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BY SCOTT STIFFLER with PHOTOS COURTESY OF ABRACADABRA | Some work in a world where illusions are created with the skilled use of misdirection—while others work in a world where they work with someone named “Miss Direction.” Now, the seemingly disparate worlds of magic and drag have found common ground in an online form that, […]
BY CHARLES BATTERSBY with photos by NYCC staff & passersby unless noted | Over the last 20years it has been a joke at Comic Con that the comics themselves were becoming increasingly irrelevant. Movies, TV shows, and video games adapted from comic books have made the print comics a mere side hustle for superheroes. The […]
In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” In Order of Appearance: Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Chelsea Community Church / Opening Night Reception for “Sign of the Times” exhibit at Westbeth Gallery / Fair Warning: Oct. 30 event requires dogged preparation / The Fresh Food for Seniors Program / Flu Shots from Lenox […]
Scarlet Envy—the Louisville, KY native, favorite daughter of NYC, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Season 6 contestant (whose exit left us feeling very “uncomfortable” with the show’s host)—offers Gothamites an intimate performance made accessible to worldwide audiences, when she brings her solo show ALLSTAR to the comfy confines of Lower East Side venue Caveat. Last seen […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | When Chelsea’s High School of Fashion Industries opened the doors to its nearly 1,600 students on Mon., Oct. 4, the vocational school with a 95 percent math proficiency score found itself contemplating some embarrassing numbers, and cooperating in an NYPD investigation that, nearly a week later, remains with no publicly announced […]
AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR | Over the years, for a number of reasons, I’ve written quite a bit of material about Halloween. I worked for much of the 2000s for a marvelous website called I-mockery.com, and we were famous for our “Two Months of Halloween.” Every September and October, all content on the site was […]
TEXT & PHOTOS BY JOEY DAYTONA | I’d been working in Midtown when the virus hit (03/03/2020). I saw a guy on the subway sneeze into his hand and then touch the seat. I had that unsettling feeling that this would not end well. I was also determined to get a car and drive […]
Stored on a shelf or consigned to a corner for the long, silent stretches that fill most hours of their day, a strange alchemy takes place when a puppet and its maker hit the stage to tell a story. Transference of energy? Exchange of souls? A single, satisfactory explanation may elude, as to why we […]
IN THIS WEEK’S “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” in Order of Appearance: Sunday Suppers Returns to Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen / FJK Dance presents RESET / Empire Station Coalition’s Webinar on What a New Penn Station Could Be / The Fresh Food for Seniors Program / Manhattan Community Board 4’s Full Board Meeting / Flu Shots from Lenox Health […]