“Very B.A.P.S. energy, and our own lil extra take on the classic. Just pure main character from start to finish. Such a joy to work with…You know why Ru chose me.’ “- Onya Nurve (image by Paige Margulies)
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FRIDAY 1
Night of a Thousand Stevies 19: Songs of Rhiannon
Chi Chi Valenti and Hattie Hathaway of NYC’s notorious Mother Club host the annual night homage to Stevie Nicks. Dress the part in Rhiannon realness, wizard sleeves, May Day maiden, Lindsey or John Mcvee warlock effects, or bedazzled and beribboned tambourines. Djs include Sammy Jo, Craig […]
First there were the “dead” heads. (Nothing to do with the Grateful Dead.) Drawn with a Bic pen back in 1972 and ’73. Richard brought these heads with him to NYC when he moved there in 1974. There were about twenty of them. They were drawn from the heart. “They were probably the first things […]
WEDNESDAY 29
Variety
In Bette Gordon’s pioneering indie narrative about voyeurism from a female perspective, a young woman (Sandy McLeod) works as a ticket taker in a porn theater, and her curiosity leads her to shadow a male patron. This film features an unparalleled collaborative team of downtown artists from the early 1980s, including composer John Lurie, […]
This exhibition will present more than one hundred and fifty studio portraits of African Americans from the mid-twentieth century, part of an important recent acquisition by The Met. Produced by mostly unidentified makers, the photographs are a poignant, collective self portrait of the African American experience during the 1940s and 1950s—a time of war, middle-class […]
The gay social-networking site www.manhunt.com recently posted a blog about model Jonathan Nice, along with sexy pics. What was suppose to be just another pretty naked boy article, turned into a racist rant on the comment roll about how Manhunt should be a site just for White guys. One user named ‘Lance’ even went so […]
The Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition explores depictions of the dressed body across The Met’s vast collection, pairing garments with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.
Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art presents connections between garments from The Costume Institute and objects from the Museum’s other collecting areas. Pairings between […]
FRIDAYS
It’s double trouble when two NYC drag queen legends serve up shenanigans on the mic! Ruby Roo and Marti Gould Cummings host weekly at the iconic Pieces Bar in the West Village, with VJ OHRICKY.
Pieces Bar, 8 Christopher St, NYC, Free
image by JUAN DAVID FERRAZZO
