Tag Archives: NYC

NYC Fri/Sat: Bob Mould In Concert

Legendary former Husker Du and Sugar frontman (and Blowoff DJ/creator) Bob Mould is playing two live shows in NYC this weekend at City Winery in Soho. Former Posies frontman Jon Auer is Bob’s special guest for both shows. Get tickets here. You can listen to Bob performing live right now on WNYC.

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Queer Rising

A new LGBT activist group called Queer Rising announced their existence earlier this week with Martin Luther King Day demonstrations around NYC. Visit their Facebook page here. This is the first I’m hearing about Queer Rising. Members – please weigh in with your plans and goals.

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Trippin’ To The Oldies

Flags, fans, tambourines, claves, cowbells, and baby powder. Sunday’s third installment of the Saint reunion party, Trippin’ On The Moon, was an end-to-end delight. I walked in to Linda Clifford’s sultry 1978 classic Runaway Love and left about seven hours later shortly after the Love Unlimited Orchestra’s My Sweet Summer Suite. Perfection. The clip below has some seriously borked audio …

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Air Scare: Orthodox Jewish Prayer Device Causes Flight Diversion

A flight out of LaGuardia was diverted to Philadelphia this morning after its flight crew became alarmed by an Orthodox Jewish teenager putting on his tefillin, a traditional prayer device involving two black boxes and long leather straps. Authorities say, Chautauqua Airlines flight 3079 from LaGuardia to Louisville was diverted to Philadelphia after a 17-year-old male strapped on a “tefillin,” …

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Daily Grumble

In full realization of how very cliched this post is, I must nevertheless denounce the Sales Prevention Team at the Best Buy on East 86th Street for the most aggravating purchase experience I’ve ever had. I can totally say without hyperbole that that place is a million times worse than Hitler. As I was told, because of “the shrink”, one …

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Morning View – 6 Train

Is anybody working today?

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True In Their World, True In Ours

Cafe Figo, First Avenue, 2pm Hipster Chick 1: Anyway, it starts at 11. Wanna go? You can be my plus one. Hipster Chick 2: I’m sick of being everybody’s plus one. When do I get my name on the list? Hipster Chick 1: Blowing the promoter always helps.

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Happy Sullyversary

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Submitted Without Comment

Via Craiglist NYC: my name is william and i am a 29 year old gay male from pennsylvania and am ObSeSeD!!! with lAdY GAga! i have 2 tickets for the 1/21 show at Radio City Music Hall (my fav venu haha) and i want to go with a woman and am willing to give up 1 ticket for her for …

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Both Attackers In Queens Gay Bashing Of Jack Price Charged With Hate Crimes

Both of the men who brutally gay bashed Jack Price in Queens last October have been indicted on hate crimes charges. You may recall that local thugs counter-protested the anti-bashing rally that was held at the site of the assault several days later, holding signs in support of his vicious attackers and saying Jack Price “had it coming to him.” …

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MTA Launches New Site

NYC’s MTA has launched a new site which for the first time provides real-time updates on service interruptions and delays. And the new site includes a smartphone ready function. The authority’s older mobile site posted maps only as PDFs, a clunky format that often takes a while to load on hand-held devices. “On the Go,” which features a fresher, streamlined …

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Manhattan Gay Bar Death Roll

Twilo, Limelight, Roxy, Lure, Tunnel, Sound Factory. And a couple of dozen more. Embiggen Next Magazine’s map of the gay bars that have closed in Manhattan in the new millenium. I miss the Dugout most of all. I enjoyed the Lure and Roxy, but hadn’t been to either in quite some time when they closed. Somehow I visited almost every …

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Heartbroken In NYC? Call The Death Bear

If you’re suffering through a painful breakup, a NYC performance artist called the Death Bear will come to your home and remove all evidence of your former love. We all have someone or something we would rather just forget. Things fall apart. Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that …

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Stay Behind The Yellow Line

The MTA is dragging their feet on repairing the rotting and crumbling edges of midtown’s subway platforms, even though their own report nine months ago showed that the wooden edges in some stations are falling apart. The crumbling conditions can be found on platforms for the downtown F at 34th Street and the uptown B and D at 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller …

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Photo Of The Day – Hudson River Ice

Gothamist just posted this photo of the Circle Line tourism boat navigating the icy Hudson. Last week the Coast Guard started icebreaking operations on the Hudson, using a fleet of five ice cutters to clear a shipping channel, primarily for the tankers that are delivering heating oil to upstate residents. The Bayonne-based Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay has its own …

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An Oral History Of Disco

Vanity Fair has published a lengthy series of quotes from people who were around during the early years of disco, including Judy Weinstein, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Ian Schrager, Gloria Gaynor, Nile Rodgers, and Fran Lebowitz. The piece by Lisa Robinson opens: It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New …

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Snooki Does The Weather

Gothamist reports that not only is Jersey Shore’s Snooki getting $10,000 just to appear at nightclubs, last night she did the weather in NYC. Dig the cleavage tug. Tonight she judges the Fist Pumping competition at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando. SRSLY.

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Saturday In NYC – Drenched Pool Party

The Drenched pool party returns to Times Square’s Grace Hotel tomorrow. The last one was mobbed and I had a blast (although I was one of the few non-swimmers, preferring to hover safely in the two bars that overlook the pool.) The best part was when the upstairs coat check got full and folks had to change into their bathing …

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2009: Fewest NYC Murders In History

In 2009, NYC saw the fewest number of murders since comparable records began being kept. The city’s police department says the 2009 year-end total was 466, down from 523 in 2008 and 496 the year before. It’s the fewest since comparable records were kept in the 1960s. Overall crime is down in the city 11 percent from last year and …

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Weatherproof Obama

The White House is angry at the Weatherproof clothing company for installing a Times Square billboard that implies the president is endorsing one of their jackets. Outerwear company Weatherproof used a recent news photo of the president in front of the Great Wall in Badaling, China, for the advertisement, with the tagline “A Leader In Style.” The White House said …

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