Slices of the Tenderloin #5: Saharet

Slices of the Tenderloin #5: Saharet

BY TRAV S.D. | For Women’s History Month, we will continue our series on famous vaudeville performers connected with the Tenderloin District. Now long defunct, the Tenderloin was a NYC neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between 5th and 8th Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was […]

222 Drag Queens I’ve Met: A Glittery List of Gender Benders

222 Drag Queens I’ve Met: A Glittery List of Gender Benders

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Having done a list of “Celebrities I’ve Met” and included some drag performers in it, let me go full feather boa and do a rundown of just the drag queens—creatures who live their dream while enlivening the nightlife on a regular basis. (And yes, there will be nightlife again.) There are […]

Writing the Apocalypse: Flying By

Writing the Apocalypse: Flying By

Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Flying By | BY PUMA PERL A New York City year flies by, an extended acid trip Coming down like Alice I don’t know what’s real […]

Slices of the Tenderloin #4: Cole and Johnson

Slices of the Tenderloin #4: Cole and Johnson

BY TRAVS.D. | For Black History Month, we present you with weekly slices of the Tenderloin, the now-defunct New York City neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between Fifth and Eighth Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was so-named by a local police captain who relished the […]

My CoviDiary: The February 2021 Entries

My CoviDiary: The February 2021 Entries

  EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, find the one and only February 2021 entry. Click here for the January 2021 entries. Click here for December 2020 content. Click here for the November entries. Click here for the October entries. Click here for the September entries. Click here for the August entries.  Click here for the July entries.  Click […]

Writing the Apocalypse: When Diva Was Still Here I Hoped to Die Before the Dog

Writing the Apocalypse: When Diva Was Still Here I Hoped to Die Before the Dog

Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Diva Dog Gomez, circa 2007-2021 | BY PUMA PERL Diva Dog Gomez had a rough start in life. At approximately three years old, she was abandoned […]

Slices of the Tenderloin #3: Scott Joplin

Slices of the Tenderloin #3: Scott Joplin

  BY TRAVS.D. | For Black History Month, we present you with weekly slices of the Tenderloin, the now-defunct New York City neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between Fifth and Eighth Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was so-named by a local police captain who relished […]

Slices of the Tenderloin #2: Ernest Hogan

Slices of the Tenderloin #2: Ernest Hogan

BY TRAVS.D. | For Black History Month, we present you with weekly slices of the Tenderloin, the now-defunct New York City neighborhood that at its furthest extent ran between 24th and 62nd Streets between Fifth and Eighth Avenues, thus overlapping with modern Chelsea. The Tenderloin was so-named by a local police captain who relished the […]

Confessions of an Attention Whore: PLEASE READ THIS!

Confessions of an Attention Whore: PLEASE READ THIS!

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I’ve always had a complex love/hate relationship with the art of attention-seeking. As a shy child, I always craved the spotlight, but since I was conditioned to feel unworthy of it, I got nervous about success and sometimes sabotaged my chances to seize it. My familiar pattern is that I’m dying […]

Writing the Apocalypse | LES: Past and Pandemic

Writing the Apocalypse | LES: Past and Pandemic

Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Past and Pandemic | BY PUMA PERL I was a child of Tenth Street Police locks and bodegas Open hydrants, rooftops, cerveza on credit We were […]

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