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Jamie Nares and Thurston Moore holding up the hastily printed-out photos of the Harry Roskolenko chopped up death mask sculpture: “I called it The Poet Is A Book.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

At the Ecstatic Peace Library Rock ’n’ Roll Round Table inside the Oak Room of The Algonquin on September 12, during the James Hamilton Linger On: Unseen Portraits of The Velvet Underground exhibition, music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman introduced me to Thurston Moore (co-founder with Eva Prinz of the Ecstatic Peace Library) and filmmaker/artist Jamie Nares (featured in Celine Danhier’s Blank City as James Nares).

Jamie Nares with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on natural timing: “I’d say that the rhythm was the strongest characteristic of my guitar playing.”

In the first instalment with Jamie Nares we touch on Rome ’78, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino couture dress for Jamie, a party for Andy Warhol’s Athletes series,...

If you’re just crawling out of your candy coma, now’s a good time to get back in the swing of things with a few events that will inspire you. But nothing too strenuous, right? After the craziness of Halloween—not to mention your rigorous rehearsal, auditioning, and workshop schedule—you deserve to low-key hone your craft and relax. Bid farewell to a beloved performance space.Named for the late-night legend who was a predecessor and inspiration to everyone from Johnny Carson to Jimmy Fallon, the Steve Allen Theater made its own mark on Los Feliz, housing small productions and now-famous comedians like Louis C.K., Bob Odenkirk, and more. Earlier this year, it announced it was closing to make way for a new development. Join performers like Bruce McCulloch, Jerry Minor, and Kristian Hoffman for “The Last Night at the Steve Allen Theater” on Nov. 3 and say bon voyage...

The one-of-a-kind New Wave singer Klaus Nomi was born Klaus Sperber in Bavaria on January 24, 1944. Though his career effectively lasted just five years and he had no hits, he became a beloved cult artist and introduced people outside the realm of classical music to the glories of opera through stunning, highly stylized performances that crushed genre boundaries in a way that the many more calculated "classical crossover" acts since have been unable to achieve, no matter how many more records they may have sold.

Some sources say Nomi (adopted as a stage name as an anagram of "omni") was "classically trained" (though that could just mean piano lessons); Kurt Loder, writing for MTV, calls him "a true, if untrained, countertenor." (A countertenor is basically a male alto.) He did, in his youth, work as an usher at the German Opera in West Berlin, and informally sang there for an audience of his fellow workers.