Tag Archives: NYC

Gotham is being belted with its first snowstorm of the year and already I’ve fallen on my ass, right in front of a window full of women sitting under nail dryers at Dashing Diva. Eight winters in NYC and I still don’t know how to walk on icy sidewalks. Anyway, it’s sucky timing for holiday travel – JFK and LaGuardia …

Democratic New York Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate was arrested yesterday for hitting his girlfriend with a beer bottle. The injury reportedly lacerated the woman’s face severely and required 20-40 stitches to close. A former NYC Councilman representing Queens (yesterday was his last day), Monserrate was at one time in league with the “Gang Of Three” dissident NY Senate Democrats, although he …

Join The Impact sends a reminder about this Saturday’s Light Up The Night rally in NYC which includes the corrected locations to the ones I posted earlier this week. Find the protest in your city via the links at bottom. NYC MARCH FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE Saturday, December 20, 6 PM, 35th Street And Sixth Avenue This Saturday, …

Coolness from Google Earth Blog: Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City! This is a HUGE update with at least hundreds (if not thousands) of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied. Basically, Google has completed nearly every building in Manhattan Island for Google Earth. Just fly to “New York City” and turn on …

The MTA is fighting two battles – a massive budget shortfall and the increasing cost of replacing train windows damaged by so-called scratchiti artists. The latest solution being tested: full window advertisments. The ads both bring in additional revenue and supposedly discourage vandalism of the windows. However the ads are made of some material that only allow riders to see …

Susan Cheever has a great essay up on the NY Times in which she observes that nobody in Gotham seems to get stumbling down drunk at parties anymore. The first two paragraphs: As dessert ended, the woman in the red dress got up and stumbled toward the bathroom. Her husband, whose head had been sinking toward the bûche de Noël, …

The Saint At Large continues their gifties to JMG readers as today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two more tickets to The Christmas Party at Pacha, which takes place this Saturday, December 20th. Pacha is at 618 W. 48th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The party features DJs Michael Magnan, Eddie Elias, and Jonathan Peters and runs from 10PM to 6:30AM. …

My cable box is still busted, but I guess I’m slightly mollified by the cutesy 2009 calendars Time-Warner New York is sending out, which feature local cable guys (and a couple of gals) in various seasonal poses. The calendars are free to customers, view the “cable babes” here.

Room Eight, the NYC politics site founded by Politico’s Ben Smith, reported this weekend on a federal lawsuit filed against the NYPD regarding their refusal to grant press credentials to online journalists. “The system of granting press credentials in New York City has run amok and needs to be changed immediately,” said Norman Siegel, a prominent civil rights attorney who …

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out yesterday for the memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the Ecuadorian immigrant who was beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat last week because his attackers thought he and his brother were homosexuals. The event was covered by over a dozen television crews from local, national, and Hispanic news channels, as well as print …

On Friday, hours before his mother arrived from Ecuador, Jose Sucuzhanay’s heart stopped and he was declared dead. An Ecuadorean immigrant who was brutally beaten with a bottle and baseball bat last week by men said to be shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs has died, a family spokesman said on Saturday night. Three Sucuzhanay brothers — from left, Romel, Diego …

Another great night at Blowoff last night with just about everybody I know in the tri-state area in attendance. Musical highlights: Bob Mould spinning a ripping remix of Yelle’s Ce Jue and Rich Morel playing his own Shoe Gazer Disco. If you don’t want to appear in the above slideshow, please email me. RELATED: Here’s the most recent San Francisco …

On Thursday night, Aaron and I attended Jingle 2008, the fifth annual holiday fundraising party for the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s shelter for homeless LGBT youth. Held at the lovely Meatpacking District loft of David Raleigh and Richard Bahl, the party brought out a nice crowd of Gotham’s homorati including pop star Ari Gold, Tony winner B.D. Wong, gossip maven …

Blowoff’s beary beer-soaked band of bouncy brutes returns to Manhattan tonight at the Highline Ballroom. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets are here. Next week I’ll happen to be in DC when Blowoff returns to the mothership at the 9:30 Club, making it four Blowoffs in four cities in five weeks for me. What’s the bear version of a Deadhead?

Man, you really know Wall Street has been hit hard when Scores, Gotham’s jiggle-titty mecca, is closing. It’s the last lap dance for Scores, the strip club empire whose comely babes attracted A-list celebs and money-burning execs. Once the highest-grossing strip club chain in the world and a hangout for Madonna, Howard Stern, Russell Crowe, Jason Giambi and countless others, …

The memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the victim of Saturday’s brutal anti-gay, anti-Latino attack in Brooklyn, will take place Sunday at 2pm at the scene of the hate crime. Facebook link here. Let’s hope the “gays don’t get beaten up enough” crowd has taken notice. Embiggen the image for instructions.

This is the second major prize for Milk this week and first of what I predict will be many for Sean Penn. “Milk,” Gus Van Sant’s movie about gay rights leader Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn, has been named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle. Penn was also chosen as best actor by the critics, who announced …

Contrary to widely published reports yesterday, the more seriously injured brother of the two attacked in Brooklyn is not dead, but he has been found to have no brain function. The New York Times has amended the story I linked yesterday. Today the NYPD released the sketch at left in the hopes the public can identify the assailants. Police have …