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On Hiatus

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Since I have been spending less and less time in New York City, trading it for often quite different environs, New Dork City is on hiatus for the time being. Hopefully, we’ll get picked up in a future season.
In the meantime, check out my new blog, featuring my musings as I shun reality and take [...]

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Burning Down the House: Paris Is Burning screening at Chelsea Clearview

Posted in Film, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Think you can work it, girl?! You ain’t seen nothin’ until you’ve seen these fabulous divas work the ball circuit runways in the cult favorite Paris Is Burning. Director Jennie Livingston delved into the 1991 NYC underground that brought us the infamous dance craze, voguing. The at once raw and exhilarating look at drag [...]

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Book ‘Em, Dan-o: Mid-Manhattan Library

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Just a brief shout-out to one of my favorite places in NYC, the Mid-Manhattan Library. The main lending library in the New York Public Library system is slated to sell by 2009. Problem is, the renovations to incorporate the library into the research library (the building abutting Bryant Park, of Ghostbuster’s fame) isn’t said to [...]

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BK Broiler: Brooklyn Restaurant Week March 24-31

Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Get tha hell outta Manhattan for some Brooklyn chow, yo! Starting Monday, the 24th, Dine in Brooklyn stuffs salivating pieholes with a $23.00 3-course prix fixe dinner. It’s the 5th anniversary of the event; this one the biggest ever! Over 175 restaurants throughout the borough are serving up sweet and savory edibles for you to [...]

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Drag Queen Puppet Bingo!

Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

You read correctly. Drag. Queen. Puppet. Bingo.
The mere stringing of those four words together supersedes anything I could possibly write, really. For a good — no GREAT — time, head to View Bar on Friday nights from 7:30-10pm for the most hilarious start to an evening a gal could ask for. No cover, [...]

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Walk Down to Electric Avenue: Electric Fountain

Posted in Art, Events, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

No reason to lament the loss of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree (especially because its departure thins out the tourists). The Electric Fountain is here! Indulging my primitive instinctual love of blinking lights, the fountain is composed of 3,390 LED bulbs and 576 feet of neon bulbs, coordinated to bubble up like the fanciest champagne [...]

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