BY SCOTT STIFFLER | The individual committee meetings of Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) for the month of July are where you’ll find presentations, discussions, and debate–all leading up to committee members voting on the matter at hand and, more often than not, generating a letter that will serve as a statement of CB4’s position. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | If you were trapped on an island that conveniently contained all of the gardening equipment you could ever want/need, what’s the one thing you would be sure to plant: Russian Sage? Hollyhock? Take a look at the small but mighty gardens growing in the tree pits that dot pedestrian islands on […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | On Wednesday, June 21, the NYC Department of Transportation presented to Manhattan Community Board 4 their design proposal for the 200 block of West 22nd Street. As part of the City’s Open Streets program since May 2020, the elimination of most vehicular traffic between Seventh and Eighth Aves. for as much […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Before the defining Stonewall revolt in 1969, gays had to devise a special language as a form of connecting with each other while lurking in a big, communal closet. But today, it’s more of a shared giggle, a coscripted kiki that’s out in the open, and it’s simultaneously hilarious and poignant. […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | Fadi J. Khoury is a dancer, choreographer, and visual artist, as well as an Artist-in-Residence at Kings County Hospital and the Artistic Director-co-founder of FJK Dance. But those titles only sum up a part of his identity. He’s Arab American, an immigrant and, after working in New York for over 10 […]
MILESTONE MARKERS AND MORE WORK, AT 278 EIGHTH AVE. On June 23 arrived an email alert from the “278 8th Ave. Team”—the movers and shakers behind the building of the rapidly rising structure on the corner of Eighth Ave. and West 23rd Street. Sent out every 2-4 weeks, this latest update on the status of […]
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: […]
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 […]