PHOTOS & TEXT BY MARTY BARRETT | RuPaul’s DragCon LA 2022 (May 13-15) was a seismic event—and how appropriate for Pacific Rim-adjacent Los Angeles—that represented a release of all that pent-up COVID claustrophobia in a healing lava rain of drag queens across a grateful downtown LA. The 10th in-person DragCon featured hundreds of vendors, reunions […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Steeped in a history few who pass by its doors are aware of, the role in African American history played by a building on the 100 block of West 17 Street compels New York City to grant it landmark status. That’s the rallying cry of author, black New Yorker, licensed NYC […]
With early voting daily through June 26 and the Primary Day election on June 28, we’re in the final phase of sizing up candidates to determine who will succeed retiring Richard Gottfried as the New York State Assembly District 75 rep. We asked candidate Tony Simone about the problems and potentials of the area he seeks to […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” The Big Mix / Wellness Wednesdays Free Flatiron Fitness Series / West Chelsea Contemporary Exhibit / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Early Primary Voting / Stargazing on the High Line / The Big Mix Performance Party: Through Sunday, July 3 on Little Island, in Hudson River […]
EARLY JUNE PRIMARY VOTING Saturday, June 18 through Sunday, June 26 The June Primary is scheduled for Tuesday, June 28, 2022 and will include elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Assembly, Judges, and Party Positions. To find your Early Voting or Election Day pollsite and view a sample ballot, click here. For more information via the Board of Elections, click […]
BY PAMELA WOLFF | The needlessly destructive class warfare plan to hand over Midtown’s Penn Station area to a lone, monied real estate interest—cooked up by disgraced former New York State Governor Mario Cuomo and inherited with blind gusto by his successor—must not be permitted to move forward. To do so would forever alter thousands […]
PHOTOS & TEXT BY MINDY ROSIER-RAYBURN | This past Sunday, I was among the members of the LGBT community, electeds, and allies who gathered at Chelsea Piers to let the West Side fitness destination know how we felt about their decision to provide a home for the ultra-conservative Jewish Leadership Conference, whose guest speakers […]
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION REVIEW BY TRAV S.D. | Something less than two years after our look at ghostly guests of the Chelsea Hotel for this website, we are delighted to have the opportunity to spend a little time inside the old building by way of a new documentary—and it proves to be spookier than […]
BY LAYLA LAW-GISIKO (candidate, NYS Assembly District 75) | My mother was born in Tunisia, a small North-African country, slightly smaller than the state of Kansas. She was the fifth child and the third daughter in a family of nine children. My mother’s two older sisters did not go to school. My grandmother was illiterate. […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Two whole days after the Tonys came the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which go one step further by honoring not just Broadway, but Off-Broadway too. On Tuesday, I got to meet some of the (previously announced) winners at Sardi’s second floor, where they sauntered in with their honors and got […]