“I just hope that all of you that take antidepressants have taken them,” said Debbie Harry after she took the stage at Club Cumming last…
Photos: The Bright Side of a Washed-Out Governors Ball
Legitimately dangerous weather marred the last day of this year’s Governors Ball, overshadowing what was otherwise an awesome event. Friday was gorgeous and the late rain predicted for Saturday…
Lower East Side Film Festival Returns With Hanksy, ‘Mind F*cks,’ and More
Hot on the heels of the Brklyn Film Festival, which continues mostly in Williamsburg-Greenpoint through June 9, comes the Lower East Side film festival, across…
The ‘Shining’ Girls Showed Up to This Exhibit of Twins Photos
Fresh off his solo show Cactus Dreams last month, photographer Justin Aversano is back with Twin Flames, an exhibition of Polaroid and large-format-film prints of 100 pairs of twins. The…
Performance Picks: Patti Smith Drag, A Disappearing Band, and More
THURSDAY Queer as in Fuck You Presents Just KidsThursday, May 30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 10:30 pm: $10 Though technically Pride month doesn’t kick off…
Brooklyn’s Secret Party Boat Says ‘Save Our Ship’
The Schamonchi, aka the Bushwick Boat, might be one of Brooklyn’s best-kept secrets: a former 650-passenger ferry docked in Newtown Creek, tucked behind a lumber…
BAM Is Latest Arts Institution to Face Union Push
As has happened in media, white collar employees in arts institutions are rediscovering the power of organized labor, as efforts to unionize the Tenement Museum…
Art This Week: A Mexican Collaboration and the Perils of Cross-Border Travel
Occupational HazardsOpening Wednesday, May 29 at apexart, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through July 27. The central concept of apexart’s latest exhibition is…
Why Trans Drag King Lee VaLone Would Never Go On ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
Lela Graham shares a spacious two-bedroom prewar apartment with his partner Evan Dahm near Prospect Park. In theory, the couple shouldn’t lack for space and…
Performance Picks: Queer + Trans Stories, Violence in Nebraska
WEDNESDAY In Living Color!Weekly on Wednesdays at UpNorth, 9 pm: FREE There are so many drag shows in the city, they can be hard to…