Modified On July 1, 2004
Can you handle another columnist? Of course you can! We’re proud to announce the launch of Jim Mendrinos IN NY, a column by writer/comic Jim Mendrinos on the sprawling comedy hotbed that is New York City, a territory that was up until recently covered nicely by Joe Dixon and before that by Rusty Ward.
Back when I started, there was Catch, The Improv and the Strip. Now, two decades later, the Strip is still going strong, Catch has closed twice, with both locations becoming dance clubs, and the original location of the Improv is now an Italian restaurant. However, on June 22, the Improv officially re-launched here in NYC.
Mendrinos’ first column is heavy on the name-dropping and also has a fairly detailed rundown on the clubs that make the NY scene the monster that it is. Informative and entertaining, handy and inside– How very SHECKYmagazine!