Richard Kern (born 1954 in North Carolina) is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time such as Lydia Lunch, […]

SUNDAY 7
The Good American

Meet Tom Weise, controversial co-founder of Rentboy.com and producer of the HustlaBall, and the family, friends, co-workers, partiers, and rentboys who live in his world. This insightful documentary profiles Tom, his home life, and his work in the sex industry, and follows his struggles with visa issues, relationships, and producing the first […]

Designer shite for cheap! 70% off clothing, shoes and accessories, including Kris Van Assche, Guliano Fujiwara, and Viktor & Rolf.
King Of Greene St, 72 Greene St bet Spring and Broome Sts, NYC, 212-302-5470, Daily 11am-7pm

SATURDAY 6
Housing Works Open Air Street Fair

The Fifth Annual Housing Works Open Air Street Fair! Cobblestoned Crosby Street between Prince and Houston in SoHo is closed to cars and thousands of donated books, records, and CDs will be sold for $1 a piece- including a silent auction for an 1869 copy of Victor Hugo’s The […]

FRIDAY 5

Amanda Palmer is best known as the screaming, tortured soul in vaudevillian punk group The Dresden Dolls. Now she’s singing solo on brilliant debut album Who Killed Amanda Palmer, produced by Ben Folds…don’t worry, all that dharmatic piano passion is still there! The Lisps open.

Highline Ballroom, 431 W 16th St bet Ninth and Tenth […]

WEDNESDAY 3

The Ballroom Scene has grown stale…
Legendary battles are a thing of the past…
The Scene as you know it, no longer exists…
Tonight a Phoenix will rise…
They will destroy the weak…
They will teach the scene “how it’s done”…
And a new era of ballroom battle cats and divas will emerge…
Will you be the Phoenix?
Will you be our […]