Tag Archives: NYC

NYC This Weekend: Visual AIDS Benefit

Friday-Sunday this weekend in NYC the 12th annual Postcards From The Edge benefit for Visual AIDS will take place in West Chelsea. Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the …

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Christine Quinn Holds NYC Speaker Post

Today openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn was re-elected by a near unanimous vote of her fellow council members. There wasn’t much doubt about the outcome, but the vote got rowdy as supporters of her only challenger, Charles Barron, who got one vote, yelled things like “sell out,” after many of the votes were cast. On hand for the …

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And After This, Chuck E. Cheese

For the last decade New Yorkers have bemoaned the Disneyfication of Times Square with its mall chain restaurants, its themed nightclubs, and its now well-scrubbed and well-fed middle American patrons. And with the below news, the Disneyfication of Times Square has become complete and literal. Disney is going theme park with its new Times Square retail store. Perhaps trying to …

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The New Economy

Walgreens, Second Avenue, 9pm Woman In Scrubs: I like to keep an unscratched $5 Lotto ticket on my desk. It feels like a mystery savings account. Female Friend: You should upgrade to a $20 ticket. Then you can pretend it’s a trust fund.

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NYC To Vote Via Optical Scan Ballots

This fall NYC will become one of the last places in the country to finally update to a non-mechanical voting system. After years of delays and missteps, the city’s Board of Elections is expected to choose new electronic voting machines on Tuesday that will be rolled out in time for the September primary. In so doing, New York City will …

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Times Square To Return To XXX

But only the kind of XXX you get in bowling, as the company that owns Union Square’s Bowlmor Lanes plans a posh $20M venue in the former New York Times Building. Bowlmor is owned by Strike Holdings, and at its downtown headquarters, Thomas Shannon, the chief executive, spoke about the old bowling, and the new bowling that might save New …

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NYC Tops For Domestic Tourism

Long the #1 destination for international tourists, for the first time in 20 years New York City has topped Orlando and Las Vegas as the most popular vacation spot for Americans too. Speaking at the Greenhouse Cafe in Brooklyn, Mr Bloomberg said: ‘Over the past eight years, our efforts to make New York City an even more exciting place to …

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Kevin Aviance – Gimme More

Via producers Jonny “The Gay Pimp” McGovern and Adam Joseph comes this Kevin Aviance cover of Britney Spears’ Gimme More. To date, Aviance has scored five #1 hits on Billboard’s dance chart. Aviance has bounded back from his brutal 2006 gay bashing in NYC, after which all four of his cowardly assailants received prison sentences of up to 15 years.

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Times Are Hard All Over

When the man with the world’s largest wang can’t even get a job, the terrorists have won.

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Sunday: No Pants Subway Ride

Improv Everywhere’s annual No Pant Subway Ride is this Sunday. Details here. Not to be a spoil sport, but when everybody knows it’s coming, it doesn’t seem very “improv” anymore. Here’s how last year’s event looked.

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Wacko NYC Pastor Gets Global Press

Harlem-based Pastor James David Manning says that President Obama is “pure evil borne of the womb of 16 year-old white girl.” (Obama’s mother was actually 18 when she had him.) He also claims that the Marxists in the black Suburbans are coming to get him for saying so, blah blah blah. I doubt that Pastor Wacko is very well known …

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Happy Nivea Year!

And a Merry Toshiba!

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Jackie Beat – Don’t Tell Me You’re Gay

The legendary Jackie Beat is really really NSFW.

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Morning View – Second & 70th

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Upstate NY Senator Wants To Split State

Sen. Joseph Robach (R-Rochester) thinks it’s time to resurrect the old plan to split New York into two states. Forget the fact that New York State’s boundaries have been largely unchanged since the Constitution was ratified. That only two states have been admitted to the Union by splitting off from other states (Maine from Massachusetts in 1820, and West Virginia …

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Sen. Hiram Monserrate Has His Fans

Elizabeth Benjamin at the NY Daily News reports the above flier is being distributed in Queens’ Lefrak City, the same area that saw some anti-gay fliers about newly-elected Councilman Daniel Dromm.

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Tavern On The Green Closing

Central Park’s Tavern On The Green, the nation’s highest grossing and arguably most famous restaurant, will close tomorrow after 75 years in business. The former sheepfold at the edge of Central Park, now ringed by twinkling lights and fake topiary animals, is preparing for New Year’s Eve, when it will serve its last meal. Just three years ago, it was …

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Good Riddance Day 2009

Yesterday was Times Square’s annual Good Riddance Day, in which the public was invited to “say goodbye to all those bad memories of 2009.” Posted “good riddance” messages and items were ceremoniously shredded and hauled away. On the positive tip, the Times Square Alliance is also hosting a New Year’s Eve Wishing Wall, where your posted dreams and desires for …

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Trippin’ III – January 17th!

The third installment of Trippin’ On The Moon, a reunion of Saint members and performers, takes place in NYC on January 17th. Facebook event page here. Advance tickets $35, available here. The first one was amazing, one of my best nights of 2009. (I missed the second one because I was in SF for my birthday.) The coming party will …

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NYC Isn’t Ready For The iPhone

According to the Consumerist, AT&T has suspended sales of iPhones in NYC due to increasing complaints about poor performance. From a conversation with AT&T customer service: Daphne: Welcome to AT&T online Sales support. How may I assist you with placing your order today?Laura: Hi, I was looking at the iPhone 3Gs and the system tells me that I cannot order …

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