This Week In & Around Chelsea: August 18-24, 2025

This Week In & Around Chelsea: August 18-24, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Return of the London Terrace Street Fair / West Side Community Fund Applications / Events at Chelsea Green Park / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis /Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea The London Terrace Street Fair: Saturday, September […]

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

Provincetown Report: Who Rules The Drag Roost in The Queer Resort?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the prime season running through September and beyond. Here’s a rundown of my latest trip there, specifically involving which drag queens provided the most entertaining distraction from panic—and what they wore.  PLASMA […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: August 11-17, 2025

This Week In & Around Chelsea: August 11-17, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance):  Pick of the Week / Chain Theatre Film Festival / Free Events at Chelsea Green Park / The Sweat Sessions / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis /Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea PICK OF THE WEEK (NEXT WEEK) Registration […]

Guest Opinion | Save Chelsea to Erik Bottcher: Stop Supporting NYCHA’s ‘Indefensible’ Plan for Chelsea

Guest Opinion | Save Chelsea to Erik Bottcher: Stop Supporting NYCHA’s ‘Indefensible’ Plan for Chelsea

Note: The following letter, sent out on the morning of August 8, 2025, is published with the permission of Save Chelsea. The community-based organization encourages you to contact City Council Member Erik Bottcher and other elected officials with your concerns about the NYCHA plan.     August 8, 2025 / TO: City Council Member Erik Bottcher […]

Of Press Cards and Corsets

Of Press Cards and Corsets

BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | I felt pretty smug as I approached City Hall on the late afternoon of June 9, 2025. I had RSVP’d for a Pride Month event with the City Council Speaker and members of the Council LGBTQIA+ Caucus. Several tourists were peeking through the fence, trying to get a pic of City […]

Fog Lifts: Once-Cancelled London Terrace Street Fair Returns with 2025/2026 Dates

Fog Lifts: Once-Cancelled London Terrace Street Fair Returns with 2025/2026 Dates

BY SCOTT STIFFLER| Strolling shoppers, schmoozing stakeholders, and priced-to-go purveyors of slightly used stuff, rejoice: That much-missed harbinger of autumn–The London Terrace Street Fair–has slipped the surly bonds of its 2024 cancellation by booking 2025 and 2026 return dates (Sept. 20 and Oct. 3, respectively). It was August 9 of last year when Chelsea Community […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: August 4-10, 2025

This Week In & Around Chelsea: August 4-10, 2025

Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): National Night Out / Chain Theatre Film Festival / NoMad Jazz Festival / Free Events at Chelsea Green Park / The Sweat Sessions / Free Programming from HYHK (Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance) / Music, Art, and More at Verdi Cannabis / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea Local Precincts Observe National […]

With Interviews & Reviews, Pizzoli’s ‘Passionate Outlier’ Captures the Essence of Gay Writers & Allies

With Interviews & Reviews, Pizzoli’s ‘Passionate Outlier’ Captures the Essence of Gay Writers & Allies

BY MICK MEENAN | The Stonewall Uprising that followed a June 28, 1969 NYPD raid on a Christopher Street gay bar was only the beginning in a series of historical events that would reshape queer consciousness, and society along with it. Among the significant developments following the Stonewall Uprising was the publishing industry’s more receptive […]