeah we had this many what you do know is traffic numbers rights we had this many listings in this many buyers come through let's assume a conversion rate of. X percent somewhere between 5 and 10 probably and then an average order value of 75 bucks and then boom you know Craigslist does 50 billion dollars a year. Those numbers you have to take a grain of salt, then as we as we go down a level on Teen Mom which is another part of the Alibaba that one is actually you know you're required to use a Lipe and everything it has at a crate so there you can see that you. It's relatively large and even just tea Mall itself is effectively. To Amazon's in an eBay so it's huge so you know it's kind of the scale we're talking about here so there's a bigger marketplaces in the China area, I'm did you come down to the US Amazon has grown to be larger than than eBay kind of north of 100 billion and then you have eBay at about 90 billion and then you come down and and you have a bunch of smaller marketplaces. [18:15] I'm so glad all this up and it's about 50 to 60% of transactions you guys are going through I'm by by gmv dollars transaction dollar amount are going to marketplaces. So so definitely a big opportunity for Brands to consider and and and think about as well as retailers. Let's talk about some of the new trends in marketplaces so some of the new marketplaces that have hit the scenes so Target plus I think it's one of the biggest ones that's been announced in the last year that hasn't gotten a lot of PR so you know full disclosure I guess I should have said this at the top but I started a company in 2001 called Channel advisor we went public in 2013 2015 I moved from CEO to Executive chairman of still chairman of the board there but I'm not involved in the day-to-day but I didn't know we're one of their launch Partners at Target plus and that's been a big. From what I understand that's been really successful for those sellers on there now a lot of times when when folks. Get into the world of marketplaces they they rightly do so cautiously nothing Targets in that camper I think it's an invitation only type of a Marketplace but. I'm right here it's doing pretty well. [19:33] The end in one of their they're interesting Innovations is using that store footprint when we have conversations with retailers about launching of marketplace one of the big concerns is I am so someone buys a pair of sneakers from Jason sneaker shop and they try to return them to the Target store you know what it what the heck is the sales associate going to do. I'm Target to the lot of chair with their Marketplace tube to really kind of tie that whole experience together and in my understanding is it works really well where you could buy anything on the market place and return it in the store on your next Target once it's kind of a neat. Differentiator that have their Walmart obviously has had kind of ups and downs with with marketplaces so they had their own Marketplace in the acquired judge Mark Lori who came along with that acquisition is a big believer in marketplaces and he was at Amazon for a long time. He started Quincy which didn't operate a Marketplace but sold was very aggressive selling on marketplaces and leveraging them and we mentioned you mentioned on a recent new show that they're kind of doubling back down on marketplaces at Walmart, you you point it out to other new marketplaces that you wanted Highland. Jason: [20:43] So I sign in malls has launched the marketplace and appreciate that make is a head-scratcher but then you realize Simon has traffic that comes to their own website and they've. They're trying to drive traffic to their own website and they want to be able to sell all the. The goods that their tenants in their mall would offer it right and so what what's the solution for having a. You know website owned by Simon that can sell goods from all these different tenants from their brick-and-mortar properties it's essentially hosta Marketplace where are those tenants can sell their goods to the traffic that comes to send them all so they're kind of created a digital version of there. Their physical malls I know and this was interesting to me because Urban Outfitters is sort of a vertically integrated set of brands that mostly sell their own stuff. And they actually the last year launched the marketplace and sort of expanded their assortment which is interesting because I don't think that they were a big wholesaler outside of the marketplace. Scot: [21:55] Yeah and then another Trend within marketplaces is to go really vertical so you know if you're a buyer of a certain category the generic experience you get from an Amazon or Ebay or Target or Walmart is your maybe you have some filters by size or something like that. But let's say I'm a comic book collector and I really care about you is this graded by a commercial Grading Company and what is that grade and you know what series is this thing I maybe if I go to eBay looking for that item I maybe it's kind of going to 5000 listings to try to narrow it in that maybe and then I can't really get my handle on if it's really kind of what I'm looking for so you're seeing this kind of explosion of what I would call hyper vertical experiences for folks one that's kind of a really interesting one is house so this is in the in the. [22:50] Home home home improvement category, how started out is this really cool way to husband and wife team wear I think I did was a kitchen remodel I think they did a remodel part of their house they realized that there was no tools for really kind of visualizing it in and putting together the whole project. So you know being I think one of them are there both Engineers they they said there's a need here so I think they kind of. [23:16] You know I necessity was the mother of invention that created this tool I'm in for a long time it was just that and then what they realized is if you go through the steps of saying alright I want a new bedroom and here's the drapes and the bedding and the mattress and all that stuff and you could print a shopping list when I go that last kind of step and say hey here's a little Marketplace of your now you're at the bed Choice selection now you can see a Marketplace of beds you can see a Marketplace of wall coverings whatever it is so that's really interesting one where you know you would you wouldn't have to think of a Marketplace being plugged in that way but it do, I've actually seen them on the IPO watch list recently that this the GMB from the marketplace component is is by far the largest part of what they do and it kind of. You know that that tail is wagging the dog now where the remodeling tool is become just a driver for sales into the marketplace one of our favorite guest and listeners Jason Del Rey is really into the sneaker area there they're called sneakerheads so there is a huge I don't know how to size this was all so funny about the internet and then they become. [24:28] Five ten fifteen billion dollar niches because once you kind of get in there to find it in proven experience it can explode on you so there's a company called goat and they recently merge with Fight Club they're effectively a Marketplace for new and used sneakers really kind of putting out a grape by her experience for that sneaker collector I'm which can imagine you know notify me when you find this item I've been looking for in my size and this condition again the things that are really important to these folks have a different differentiated experience. [25:01] On the show we've been talking a lot about real real recently that's essentially a Marketplace for these kind of higher-end items that need a verification stuff. So if you're going to go and make a an investment in a $500 Louis Vuitton bag or a certain piece of jewelry you don't want that to be something that was sold outside the Theater District on a on a sidewalk if you want someone that is an expert in, identify certifying and verifying that these are real items that are are you know from the manufacturer. So so those are some of the interesting things Trends there another Trend we wanted to talk about was. Marketplaces kind of going offline so it so there's a couple we had date on the show that's a good example of you know you could call that a krog Marketplace but sky like a real estate Marketplace in the way to so your Betta is gone out and and adult stores and they have these brands that are kind of like Mike releasing some of the real estate inside of their crate this really interesting unified experience for people to discover products what are some of the other up-and-coming physical marketplaces. Jason: [26:11] Yeah but I think that's physical marketplaces are really catching on there's a neighborhood Goods which started out in Dallas and I think they just did. A reasonable size raised in my head I want to say like 10 million. And they've announced a few new stores like there might be one coming to New York right now there is a store in New York called Schofield fields that has some like interesting spins on the customer experience they offer for each one. Macy's has a. A separate section of the store they called Macy's Marketplace which is powered by Beta so uses the beta technology but it's it's Macy's property and they essentially lease a space in that and those are. I'm starting to me all examples of these emerging physical marketplaces. Scot: [27:01] Yeah and Alibaba is actually gone on record in and that's their biggest strategy for the next five years as they call it Ono online and offline so taking all these things they learn in the marketplace online we have infinite shelf and then boiling it back down into a physical type experience. Jason: [27:16] And I forgot to mention there's a. One of these physical marketplaces in the Mall of America which I think it's called four corners and then Mackenzie the Strategic consulting firm just announced they were going to open their own brick and mortar store as a. Certified living retail lab also in Mall of America and my understanding is that is basically a brick-and-mortar marketplaces well. Scot: [27:43] I think we need a road trip to Mall of America. Maybe we'll go next July I don't I don't go to Minnesota past October. Jason: [27:50] Probably smart and I'ma have to you may have a tough time adapting to Caribou Coffee in Minnesota that will get moved. Scot: [27:56] Okay I can make the coffee change its the minus 10 degree weather that doesn't sit well with. Jason: [28:00] Fair enough. Scot: [28:01] So that's kind of an interesting trend is in the end product marketplaces is kind of going it from online into the offline world a couple other big trends that we're seeing in product marketplaces put into two buckets what is friction reduction in this is kind of an that your convenience bucket that we talked a lot about in the other one is advertising Marketplace hybridization so I did the things are Blended together the site of reduction of friction you know one of the sets of Facebook has been quite active in the marketplace category in there taking a couple runs at this that that haven't worked if you remember Way Way Back you should be able to set up your company pages and have a little store in a tablet I'm weeks terminal out with that with folks and knowing whatever they could barely find your company page much less the antelope Marketplace tab. [28:51] And then then Facebook kind of just created what they saw was all these people forming their own little groups so we have one of these in my neighborhood where it's just kind of a the Facebook group and then it it tends to very quickly have a little kind of product section. [29:05] Play Private Eyes that with something called Facebook Marketplace which is really more that Craigslist kind of a vibe but now they're they're doing a lot of experimentation around that to make it and inviting real sellers in there that are not just kind of know hey I have used cops for fifty bucks kind of a thing they're they're putting the kind of tiptoeing into a seller platform payments platform in those kinds of things and then also. Also within that world Instagram has been quite aggressive on this and just rolled out Instagram check out and that is seems to be getting a lot of focus from Facebook and in a lot of nursing directions they could take that so what interesting direction is if I'm an influencer could I recommend a certain product and have you know almost like an affiliate type relationship there where I promote you I have a picture of this item and it made its cool pair of shoes and you know. You can buy it directly from the brand but then I get some kind of a revenue share from from promoting them so that's the only really interesting and they seem to be putting a lot of a fair amount of effort into the Instagram check out then so far it seems to be going really well didn't you want to add on the Facebook Instagram son. Jason: [30:22] No I mean again I think those are definitely. Interesting experiments at the moment like it you know it big controversial question is that that model has worked really well for a long time in China so far it hasn't had amazing success in the US so it's I feel like it's interesting to. Keep watching that and see if it gets customer. Scot: [30:46] Yeah absolutely said so the there's been way more failures here than than successes in the US to Twitter had a buy button Facebook how to buy Button as well as part of the ad format. Jason: [30:59] Yeah I think Pampers at online store on Facebook in 2007. Scot: [31:04] And you know what I would is a Marketplace person with a lot of these Market. Please continue to get wrong is the user experience so that order one for example you know and we were we were one of their Partners on this. You know it's pretty easy to put a buy button out there but it's really hard to answer questions like well where is the product detail Page live. Yeah what would a lot of people that want to do a quick and dirty Marketplace also don't get right is inventory so you know the Twitter answer was will people will go buy the stuff and then the retailer can't all of it was out of stock let's see you do that twice is consuming your life. Forget the Twitter by button because you know it's totally not helpful things like sizes so and then if you get another calories categories to get into a parent-child relationship so you got like colors and sizes and then you get into fitment in so so a lot of a lot of times people say you know this kind of Go Fast and break stuff and BP culture I'll Chris he's really bad user experiences and I would argue a lot of these guys have not made it into the marketplace world because they've got so many corners it was really bad customer experiences early on. Jason: [32:17] Diana it gives me I just in general with marketplaces what are the magic you have to get right is you you have to make it work for both audiences the buyers and the sellers and if you like you know some people are really good at. Appealing to the buyers. But they don't offer nothing manatees to the sellers or you know some people are really good at offering amenities for the sellers but they're not graded attracting buyers and it seems like the trick to all successful marketplaces is. They're they're able to grow their value prop on both sides of that Marketplace in relative Harmony so they they don't end up with a. Ton of buyers and not enough stuff for them to buy and they don't end up with a ton of inventory and not enough consumers that want an inventory. Scot: [33:02] Yeah yeah Dan and I you know how to start a guy get approached by a lot of people building marketplaces and analogy like to use is it's like rowing a canoe or a kayak if you if you only roll on one side yours can go in this endless circles and, marketplaces great when you get it up to scale but it's really hard to get it up to scale because you're essentially building to businesses you're blowing the buyer side in the seller side and you've got to have enough capital and hotspot and then also. You know there's this balance in the force kind of a thing that you have to do on on both sides of the equation to build the marketplace right and most of them do fail because they'll, they want reason of capital they'll they'll row on one side of boat and not the other or you know that they won't nail that. User experience in the middle or they won't have enough value a lot of times you just kind of introducing a buyer and a seller isn't enough you have to really kind of had that. Trust factor and you know that serendipitous Discovery and in some of those things that are really hard to nail 100%. Jason: [34:07] I was going to say I don't know that you'd call these different kinds of marketplaces or not but two that are coming up a lot and my conversations so I'm starting to have a lot of what I've been calling B2B marketplaces. A business that usually is the manufacturer of a product that historically did not sell that product to direct direct to their there. In business user that they had a an intermediary distribution Channel and so is the world is gone from physical to digital and they stop taking fax orders and move to a website. They still don't want to cut out their distribution channel so. Traffic for the product is going to the brand manufacturer But ultimately the brand manufacturer wants. One of their value-added resellers are there Distributors are there dealers or whatever their framework is to be the person that sells that product and so. Marketplaces a perfect solution. For that so I'm trying to see a lot of businesses like she would Packard Enterprise where you know one about the servers at hpe. Calm and then by the server from. A bar that's essentially a seller on hewlett-packard's Marketplace. Scot: [35:25] Absolutely yes so this is where we can I take this Marketplace concept and most people think of it and I should I saw an Amazon or not it's kind of like they're big Marketplace question but if we turn it on if we turn it 90 degrees how can you use marketplaces to make your business better so so using it as a way to using a Marketplace as a way to you know navigate Channel conflicts is one opportunity another one that we see a lot of and it is kind of what you see with the targets and Walmarts in the world is exploding Out product selection so let's say, you not like to argue about the away suitcases for example so it's always built this really great audience of Travelers and if they want to really explode out there skus sure they can go to the old school way of of kind of building a bunch of them themselves but what if what if they just want to you have some recommended products that work well like maybe some Bose headphones or something like that for travelers or. [36:22] Hello I'm selling that they probably wouldn't build they can go to that old school way of going and sourcing people to EDI and all the stuff or would it be more effective to effectively just kind of hanging a travel Marketplace off of their website so it's another thing that's kind of interesting is you know and then. And you don't have to again when it when you bring that up a lot of people like oh you know I don't want people to buy toys from my thing you can you can because you can control this you can control the rules of engagement right so even in your B2B example A lot of people will say why don't want. [36:56] Tell her one and tell her to compete with its that's fine you don't have to. Marketplaces that. Just have one seller and maybe it's by geography whatever the Rules of Engagement are of your Marketplace it have there but what you're doing is you're part of that that ethos of the Ring a Marketplace is. Everyone having a great user experience giving the seller tools to manage things on their selves versus you as a company taking on all the ownership of that management of things so it's a much better shared responsibility and your supplier will be happier when when they have cell service tools cuz they can make a bunch of decisions themselves versus you kind of forcing them on them within the Rules of Engagement. Jason: [37:40] That's why make sense the other use case that's come up a lot I don't know if it's just. Accord have timing or there's a lot of these these these kids is out there but is a Marketplace solving a regulatory problem and so by that what I mean is the automotive industry for example like in most cases the manufacturer is not allowed to sell the cars to a consumer so a manufacturer makes the car. A dealer has to sell the car to a consumer and so even one of the solutions there is at the manufacturer's website via Marketplace and have the Dealer's be. Sellers on that Marketplace and in much the same vein is illegal for the the alcohol product. Creator to sell the alcohol to a consumer so drizly one of the most popular alcohol delivery services. Is really just another Marketplace you know they're they're not the seller of record selling alcohol and having to deal navigate all the. The issues with alcohol licenses in distributor licenses versus dealer license is there a market place and they allow. Retailers that have a retail distribution alcohol license to sell on their Marketplace. Scot: [38:54] Yeah and you can imagine you know what's used automobile dealership because it's kind of near and dear to my heart you know you can imagine will who gets the lead well let's say you're in you look like our region of Raleigh-Durham there's like four Toyota dealers within like a kite area well now it now you can use those Rules of Engagement to create the right Behavior so you can say who gets the highest scores on there their service department whose sales reps get the highest NPS scores and you can kind of change the the flow of leads are our sales into the the dealership based on these kinds of Rules of Engagement and drive the behaviors you want so you maybe have a bunch of dealer saying that vehicles in stock and they don't suit so there's all out of stock in the stock thing a lot of the same kind of things we we see in the world. I guess cars are product but they can have in the widget world could be applied to the vehicle thing or or. Or even alcohol which alcohol store gets the order could be based on you know. [39:58] How update are you on this then you can start to create all these interesting new monetization mechanisms you know like you know the dealers made us an ad platform you could learn them so that's another one of things we're going to talk about the second is is this is interesting way to layer in advertising into marketplaces in and have a whole nother layer of you know self management in letting giving the marketplace seller participants pools to let them hash it out figure out what the right thing is for the consumers. [40:30] So then so the two biggest Trends in marketplaces that were seeing kind of here around 2019 I talked about reduction of friction so so we're seeing people trying to do that in Social and a lot of times what we're doing is we're bringing the transaction up right so let's use Instagram as an example so you see this exciting new shoe on Instagram now you go to Shalom some shoe site and then you have to login create a thing you know all that stuff, and then re-enter all your payment details so bad by pulling it up and getting getting a bunch of clicks it's going to make it better for everybody that's whatever it's got going for the Holy Grail and as you mentioned has worked in China but not the US ship was in that vein Google has been chewing away at this for a long time and their own kind of version 4 or 5 of this on the latest iteration is Google shopping actions and that's where you do a search for something and you'll see this little icon and that effectively you can buy now right from the Google ad on your mobile device I believe this is Android only right now but where are you know, again. Lozier child as a partner in the sand I think we're seeing some really good traction from folks that are in this program because you can imagine you know you go from a you all right I didn't add I got to click then I had to have a converging and all that good stuff to now I had an ad and I got to convert so you take all these steps out of there it's going to be better. Jason: [41:59] Just less friction between the purchase intent and the purchase. Scot: [42:02] Yeah. Yeah and you know what's interesting is the travel industry is ahead of us in the e-commerce world so Google travel has you can buy a ton of stuff right from Google travel and I think they're taking a bunch of learning as they've got there I'm weird that song Like a Virgin 600 and they're bringing it over into the product world so so I think you know with all the Google smarts going on and they seem pretty committed to this all the way up to company so so that's why I want to keep an eye on and it would be a Jason's not sure if we did talk more about Amazon sew in April this year Amazon announced one day Prime so you're just when everyone thought that they could kind of catch up to 2-day Prime now there's one day Prime and you know I seen data that shows increasing late that day since April they've really been dramatically delivering on this and ramping up their delivery program kind of in in front of holiday so it's something like, about half of the products now Prime eligible products are also eligible for one day Prime so so I think my holiday next year will have you know almost. All prime deliveries will be 1-day except for certain regions like Wyoming or something. [43:11] Another big Trend in marketplaces is this ad Marketplace hybridization and Ali Baba was way out in front of this show so taobao for example almost all the revenue on taobao comes from ads because that's a person-to-person Marketplace and they're not collecting at a crate a really is is they make all the money from ads say to bestie mad Mormon put in tea malt in about half the revenue and tmall is from a transaction fee in the other half is from an ad you have to do is we have to be careful is just when you throw ads in there it can do no do spam right cuz a lot of times the person that can spend the most on an dad. [43:49] Actually may have the worst product offer for consumers because they've got the most margin to spin on a Stanley add Amazon is very clever way around this is you have to own the buy box which means you got a great value then you can do an ad so then as we talked the Amazon ad functionality is a exploded a bus for vendor Central and Seller Central in overwhelmingly a large percentage of the pixels on the screen are sponsored or advertising. So that has been a huge Trend and now we've seen Walmart replicate that and I think you're going to see a lot of other people look at this marriage of ads and marketplaces makes it hard as a vendor in this world be at 1 P r3p or even hybrid cuz now you got all these. Just give you this whole nother set of levers should I reduce the price on my product and nickel or should I spend more on Advertising is it really how much of its accretive like truly additional and how much of it isn't so that you know you're still a lot of thinking going on around there and I'm sure you guys think a lot about that as well. [44:54] Set and then also you kind of brings crashing into the world all the agency guys now and product guys are like hey what are you guys doing here go do some TV ads or whatever it is you guys do so it's really interesting that that that intersections causing a lot of friction and and a lot of resetting and Mini Market Place examples back to you're thinking well I thought I knew it all I was on this Marketplace let me rethink that figure out how how do I leverage this advertising piece and how do I think about the ROI on that. I always keep an eye out side the World Of Products on marketplaces to see what's going on there's a lot of really interesting things they are going going down one of the biggest ones is you know for a long time investors love these kind of zero asset marketplaces so eBay 0ass at Marketplace it's a bunch of people in San Jose just kind of guiding the marketplace and all the buyers and sellers. [45:46] Get involved with the company Amazon is more full stack because they do get involved at the 1p Parton to get involved in the shipping, that's a big Trend so as companies have started to try to have a better customer experience they are they're going deeper. Classic example you a lot about is in the real estate industry so in the early days you had Zillow and Trulia those two companies. Merged and you know they would essentially they're kind of a lead Marketplace for realtors then accompany kind of came out and said you know if we if we did really good data analytics and we just bought the houses for kind of turn to 20% below market and then flipped him very quickly we can have a much higher take rate so the average take rate in a real estate market place is like 10% but these guys have like at 33%. Take right now. That's one that's kind of the the bullish example the bearish or negative example would be by really loading up on a lot of real estate if there's a recession you know who's going to be the last person kind of in the musical chairs there so it's so that it remains to be seen what's going on there we work gets pulled into this because I effectively kind of. [46:59] Kringle market place where they go and take long-term leases and then they're kind of real estate Marketplace inside of that lease Airbnb is a great Marketplace for vacations and where you want to stay there going why it is so there is trying to put together unique experiences that kind of say all right you know you you want to have a fun family outing we're going to put you in a treehouse and along with that Randy horse riding and and and that kind of thing. Last one I'll point out is this is where Uber and Lyft are doing some interesting things and this is anchoring around the customer and they're saying my customer wants transportation and they came to me for cars what other Transportation can I give them so it's this is called multimodal in the transportation world so they'll say all right Jason you want to get from this location in Chicago 2 and location in New York you're going to scooter from here to the subject of the what he got caught the L I'm here in Chicago and that's going to take you to the airport and then that's going to take a New York and then we're going to have Lyft pick you up and take you from point A to point B I'm in and maybe in there you'll you'll ride other mix mixes of Transportation so so taking the consumer and trying to grab more of their journey is a really interesting kind of thing and then that world you call it multimodality I'm so kind of fun to Think Through what else can we do in their product world for people around this stuff you know if are there signals that we get from these products where we could tie in. [48:26] Maybe a trip somewhere or travel or who knows what else we could try in there. Jason: [48:31] Even just like that installation services and stuff that you see marketplaces like Amazon start to bundle with sales feels like a a permutation of that. Scot: [48:41] Yeah and then the last one if you if you are interested in learning more there's a lot more material out there about marketplaces when I remember it was kind of lonely in 2001 being the guy screaming it top of Mount about marketplaces but now the good news is there's a lot more content out there one of the best ones is they're Dilaudid PCS that that it really almost got Focus to the exclusivity on marketplaces one of the biggest ones that that loves marketplaces is Andreessen Horowitz. Search Marc Andreessen founder of Mozilla and Firefox and then his partner Ben Horowitz It's Kind of a Funny Thing. [49:26] You eat your so the word internationalization has would like 18 character says i18n so use that same saying Andreessen Horowitz there's 16-character so I think it's a16z I'm so you go to a16z they have a lot of really good content around marketplaces the two folks that really publish a lot there or Jeff Jordan and he was the CEO of eBay and PayPal for a while and then he focuses a lot on marketplaces and then they just recently brought in a guy Andrew Chen and he does a really good job of pontiff Hughes from Uber. I'm in on their growth team so so a lot of really good content there and when you go you may say Scott's crazy while I think about this but you have to kind of connect the dots and think all right. I have a certain business problem in your B2B examples a good one could I use a Marketplace here in a different way that I'm thinking about marketplaces which is the normal should I sell on eBay or Amazon, so a lot of interesting some of this content is how do you solve that two-sided problem of building two things you know how do you how do you fake Demand on one side how do you fix a play on the other there's a lot of really interesting he said he's now in conton out there so what will link to their their blog a landing page and then they also have some good Twitter feeds that willing to in the show. [50:42] So we're getting tight on time so hopefully that gives you a good feeling for marketplaces and some of the different flavors out there and what's going on in the product Market Place world. Some action items so you know if you really one thing I wanted to One Last Train I want to talk about is this is kind of in that category of things becoming marketplaces you wouldn't think, this is maybe even a little bit early prediction for for our prediction show Shopify is an e-commerce platform press and bees and they just recently announced that they're building their own FBA like shipping capability well you know one thing. Shopify lakhs to be a Marketplace is a unified or four people come in and say I want to shop amongst all the Shopify Merchants so so for me that's really interesting one where you know I think we're going to see Things become marketplaces you would have never guessed someone Shopify does it does it then why wouldn't Salesforce all the platform companies you're having this kind of vinaigrette interesting interesting way of taking on Amazon by having a unique shop amongst my Merchants kind of a capability I think we're going to see a lot of. [51:52] Innovation in the next 5 years around that I action items to thanks for making it this far so I'm a big believer that you have to really Embrace these marketplaces they're not for everybody but in the in the kind of the obvious use case figuring out how to sell on them should you sell on them if you're if you're not going to you're going to miss kind of half the opportunity out there. Another one is everyone is very siloed and I think about advertising in one bucket and then where to sell your products in another those worlds are colliding you need to have kind of that capability integrated on your side the the table Stakes of convenience of getting your products out there are very high so you need to be able to partner with someone to help you with those delivery times. The good news is because Amazon's raise the bar a lot of people I've talked to said why I went to a 3pl and you know it was like five days and three times as expensive or more Partners out there that can do this I mention Shopify Zone Network. FedEx UPS Wise Guys now have programs that are very Amazon FBA asked not only in their cost but in their service levels. [53:09] You know you can't say enough about data quality we we we we just talked about personalization earlier and and. The Venn diagram of data quality overlaps for pretty much everything on site merchandising. Yeah that is the one topic you see people don't invest enough in product data so so that's one of those things you get kind of 10x when when he invested really rich product data the same shoe for marketplaces cuz you're going to want to go to sell on Amazon or build your own Marketplace and you're not going to have the right taxonomy and way to do this this is a whole new way of thinking about things so there's a whole new set of measuring and kpi is to develop their and then the last one we talked a little bit about this is consider applying a Marketplace to a part of your business that that's not maybe immediately obvious could have been offline thing you do could it be a way of dealing with suppliers in a much more efficient self-service type way this more scalable and then has some yo. Add-on benefits that that you wouldn't get if you just kind of did it the old school way. Should you have your own third-party Marketplace there's a variety of vendors out there now that will help you set up a Marketplace so they can plug into most of the platforms the one we've talked about on the show before is Miracle they just raised a pretty sizable around 6 to $89 you were smooching there's a couple other than yours out there. Jason: [54:31] Miracle is I think I've is sort of the original enterprise-class solution and it's it's spelled peculiarly for her listeners that I've heard it before it's a m i r a k l which I'm sure they thought was cute but it's kind of been. Yeah yeah and in fact it was the French version of best by fnac that these guys wrote an internal Market play software for. And I thought oh my God like other people need this besides fnac we should turn this into a product until it's either so that's how a miracle was born from. From a fnac but we have not seen a platform. Have native Marketplace functionality yet which is interesting like you you might expect that to come but we have a miracle has done enough traction and with the fundraising we seeing the number of. Newer competitors emerge that can be sort of a plug-in Marketplace like miracle and so one that I've seen in the US a lot recently is one called marketplacer. Which I understand is started out as a European provider in and there are some small or ones that I personally know less about but I do see in the marketplace there's one called near me. There's one called Iceberg there and then when I seen a number of times it's called arcadier and some of these are. [55:55] Flea product I solution some of these are code bases that you can use to add to sort of cells maintain platforms like Magento in a few of them I think are even plugins that are available in the Shopify App Store so you can kind of. Pretty easily add them to your to your existing Shopify installation and then kokorico is the funnest one to say. Scot: [56:18] Coco Rico. Jason: [56:21] I don't either but it's it is another one of these like a startup software service mark. Scot: [56:28] Did you have any other action items for folks on marketplaces that you've seen out there. Jason: [56:32] No I do I think your advice not to overlook. The customer experience elements that it's not just about the offer in the customer I think it is very relevant because I feel like a lot of the. The marketplaces that we've seen not succeed and not every Marketplace in the US has succeeded. It feels like it often comes down to that customer experience at execution until I I I certainly. I'm sort of agree with with that point but yeah that sounds like a great west of action item. Scot: [57:09] And with that we are we hope you've enjoyed this deep dive on marketplaces. Jason: [57:14] And as always if you have further questions especially hard questions for Scott then I highly encourage you to visit us on our Facebook page or hit us up on Twitter. We'll try to stump Scott on the marketplace questions I'm if you have any easy questions I'd be happy to weigh in on them as well. And of course if this show added value we sure would appreciate it if you'd get on iTunes and give us that five star review iTunes being another example of a Marketplace. Until next time happy commercing.

In this episode of “Unwrap Your Candies Now,” Catherine Lu and Ernie Manouse preview the 2019-2020 seasons of eight of the major performing arts groups of Houston’s Theater District, and they chat with Mayor Sylvester Turner about the significant impact of the arts in the city. Recorded live at Jones Hall at the 26th Annual Theater District Open House on August 25, this episode also marks the radio debut of the podcast, which can now be... Read More

Excerpts from Houston Theater District performances by Ars Lyrica, Apollo Chamber Players, Aperio, MUSIQA, Da Camera, and Mercury.

In this episode of “Unwrap Your Candies Now,” Ernie Manouse chats with Martha Davis, lead singer of the ’80s new wave band The Motels, known for hits like “Only the Lonely” and “Suddenly Last Summer.” The Motels will perform in Houston’s Arena Theater on Thursday, August 22 as part of the Lost 80s Live tour. Then, Catherine Lu previews the 2019 Houston Theater District Open House with Kathryn McNiel, CEO of Theater District Houston. McNiel... Read More

Lee Strickland is the general manager of Society for the Performing Arts and they are participating in the 26th annual TC Energy Theater District Open House on Sunday August 25th from 12 – 5 PM. It's an opportunity to visit the backstage areas of Jones Hall and the Wortham Center among other theaters in the district and all the companies will have presentations and great deals on their season subscriptions. Go to www.theaterdistrictopenhouse.com for information. The Lone Star College University Park Percussion Ensemble and Houston Contemporary Dance are performing for SPA. Also, the Houston Symphony is performing a full show from 4-5 PM. It usually fills up!We also discuss their new season including shows from Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Manual Cinema: Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Jay Leno, STOMP and Bon Iver with TU Dance. They close their season with The Spongebob Musical. Go to www.spahouston.org for tickets.

Art Falco, Senior Adviser For Special Projects At Playhouse Square spoke with Bill and Mike about the "Gem" Of Cleveland (The Great Theater District) and Playhouse Square. Plus, Art talks his career and coming to Playhouse.

WTMJ's John Mercure talks with the Wisconsin Theater District in this Sunday Sip.

TFR EP61 - ALADDIN STARRING WILL SMITH IS IT WORTH THE HYPE? The Film Review Podcast #TFRLiveSundays: 1,) The Husband and Wife Team Review Aladdin starring Will Smith. 2.) The Team Announces TCS BBQ CRIB TC Harrell's Coming Aboard As An Advertisement Partner, Advertising on The Film Reveiw: Music Review Show, which Ep.2 Debuting May 30th! 3.) Crazy Dee talks his BDay Weekend-- which began Friday May 24th, 2019, with Like It is Radio hosted by Franklyn G Verley, who interviewed Reime Schemes whose song Thief Ah Whine appears Globally on TFR: Music Review Show @ Vegas TV Shows & Movies Channel by Crazy Dee, here: vimeo.com/showcase/bycrazydee | Happy Birthday to Brian Tims, happy belated BDay to Nathan Scott, and Happy BDay to All of The Geminis! 4.) They talk Soul Central Magazine Soul Central Awards Soul Central Awards Meet N Greet created by Mark Rowe, meeting Floyd Mayweather, and Crazy Dee thanking him for all of the years in Boxing; meeting Issa Twin. 5.) Subscribe to the youtube channel youtube.com/CrayzonDeeyon 6.) The importance of Culture, A Theater District, An Art District, Ballet, Orchestra, while having Teachers with PHd's teaching Black Children, and-- 7.) The Second Season of 'She's Got To Have It' by Spike Lee, It Is Black Culture based on Zora Neale Hurston, and it is Black Erotica, viewer discretion is advised, but it is Must Watch! 8.) Shout Out To Nikki Rich and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. ------------------ The Film Review: Movies Music Culture Politics & Society Ep61 Hosted by: Crazy Dee & Tracey © 2019 Lordlandfilms.com

Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Theater District, author of the autobiography “32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line” from Random House, numerous cookbooks, and host of the television series AVEC Eric. Buy Eric Ripert's books: Eric Ripert Books Follow Eric Ripert on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ericripert/ Follow Eric Ripert on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericripert Visit Le Bernardin: https://www.le-bernardin.com/

Jennifer Tepper is producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation. She is also the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein's/54 Below, and the author of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series. She is the creator of The Jonathan Larson Project and historian consultant on the upcoming film version of tick, tick...BOOM!  Other credits include projects, shows, and educational initiatives with The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, The Producing Office, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, TEDxBroadway, The Dramatists Guild, Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, New York City Center, the Broadway Green Alliance, and New York University. Listen in and hear her talk about: How she made a decision to take the plunge and produce BMC. Her gift of getting people to talk to her, how it got her career started, and how it also led to these terrific books. What her dream job is . . . (I bet she’ll have it at some point!) How she got started with producing and how she encourages other young Producers to get started too. How it has felt not only being one of the youngest Producers on Broadway but also being one of the youngest female Producers on Broadway.   This episode of The Producer’s Perspective Podcast is sponsored by Sunlight Studios. Right in the heart of the Theater District, it doesn’t get more convenient than this. To book a studio today, please visit sunlightstudios.com. Use code DAVENPORT to receive a 5% discount on bookings until April 11.  Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on Crain’s Daily Gist, host Amy Guth talks with Crain’s Chicago Business political reporter Greg Hinz about the latest in U of I South Loop research center funding. Plus: University of Notre Dame admits a bigger share of alums' kids enrolled at the school than Harvard and Yale, Groupon staff cutbacks, SEC loses fraud case over developer's $89 million visa fundraising campaign, Urbanspace plans to open a food hall in the Loop’s Theater District, and household worker association pens insurance deal. Follow host Amy Guth on Twitter at @AmyGuth, or join the conversation with #CrainsDailyGist.

Drama Book Shop is relocating in early 2019. Summer is 7 months away but summer theatres are announcing 2019 shows. American Theatre Wing grants ten theatres $10,000 each. Signature Theatre in VA & Yale University are forging a new partnership to bolster musical theatre talent. Playbill.com has a bi-weekly job listings email AND Terrence McNally gets the documentary treatment with Every Act of Life. JOIN THE MAILING LIST BIG NEWS OF THE WEEK Drama Book Shop in NYC is relocating not closing for good. Due to a rent hike they will end their lease at the end of January 2019 but are looking for a new place hopefully in the Theater District.  You can help by buying or donating to the Go-Fund-Me Page. SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PA) Barrington Stage Company (MA) Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (NY) ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS American Theatre Wing announces the ten theatres receiving the 2018 National Theatre Company grants of $10,000 each. Signature Theatre in VA & Yale University forge a pioneering partnership to bolster musical-theater writing talent at the college level. Playbill.com starts a bi-weekly email with the latest job listings.   SOMETHING I HAD TO SHARE WITH YOU... Four time Tony Award winning playwright Terrence McNally is getting the documentary treatment with Every Act of Life. It will be available on digital & VOD platforms on Nov. 6th. Don't forget to PRE-ORDER your own issue of Treading the Boards today at ACLTheatreResources.com. It will be available on Nov. 15th. THANKS FOR LISTENING AND HAVE A CREATIVE DAY!  

In this episode, we learn about the time Jackie Kashian’s father hit on Maria Bamford. It was at Jackie’s wedding. To find out how Maria reacted, take a listen. Also, if anyone books a guest-starring role on NBC’s Speechless, John Ross Bowie will not only have your back, but he’ll show you where the craft service table is on set. Plus, if you ever wondered, “What’s it like growing up in the Theater District in New York?”, you’ll soon find out. Do YOU Know the Difference? Areas of Expertise John Ross Bowie: The West Wing, Stephen Sondheim and 1986 New York Mets Jackie Kashian: Marvel Comics since 2004, romance novels, and chicken. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong John Ross Bowie Jackie Kashian With guest experts: Former baseball player and current podcaster, Bobby Ojeda. Comic book writer, Mark Waid. Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. The show is recorded at the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles. Theme Song by Jonathan Green David McKeever is the Live Sound Engineer. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher The show is edited by Julian Burrell

Leo Boucher is the director of marketing and audience development for Da Camera of Houston. They are a presenting organization who have been mixing jazz and chamber music with great success for 30 years. They are one of the best examples of how eclectic Houston's art community is, from its performers to its patrons. Check out their incredible season: www.dacamera.com As they do each year, Da Camera will be a part of Theater District Open House, on Sunday August 27th, from 12 to 5 PM. This is a free event in Houston's world class theatre district. You'll get to tour the Wortham Theater Center, mingle with dancers from Houston Ballet, meet musicians and artists from the Houston Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera, Society for the Performing Arts and Theatre Under the Stars.Da Camera is presenting a free concert by the New York philharmonic String Quartet and there is a lot more going on. Check it out: www.theaterdistrictopenhouse.com

NYC is a classic family travel trip. This week we talk about our top tips for visiting New York City with kids with travel expert Carol Cain from Girl Gone Travel, including where to stay, what to do and how to plan your trip. ON THE PODCAST 00:34 - Tamara and Kim talking about NYC 05:40 - Tamara’s tips on visiting NYC 10:10 - Talking with Carol about NYC 14:40 - Favorite neighborhoods to visit 17:30 - Airports to fly into New York 18:44 - More of Carol’s favorite neighborhoods 22:15 - Hotels Carol recommends 25:05 - Getting around the city 31:32 - Must dos for first time NYC visitors 34:37 - Food tours 36:50 - Favorite restaurants 42:57 - Money saving tips 45:43 - Best place to take a family photo 48:38 - Final tips for visiting NYC 49:50 - Favorite travel gear 54:11 - Favorite apps ABOUT CAROL CAIN Carol Cain is the writer and photographer behind the travel site GirlGoneTravel.com. She left a career in public relations before venturing into the world of travel blogging in 2008 and is often speaking on ways to improve brand and blogger relationships as well as raising awareness for increased diversity in media. Follow Carol on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. TIPS FOR VISITING NYC WITH KIDS Using the subway is a great way to get around the city while saving money. New York City uses a Metro Card system which has a bunch of different packages that you can use. For families it would be a good idea to get a card with 10 rides on it, which you can use for multiple people by swiping the card at the turnstile and passing it back to your next family member! You can also get a subway map for free at one of the main kiosks. They are also starting to add in digital maps in the subway stops, that show the tracks and stops. For first time visitors that want to see the iconic parts of New York, you should visit Midtown Manhattan. You will see Central Park, Hell's kitchen, the Theater District, and more that are all in walking distance. A great way to start your first time in NYC would be to take a walking tour or just any type of tour. You will get a sense of where you are while learning some historic facts about the city. Right next to Penn Station is a new high end food court. This is a great idea if you have a family that like different things, the kids can get a sandwich or burger while you have say Japanese cuisine. If you are flexible with your time and the show  you can go to the TKTS booth in Times Square to get discounted Broadway show tickets. BEST PLACE TO TAKE FAMILY PHOTO There is a park on Riverside Drive on the west side of Manhattan along the Hudson River that is a great spot. The sun sets there and the boat docks are really pretty. Another great spot is Top of the Rock, which offers a great view of the Empire State Building. You can also go online a schedule a time to go and just go right up without waiting. FAVORITE TRAVEL GEAR Carol is very much a Skechers girl. She also loves her Lands End cargo pants. APP(s) OF THE WEEK Best Parking and Icon Parking are both a good way to save on parking. You can check and reserve spots in parking garages. Having a NYC Subway app is really helpful. History Here is an app by the History Channel that uses your location and give you a lot of historic insight into where you are. Eat St. Is an app that helps you find food trucks! MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST Local Fun in NYC on Girl Gone Travel Don Peppe restaurant near JFK airport S’mac Discount Ticket Booth NYC Tourist Apps - We3Travel FOLLOW US AND SPREAD THE WORD! If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play and leave us a review! Have a question or comment? Send us an email or leave us a voicemail at +1.641.715.3900, ext. 926035# You can also follow our travels on Stuffed Suitcase and We3Travel, or follow the Vacation Mavens on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Thanks for listening!  

The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located first in the Harlem neighborhood on West 142nd St & Lenox Ave (644 Lenox Ave) from 1923 to 1935 and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during the Prohibition Era. The Cotton Club served as a favorite meeting spot on "Celebrity Nights" on Sundays, which featured guests such as Jimmy Durante, George Gershwin, Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Mae West, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Langston Hughes, and Judy Garland. This special one-hour presentation revisits the music and musicians that helped to make The Cotton Club famous. It has been remixed and remastered for 2016. You’ll hear these songs: 1) Goody Goody by Benny Goodman 2) Spreadin' Rhythm Around by Nell Carter & The Cast of “Ain’t Misbehavin’ 3) Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five 4) Sugar Foot Stomp by Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra 5) The Joint Is Jumping by Fats Waller & His Rhythm 6) You Ain't Got It No More by Laura Mayo 7) Satin Doll by Ella Fitzgerald (w/ Duke Ellington & His Orchestra) 8) Stay With It by Dorothy Dandridge 9) Keeping Out of Mischief Now by Louis Armstrong & All His Stars 10) Nice Work If You Can Get It by Billie Holiday 11) Goody Goody by Lew Raymond and his Orchestra 12) Vote For Mr. Rhythm by Ella Fitzgerald (w/ Chick Webb & His Orch.) 13) Cotton Tail by Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra (w/ Ben Webster, tenor sax) 14) Drop Me Off In Harlem by Marica Hiraga 15) Jumpin' Jive by Cab Calloway & His Orchestra 16) Am I Blue? By Margie Day 17) Black Bottom by Bob Crosby And His Orchestra (Bob Crosby, vocal) 18) Take The "A" Train by Freda Payne 19) Don't Get Around Much Anymore by David Huntsinger & Friends

This week, the Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio Show broadcasts from The Chatwal hotel in New York, a landmark building that was once the famous Lambs Club (and is now housing Geoffrey Zakarian’s Lambs Club restaurant). It’s got a wealth of history on 44th street on the west side of Manhattan and is right in the center of the Theater District. Joining Peter will be historian Elizabeth Bradley, who tells the great story of the lovers and the murder of Stanford White, and the very first “trial of the century.” Kevin Fitzpatrick, author of Dorothy Parker’s New York and Under the Table: A Dorothy Parker Cocktail Guide, reveals how many speakeasies were once on 44th street (whatever number you guess, you’ll be way too low), and talks about special secrets of the neighborhood. Ashish Verma stops by to talk about how the hotel owners worked to maintain the landmark status of the building as well as maintaining its architectural style, and Nicole Morris and Audrey Romanola, Spa Directors at the Red Door in The Chatwal, speak about the wellness experience and the urban sanctuary the spa provides. Additionally, The New York Times‘ Seth Kugel will discuss the $100/day trip challenge, and Chatwal Chefs Arthur Barrette and Eric Haugen reveal the secrets of sourcing amazing New Brunswick salmon. There’s all of this and more as Peter Greenberg Worldwide broadcasts from The Chatwal in New York.

This week, the Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio Show broadcasts from The Chatwal hotel in New York, a landmark building that was once the famous Lambs Club (and is now housing Geoffrey Zakarian’s Lambs Club restaurant). It’s got a wealth of history on 44th street on the west side of Manhattan and is right in the center of the Theater District. Joining Peter will be historian Elizabeth Bradley, who tells the great story of the lovers and the murder of Stanford White, and the very first “trial of the century.” Kevin Fitzpatrick, author of Dorothy Parker’s New York and Under the Table: A Dorothy Parker Cocktail Guide, reveals how many speakeasies were once on 44th street (whatever number you guess, you’ll be way too low), and talks about special secrets of the neighborhood. Ashish Verma stops by to talk about how the hotel owners worked to maintain the landmark status of the building as well as maintaining its architectural style, and Nicole Morris and Audrey Romanola, Spa Directors at the Red Door in The Chatwal, speak about the wellness experience and the urban sanctuary the spa provides. Additionally, The New York Times‘ Seth Kugel will discuss the $100/day trip challenge, and Chatwal Chefs Arthur Barrette and Eric Haugen reveal the secrets of sourcing amazing New Brunswick salmon. There’s all of this and more as Peter Greenberg Worldwide broadcasts from The Chatwal in New York.

An historic look at the rise and fall of the country’s greatest moving picture theater district.