Public Assembly co-owner Ted Mann & Ted Nugent

"The past six months have been pretty intense for Brooklyn restaurateur, Ted Mann. He opened two new businesses, Cubana Socíal in Williamsburg and No Name Bar in Greenpoint, and started work on a South Slope beer garden and a Bay Ridge deli, both slated to open this summer. He also discovered that Ted Nugent, yes, that Ted Nugent, is his biological father.

Brooklyn born and raised, the Bay Ridge native has been involved in 11 businesses over the past 13 years...

...The nine places that Mann currently has a hand in (Bar 4, Cebu, Apartment 138, Camp, Matchless, Public Assembly, Lone Wolf, Cubana Socíal and No Name Bar, if you're counting) have a total of 13 different partners. They all meet up together once a month, with individual meetings on a more regular basis. Michael Esposito has long been his partner in crime at his South Brooklyn businesses; Larry Highland is an owner of Matchless and books at Public Assembly and has been instrumental in bringing Mann into Greenpoint and Williamsburg. And Jessica Wertz, the driving force behind Lone Wolf in Bushwick and No Name Bar (Mann refers to it as 597, but the moniker No Name Bar is going to prove impossible to shake at this point), is one of his newest collaborators. "She has vision," says Mann." [Brooklyn Based]

Though the article doesn't mention it, I'm pretty sure there's a connection to Southpaw there too. The Daily News, who also picked up the story, points out that Ted Nugent gave Ted Mann up for adoption. Ted Mann found out in October who his real dad was. Crazy. This past Saturday night, Ted Nugent was spotted hanging at/outside Public Assembly & Cubana Social. Now it's obvious why.

today in NYC
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Chicha Libre @ Barbes
* Tony Scherr Trio @ The Living Room
* Tinie Tempah @ Apple Store SoHO
* Eszter Balint, Chris Cochrane @ Barbes
* Les Paul Mondays w/ Ted Nugent @ Iridium Jazz
* Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen @ Littlefield
* Jim Campilongo Electric Trio @ The Living Room
* Chuck Ragan, Sharks, Sean O'Neill @ The Bell House
* Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra @ The Stone
* LAL8, J. Slusher Mr. Matthews Duo, Millions, Dimensions @ Silent Barn
* Machu Picchu, Whale Belly, Alyson Greenfield, Robin Bacior @ Mercury Lounge
* Sherlock's Daughter, Zaza, A Place To Bury Strangers (DJ set) @ Knitting Factory (free)
* J-Roddy Walston & The Business, These United States, MyNameIsJohnMichael @ Brooklyn Bowl
* The Toothaches, Cara Salimando, Midnight Spin, We Fought In Rome @ The Rock Shop (free)
* Cola Freaks, Sunshine SS, Flies Around It, Passive Aggressor, Cheesquake @ Death By Audio
* Photon Dynamo and The Shiny Pieces, Actualities, Wave Sleep Wave, Papercut, Claire Fuller @ Pianos
* From Knishes to Hummus: Tracing the past and the future of Jewish and Israeli Cuisine @ NYPL
* Le Sphinxx, Ah Moskva, The Magick Report, The Great Republic of Rough and Ready, Sonia Megias @ Cake Shop

Ronnie James Dio passed away one year ago today.

If you look closely at the picture of the 1986 issue of 'Hit Parader' above, you'll notice there is also an article in there about everyone's favorite gun advocate Ted Nugent.... who was spotted hanging outside Public Assembly Saturday night (he did not go in and watch any of Coliseum), and who is strangely the special guest at Les Paul night at the Iridium tonight.

J-Roddy Walston & The Business and These United States continue a residency at Brooklyn Bowl tonight.

The Great Escape festival in Brighton is now over. We'll have a bit of coverage coming soon, but in the meantime you can find the photos Tim has uploaded so far, at the BrooklynVegan Facebook page.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Monday?"

Dear Governor Palin,

Please accept this copy of my new book, "TED WHITE & BLUE-The Nugent Manifesto" for you and your family. As a proud fellow American hunter, fisherman and lover of Alaska's soul cleansing magnificent Spirit of the Wild, we who live our American Dream by God, truth, logic, goodwill and decency, thank you for bringing such defiant common sense and self evident truth back to the GOP and politics. We wish you Godspeed for the best hunting and fishing season of your life and pray to God almighty that you bring your bold spirit to the White House.

Godbless,

American BloodBrothers, Ted Nugent and family

The weirdest part is that the letter is actually a publicity stunt real. Apparently that gross picture is real too.

note: Super Tuesday is today, so don't forget to vote.

Wilco and Obama (CRED)

Music blog Hard To Find A Friend contacted a few musicians & industry people, and not surprisingly found out most of them were voting for Obama. Anyone who saw Joanna Newsom at BAM last week knows what she thinks, and Morrissey wears it on his shirt. Craig Wedren, Wilco, The Grateful Dead, and some comedians have also let us know where they stand.

The Guardian also has an article on this very subject today. They report that.....

...On the Republican side... there are not very many famous activist musicians. Ted Nugent, he who once said "We should Nagasaki [Iraq]" has turned out in favour of conservative Mike Huckabee, while moderate John McCain will have Burt Bacharach tickling his ivories. Libertarian long-shot Ron Paul is backed by Krist Novoselic, formerly of Nirvana. Country-singer Pat Boone has loaned his septuagenarian twang to the campaign of Mitt Romney, who can also count on the help of fellow Mormons Donny and Marie Osmond....

Other musicians for Ron Paul (not Ru Paul) include John Mayer (I think), and TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek. I wonder what his friend Scarlett Johansson would say. You can see her in one of the two Obama-themed music videos below.....

Continue reading "who are musicians voting for on Super Tuesday?"

.....they can't even give the tickets away (to his June 24th Nokia Theatre show -- password=catscratch) (thx Ondal)