After a couple stints at guest hosting and twirling on the dance floor, Tony Award-winning actorAlan Cumming is now the OFFICIAL regular hostess at NYC party My Chiffon Is Wet! Starting May 1, the A-Lister will join MCW crew DJ Paisley Dalton (moi!), showgurrrls Leo Gugu and Ruby Roo and superstar photog Brett Lindell for the senior and final year of the top pop party [...]
FRIDAY 25
Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions (voted #1 most influential/non-performing women in burlesque ) and Daniel Nardicio, NYC’s “Best Gay Party Promoter” (Village Voice), join forces for The 3rd Annual New York Boylesque Festival, April 25th & 26th 2014. With over 40 male performers from Japan, Finland, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austria, Canada & more, [...]
WEDNESDAY 23
Ira Sachs follows up last year’s acclaimed, Keep the Lights On, with another take on modern love. Acting veterans John Lithgow and Alfred Molina star as Ben and George in Love Is Strange, a Manhattan couple who are finally given the opportunity to make their union official. But when Ben loses his teaching job [...]
THURSDAY 24
Gia Coppola’s debut feature Palo Alto establishes her as a stunning new talent, deftly capturing the complicated ties, heightened emotions, and romantic highs and lows of adolescence. Based on James Franco’s Palo Alto: Stories, several stories intertwine as the film unfolds. Emma Roberts plays April, a levelheaded, intelligent, and spirited young woman who finds [...]
In 1968, photographer Bill Cunningham embarked on an eight-year project to document the architectural riches and fashion history of New York City. Scouring the city’s thrift stores, auction houses, and street fairs for vintage clothing, and scouting sites on his bicycle, Cunningham generated a photographic essay entitled Facades, which paired models—in particular his muse, fellow photographer [...]
THURSDAYS
Eastern Bloc, 505 East 6th St bet Aves A&B, NYC, 212-777-2555, 10pm, free, For fans of the flugelhorn, the emphatically effeminate, and other adopters of shifting masculinity identifiers! The Glam Award nominated and BNA winning party My Chiffon is Wet, inspired by Paisley Dalton’s CD release My Chiffon Is Wet, Darlin! that came out December 2010, [...]
London’s pop trio The Plastics get a bit randy in new NSFW video XO, a total reimagining of Beyoncé’s ballad. Check them out, dippin’ in and out of bathtubs, smoking cigarettes, showin’ their bums and frolicking through the streets of London Town with bad boy band abandon. BTW..totally crushin’ on Sam…Baby, love me lights out!!!
