Wednesday, I got an email from the Museum of The City Of New York offering a deal on a lecture if you ordered your ticket within 24 hours. I think that there should be a Groupon like site for city attractions like botanical gardens, museums, and zoos. Does Gilt City do that?

Anyway, I bought the $6 ticket for the lecture, Segregated Sound. The panelists were Dr. Patrick Burke, Washington University, author of Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street (University of Chicago Press, 2008); soul, blues, and traditional Native American musician, Martha Redbone; and Dr. Maureen Mahon, New York University, author of Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race (Duke University Press, 2004).

The panelists were super knowledgeable and I felt the panel could have been better if the moderator didn’t talk as much and asked clunky questions. Also, I think actual music cues during the discussion would have been good. Play some Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Living Colour. It would have nice to hear a bit of Martha Redbone’s music as well.