I was browsing the GBH.tv web site tonight (web home of the promoters of Lotus) and came across a link to a story about the "Let's make dancing legal in NYC" petition.
Through the web site, LegalDancingNYC.com, NYU Law Professor Paul Chevigny is assisting four dancers and a social dance organization, John Festa, Gotham West Coast Swing Club, Byron Cox, Ian Dutton and Meredith Stead in suing the city, charging that the Cabaret Laws, which prevents clubs and bars from allowing patrons to dance unless they are a licensed venue, limits freedom of expression.
I'm sitting in Logan Airport killing some time (should I say the word "killing" in an airport?), waiting for an 8:50 PM Jet Blue flight to JFK, which I'm way early for. I met up with my friend Karen Dyer, a Miami socialite who by day doubles as a State Department employee, earlier this afternoon at the American Air terminal to catch up on old times. We were both in New England for the holidays and took advantage of similar travel schedules to catch up on three years in an hour and a half.
If you were to search the Network Solutions WHOIS records database, you would learn the domain name this blog falls under, Netmix.com, was registered 10-years ago today. Scroll half-way down the page and the text simply says, “Record created on 13-Dec-1995."
10-years forward, an eternity measure in Internet time. Netmix is, for all intensive purposes, still alive and kicking. Sitting back in my chair, I ponder the time passed and am simply amazed that 10-years has gone by and throughout, I’ve tried my best to support dance music and DJ culture form a place, not of greed, but of love and commitment to the craft and industry I knew I wanted to work in since I was 12-years-old.
Just wanted to announce my new position as the Product Manager, Music at Entertainment Media Works on the web site, StarStyle.com.
StarStyle brings you backstage and behind the scenes with the set dressers, make-up artists, fashion stylists and the stars themselves while giving you an opportunity to find out where to get the clothes, furniture and accessories featured on your favorite tv shows, movies and music videos!
Since this is a blog, and I can write just about anything I damn well please, I'll take a little break from the DJ world for a minute and just write about what's been going on lately. I gotta fill this space with something...it's getting a little stale.
It's been quite a whirlwind past few weeks for me. After the last posting about Armand Van Helden at Avalon, I took a little break from writing and producing the mix shows to finish up some school work for my classes at NYU just before the Thanksgiving break.
