Tag Archives: East Village

The girl is the middle thinks her boyfriend just wants to slow dance with her in the park.

Last night at the Ali Forney Center’s holiday party, Manhattan bon vivant Mike Diamond tipped me to his clip of the Hanukkah Hairy party at the East Village’s Eastern Bloc bar (which is co-owned by Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend.) You’ll see a few JMG regulars in the video.

East Village, Nowhere Bar, Sunday, 1:30am Fashion Victim: Oh, don’t get me wrong. He’s totally hot and funny and nice and all that. But I just can’t see myself ever loving somebody who thought knuckle tattoos were a good idea.

As a commenter on Vanishing New York puts it, “No one moved to the East Village/Lower East Side to hear birdsong in the mornings and crickets at night,” but the new Thompson LES Hotel’s rooftop pool bar, which is literally inches from the windows of the surrounding apartments, has got the entire neighborhood in an uproar. Here’s a 20-second clip …

Tonight at Rapture Cafe & Book’s closing party: a rare opportunity to see legendary performance artist Karen Finley. 8PM, 200 Avenue A. Free admission! Karen Finley performs a work-in-progress: Impulse To Suck. Rapture celebrates its final “transition” tonight beginning with a performance of a work-in-progress by the highly acclaimed and controversial performance artist Karen Finley. One of the legendary NEA …

Actually I don’t have a Morning View for today, but it’s a good excuse to show you SnakeMonkey, a funkified East Village shop that sells neither snakes nor monkeys.

Over the weekend a small group of activists protested on the sidewalk outside the opening of the new John Varvatos boutique in the old CBGB’s space in the East Village. One protester said the issue isn’t just about CBGB’s, it’s “about Tonic closing, and Fez, Theater Club Nada and Charas…about Copacabana being forced from their space by the city using …

Next Wednesday, April 16th, I’ll be performing again at Rapture Book’s Dean Johnson’s Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex series. Joining me will be your favorite hairy hottie Eric Leven (left) in our fourth show together. Sadly, this will be the last installment in the series for now, as Rapture Books will be closing on April 24th. …

Cellphone conversations overheard while walking down St. Marks Place in East Village last night…. 1. “OK, but in that case I’ll need to get a new wig.” 2. “You just can’t argue that bitches is meaner.” 3. “Just put it by the super’s door. If it’s still there in the morning, it’s definitely dead.” 4. “Wait, are you talking about …

Last night Little David and I attended Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest at P.S. 122, starring Tony nominee Justin Bond. I wasn’t sure what to expect, having seen Bond in many strangely diverse venues (on Broadway, at The Cock, etc). The show turned out to be an interesting melange of spoken word, performance art, dance, and cabaret as Bond and a …

An only in NYC must-see now running at PS122 in the East Village and starring the incomparable Justin Bond: Ethyl Eichelberger Award recipient and Tony Nominated performer Justin Bond and friends heat up your winter nights with a heady mix of Glamour, Gender Queer Cabaret, and Sexy Provocation. LUSTRE is a night of music, monologues and song and dance for, …

Here’s an art film flashback from 1982, sent to me by a friend who shares my love for Liquid Sky, which is just about the best/worst movie ever. This bit is where Paula E. Shepard (the only one in the movie who could really act, even though she never acted again) does her big performance art piece at the East …

I’ll be reading tonight at Rapture in the East Village with Eric Leven (pictured), Miss Understood, Jake Shears, and Michael Cunningham. I hope to see some of you there. RELATED: Pop over to Bloggernista for a great interview with Eric Leven. The interview is cross-posted on The Bilerico Project..

I’ll be reading at Rapture next Wednesday with Eric Leven (pictured), Miss Understood, Jake Shears, and Michael Cunningham. Tonight’s installment will be a memorial to Dean Johnson, who was to host the series. From Rapture: “Please feel free to bring photos, music, writings or any other Dean Johnson-related memorabilia for the Honoring Wall which has already sprung up around our …

Wednesday, October 10th, I’ll be reading with Eric Leven (pictured), Jake Shears, Miss Understood, and Michael Cunningham at East Village hotspot, Rapture Cafe & Books, for Dean Johnson’s Reading For Filth: Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex. Egad! An international pop star, a movie star dragster, a Pulitzer winner, and a local activist/heartthrob. I’m gonna have to dig deep into …

Last night Aaron, Damian, Dr. Jeff and I dropped in on Spit, where host Paul Short welcomes “prison punks, leather hunks, and hairy chunks” to his East Village monthly party, now relocated above a liquor store on a desolate stretch of Avenue B. The entire club is red – red walls, red wallpaper, red lights – with the only non-red …

Saturday, 1am, 2nd Avenue, East VillageStoned Dude 1(pointing): You wanna eat there? Stoned Dude 2: Thailand Cafe? What kinda food do they have? SD1: Um, Thai food, dude. SD 2: Like what? SD 1: Dude! Like noodles and shrimp. That kinda shit. SD 2: Fuck that. I don’t like Chinese..