You know Hoda was half-drunk Hoda and living for this!
Kylie was ThanksGIVING the gays what they wanted at the Macy’s Thanksgivign Day Parade yesterday, dressed up in shades of cranberry and her Kylie emblem looking like a Pagan star! (Time to go off, conspiracy Christian Yotuubers). Check out the full medley of Padam and CGYOOMH above!
HELLOOO, NURSE! It’s been a while since we’ve heard from NYC’s SATEEN! The band disbanded, and then they didn’t! Thank goddess.
Check out their spooky new video filled which sees the band with maxxed-out surgeries in a twisted hospital dreamscape after the jump!
The Continental Baths was a gay bathhouse in the basement of The Ansonia Hotel in New York City, which was operated from 1968 to 1976 by Steve Ostrow. It was advertised as reminiscent of “the glory of ancient Rome”.
Saturday evening performances attracted both an LGBTQ+ and straight audience with attendees fully dressed for a Saturday night adjacent to men clad in towels. Some attendees included Bob Fosse, Alfred Hitchcock, Mick Jagger, Rudolf Nureyev, Francesco Scavullo, Liz Smith, Valentino, and Andy Warhol.
Because of her memorable and adored performances at the baths, Bette Midler earned the nickname Bathhouse Betty! It was at the Continental, accompanied by pianist Barry Manilow, that she created her stage persona ‘The Divine Miss M’.
Now that we are living in the age of PrEP and Doxy, could we soon see a day when we return to wade in the pools free of stigma, socialize and see artists like Bette perform as they breakout?
Find her full set (and setlist) after the jump!
Self-awareness? Never heard of her. Unless… some of these folks just like the attention! Needless to say, the NYC underground is full of characters. Here are some eye-popping portraits of some wonderful looks! Check out a full gallery after the jump!
Tom Tom Club was an arty early 80s New York new wave band, originally a side project of Talking Heads, most famous now for the sample of their hit Genius of Love, in Mariah Carey‘s Fantasy.
Their video for As Above, So Below, from their 1981 debut album, was directed by Mary Lambert, who went on to direct most of Madonna‘s early videos (Borderline, Like a Virgin, Like A Prayer) as well as Janet Jackson‘s Nasty and Control.
You might know her best from the 1989 cult horror classic Pet Sematary.
Check out the video after the jump!
It will now remain a tale from history: The $1 pizza slice has been a known and celebrated part of the New York City food landscape for years, but now, thanks to inflation, its days appear to be numbered as 2 Bros. Pizza has raised the price of its dollar slice to $1.50! BROOOO, c’mon.
College kids who can afford to live in New York City because their parent’s pay their rent, will now have to shell out an extra 50 CENTS per slice.
“Inflation is affecting every single ingredient, every single item we use. Flour, cheese, tomatoes, gloves, paper goods, paper plates, napkins. Everything. Labor is definitely up, as well.”
Check out more on this devastating rude news, hot off the presses after the jump!
Painter Kyle Dunn opens a stunning new show, Night Pictures, on April 7 at PPOW Gallery in New York.
According to the gallery, in his new paintings:
Dunn collapses the studio, the home, and the city into a singular arena where the dramas of artistic production, interpersonal relationships, mediated connections, and metropolitan living are played out on an unnervingly surreal and darkly humorous stage.
Oh, the gay human condition of it all!
See more of his queer protagonists, “supple and seductive, yet at times dissociative and withdrawn”—sound familiar?—after the jump!