Tag Archives: nightlife

This Is An Ad For Something

The music is this track.

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MISSISSIPPI: SPLC Sues Small Town For Denying Business License To Gay Bar

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed suit against a small Mississippi town for denying a business license to a lesbian who wants to open a gay bar. Via press release: One alderman has stated that the town, which struggles with a shrinking tax base, welcomes the prospect of fighting a federal lawsuit rather than allow a revenue-generating gay bar …

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At Last Night’s GLAAD Event

Google has either done away with embeddable Picasa slideshows or hidden the function well enough that I can no longer find it, so click over here for tons of photos of the bold face (mostly) gay-gay-gay names that crowded the red carpet at last night’s GLAAD event in Manhattan. Within you’ll find Orange Is The New Black cast member Laverne …

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FRIDAY: Blowoff At Gramercy Theatre

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into the Gramercy Theatre this Friday. Doors open at 11:00pm and advance tickets are here. Be advised, the last party sold out.

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Renegade Party On The Manhattan Bridge

About 350 people gathered for a guerrilla dance party on the walkway of the Manhattan Bridge this weekend.  Gothamist covered it and has a great write-up with many photos and videos. Here’s a taste. And yes, the organizers got busted.

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NYC Restaurant And Nightclub Trade Association To Hold Symbolic Vodka Dump

A New York City restaurant and nightclub trade association will today hold a symbolic vodka dump in protest of Russia’s ban on “homosexual propaganda.” The protest is organized by the United Restaurant and Tavern Owners Association, which represents 3,000 hotels, nightclubs, bars and restaurants. The umbrella group is calling for a citywide ban on all Russian booze and foods. Last …

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NEW YORK CITY: Chelsea’s Rawhide Location To Become Pizza Chain Outlet

Back in March, I reported that Chelsea’s iconic Rawhide bar was closing after 34 years in business.  Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York reports on what is going in at that location: Crain’s reports that Chelsea’s iconic gay leather bar is “being replaced by a West coast pizza chain, in another sign of the gentrification of the area around the popular High …

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ACT UP Disrupts Stoli Promo At NYC Bar

Last night members of ACT UP disrupted a Stoli promotion at the popular Splash Bar in Chelsea.  Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: It certainly didn’t have the makings of a fair fight, as a group of less than a dozen members of ACT UP/ NY faced off against a crowd of roughly 150 who had been primed with …

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NYC’s Splash Bar To Close

Minutes ago the owner of Chelsea’s iconic Splash nightclub announced on Facebook that the club will “permanently close” on August 10th. Nothing is mentioned as to a possible new location.

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Blowoff & Furball Go To P-Town

Two of my favorite parties will land in Provincetown during Bear Week 2013, which starts this weekend. Furball with DJ Corey Craig is Sunday, Blowoff with DJs Rich Morel and Bob Mould is Tuesday. Both parties at are the famed Boatslip, which doesn’t do advance tickets. Parties start and end early, as does everything in Provincetown.

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Special Blowoff Swag

In celebration of their Pride weekend debut at their new Manhattan venue, today we have two pairs of Blowoff tickets and two Blowoff t-shirts to give away. Blowoff takes place tomorrow night at the Gramercy Theater in the Flatiron District at East 23rd Street and Lexington.  This party will likely sell out and advance tickets are recommended.  Enter to win …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Fantasy Records, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is a special pink double vinyl copy of Sylvester’s Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits, which has been reissued nationwide today. Proceeds from this re-release benefit San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund and Project Open Hand, per Sylvester’s will.  You can download the album on iTunes or purchase a physical CD copy at Amazon. …

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Seen In Penn Station

Via the Twitter account of Visit Philly.

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The Show Musto Go On

Famed New York City nightlife columnist Michael Musto has landed on his feet after being canned from the Village Voice after three decades. Venerable Village Voice columnist Michael Musto — whose departure from the weekly this month caused outrage from devotees — tells us he’s starting a slew of new gigs. “I’ll be doing a weekly interview feature for Gawker, …

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Health Dept Shuts Hell’s Kitchen Bar

Flaming Saddles, the popular Hell’s Kitchen country gay bar, was shut down this week by the NYC Health Department. The hot spot — which features shirtless bartenders who two-step on the bar, as well as serving dishes like “Frito Pie” — was letting hot food get cold, had improper plumbing, and had a food preparation counter that was “improperly constructed,” …

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DJ Peter Rauhofer Dies Of Brain Cancer

Famed nightclub DJ, recording artist, and remixer Peter Rauhofer, who headlined at countless gay dance parties and clubs around the world, has died of a brain tumor. Specializing in “big room anthems,” Rauhofer scored chart-topping remixes for scores of artists including Madonna, Cher, and Whitney Houston. From a message posted to his fan page on Facebook: Today the music industry …

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Saturday: Furball NYC

Furball returns to benefit the NYC LGBT Community Center this Saturday. Two DJs and three floors! Our DJs will bring the bears out of their caves and get them to shake out their fur in the Mustache Ballroom. Be warned, fur ahead! Go-go bears, cheap beer, and warm fur with over 700 furry friends. Leave the caves and shake it …

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The Lost Gay Bars Of San Francisco

From the Pop-Up Museum Of Queer History, an interesting map. I recently began a mapping project of lost San Francisco gay bars using ads from magazines, matchbooks from archives and mentions in gay papers to try and reconstruct San Francisco in the years before the epidemic. What struck me most is that —in a far more hostile era there seemed …

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Gay Nightclub Sued By Two Women Who Claim They Were Raped By Staffers

Popular West Hollywood gay nightclub The Abbey is being sued by two women who claim that they were drugged and raped by club staffers. According to the lawsuit a gay woman who says she had never had sexual relations with a man was at The Abbey with her girlfriend in November, 2011. She says she and her girlfriend had a …

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30 Years Ago At NYC’s Danceteria

Gothamist today points out this 1983 episode of New York Dance Stand, a public access show filmed (this time) at the famed Danceteria. On the playlist: Malcolm McLaren, New Order, Freez, Human League, Klaus Nomi, Yello, Men Without Hats, Gang Of Four, Ministry.

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