Tag Archives: NYC

Walking past the playground at 1st & 67th…. Kid 1: You’re a cootie queen!Kid 2: You’re a lint licker! It took me a few blocks to remember where they got that.

An only in NYC must-see now running at PS122 in the East Village and starring the incomparable Justin Bond: Ethyl Eichelberger Award recipient and Tony Nominated performer Justin Bond and friends heat up your winter nights with a heady mix of Glamour, Gender Queer Cabaret, and Sexy Provocation. LUSTRE is a night of music, monologues and song and dance for, …

In one of the largest raids in NYC history, today the NYPD conducted a massive sweep of Chinatown’s bustling counterfeit designer goods shops, clearing Canal Street of knockoff watches and handbags. Police padlocked 32 businesses whose owners now face stiff fines or imprisonment. Mayor Bloomberg: “It is organized crime, frequently accompanied by bloody turf wars, stickups and armed assaults. Counterfeiters …

This is the new anti-litter campaign on DC’s Metro in which they diss the rats in NYC’s subway. I love the rats! They give you something to watch while you’re waiting for the train. DC’s subway is light-years away from Gotham’s in terms of convenience, but the stations are quite beautiful and clean. But a few rats is still worth …

The Radical Homosexual Agenda protested outside last night’s Human Rights Campaign dinner at the midtown Hilton in Manhattan. From Paul Schindler at Gay City News: Faced with a boisterous picket line that drew a crowd of more than 50 and with the absence of every lesbian, gay, and bisexual elected official from New York City — and nearly every other …

Friday night, Aaron and I visited Chris Noth’s Cutting Room for the opening night of Provincetown legend Dina Martina’s new show. If you’ve never experienced Dina, expect a bewildering cavalcade of songs, props and malaprops, spoonerisms and Norm Crosbyisms. The Dina Martina Show runs at the Cutting Room through March 9th. Highly recommended. Get tickets here.

Dr. Jeff sends us some great shots of the snow in Central Park. I’d love to go sledding, but at my enfeebled age, I’d probably break a hip. These photos embiggen beautifully.

Via Good As You, gay culture/history buffs will enjoy a blog called History of Gay Bars In New York City, where the author exhaustively unearths book excerpts and news reports of Gotham’s gay scene going from back to the turn of the 20th century until today. Unsurprisingly, most of the stories hinge on mafia ownership and crimes involving the clubs. …

In case you haven’t noticed it in my ad column, the next NYC edition of Blowoff is this Saturday at the swanky Highline Ballroom. Man, I’m jonesing for some hot tuneage from Mssrs Mould & Morel. At the last Blowoff, the club kind of got overwhelmed by the attendance and the line on West 16th Street stretched down to 9th …

6 Train, 8:30 am…. Girl 1: What did you get for Valentine’s Day?Girl 2: I didn’t get shit.Girl 1: David gave me a dozen roses and took me to Per Se.Girl 2: Yeah, but he’s fat, so he has to try harder.Girl 1: This is true.

Time Square’s famous Naked Cowboy, the guitar-playing singer that performs for tourists in his tighty-whities, is suing M&M Mars for $6M for depicting him on their store’s Jumbotron as an M&M character. “All I’ve got is my underwear. It’s the most brilliant thing that’s ever been created from a marketing perspective. You can’t stop it,” said Burck, 37, who said …

Embiggen the photo above or go here to learn about a fun Broadway event this Valentine’s Day in NYC: LIFEbeat – The Music Industry Fights AIDS is joining forces with Borders for Love Beats AIDS, a special discount promotion taking place on Valentine’s Day ONLY in all New York City Borders stores. Borders will match the discount amount dollar-for-dollar with …

New York’s tabloids are having a field day with this story: A leather-loving submissive was clinging to life yesterday after a freak accident at a Midtown bondage club cut off oxygen to his brain, law-enforcement sources said. A dominatrix at The Nutcracker Suite on East 33rd Street called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. after finding the hooded man turning blue …

The Grill, First Avenue, 1pm Wild-Eyed Man: Your dog is looking at me. Make him stop. Woman With Corgi: I can’t help it if he looks at you. WEM (Shouting at dog): You don’t know me! You don’t know SHIT!

Even though MetroNorth runs trains past 2am, by 12:30am Monday night, I found Grand Central almost completely deserted. In thousands of visits, I’ve never seen it like this. Eerily beautiful. I could actually hear the echo of my footsteps. This month, PBS’s American Experience devotes an hour to the history of Grand Central Terminal, calling it “the greatest station of …

The New York City medical examiner has just ruled that Heath Ledger’s death was due to “accidental overdose of prescription drugs.” Not a suicide. Not a heroin or cocaine overdose. The tabloids weep.

In which my journey towards full-blown theater queenapproaches Platinum Level…. Last night I attended the fantastic Broadway Backwards 3, the annual benefit for the NYC LGBT Community Center in which Broadway stars perform classic musical theater numbers from a gay perspective – changing pronouns or singing numbers written for characters of the opposite sex. The cast (and the audience!) was …

Watching the New York Giants roll through the Canyon of Heroes in this morning’s ticker-tape parade, the first such NYC event since 9/11, it’s more than a little disquieting to watch thousands of pieces of paper tumble from lower Manhattan’s skyscrapers. That image is so vividly seared into the brains of New Yorkers (and the rest of the world), it’s …

Improv Everywhere struck again, this time with a couple of hundred “agents” who, on cue, froze in place for five minutes at Grand Central Terminal. One of their more amusing pranks. I seriously gotta do the next one.

The Super Bowl was pretty exciting this year, wasn’t it? My back is bothering me a bit so I watched the game at home with Shelter Kitty. She liked the team in the aubergine blouses (she’s that gay), but I was happy to see the New Jersey York Giants win it. Plus, the Miami Dolphins get to keep their perfect …