Cornelia Street Café: The Whole World Passes Through documents the daily life of a unique restaurant/bar/performance space, its place as the last bohemian enclave within what was once the quintessential bohemian community in the US, and its place in the hearts of countless habitués who think of it as home.
Cornelia Street Café has nurtured thousands of musicians, visual artists and performers in its walls over its thirty-plus years. Suzanne Vega sang her first songs when the café was one room; Eve Ensler developed her Vagina Monologues in the downstairs performance space; Senator Eugene McCarthy has read his poetry, Dr. Oliver Sacks his prose; comedian John Oliver has graced the stage; Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann conducts a regular science series and some of America’s most adventurous Grammy Award winners unveil their new works. Over and above these individual events there is a poetry series which is amongst the longest-running, most comprehensive and wide-ranging in the US, and a jazz series which prompted Downbeat (the jazz bible) to name Cornelia Street “one of the 100 great jazz clubs of the world.”
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