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Tue, Nov 18, 2025 9:00 PM

FILM: "THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE IN EXILE"

 FILM: THE CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ IN EXILE

On tonight’s show we’ll be joined by we’ll be joined by the writer, performer and co- creator of the Cornelia Street Café Robin Hirsch and filmmaker Michael Jacobsohn to discuss Jacobsohn’s film The Cornelia Street Café in Exile, a deep dive into the long and unforgettable 41-year life and afterlife of Greenwich Village’s lost cultural paradise.

Writer /director performer/publisher/teacher and producer Robin Hirsch is a former Oxford, Fulbright and English-Speaking Union Scholar, and the recipient of many more awards.  But the titles of which he is most proud were self-bestowed: Minister of Culture/Wine Czar/and Dean of Faculty at the Cornelia Street Café, which he founded with two other starving artists in 1977 in one room with a toaster-oven . . . and which grew over its 41+ years to be named "a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" by the City of New York. He is the author of Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski and Feg: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children and the author and performer of Mosaic: Fragments of a Jewish Life.

Michael Jacobsohn began making movies as a teenager at the Henry Street Settlement's Movie Club. His work has since been shown internationally and is homed in the permanent collection at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. For twenty-eight years, he was an Emmy-winning  staff editor at ABC News & Sports and has since produced and directed four full-length documentaries and several shorts. He curates a bi-monthly screening of short films by New York filmmakers at New Plaza Cinema and writes a monthly film column for The Village View focusing on the independent film community in downtown NY.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

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