BY MICHAEL THERIAULT | Ladies, gentlemen, and fabulous beings of all gender expressions, hold onto your feather boas because Pride Weekend 2023 is here! Can you believe it? It snuck up on us like a mischievous unicorn, but hey, we can’t stop time, so let’s embrace it with open arms and glitter cannons. We want […]
Activities Roundup Compiled by Scott Stiffler Featured Events in This Order: NYC Pride March / Pride Pop-Up on W. 22nd St. / Reclaim Pride Coalition’s 2023 Queer Liberation March / Ballroom in Focus Exhibit at Chelsea Market / The Golden Girlz Live! / Lady Bunny’s Don’t Bring the Kids and Leola’s Lady Land Lounge / District Defined: […]
Happening This Week, in “This Week In & Around Chelsea” NYC Pride March / W. 22nd St. Pride Pop-Up / DOT Presents W. 22nd St. Plan to CB4 / Tribeca Film Festival Online / Free Classes at Pier 57 / Affordable Housing Application / CSA Food Share / The NYC Pride March 2023: Noon to ? on […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I hope you’re having a wonderful Pride month. Just make sure to tip your drag queens! Drag has been ridiculously under attack by haters and as a result, I always crack that today’s drag stars will end up with an Emmy in one hand and handcuffs on the other. For years […]
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW OF ‘LET THE CANARY SING’ BY PUMA PERL | Full disclosure: I love Cyndi Lauper. I’ve never met her, but she feels like a family member. Her first album, She’s So Unusual, helped my four-year-old daughter recover from a strange virus that seemed to have no cure. For weeks, she rocked […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | In New York City, our streets aren’t just streets. They are where we walk, eat, play, and come together as one city. As mayor, I am committed to reclaiming our streets for everyone to enjoy safely. New Yorkers shouldn’t have to travel to Europe to experience open summer streets. […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Here in New York City, we are lucky to have an abundance of food from all over the world—yet many of our families face food insecurity, and for some of our children, the breakfast and lunch they eat at school are their only meals for the day. This makes it […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | There’s something satisfying about the fact that while self-aggrandizing lawmakers in Tennessee and other states were spending 2022/2023 trying to limit, license, discourage, and otherwise disavow drag, Sherry Vine and friends were creating six episodes of variety television that plays such pomposity for laughs, while putting the pursuit of cock where […]
Drew Pisarra’s Periodic Boyfriends REVIEW BY PUMA PERL | I never got good grades in science. I could grasp a bit of biology, as long as they left photosynthesis out of the picture, which they never did. Each year, from elementary school though college, I stumbled through final exams, unable to remember the steps needed […]
Happening This Week, in “This Week In & Around Chelsea” Pick of the Weekend / 10th Precinct Sector C Build the Block Meeting / Help Plan the Renovation of Penn South Playground / Tribeca Film Festival / Free Classes at Pier 57 / Affordable Housing Applications / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / CSA Food Share […]