Pride-Themed Community Murals Increase Their ‘Numbers’ as Public Paints Pride Month goes out in epic fashion on June 30th, as the annual NYC Pride March makes its way down Fifth Ave., into the Village, and up Seventh Ave. to its Chelsea dispersal point. All along the route, a righful sense of belonging is felt every […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Legendary, leggy, lewd drag queen Lady Bunny has returned to her NYC home base, after being a sell-out at Australia’s Sydney Comedy Festival. No, wait, we mean selling out—as in, every available ticket was gobbled up. Now that she’s back in town, word on the street (or perhaps more accurately, the […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A number of neighbors based on or near the 400 block of West 21st Street have a gift for coming up with grand gestures that galvanize. Long known for their groovy, ghoulish (and winning) entries in the area’s annual Outdoor Halloween Decorating Contest, the affable, action-minded residents were also instrumental in […]
Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea Programming In, Around Bella Abzug Park / ¡Arriba! Celebrates the High Line’s Birthday / The Puccini Jukebox / Super Sidewalk Fest / Buy Black Marketplace / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / PRIDE Month Events: Chelsea Community Church PRIDE-Themed 1pm June Sunday Services The Hudson […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Have we ever had more reason to be proud of Chelsea during June’s PRIDE Month? Well, that’s up for debate (says anyone here during the Big Cup era). But cautious of the forgiving patina that comes with a thick coat of nostalgia, we’ll punt on any further debate about the “good […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | The entertainers featured in the Oscar-winning 2013 documentary 20 Feet From Stardom have nothing on me. I’ve gotten much closer than that! I’ve almost been able to taste fame, while self-sabotaging things just enough to underline my lack of superstar talent and confirm a seat in the bleachers. Some of this […]
Easter came early this year, putting all of its eggs in a basket that saw plastic pastel-colored straw, dyed eggs, marshmallow peeps, and hollow chocolate rabbits high-tailing it to March 31. Some say a super-funky lunar calendar is the cause, while others wonder if these beloved springtime traditions simply thought it best to cede full […]
A show whose thematic “Oomh!” comes from the Broadway songbook’s emotional depth and camp-friendly absurdities has arrived on West 42nd Street—the very doorstep of its source material—to throw down the gauntlet. Fortunately for us, the gauntlet is actually two pairs of long satin evening gloves worn with confident, comedic ferocity by native-to-Florida drag queens Ginger […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I never get tired of coming up with drag queen names because it’s a chance to be punny and funny and a little bit incorrect. Here goes—and I’ll not only include a few actual drag queens’ names, I’ll follow that with some names for the drag kings, too. NOTE: Want more, […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Leave it to that reliabe old slayer of sacred cows–Lady Bunny–to greet this holiday season with the promise of a dirty, disgusting public display. From her perch in Times Square (aka the Laurie Beechmen Theatre), Lady Bunny: A Very Blue Christmas welcomes you to witness NYC’s own potty-mouthed “pig in a […]