Wesley Verhoeve

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Comedy Is Recession Proof

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Both the New York Times and New York Magazine are rapidly extending their brand into the video sphere, which seems like exactly the right thing to do right now. NY Mag just posted “Ten new comedians that funny people find funny”, which features Carla Rhodes around the 4 minute mark. Carla will be performing as [...]

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Newly Re-Designed LiberatedMatter.com + Cross-Pollination.com Up!

March 16th, 2009 · No Comments

So pumped! Click on the pictures below to go the actual new sites. Please click around and let me know what you think. Much appreciated! Cross-Pollination.com V3.0 LiberatedMatter.com V3.0

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Pretty Excited For The Upcoming Cross-Pollination Schedule

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

A look into the secret back-end database built by Jay Mankind. Excited for all these shows!

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Danielle Ate The Sandwich

January 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A while back I stumbled upon Danielle At The Sandwich via Family Records‘ own Pearl and the Beard and developed a musical crush on her crafty songwriting and interestingly real delivery. Tonight she will be playing at Pianos at 8pm as part of the weekly Cross-Pollination concert series I co-curate with Jay Mankind. Come and [...]

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I Have A Secret Ghostly Twin

December 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last night I had to miss my first Cross-Pollination in I don’t even know how long, due to a first and only full band rehearsal for tonight’s The Say So’s debut show at the Living Room (10pm). But apparently the Universe, and here’s where we’re going get Lost-ish, wanted me to be at Cross-Pollination. Jay [...]

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The 200th Cross-Pollination Show

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Wow. Hard to believe July 15th will mark the 200th installment of the Cross-Pollination concert series Mr. Jay Goettelmann and I founded and have been curating since May of 2004. Last December we proudly read that the NY Times called it “an impressive feat of indie gumption”. With the help techy Mr. Jeff Schram we’ve [...]

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