Meet & Greet Shows Schmoozing is Central to Block Association’s Winning Ways

Meet & Greet Shows Schmoozing is Central to Block Association’s Winning Ways

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | After nearly a decade’s worth of members moving away and other means of matriculation left its Board of Directors so sparsely populated that the gathering of two practically constituted a quorum, a repopulated and robust incarnation of the 300 West 18th/19th Streets Block Association (18/19) emerged in 2018. Ready to advocate […]

This Week In & Around Chelsea: July 15-21, 2024

This Week In & Around Chelsea: July 15-21, 2024

Here’s What’s Happening This Week In & Around Chelsea  Free Programming in Bella Abzug Park / The Sweat Sessions / HYHK Alliance Needs Assessment Survey / Food Bag Program: Fresh Food for Seniors / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea /   The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance Presents, Through October, Free Programming in Bella […]

Kevin McDonald (of The Kids in the Hall) Claims the Comedy Lover’s Calendar–July 19 at City Winery

Kevin McDonald (of The Kids in the Hall) Claims the Comedy Lover’s Calendar–July 19 at City Winery

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Comedy great Kevin McDonald earned that apt description decades ago, for his work with The Kids in the Hall—the 5-man, 80s/90s Canadian sketch troupe literally unearthed by Amazon Prime last year for an all-new, 8-episode run. A well-deserved second season continues to elude, but McDonald gathers no moss waiting for it. […]

Pilobolus, BAAND Together Among Summer Dance’s Hottest Tickets

Pilobolus, BAAND Together Among Summer Dance’s Hottest Tickets

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Pilobolus: July 23-August 11 at The Joyce Theater | This unique, Connecticut-based ensemble—founded at Dartmouth College in 1971 and sometimes called “the dance equivalent of a rock band”—turned 50 on the cusp of the pandemic, so it’s stretching out the anniversary celebration, returning to the Joyce for a three-week season. Two different […]

100 Flavors Inside, Pups and People Outside: Ralph’s Ices Brings the Heat to Chelsea

100 Flavors Inside, Pups and People Outside: Ralph’s Ices Brings the Heat to Chelsea

SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES A “Welcome to the Neighborhood” Q&A With Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices and Ice Cream 196 Seventh Ave. (btw. W. 21st & 22nd Sts.) Open Sunday through Thursday, 11:30am-11pm & Friday/Saturday, 11:30am-11:30pm To visit their website, Click Here When they breezed into our part of town on Wednesday, June 12, Ralph’s Famous Italian […]

Pride Month, the Final 48: What’s on the Plate for Sat./Sun.

Pride Month, the Final 48: What’s on the Plate for Sat./Sun.

A Rabbit Named Rainer / New York  Live Arts: The House Party /  The Queer Liberation March / NYC Pride March to Disperse in Chelsea / Action Afterhours and Pride Closing Party / —PRIDE Event Roundup by Scott Stiffler— A Rabbit Named Rainer: Regie Cabico and Drew Pisarra | Saturday, June 29, 9:30pm at The […]

The 10 Best Drag Queens Who Aren’t Really Drag Queens

The 10 Best Drag Queens Who Aren’t Really Drag Queens

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | It’s Pride month…a time to celebrate how integral drag queens are to the queer community for their humor, nerve, and facility with a mascara wand. Drag is so revered (if controversial) now that it’s become contagious to the point where there are public figures who seem like drag queens who aren’t […]

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