{"id":302,"date":"2009-06-10T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-04-07T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:08:13","slug":"zagat-guide-to-klezmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/zagat-guide-to-klezmer\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAGAT GUIDE TO KLEZMER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Red Roof Inn is the band’s<\/strong><\/span> official hotel.<\/p>\n

The worst one is in Southfield, Mich.\u00a0 The smoke detector was ripped out and a guy was already in the room.\u00a0 A greeter?\u00a0 Joe Louis?<\/p>\n

The wake-up call the next morning never happened. \u00a0The cops raided a nearby suite, so we really didn’t need the wake-up.<\/p>\n

The band’s favorite restaurant is Bob Evans.<\/strong><\/span> The man himself, Bob Evans, died a couple years ago. I had my picture taken with him in Rio Grande, Ohio.\u00a0 (Also, had my pic taken with actor\/singer Theodore Bikel <\/a>at KlezKanada<\/a>. That didn’t kill Bikel.)\u00a0 At Bob Evans, order the potato-crusted flounder, coleslaw and biscuits.<\/p>\n

The Waffle House \u2014 that was a mechaya<\/em> (pleasure) for a while-a. \u00a0\u00a0I told Steve Ostrow<\/a>, Yiddishe Cup’s vegetarian trombone player, the brown strips in his omelet were mushrooms. (They looked<\/em> like mushrooms.)\u00a0 Turned out to be steak.\u00a0 We haven’t been back to Awful House. I miss the home fries with onions.<\/p>\n

Here’s another band favorite: <\/strong><\/span>The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.\u00a0 A woman\u2014all decked out in Northwestern purple \u2014 said she would put us on the school’s Web site (Rabbinic Management Program page) if we did an original song while wearing purple shirts.\u00a0 She saw us at a gig in Florida and is married to the dean emeritus of Kellogg, so maybe . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Red Roof Inn is the band’s official hotel. The worst one is in Southfield, Mich.\u00a0 The smoke detector was ripped out and a guy was already in the room.\u00a0 A greeter?\u00a0 Joe Louis? The wake-up call the next morning never happened. \u00a0The cops raided a nearby suite, so we really didn’t need the wake-up. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-on-the-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9197,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}