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Re: East Side, West Side, All Around The Town
Erasing Charas/El Bohio is one of the most overt racist acts by the city in recent years, regarding real estate. No one in the current administration probably is old enough to even remember that E. 9th Street was totally burnt out, a no man's land in the 1970's. It was the people behind El Bohio along with other homesteaders who actually took over the block and began to redevelop it. And it was Charas' commitment to keeping the building as a community center without big money backing that...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
My friend, a very liberal democrat who is forced to go to the Republican Convention since she is a journalist and a stringer for AP, gave me a brilliant idea. For those of us who want to escape town during this horrible invasion, worse than the 17 year cecadas, rent out your apartment for the week to some Republican, and suck them for cash. Make them pay to stay in our city. She said $1000 for the week, depends on the apartment, and proximity to the horrid Javits Center where this all will...
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Re: Puritan Watch
Meanwhile, in modern places... Can you imagine this ever happening here? It sickens me the way we keep people "alive" on machines -- often for years and years -- though they're braindead and have no hope of ever truly "living" again. Netherlands Hospital Euthanizes Babies Nov 30, 3:03 PM (ET) By TOBY STERLING AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and...
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Re: Farewell Charming Old New York
And this from Musto: (FYI the "worst club" is our favorite, CAIN) Musto Rules!
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Re: The Palladium
Against all odds - Palladium was undeniably fun. No one believed it could be hip - it was just too big, but somehow it all pulled together. I saw some great shows there: Gwen Guthrie, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, El Grand Combo, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Joyce Sims, even Vanity 6! Sister Dimemsia DJ-ing in the Michael Todd Room. I used to wonder just how much extra insurance the club had to carry to have banks of televisions on hydraulic lifts spinning over the dancer's heads. The art...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
The Daily News March 28, 2005/ Dear Harriette: (Found this a couple days ago..What do you think of the situation and the response ?) Dear Harriette, I am a male who lives as a female. Recently, a close friend of mine, Christina, asked if I would participate in her wedding as a bridesmaid. I'm thrilled and honoured but also a bit concerned Although almost everyone in our circle of friends knows my status, I'm a bit worried how her friends and family, who don't know me, will react. She...
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Re: Hotels In NYC
I should think that the NOTS hotel page might be best, as everything you will want to go to will be Downtown. Anywhere south of Midtown would be a general location. There are some B&B's that are really cheap in the EV, but you will never be able to take anyone back to your room with you... so stick with the hotels-- you never know... you might get lucky! Never, never choose a hotel near an airport. Though their prices are cheaper, there is a good reason for that. They are miles away from...
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Re: Grey Gardens At Irving Plaza
OK, I'll try. "Grey Gardens" was basically Hattie Hathaway (Hatches) and my thing. Hattie thought of the name (Hattie also named "Mother" BTW, it came to her in a wet dream about Jimi Hendrix but that's another story) It was every Saturday night at Irving Plaza, after the rock shows ended. The Irving Plaza staff (who were incredible) cleared out the drunk college kids faster than one of Messy Bonnie's farts. And in about 20 minutes we (about 15 people) transformed the theater into this eery,...
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Re: Puritan Watch
What I will be looking for in the demolition are the Pompeiian Walls meticulously painted over a period of four months by the artist Madeline von Forester, with the aid of yours truly and several others of our company. I love them to death... and though I didn't want to say it at the time, I've heard the reproduction of Pompeiian themes is notoriously bad luck. Hence a volcanic eruption of money-grubbing shit has washed over us. But I am not buried (yet.) When they pull it all down, we are...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Yes beams continue, as the flooding gets worse due to a breach in a levee near City Center, and is encroaching on Le Vieux Carre.
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
One has to watch the BBC or any non-US news agency to get news like this, but I just saw on the BBC World that Fidel Castro has offered to send 120 Cuban doctors to the disaster site. The US is not responding to his offer (no big surprise). Loved the headline on todays New York Daily News: "SHAME ON U.S." Bush went to Biloxi today and Alabama, but never set foot in New Orleans. He is a VERY lame duck. What was that all about? THat was the main hellish scene. He went to friendlier, safer...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
and the accompanying article: BUSH GIVES 'CANE VICTIMS BIG HUG AND A VOW: 'WE WILL MAKE IT RIGHT' By DEBORAH ORIN September 3, 2005 -- President Bush yesterday hugged refugees from Hurricane Katrina as he got a firsthand look at the human tragedy left by the storm and vowed that New Orleans and other stricken Gulf Coast cities "will rise again." Bush, who rarely admits mistakes and has come under sharp attack for the government's handling of the crisis, said the first federal response in...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
From the San Antonio Express-News: Katrina doesn't cancel Southern Decadence parade Web Posted: 09/05/2005 12:00 AM CDT Rod Davis Express-News Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS "” You know a city has legs when three or four dozen of them are parading down Bourbon Street "” some clad in tutus and grass skirts "” six days after the most damaging hurricane in American history. Revelers take part in the Southern Decadence parade in New Orleans' French Quarter. The parade celebrates the quirky side of the...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
The below is an update from the head of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. It is a city government agency, (virtually all US cities have a CVB) in charge of all tourism and business-tourism matters pertaining to the city. As such it coordinates and acts as a central clearing house for information and arrangements in an in-depth network of all hotel, convention, public transportation, restaurant, nightlife, cultural, religious and civic organizations, in both the for profit and...
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Re: Antony and the Johnsons
Great Topic, while we were in London, they were all the buzz! And as a sign for some possible mainstream US exposure: We were shocked to hear the new single with Lou Reed on Sirius' "Left of Center" (channel 26) the other day. XXXOOO Satori
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
Had to post this! This first hand report from New Orleans last week was received today from a friend; it is so powerful and honest I think the members of this listserv will want to know this. Phil Olson Sept 5, 2005 Fwd by Phil Gasper: Two friends of mine--paramedics attending a conference--were trapped in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. This is their eyewitness report. PG Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences by Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New...
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Re: boy george
Why would you leave drugs out 'in plain view' when the police are knocking on your door. That is really too bad. Alligator, it does sound like someone ratted him out. I was just enjoying his interviews last night in "The Legend of Leigh Bowery"... my thoughts even then, sometimes it doesn't pay to live too long. When I was looking for space in NYC which now seems like a long protracted nightmare version of "NO EXIT" by Sartre... I found a fantastic place on a block between Center and...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
i just went back to read some open letters from a friend of mine who has gone to help in the re-creation of new orleans. he's an amazing activist... passionate, energetic, true. just wanted to share his experiences with this community. they're very real. ************************************** hello all- I feel a pressing need to communicate something of the experience I am having here, even as I know I can only capture a glimpse of what it is to be here. I want to say something you have not...
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Re: Beams to New Orleans
letter #2, dec. 14 ************************* hello all- I feel a pressing need to communicate something of the experience I am having here, even as I know I can only capture a glimpse of what it is to be here. I want to say something you have not heard, to offer some deep insight into the complexity of the situation here, but I don't even know where to begin. I am in a surreal and deeply inspiring hell- New Orleans is a post apocalyptic wonderland where utter devastation is everywhere and...
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Re: Mardi Gras in New Orleans 06: Krewe York
Read this from "The New Yorker" about what France has done for New Orleans -- This is hot too: "The French are offering six-week residencies in France for artists displaced by the flood." NEW ORLEANS POSTCARD CONSULAT D'INFLUENCE by Dan Baum Issue of 2006-03-06 At the corner of Prytania and First Street, in New Orleans, stands a brick mansion with a French tricolor drooping from the gable. Eleven days after the levees failed, last August, heavily armed federal agents were banging on doors...
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Re: Greece & Turkey: Athens, Istanbul, Mykonos, et al
While in Istanbul we went to a traditional Turkish bathhouse. It was one of the most refreshing, incredible experiences I've ever had and worth the price of the entire trip. Mind you this was NOT a gay bathhouse where everyone lays around having sex. This was the real deal in an old Byzantine-looking building with surly, fat and hairy Turk masseurs who knead your body like dough. It's unisex but the mens area is completely separated from the womens. You wear a towel the whole time and the...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
A new article about Kevin today: The New York Times June 12, 2006 Fourth Man Is Arrested After Attack on a Dance Recording Artist in the East Village By KAREEM FAHIM and SARAH GARLAND A fourth man was arrested yesterday in connection with the beating of a Manhattan singer who the police said was attacked by a gang of young men who kicked him, screamed anti-gay slurs at him and broke his jaw as the singer walked through the East Village early Saturday. The man arrested by the police yesterday...
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Re: Hattie Hathaway in Threepenny Opera
Wallace Shawn did the translation. The 1954 Marc Blitzstein translation is the most well-known. He was an extremely adroit song lyricist and those versions have become part of the American musical theatre songbook. That version also propelled Lenya into a kind of superstardom-- well-deserved indeed. The question is, then why should Threepenny get perennially retranslated? The answer is that it is Brecht and Hauptman's text that seems to have suffered in this adaptation, done at a time when...
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Re: Madonna: Swept Away, part IV
No, she bought Danceteria and turned it into another Kaballah Center. Didn't you know?
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Re: Nina Simone
My two faves are her 11 Minute version of Isn't It A Pity on the Emergency Ward LP and the live version of Westwind on the Black Gold LP. The early 70's RCA stuff is excellent! Seeing Kabuki Starshine perform Isn't It A Pity at PS122 for (I think) the Marsha P Johnson Story blew my mind. And then there's her Bee Gees covers - don't get me started! I was lucky enough to see her last performance in NYC at Carnegie Hall - she was frail and while the house was hooting and stomping for an encore,...
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Re: Adam Goldstone - RIP, VIP our beloved "mista bitch"
East Village D.J. dies at Burning Man festival By Lincoln Anderson Adam Goldstone, a well-known East Village D.J., was getting ready to do what he loved best, spin records, when he fainted in his RV at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert last Tuesday and died shortly afterwards. He was 37. According to his father, Jerry Goldstone, the cause of death was heart arrhythmia stemming from a delayed effect of a congenital condition that had been fixed when he was a child. His father said...
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Re: Queers are the Blacks of the 1950's!!! Anti-Gay is on the RISE!!
A good pal of mine, Andrew is organizing this event which I think would be worth supporting - Please join us for our next SOULFORCENYC meeting, Tuesday, September 26th, to be held at the LGBT Center from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. We are the NYC chapter of Soulforce national organization (www.soulforce.org). SoulforceNYC's mission is freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance. In short, we...
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Re: GIMME SHELTER Rock and Animal Rescue 10/4 with DEBBIE HARRY and BEASTIE BOYS
LOTS more, Chi Chi... Miss Webb and I were up front and center about only one person deep. The Sick Fucks w/ Tish & Snooky were fabulous; just don't get shows like that - where "punk rock" sounds refreshing and charged and purposeful. Joe Hurley & the Gents were also phenomenal...Oddly, the much of the crowd on the floor where we stood were somewhat blank and unmoved - until the Beastie Boys came out and woke them up. The crush of the crowd behind me reminded me of the excitement of...
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Re: Adam Goldstone - RIP, VIP our beloved "mista bitch"
BTW, am sure he won't mind my sharing this with the gang but I just got this note from Adam's dad with this updte.... Adam was cremated. His family thought that would be what he wanted. His ashes will be scattered at the two places he seemed to love the most: New York and at the Burning Man site in Nevada. We also plan to have some type of memorial established in Tomkins Square, probably a tree planted in his honor which will hopefully grow and provide a place for shade and comfort for many,...
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Re: Houston
that's my hometown!! the wortham center - home of houston grand opera - is a gorgeous theatre!! as for houston... the gay bars are provincial but the restaurants are FANTASTIC!! let me know where you're staying and what you're wanting to do and i'll try to make some suggestions.
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Re: Lions and tigers and... BEARS!!!!
I love it. We should host the next Bear County Fair, hats! I stumbled upon this jolly jubilee once at the LGBT Center...hay bales and overalls! Oh, and Hapi, don't worry, duh, I get confused about the comings and goings of the Eastwick all the time...sometimes I watch Melrose Place reruns just to figure out our building (You are Sidney, btw, who made her debut on that show jumping out of a cake and her exit a few years later showed her mowed down by a drunk driver as she posed for wedding...
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Re: Anderson Cooper: "Outing" in the 21st Century
Back to the REAL topic here - AC Congrats on the new contract, Anderson and thanks for being you.. full story
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Re: New and News, Part 6
Sisters are doing it for themselves! I love this story, and good for these ladies for sticking it to this fuck face. [from today's Post, of course.] ATTACK OF THE KILLER LESBIANS MAN 'FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO DIE' By LAURA ITALIANO GOT WHUPPED wayne Buckle leaves court yesterday after testifying against four of the seven lesbians he says pummeled and stabbed him. GOT WHUPPED wayne Buckle leaves court yesterday after testifying against four of the seven lesbians he says pummeled and stabbed...
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Re: A Prayer
I got a better idea. Come down to the Kerballah Center and ask for Bonnie. I got this red string for sale that can do miracles. You just wrap it around your wrist and wait for the miracle. GOOD NEWS I have extended my 4th a July sale event so it's still only $14.95. Then for the next three days send a check for $14.95 to Miss Messy Bonnie at The Kerballah Center. Promise to publish this.
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Re: Craigslist !!!
seriously HOT dude from the orgy last night - m4m - 28 (Chelsea) Reply to: pers-396027732@craigslist.org Date: 2007-08-13, 1:50PM EDT you were the young hot abercrombie dude, I was the young hot Indian dude...we fucked each other at the orgy in chelsea last night and it was SO HOT!! You're prob around my age, 5'9", 150 lbs w/ short brown hair and a smooth lean body and a great cock! Those other guys couldn't take their eyes off of us! Would love to relive the event in private some time...hit...
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Re: Politically Incorrect VI
The bizarre thing about the whole case is that it WAS entrapment. Craig tapped his foot for crying out loud, hardly an action that threatens society. Another victim-less crime for the police to waste taxpayer money on while real crimes are being perpetrated. To make matters worse, this supposed "sting" operation, featuring cute trade as bait, happened at an airport of all places, a setting where surely more serious security issues abound. It's been depressing to watch talk show hosts...
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QUEER MEMOIR: CRUSH
Queer Memoir: Crush Saturday, Jan 29 8:00p LGBT Community Center, 203 W. 13TH street New York, NY Queer Memoir is NYC's LGBT storytelling show that performance artist Rachel Tryst has called “life changing.” Each show brings together folks who share true stories, giving voice to our collective queer experiences, and preserving and documenting our complex queer history...and sells out. The theme of this month's event is CRUSH. We've got an amazing line-up of storytellers: I Kramer Elliott...
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Drag SHow Video Verite V Screenings
Drag Show Video Verite V The ultimate NYC drag show…on video tape With a special slide show of Michael Wakefield’s drag portraits accompanied live on piano by Jacqueline JonÉe and a living lobby installation by Inbred Hybrid Collective Monday, June 13, 2011 6PM Admission: FREE! Dress: Come As You Are New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Bruno Walter Auditorium 111 Amsterdam Avenue (between 64 th and 65 th Streets) For more...
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Garrin Benfield @ Le Petit Versailles garden
Garren Benfield in concert! Saturday August 6 @ 8pm. Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C> petitversailles@earthlink.net http://www.alliedproductions.org 212 529 8815 Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex "Garrin Benfield is a busy, busy fellow, splitting his time between NY and SF and continuing to enrich the music scene of both cities. He's no stranger to Acoustic Sunrise - Rosalie has been onto him for years - but it's the new...
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Arias with a Twist DELUXE (Save 25% on Tix)
Arias with a Twist DELUXE 5 Weeks Only! September 14 - October 16 Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St. (at Pitt) LES, NYC http://tinyurl.com/AWAT-Deluxe 25% off tickets to performances through September 24 with code ARIASMB After tour stops that included...
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Hurricane Irene on the Motherboards NYC
AS Hurricane Irene gets closer, Bloomy has called for the first-ever NYC mandatory evacuation - of "ZONE A" - the city's lowest lying areas, including Avenues B, C and D on some blocks, Battery Park City and more. Please make sure you know whether you...
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CYBERTRON vs STIMULATE: UV/Blacklight/NYComicCon Afterparty w/BILE! Oct 15
VampireFreaks, Audiolust & Xris SMack! present: C Y B E R T R O N - vs - S T I M U L A T E ** UltraViolet Edition / Official NY ComicCon AfterParty ** Saturday, October 15th, 11pm-4am FLYER HERE: http://e.vampirefreaks.com /images/2011/cybertron_sti mulate_2011_800.jpg Stimulate Your Senses: === SOUND === [>> B I L E <<] http://VampireFreaks.com/B ILE The legendary NYC aggro-Industrial-metal project BILE returns with their classic line-up. Featuring R.H. Bear, DaveSussman,...
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World Premiere of new documentary "Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson" at the IFC Center Monday 11/28
Monday night, 11/28, at the IFC Center's Queer/Art/Film series, don't miss the WORLD PREMIERE of PAY IT NO MIND: MARSHA P. JOHNSON, a documentary about the legendary trans activist and downtown fixture, presented by Michael Musto! After the screening, we'll have a panel of Marsha's friends and colleagues singing her praises! To purchase tickets: http:// www.movietickets.com/ pre_purchase.asp?house_id=9 598&movie_id=124123&rdate= 11%2F28%2F2011 Marsha P. Johnson was a revolutionary...
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James X
James X from Farcry Productions Ireland Written and Performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn Directed by Gabriel Byrne Evening performances at 7:30pm Matinee performances at 2:00pm An Irish government tribunal of inquiry into institutions responsible for cruel and inhumane treatment of children is in session. In the foyer, James X , one of those children, now a man anxiously prepares to offer the testimony which he hopes will unshackle him from the past. As he waits, James is confronted with the...
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Performance Space 122
To Whom It May Concern, PS122 is glad to announce that the COIL Festival has been extended! Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, Temporary Distortion’s Newyorkland, and the TEAM’s Mission Drift will all play through February 4. Tickets for this extension go on sale January 15. This annual winter festival features 11 premieres from critical US and international artists. The presentations are socially engaged, visceral, and groundbreaking. The festival spans 25 days, all genres of...
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And God Created Great Whales
Created, Composed, Written by Rinde Eckert Directed by David Schweizer Performed by Rinde Eckert and Nora Cole Performances begin February 7 Opens February 12 45 Bleecker Street (near the NE corner of Lafayette Street) New York, NY 10012 Evening performances at 8pm. Sunday matinee performances at 3:00pm. Tickets available for purchase online , by calling 866-811-4111, or at the box office (opens one hour before show time) $55 for regular performances, $35 for previews, $20 student rush...
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Big Art Group's "Broke House"
Hello Friends and Family on the Mother Boards . Come see Big Art Group's new work "Broke House" At Abrons Art Center. I would love to share this stunning experience with all of you! Much Love, Heather Litteer aka Rabbit!!!! BROKE HOUSE A Performance Crisis APRIL 6-22, 2012 FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS AT 8PM AND SUNDAYS AT 7PM ABRONS ARTS CENTER, 466 GRAND STREET AT PITT STREET F, J, M, Z TRAINS TO DELANCEY/ESSEX, B, D TRAINS TO GRAND ST GENERAL ADMISSION $20 TICKETS ON SALE NOW,...
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Post Plastica Preshow
PS122 & El Museo del Barrio to present the world premiere of Post Plastica By Carmelita Tropicana & Ela Troyano Featuring Carmelita Tropicana, Becca Blackwell & Erin Markey 4 performances only: May 31 - June 3 at El Museo del Barrio (5th Ave at 104th St) Each evening will be begin at 6pm with complimentary pre-show talks featuring guest experts, curated by Carmelita & Ela. Performances begin in El Museo's El Teatro at 7:30pm. May 31 in the lobby Exhibit of Stereoscopic Images...
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The Ultimate Drag Off!
The new interactive musical comedy, ‘The Ultimate Drag Off’ will officially open Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center January 15th, 2011.Special Guest Co-Hosts Scheduled to Appear: Michael Musto (Vh1, Village Voice columnist), Jim...
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Susan Tyrrell
Just saw John Waters " Crybaby" again last night on TV and had forgotten about the divine Susan "SuSu" Tyrrell. She was a true exotic beauty in her day too.LA Weekly November 2000By Paul CullemPhoto by Anne FishbeinIn late April of this year, after...