Tag Archives: nightlife

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out. Love the new graphic, guys!

Here’s the most recent letter sent to New York Times gay advice columnist Steven Petrow: Dear Civil Behavior: Your comment in a recent column about gays at midlife finding themselves “suddenly invisible — aged out by the young, restless and beautiful” resonated loudly with me. At 59 I am single and almost friendless. I live in Philadelphia, which has a …

Courtesy of the Saint At Large, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to this year’s Black Party Expo, the two-day run up to the most famed gay dance party in the world. This year’s Expo includes a performance by popular house music artist Billie Ray Martin, who takes the Roseland Ballroom stage on Friday night at 9PM. The Black …

Jerry’s Deli, as I may have mentioned here one hundred times in the past, operates in the building that once was the Warsaw Ballroom, the single greatest gay nightclub in the history of the world. And I am unanimous in that.

At a Wilton Manors gay club last night I noticed this machine, which for $2 will charge your cell phone a whopping “25% faster than a wall charger.”  I’m betting we’ll start seeing these in airports and train stations right away. Unless they’re already out there and I just haven’t seen one.

Totally not office-friendly unless you work at Nasty Pig.

Jeremiah Moss has some sad news at Vanishing New York. Opened in 1979, the Rawhide is one of the last of a handful of old-school, unpretentious gay bars left in New York City. It is a survivor. But it won’t be for long. The building that houses it on 8th and 21st in Chelsea was sold a couple of years …

Boy George explains his 30+ year progression from pop star to a DJ who plays massive events all over the world.

Oh brother. Source. (Via JMG reader Rod)

Blowoff will bust its sweaty, furry self into Chelsea’s Highline Ballroom this Friday. Doors open at 11:30pm. Advance tickets here. This party will probably sell out.

Courtesy of the event’s producers, today Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Whiteout: Evolution Of A Dancer III, the third installment of the dance party that explores the history of gay nightclubbing. Evolution takes place next Sunday, February 17th at Manhattan’s Rebel Club. Performing that night are legendary DJs Michael Fierman, and John Celgia. Making his NYC debut that …

The Rio Times reports: At least 245 people have died in a nightclub fire in central Rio Grande do Sul, police have said. A band’s pyrotechnics reportedly started the blaze at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria at 2:30 AM Saturday night. Police finished removing bodies from the scene late Sunday morning, Folha de São Paulo reported. In addition to …

NYC’s famed Roxy nightclub, arguably the city’s last gay megaclub, closed in March 2007 and was supposed to be immediately demolished for luxury condos. Almost five years later the Chelsea building is still standing and this week it opened as a massive gallery space.  Via Hyperallergic: The new gallery, the site of the former Roxy nightclub and roller rink on …

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously to grant landmark status to the Twin Peaks bar in the Castro. Here’s a reminder of why Twin Peaks is so historic: In 1972, when Mary Ellen Cunha and Peggy Forster threw open the doors and uncovered the windows at Twin Peaks Tavern on the corner of Castro and Market streets, …

In a long Washington City Paper piece about the advent of bear culture, much of which will likely be familiar to many of you here, the author drops an interesting theory about the origin of “woof.” When I run into Tyler and Witzkoske, who are partners, I bring up their standard greeting among friends: the kiss, belly rub, and occasional …

Playbill reports: A Better Holiday Concert, a benefit for the It Gets Better Project, which was “created to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach,” will be presented Dec. 16 from 7-10 PM at XL Nightclub. The evening will raise funds for the Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest organization working on …

San Francisco’s Twin Peaks bar in the Castro, which is thought to be the first gay bar to uncloak its windows and allow passersby to see the people inside, is set to be named an LGBT historical landmark by the city. The Board of Supervisor’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee is set to vote Monday, December 10 on adding …

Real Bad, the annual volunteer-run closing party for Folsom Street Fair, raised a record $200,000 this year for its beneficiaries. Via press release, here’s where the money will go: AIDS Emergency Fund: A provider of financial resources to prevent homelessness and add stability to the lives of those disabled by HIV/AIDS. Alliance Health Project: An organization that brings the skills …

Washington DC’s Eagle nightclub will close at the end of the month as its owners seek a new location. Eagle manager Ted Clements said the bar plans to hold a closing party on Nov. 25, with the hope that the popular establishment will have lined up a new location shortly before or after that date. “We’re trying to find a …