Don’t hold me to this, but I think I want to capture some of those things that Larry loved and write about them on my site. Something that immediately came to mind was the article series on the Stereogum website: https://www.stereogum.com/category/franchises/the-number-ones/ The author, Tom Breihan, has written about every single #1 song on the Billboard […]
2 weeks ago, my best friend and my husband, Larry Levene, died. After 18 months of battling Stage 4 colorectal cancer, he no longer had any more treatment options as the cancer was winning. In the beginning of 2019, we had gone to the next stage of treatment after his first 6 months of chemotherapy, […]
The next day, on Saturday, we checked out at 8am, and headed right into the city. The weather was unseasonably warm for NJ/NY in January, with the temps hitting the high 60s, which followed the prior days being in the 30s and 40s. It was a perfect day to show NYC to Sveta, as there was no traffic […]
On Wednesday, we arrived in New Jersey and got back to Fran and Joel’s apartment, all of us exhausted. We were hungry though and made it over to Cafe Italiano just up the road, where David, Donna, and Brad met up with us for dinner. It was obviously hard to see people now in person but it […]
Larry died on Tuesday morning, Jan 7, 2020, at 1:20am. Monday, we were basically waiting on him to finally surrender. Sveta came over, and we all started listening to the many favorite tunes of Larry’s while waiting, which helped make the mood a bit more celebratory than the dread it had been when it was silent or the […]