Suzanne F

GrubHub and Seamless. So? Good or bad for restaurants? Good or bad for consumers?

We will be attending our first Met HD performance tomorrow -- Giulio Cesare at the AMC Loews Village 7 (Third Ave. and 11 Street), stated performance time 6:30 pm. (It's a long mother of an opera.)

Does anyone have experience with HD performances at that location? Any idea how early we might/may arrive to get decent seats, as it's general admission? The only other time we went to an HD performance, we got to the theater maybe a half-hour before the supposed start and all that was left were seats way down front. Not terrible then (orchestra concert), but not what we want now.

All advice is welcome. Including places to get a bite after (it will be done around 11), as we will have to eat late lunch/super early dinner before we go.

TIA

Good piece by Joe Nocera about her  -- and the clarinet -- in today's NY Times. Funny thing: I've always thought of her as a clarinetist, never a saxophonist.

Composer, inventer of the zoomoozophone, director of the Harry Partch Institute at Montclair State University, founder of Newband.

RIP

This just in from Grubstreet.

(Actually, it was posted there yesterday.)

ETA: And oops, I see it was already noted on the Minetta Tavern thread, although not in a way that would be obvious. Sneak, if you want to delete this whole thing, go ahead. It's not such a big deal, anyway. Chefs move around all the time.