Riding the Rails with Betty

A few years before they hit the big time singing the theme to _The L Word_ and getting their own off-Broadway show, the ladies of "Betty":http://www.hellobetty.com/ were musicians playing clubs and touring. I’d been to a few shows and enjoyed their music a lot. One winter night during the holiday season, I was in a nearly empty train car with my family on our way to Brooklyn when I saw them.

I looked over a couple of times just to make sure, since I’d seen them only onstage and not up-close. But it was really them, and I walked Read more