This site is undergoing radical changes. I’m trying to get it to have a more magazine-like feel, something that’s more easily accessible for people. I’m trying to restore all the old content to its proper place. Have patience!

“What could have compelled you to move to New York City with the unemployment rate at 20%?”
Not the kind of question anyone wants to be asked shuddering in suspense before their prospective employer. It’s a valid question, I thought, but I brushed it off.
“I just know I’m meant to be here right now,” I said [...]

Susie Tanenbaum, City Lore and the Street Performers Advocacy Project have inspired me this week. Most of the news I’ve put up so far has either been about street performers who have made it big, buskers who are doing great things, events that are offering good deals for us, or the legal situation of various [...]

I know this site is supposed to be “Undercover” and about the people who people. But this week I went to one of the latest free things to do in New York — to spend 30 minutes scoping out perhaps the latest and greatest public space in which to perform. Within the last month or [...]

Okay, deep breath…
Chicago street performers are getting a bad rap, according to Chicago Now, thanks to stricter regulations, higher permit prices and fewer locations.
12 Year Old jazz prodigy, Alexander Bone, has taken to busking to buy a new instrument. By my calculations, he’ll have one by the end of the year (if not before). The [...]

Social Brite’s “Social Tools for Social Change” is a fantastic resource for anyone unclear on how social media (networks etc) can help advance your mission. This week I found an article they wrote on whether it’s legal to post footage or a recording of an artist on your blog. That’s a big concern for me, [...]

Now they have a sturdier place to sit. According to the New York Times, the old lawn chairs have gone out, replaced by the Times Square Alliance with better, heavier chairs. Tim Tompkins, friend of Undercover New York, seems pleased with the way things are going, and is going to put in more vetted Street [...]

I’m sure I’ve talked about this before, but here’s a championship of buskers, in Kilkenny, Ireland. Here’s the scoop:
Each fortnight, six buskers from all walks of music will take to the streets of Kilkenny in a competition to find the top busker of 2009. How do you find out? By casting a vote!
There are a [...]

Just when you thought Boris Johnson couldn’t get any better (okay, okay, I’ve been gone a while…but I did see his appearances on Have I Got News For You), he comes up with “Rhythm of London.” Okay, it’s not that poetic, and frankly there’s a bunch of street performers (a.k.a. “buskers”) playing guitars, but the [...]

I’ve been away for a while, so here’s a largely summarized group of news events from the last week or so.
License to bore
Banff, Canada; their four month permit has reduced from $800 to $100. What’s the significance of this? (read: why would I ever be in Banff?) Well, their lovely improvements come with a loveless [...]