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Icona Pop’s

Whirlwind Year

PLUS: ERASURE’S FIRST HOLIDAY ALBUM, THE HISTORY OF GRIFFIN SUNDAYS AND MORE!

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26 AN ICONIC YEAR MUSIC After a meteoric rise to fame, Icona Pop says “I Love It”to gay New York.

28 SILVER BELL MUSIC Andy Bell and Vince Clarke are back, this time with Erasure’s first ever holiday album.

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The Week in Photos Commentary: Keith Haring changed art forever, so why is there no contemporary gay Banksy? Getting Personal with dancer Tom Gold My Gay City: Sweetwater Commentary: Drag queens respond to our State of Drag issue. Gay DD Shot in the Dark

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Calendar of Events Spotlight: As Joe’s Pub celebrates 15 years, queer artists reflect on the downtown institution’s celebration of gay performance art. Nightlife: A look back at the three-plus year history of Griffin Sundays. Spotlight: The can’t-miss films of Mix Fest. When I Knew: Bret Shuford The Roundup: Where to sing your heart out at a gay karaoke night. Bars + Clubs Map

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The Right Track: What the fuck, Eminem? Outwords: Andrew Durbin on his new chapbook My World Tour. Reel Love Curtain Up Eats Double Take

ON THE COVER AND ON THIS PAGE: Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo of Icona Pop shot exclusively for Next Magazine by Santiago Felipe (SantiagoFelipe.com). Assistant: John Nickson, Makeup: Colby Smith, Hair: Ryan Austin at Valery Joseph Salon, Wigs: WigBar (WigBar.com), Stylist: Kyle Luu, Special Thanks: Highrise PR and Dune Studios

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Visit The Nexus on NextMagazine.com for your daily dose of gay gossip and party photos. BY LAWRENCE FERBER

TAG, YOU’re It! Banksy’s new york “residency” should inspire more queer street art.

ou’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed enigmatic U.K. street artist Banksy’s October New York residency of sorts he titled “Better Out Than In,” during which a new work appeared nearly daily in random spots throughout the boroughs (even Staten Island, though that one was just a video). Chronicled on his website, the works ranged from grafitti to sculptural installations. They also included—most magnanimously—a thrift store painting to which he added a Nazi, the $310Kplus auction which benefited HIV/AIDS charity Housing Works. (It was dropped off at the shop by a woman, anonymously.) You can even get a “Better Out Than In” souvenir T-shirt. Or at least, the street artist uploaded an image to his site that you are free to download and have printed on a shirt yourself if you’re willing to go that extra mile. The frenzy over Banksy’s cheeky New York occupation was exciting—and saw loads of attempted removals and sales. Heck, street art is exciting in general. And we aren’t seeing enough of it, frankly. Especially of the queer-themed variety. Actually, where are the homosexual Banksys, anyway? Some decades back, Keith Haring

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SALIVA @ THE RITZ Roxxy Brooks and last week’s cover girl Thorgy Thor celebrate the final night of the Our Lady of Saliva pageant at the Hell’s Kitchen bar. Terra Grenade walked away with the $500 grand prizet.

Overheard:

“These people look like men, real men… Do they like peanut butter? Do they like men? I don’t give a shit.” —Actor Nick Oﬀerman in his forward to Blake Little’s new photography book, Manifest

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Tom Gold

“The frenzy over Banksy’s cheeky New York occupation was exciting— and saw loads of attempted removals and sales. So where are the homosexual Banksys?” queer activist artists and collectives like Queer Nation and ACT UP. Yet there seems to be a dearth of this entertaining, thoughtful, snarky, political form of visual expression today, particularly from gay creators. Oh, and it’s worth noting that one of Banksy’s most iconic stencils is of two male British cops snogging, so it’s not like there’s not a market out there for queer street art. Over in California, a number of street artists, queer or queer-adjacent, are actively plastering their cities with clever, provocative and humorous gay work. San Francisco’s Jeremy Novy and Pixelstud, and Los Angeles’s Homo Riot are among those carrying the torch in recent years. Surely there are some New York locals ready to rise to the occasion with a stencil, poster, sculpture…anything that occupies public space, really. The surprise street art can impart—the moment of unexpected amusement, and the ideas, from whimsical to profound, to be shared—well, we need it. “Better Out Than In,” as the modern master of the form said himself. N

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DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER Tom Gold, former soloist with the New York City Ballet and founder of Tom Gold Dance, recently took his passion for the art form to a whole new level. A digital one. Partnering with 2wice Arts Foundation, Gold stars in the new iPad app Dot Dot Dot which features the dancer performing visually-striking routines at the swipe of a finger. “[Dot Dot Dot] is an interactive artistic app using technology to combine cinema, art, dance and music,” says Gold. “Apps are such a part of our lives and everyone around the world with a smart phone or iPad can have fingertip access to dance. I think that’s incredible.” The new app, now available in the iTunes store, sees Gold interacting with a number of minimalist environments through dance. But if you want to see him perform outside of an iPad, you can catch Tom Gold Dance at the Gerald LynchTheater this spring.

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tagged blank subway advertisement displays with squiggly illustrations. Happily, some of those were pried off and preserved—and a few of his randomly tagged items can now be seen in West Chelsea galleries. Today, the late Haring is an international icon of pop art. The ’80s saw loads of stickers, flyers and larger works put up around New York by

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Who’s your favorite designer? I do tend to wear a lot of Thom Browne but [my] all-time favorite would be Schiaparelli—innovative and [he] worked with so many artists. Then again, no one’s in a league with William Ivey Long—he makes legs sparkle. What’s your favorite New York restaurant? “The 21 Club, where the elite meet.” Remember Bette Davis?

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Bar Mitzvah . Kids and the whole mishpuchah high on sugar, Manishevitz and doing the hora. What app do you use most on your phone? Wirly Word. It’s a word game that makes me stop obsessing about work. What’s your go-to drink? Basil-infused gimlet. You’d have to ask my friend Judy for her secret recipe.

Who’s the most played artist on your iPod right now? Blossom Dearie How do you think dance can utilize technology more? In live dance I really like good projections, ones that add atmosphere and enhance the choreography and dancers. It might be cool to use some sort of glasses that distort the dancers like a kaleidoscope.

Sexy Scary:

A selection of the Halloween costumes we spotted around gay New York last week.

>>> MY GAY CITY SWEETWATER

PHOTO: SANTIAGO FELIPE

“HAVING ONLY LIVED HERE a few months, I’ve spent some time checking out bars and restaurants similar to the places I used to hang out in Pittsburgh, which often included a healthy mix of gross dive bars and bourgie cocktail lounges. I’m a big fan of craft cocktails that require ingredients and patience that I certainly don’t have, so Sweetwater (105 N Sixth St, Williamsburg, SweetwaterNY.com) was a perfect fit. It’s an immediately friendly place with laid-back bartenders and servers and a great music playlist coming from someone’s iPhone under the bar. It’s right across the street from This‘N That, which lends itself to the obvious decision to roll over there after a pleasant number of tequila hibiscus margarita things.“ —Christian Hendricks, 24year-old filmmaker residing in Bushwick

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Overheard:

“It’s like we all remember at the same time that this is our music and we say, ‘Oh, that’s right, we’re gay!’” —Lady Bunny at her new Sunday night disco party at The Monster

BY KAREEM MCJAGGER

state in review new york queens respond to our annual state of drag issue.

ast week’s State of Drag issue definitely got people talking, including many members of the drag communities featured. Several drag queens let us have it—be it praise or unfiltered criticism—on their social media channels. So I decided to reach out to a few of them to get their feedback. On the positive side, Thorgy Thor’s cover photo received an abundance of praise from fellow queens. Additionally, the queens featured in the State of Drag photo story “Glamour and Grit” received mostly favorable reviews from their peers as representatives of New York drag.“The girls all looked fab!” gushed Mocha Lite. Jada Valenciaga stated, “I loved every single queen in this issue. Every one of us brings something different to the table and everyone is unique…[Staff Photographer] Santiago Felipe did a great job of showing a range of different queens.” One issue that seemed to come up with many queens was the lack of editorial content focused on the queens from the“Glamour and Grit”photo essay. Coco De’Ball, who was honored to be featured along with the other performers, admitted, “I just wish there would have been a little more time taken to get to know each and every one of us because I think we all have more to show and tell than just our lovely faces!” Perhaps the most controversial piece was the “Tale of Two Scenes,” which addressed perceived differences between Brooklyn drag and Manhattan drag as well as the overlap between them. None of the performers I spoke to seemed to think much of the so-called divide between the two boroughs. “The only divide in the Brooklyn/Manhattan drag scene is the river,” declared Pusse Couture. “I don’t see a divide: I see different people’s art.” Lite tossed aside the idea of dividing the queens into location-based teams,

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BY JOHN RUSSELL

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Got Gay-tention Deficit Disorder? Did Ronan Farrow wear scary fake teeth when he dressed up as Eminem on The Ellen DeGeneres Show? Read on...

Bisexual singer-songwriter SIA admitted via a Twitter exchange with Next Magazine music columnist Keo Nozari that she feels anxious and powerless about collaborator Eminem’s use of anti-gay slurs, but insists the rapper is not actually homophobic.

Meanwhile, Eminem continues to insist—most recently to Rolling Stone— that “gay” doesn’t actually mean gay. You know, in a homosexual way.

Of course, FACEBOOK did just recently shut down some dude’s account for posting that he liked “faggots”— by which he meant the traditional British meatball dish.

According to new book Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the Obama administration was less than thrilled when Joe Biden endorsed marriage equality before the president.

The big-screen adaptation of ENDER’S GAME, written by homophobic sci-fi author Orson Scott Card, took in $28 million last weekend. Ugh.

Ellen DeGeneres was Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus was Lil’ Kim circa the 1999 VMAs for Halloween this year. Both avoided blackface.

Former Balenciaga creative director Nicolas Ghesquière has been tapped to replace Marc Jacobs as LouisVuitton’s artistic director of women’s collections.

Vice.com wants to know why The New York Times and Vanity Fair are both ignoring the fact that RONAN FARROW is gay in their profiles. Fearing its intent might be misinterpreted, Hallmark decided to replace the“gay apparel” lyric in “Deck the Halls” with“fun apparel”on its new hOLIDAY SWEATER ornament. How will we non-verbally come out to our relatives on Christmas now?

stating, “Every queen is their own team, and when it comes down to it, it’s about the art, not where you can afford to live.” Valenciaga compared the Brooklyn/Manhattan drag divide to the East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry of the ’90s: “Irrelevant. If you are good at what you do, no one cares where you come from or what you look like.” (Though, to be fair, the original piece finished on a note similar to much of the criticism: “Instead of talking about

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who’s doing what’s better or different, we should be celebrating that there [are] so many ways to express ourselves,” Alotta McGriddles said.) While most everyone seemed happy with the selection of queens featured, Kara Sucia humorously criticized the racial breakdown of the queens. “Why they ain’t no Ashuns der? Ain’t no Latinas?! Why it gotta be black and white? Is this a Michael Jackson single?” N

By The Numbers:

How successful was last week’s “Skip Ender’s Game” campaign started by New York’s Geeks Out! to protest writer Orson Scott Card’s homophobia? 11,851 Signatures on Boycott Petition $28 mil. Ender’s Game Box Oﬃce Take, Same as After Earth $110 mil. Cost to produce the film

HALLOWEEN @ THERAPY The Therapy bartenders add an extra hop to their step for the Hell’s Kitchen bar’s Halloween festivities.

HOLLYWEEN @ EVENTI Mike Ruiz (left, with “Jessica Rabbit”) hosts this Halloween fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center put on by Passport Magazine.

A DORADO @ THE LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART Performance artist Guillermo Riveros presents his onetime performance examining the concept of borders at the Soho musem dedicated to gay and lesbian art. NOVEMBER 8, 2013 9

THERAPY, EVENTI & THE LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART PHOTOS: GUSTAVO MONROY; THE WALDORF-ASTORIA PHOTO: ROBERT MCGEE

HULAWEEN IN THE BIG EASY @ THE WALDORF-ASTORIA Michael Kors and husband Lance LePere attend Bette Midler’s Annual Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria benfitting the New York Restoration Project.

the rockettes kick oﬀ the holiday season on november 13 with the return of the radio city christmas spectacular. But forget jolly ol’ saint nick, we know you’d rather sit on chris hemsworth’s lap—though you’ll probably have to settle for feasting your eyes on his physique when Thor: The Dark World premieres on november 8.

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PHOENIX FRIDAYS Phoenix, 447 E 13th St (btwn First/Second Ave), phoenixbarnyc.com. Michael Cohen and co. continue to pack the boys into this East Village stalwart every Friday night. Cute boys crowd the dance floor, so get there early, cause there’s always a line down the block for this party! 10pm; free.

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PENTHAUS FRIDAYS Copacabana, 268 W 47th St (@ Eighth Ave), boiparty.com. It’s always hot on Friday nights at the Copa. BoiParty’s Alan Picus and Justin Luke host a crowd of super cute 20-somethings tearing up the dance floor to Johnny Dynell’s mix of pop and dance at this legendary club. 11pm; free. GYM FRIDAY Gym Sportsbar, 167 Eighth Ave (btwn 18th/19th Sts), gymsportsbar.com. Friday night heats up at this usually laidback gay sports bar. $6 Skyy Vodka cocktails fuel this

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party with DJ Smokey spinning the main floor. Chill out down in the Locker Room with sexy bartender Kenny if the game gets too intense upstairs. 9pm; free. FRISKY FRIDAYS Posh, 405 W 51st St (@ Ninth Ave), poshbarnyc.com. Things get frisky at Posh on Friday nights and we wouldn’t have it any other way. DJ JRoc turns it up with his mix of pop faves and Top 40 hits. The music and the boys are as hot as the drinks are cool, so don’t miss a minute! 9pm; free. ELEVENELEVEN Open House, 244 E Houston (btwn Aves A/B), openhouse-nyc.com. It’s 11:11, make a wish. Ladyfag’s got what you need from a Friday night: good beats, good friends and a party that goes late. Special guest DJs join downstairs resident Michael Magnan to make the children move on the

dance floor. 11pm; free before midnight/$5 general admission. EASY Westside Tavern, 360 W 23rd St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves), westsidetavern.com. Like a smooth drink or a slutty boy, this party goes down easy. Join DJs Austin Downey, Brian Gately and Rich King along with host Edwin Ramoran for a tender night of dancing. 10pm; free before 11pm/$5 general admission. DARREN ANKENBAUER OPENING RECEPTION The Prince Street Project, 127-B Prince St (btwn Wooster St/W Broadway), leslielohman.org. You may know him as former porn pup and blogger Corey Koons, but Darren Ankenbauer’s beefcake inspired portrait photography is also something to see. Stop by to toast this new talent at tonight’s opening reception. 6pm–8pm; free.

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more than just a caBaret venue, for 15 years joe’s puB has given downtown’s queer performers the spotlight. Taylor Mac

n any given night at Joe’s Pub, according to the downtown venue’s director, Shanta Thake, you could potentially see a country act, an indie rock band, a cabaret performer or a comedy show—sometimes all in one night, with certain acts blurring the lines between those genres. In the past month alone, Joe’s Pub has hosted “desert rock” band Terakaft; singer-songwriter Josh Joplin; jazz ensemble Carte Blanche and Dr. Alex Schiller’s self-helpseminar-styled comedy show, Never Sleep Alone. As a project of The Public Theater, Thake says, Joe’s Pub takes its mission to reflect the diversity of the city very seriously.“It’s the bridge between all worlds: music, theater, performance art, traditional, avant-garde, established and emerging,” says playwright and performer Taylor Mac. Of course, as a NewYork venue, and particularly one situated on the edge of the East Village, a historical mecca for

Sandra Bernhard; (inset above) Justin Vivian Bond

avant-garde gay, lesbian, bi and trans performers, queer perspectives are essential to the mix of diverse entertainers who regularly grace the Pub’s stage. “First of all, I think the talent is completely undeniable,” saysThake.“The downtown queer theater performance-art community—there’s so much incredible work that’s happening, and it’s work that I’m particularly drawn to as a curator.” Joey Arias, Lady Rizo Raven O, BeBe Zahara Benet, Justin Vivian Bond,TaylorMac;these are just a few of the esteemed queer artists who perform regularly at Joe’s Pub. Gay pop acts like PatrickWolf and Bright Light Bright Light have played shows there, as have out comedians like John Roberts and Sandra Bernhard.“I love it; that’s why I keep coming back,” says Bernhard, whose annual New Year’s Eve shows have become a staple of the venue’s calendar. Arguably, many of the more established queer cabaret stars who have per-

formed at Joe’s Pub over the years made their names at the venue.“These performers have been performing around New York for such a long time and in incredible ways and creating amazing work,”Thake explains.“But I think a lot of the more underground or in-your-face work that’s more transgressive and progressive has had a hard time finding a stage that is respected or a space that feels like a professional atmosphere to perform in. And I think a huge part of what we’ve been able to do, just by virtue of who we are and our placement within the PublicTheater, is really being able to elevate these performances to the level that I think that they deserve and are rarely given.” Concurring with that sentiment, promoter Earl Dax says, “It confers a degree of legitimacy to emerging performers.”Dax credits the venue with providing him with some of his earliest opportunities as a curator and producer. “I’m so glad they let me come there and scare people when I was just starting out,”quips Justin Vivian Bond. Joe’s Pub also has the added benefit of not ghettoizing its performers. As a

mixed venue, it’s a place where a straight audience can see innovative queer performers. “Gathered around that postage stamp of a stage,” says cabaret artist and comedian Lady Rizo, “lovers of intimate, music-based performance art, alternative comedy or cabaret and the greater queer community overlap often in an important exchange of ideas.” Thake says she also hopes she and her team have created an environment in whichtheseexperimentalartistsfeelfreeto push their limits and even step out of their owncomfortzonesoccasionally,something Bernhard reiterates as well. “Joe’s Pub has createdaworkshopatmosphereforcreative artists,anintimate,warmsettingwherethe trulyedgycangetupandtaketheirjourney. No one is hanging over you or trying to set rules. It’s anarchy with structure.” Maybe Bridget Everett, who will perform a special 15th anniversary concert at the venue benefitting New York Voices this week, put it best: “Joe’s Pub is a place where you can drop your pants, motorboat a stranger and make a friend. No place like it. It’s my home away from home.”—John Russell

Joe’s Pub 15th Anniversary Concer at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St (@ Astor Pl), Nov 9 at 9pm; $75. Visit joespub.com for more info. VIVA! SATURDAYS Stage 48, 605 W 48th St (btwn 11th/12th Aves), stage48.com. Weekly guest DJs bring the beats to the boys at Viva! Saturdays. Ric Sena, John Blair and Beto Sutter join forces with the BoiParty crew for this epic party. 11pm; $15–$20. DOWNTOWN DEBBIE Lair, 201 Lafayette St (btwn Broome/Kenmare Sts), lairnyc.com.

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Michael Cohen lures the boys south of Houston for a wild night of dancing with special guest DJs and glamorous hosts each week. 10pm; free. SPANK: OPTICAL DELUSIONS Drom, 85 Ave A (btwn Fifth/Sixth Sts), spankartmag.com. DJs Sean B and Will Automagic give the East Village a good spanking. Underground dance music aficionados and art fags flock to these roving par-

ties to tear up the dance floor. 11pm; $9 in advance/$15 general admission. RIOT The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St (btwn Seventh Ave South/Waverly Pl), thestonewallinnnyc.com. Frostie Flakes hosts this monthly dance party benefitting Sylvia’s Place. DJ Executive Realness spins until the always-unhinged drag show at 11:30pm. 10pm; $5.

PHOTOS: KEVIN YATAROLA

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GRIFFIN AROUND PROMOTER BRIAN RAFFERTY HIGHLIGHTS THE MEMORABLE MOMENTS AND MILESTONES THAT HAVE MADE HIS SUNDAY PARTY SUCH A SUCCESS. little over three years ago, Brian Rafferty was just having fun guest-hosting parties while working on his master’s degree in medicine, and Shawn Paul Mazur was getting by as a bartender.Then they got the opportunity to co-produce their own event on Sunday evenings at the swanky Meatpacking District venue, The Griffin. “I’ll never forget the moment, 30 minutes into the opening party,”Rafferty says. “I walked into the manager’s office to grab something and the manager said to me, ‘What the hell Brian?’I looked up to see him looking at the security screen showing a line down the block and the venue at full capacity. It was at that moment that I knew things were about to change—a lot.” Even when it happened every week, Griffin was something to look forward to on Sunday nights. But since Rafferty and Mazur revamped the party as a monthly event, it feels even more rarified and special. With the latest edition coming up on November 10, we got Rafferty to revisit some of memorable moments from Griffin Sundays’three-year nightlife reign. —JR

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Honorable Columbus Returns Hiatus Discharge Day DUE TO Military Neon OVERWHELMING Party Glow DEMAND, THE PARTY Party THIS SUNDAY AT 7PM RETURNS AS A WITH DJ SAMMY JO! MONTHLY EVENT “Four years later this event is still kicking hard, and the boys—and girls—are still dancing on the couches!”

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The Blackout “[Our] collaboration with the Black Party to announce and promote our Balcony Party at the Black Party. We sold exclusive discount tickets for Black Party all throughout the party.”

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Pride Cinco de The Oscars Edition Mayo Viewing Party WITH GUEST Blacklight Party “For the first time ever at the Griffin, we sat on DJ CINDEL, the couches instead of dancing on them. We ANNOUNCED WITH GUEST turned this gorgeous five-million-dollar club AS THE FINAL DJ JONATHAN into a massive living room to watch the Oscars. GRIFFIN SUNDAY PETERS DJ Vito Fun DJ’d during commercials as our IN NEW YORK servers passed out cocktails, popcorn and champagne flutes of candy to our guests.”

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was gay bashed. One week later we threw a benefit for him and the Anti-Violence Project. MAC makeup artists came to put black eyes on guests of the party.”

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“Griffin Sundays returns with a vengeance. Same as the grand opening in September 2010, slam packed, line down the block, people dancing on everything.”

“The first Scruff Party ever in New York City, hosted by Johnny Scruff himself who flew in from Vegas with Scruff model/poster boy David La Flamme for the occasion.”

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“I threw Griffin Sundays in San Juan, [Puerto Rico] while Shawn threw Griffin Sundays in New York. DJ Nando, DJ Corey Craig, Greek bombshell performer Yianna, photographer Santiago Felipe and dancer Geronimo (above) all flew into San Juan to help us throw down for our first Griffin Sundays outside of New York ever.”

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2013 San Juan Edition OFFICIAL CLOSING PARTY OF WEPA PARTY WEEKEND AT THE TERRACE CLUB

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Hiatus Danish Pop Star Medina GRIFFIN SUNDAYS TAKES ITS PERFORMS HER ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FIRST HIATUS “One of our most controversial par- HITS“ADDICTION” “Shawn and I go ties to date. One of our close buds AND“YOU AND I” Gay Bash FUNDRAISER FOR THE ANTI- VILOENCE PROJECT

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Griffin Sundays at The Griffin, 50 Gansevoort St (btwn Ninth Ave/Washington St), Nov 10 from 7pm–1am; free. Visit raffertymazurevents.com for more info.

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10 THE BREAKFAST CLUB The Hudson Bond, 215 W 40th St (btwn Seventh/Eighth Aves), info@thehudsonbond.com. Chris Ryan and Holly Dae host Hudson Bond’s new brunch party where $30 gets you great eats and unlimited mimosas and Bellinis. DJ Nicky Boombox spins. 1pm– 4:30pm; $30 (includes an entree, and unlimited mimosas and Bellinis). PORN AGAIN 14 Therapy, 348 W 52nd St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves), therapy-nyc.com. Steady Mess and Millie Shayntwrite host this annual fundraiser for the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. With tons of smutty gay DVDs for sale at discount prices it’s the perfect opportunity to get a head start on your holiday shopping. Plus, “biggest dick in porn” Boomer Banks will be on hand to help with your selections! 2pm–5pm; $10.

Aventura want you to come all the way in—into Barracuda that is. DJ David Serrano spins as these luscious ladies perform for an adoring crowd. 11pm; free. GAY GEEK TRIVIA GATHERING LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St (btwn Seventh/Greenwich Aves), gaygeeksny.com. Gay Geeks of New York gather at The Center for their monthly trivia competition. Questions run the geeky gamut from comics, video games, sci-fi, fantasy and beyond. With prizes like video games and nerdy DVDs up for grabs, you’d better know your stuff! 5:30pm– 8:30pm; $5.

JUST THE TIP Barracuda, 275 W 22nd St (btwn Seventh/Eighth Aves), 212-645-8613. Forget the name of this party: Holly Dae and Pixie

OINK The Cock, 29 Second Ave (btwn First/Second Sts), thecockbar.com. The East Village’s most infamous gay bar is getting even dirtier than usual with all the little piggies. The Ones’ Nashom and special guest DJs handle the tunes while sexy barkeep William Merrell slings the drinks. 10pm; $10.

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crowd away as DJ Natsu pumps radio-ready pop. 11pm; free.

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DRAGGED OUT MONDAYS The Hangar, 115 Christopher St (btwn Hudson/Bleeker Sts), thehangarbarnyc.com. Mondays are a drag and Kendra Couture and Coco De’Ball are dragging them out even more. Expect shows, contests, special guests and more at this new weekly party. 10pm; free. BOB BLOWS UP! Barracuda, 275 W 22nd St (btwn Seventh/Eighth Aves), 212-645-8613. The drag artist formerly known as Kittin Withawhip blows up on Monday nights. Bob the Drag Queen—yeah, that’s her new name—blows the

KINK 2.0 Rockbar, 185 Christopher St (@ Wehawken St), rockbarnyc.com. Florida’s Mr. Ramrod 2013 winner Sir Kirk joins Mischief Matthew, Mr. Eagle 2013 Arsenio Amadis and their kinky crew starting tonight. All this month, catch BDSM demos from Mr. Ramrod, plus music courtesy of DJ A-Ron and $100 fetish gift bag raffles. 10pm; $3. BINGO MONDAYS Posh, 405 W 51st St (@ Ninth Ave), poshbarnyc.com. Here’s your chance

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12 18+

GAY COLLEGE TUESDAYS XL LICK OFF G Lounge, 225 W 19th St (btwn SevNightclub, 512 W 42nd St (btwn enth/Eighth Aves), glounge.com. The big, beefy 10th/11th Aves), xlnightclub.com. The boys at go-gos on the bar at G Lounge sure can take a Dougie Meyer and Steve Sidewalk’s popular col- lickin’. Holly Dae hosts this new party where the lege night may be young, but this party isn’t kids’ dancers tongue each other down to the sounds stuff. Barely legal campus cuties party hard to of DJ Scotty Rox. 10pm; free. pop hits at this 18+ party. For those of us old enough to inTHE PAIGE TURNER SHOW Xes, 157 W 24th St (btwn dulge, drinks are half price until Sixth/Seventh Aves), midnight. And don’t miss xesnyc.com. Paige Turner takes Dougie’s hot body contest! Visit nextmagazine.com the stage at Xes every Tuesday 10pm; cover varies. for more event listings night. Enjoy shot specials as the “Showbiz spitfire” presents WESTGAY Westway, 75 Clarkson St (btwn Washington St/West Side Hwy), games, drag performances and hilarious videos. westwaynyc.com. Tuesday is the new Satur- 10:30pm; free. day—and has been for a while now thanks to Frankie Sharp and co. This epic party situation BELTING WITH BOOTSIE Vlada, 331 W 51st features porn star go-gos, nightlife freakazoids St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves), vladabar.com. and frequent celebrity drop-ins. 10pm; $10. Hostesses Bootsie LeFaris and Hannah DeFlumeri

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WEEK BALLS TO THE WALL BINGO Pieces, 8 Christopher St (btwn Greenwich Ave/Gay St), piecesbar.com. Forget the church basement! Get your bingo fix at the corner of Christopher and Gay courtesy of Pieces. The hilarious Vodka Stinger hosts, pulling the balls and recapping the week’s crazy current events. Get your drink on with Liquid Brunch margaritas, mimosas and Bloody Marys for just $3 and Long Island Iced Teas for $5 until 8pm. 5pm–8pm; free. VANDAM Greenhouse, 150 Varick St (@ Vandam St), susannebartsch.com. New York nightlife’s fabulous freaks and fashion innovators stay out late on Sunday nights for Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny’s long-running party. DJ Johnny Dynell presides over a packed dance floor upstairs as iconic hosts like Amanda Lepore hold court. Downstairs, a new generation of club kids dance to underground disco and house courtesy of DJs like Michael Magnan and Will Automagic. 10pm; free.

to win back all the money you spent on booze this weekend! Ginger Snapt hosts Posh’s weekly bingo game show with DJ Calvin providing the tunes. Plus, don’t sweat it if you don’t win big, because shots are just $2 and there’s free pizza at 11pm. 9pm; free. SUIT & TIE The Townhouse, 236 E 58th St (btwn Second/Third Aves), townhouseny.com. As long as you’ve got your suit and tie you’ll fit right in at this dapper monthly mixer. Mingle with other well-dressed men over cocktails in a classic, old New York atmosphere. 7pm–11pm; free.

promise lots of live singing, dancing and debauchery at their Tuesday night show. Throw in some drinks courtesy of sexy barman Seph Stanek and we might just take them up on all that! 11pm; free. TWERK TUESDAY Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St (btwn Seventh Ave S/Bleecker St), bootsandsaddlenyc.com. Kiki Darlin, Detoxx Bústi-ae and Sir Honey Davenport get their twerk on every Tuesday night, and believe us, Miley has nothing on these bitches. Be there for the festivities! 10pm; free. SUPPER CLUB Pounds & Ounces, 160 Eighth Ave (@ 18th St), 646-449-8150, poundsandouncesnyc.com. Joey Israel presents oldschool supper club entertainment with the divine Bootsie LeFaris singing live jazz and standards. Call for dinner reservations. 9pm; free.

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MIX IT UP

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SPOTLIGHT

a totally suBjective list of must-see highlights from this year’s 26th annual new york lesBian and gay experimental film festival. Triumph of Pan

ix Fest, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival, kicks off this week, and with 20 different shorts programs taking place over the course of six days there’s a staggering number of films to see. We’ve hand selected the ones we think you’d be nuts to miss and figured out which shorts programs you can see them at. —JR

Bradley Manning Had Secrets

Shroom Trip Opera; (inset) Burn

Adam Butcher’s pixel-art animated short brings to life Chelsea Manning’s last online conversation before her arrest. SEE IT AT: OpeningNight,Nov12at8pm; ILikeQuietDarkPlaces,Nov15at6:15pm

Tom’s Gift Cult queer filmmaker Todd Verow and video artist Charles Lum collaborate on this “lust- letter” to the best glory holes in rural Maine. SEE IT AT: OpeningNight,Nov12at8pm; It’s Going to be a Humpy Night, Nov 16 at 10pm

Shift Filmmaker Juan Carlos Zaldivar and sculptor Anja Marais come together to tell the story of a strange character whose face is stolen by a wild dog in this visually stunning stop-motion short. SEE IT AT: OpeningNight,Nov12at8pm; Viscera, Nov 14 at 10:30pm

The Church of Feel Good Both an affectionate tribute to and tongue-in-cheek parody of ’80s self-help lifestyle films, The Church of Feel Good will teach you how to have a damn good time. SEE IT AT: Smorgasbord, Nov 13 at 6pm

“Love Bang” Get ready for full-on sensory overload in this brightly colored“sexperimental”music video about culture, history and modernization in Cambodia and Vietnam. SEE IT AT: Afro-Asian Visions, Nov 13 at 7:30pm

Love Bang

Shift

If There Be Thorns The works of V.C. Andrews,William S. Burroughs, Shirley Jackson and Stevie Nicks all figure into Michael Robinson’s atmospheric short. SEE IT AT: Last Dance, Nov 13 at 9:30pm

A Stom Sogo Tribute Mix pays tribute to the late Japanese moving-image artist with this shorts program, including Slow Death and other triple-X gems from Sogo’s career. SEE IT: Nov 14 at 9pm

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton The art and sexual adventures of poet and experimental filmmaker James Broughton are explored in this new documentary. SEE IT AT: UnionDocs, 322 Union Ave (btwn Maujer/Ten Eyck Sts), Williamsburg, Nov 15 at 7:30pm

Burn This shorts program brings the video work of London’s thriving queer cabaret scene to the U.S. SEE IT: Nov 15 at 9:30pm.

Hermes Bird Watch a flaccid penis harden in super slow motion in James Broughton’s 1979 experimental film. SEE IT AT: Viscera, Nov 14 at 10:30pm

Pigeon Hole

“High” Ssion frontman and mastermind Cody Critcheloe directed this surreally fabulous video for his band’s single“High.” SEE IT AT: GnosticTrance,Nov15at11pm

Pellerano’s performance art ritual exploring the sexual power of Pan. SEE IT AT: GnosticTrance,Nov15at11pm

Fire Island ’79 ToddVerow and Patrick McGuinn piece together this portrait of filmmaker Chase Hook from found super-8 footage and a recovered answering-machine tape. SEE IT AT: Cage in Search of Bird, Nov 16 at 4pm

Exotic Landlordism This newly discovered 1964 film from legendary queer experimental filmmaker Jack Smith gets its world premiere. SEE IT AT: Feed Your Head, Nov 16 at midnight

Shroom Trip Opera Call it ArtPOPera: downtown performance artist Joseph Keckler’s original Italian aria gets the psychedelic music video treatment. SEE IT AT: Feed Your Head, Nov 16 at midnight

Canadian filmmaker Mark Pariselli literally incinerates the categories gay men Triumph of Pan use to pigeonhole each other into body Daniel McKernan captures filmmaker, musician, occultist and Mix Fest curator Micki types like“bear,”“twink”and“otter.” SEE IT AT: I Like Quiet Dark Places, Nov 15 at Mix NYC at Mix Factory, 521 Third Ave (btwn 12th/13th Sts), Gowanus, Nov 12–17; free for 6:15pm those under 22 or living with HIV/$13–$20 general admission. Visit mixnyc.org for more info.

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13 LINDA SIMPSON BOOK RELEASE PARTY The Cock, 29 Second Ave (btwn First/Second Sts), thecockbar.com. Linda Simpson’s new book pays tribute to another gender-bending ’90s downtown fixture, Page, through portraits and snapshots. Celebrate the release of Pages tonight with video installations, photo slideshows, and of course, plenty of cocktails. 7pm–10pm; free. THE SHERRY VINE SHOW Industry, 355 W 52nd St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves),

industry-bar.com. Ever wonder what would happen if Weird Al Yankovic and a Vegas showgirl had a baby and it grew up to be a drag queen? Well, tonight’s your chance to find out when the incomparable Sherry Vine takes the stage. 11pm; free. SQUIRT The Hangar, 115 Christopher St (btwn Hudson/Bleeker Sts), thehangarbarnyc.com. Humpday is a breeze to get over at Reese Anthony and DJ Mando weekly party. Enjoy $4 well drinks and Buds along with music ranging from

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14

WEEK old school house to today’s classics while dirty go-gos dance for your singles. 9pm–2am; free. DIRTY DISCO WEDNESDAYS Fairytail Lounge, 500 W 48th St (@ 10th Ave), facebook.com/fairytaillounge. Joey Israel and DJ R.A.D. bring you a heaping helping of ’70s sleaze. It’s ’70s porn meets Fire Island with bathhouse diva vocals. Get down to disco classics and don’t miss weekly live performances by the Dirty Disco Dancers. 11pm; free.

WHEN I KNEW

BRETSHUFORD FOR CABARET ARTIST Bret Shuford, whose new show Charming: A Tale of An American Prince is coming toThe Duplex this week, it was a blonde 1980s singer that helped him realize he was gay. —Charming: A Tale of An American Price at The Duplex, 61 Christopher St (btwn Seventh Ave/Waverly Pl) Nov 11 and 14; 7:00pm; $15. Visit theduplex.com for more info.

“GROWING UP IN TEXAS with three brothers who were very much into sports told me something was off. When they were playing ball in the yard, I was color-coding the bushes with Christmas lights. If they were listening to country music, I was belting out Debbie Gibson. At the time I just liked it, I didn’t think it meant anything. Then I got to perform in the musical Gypsy at the local community theater. My brothers were some of the kids at the beginning of the show who are auditioning with Louise and June. I was one of the newsboys. Then, there was the young guy playing Tulsa! The scene where Louise is watching him as he sings ‘All I Need Is The Girl’was magical to me. I didn’t know if I wanted to be him or be with him. I’ll never forget the opening night party at the local Pizza Hut. I was 10, and I crawled on the floor behind the older teenage boy who had played Tulsa that night, popped up and kissed him on the cheek hoping no one saw me. I crawled away as fast as I could, then went home and sang, ‘I Get Lost in Your Eyes’on loop.”

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VIOLENT FEMMES Roseland Ballroom, 239 W 52nd St (btwn Broadway/Eighth Ave), joshwoodproductions.com. Über promoter Josh Wood brings one of his favorite bands, the legendary Violent Femmes, to Roseland Ballroom for a special one-night-only show. Best of all, tickets from the canceled Rumsey Playfield show will be honored. 10pm; $66. Q THURSDAYS Marquee, 289 10th Ave (btwn 26th/27th Sts), vossnyc.com. When Cher drops

NOVEMBER 14 by a party twice in the past six months, you know it’s the place to be. Join nightlife impresarios Susanne Bartsch and Brandon Voss as they kiki up a storm with BoiParty.com’s Alan Picus and Justin Luke. 11pm; $10 general admission/cover varies with RSVP. FALL FOR EQUALITY Sky Room, 330 W 40th St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves), skyroomnyc.com. Lambda Legal’s Young Professionalls Group hosts this gorgeous rooftop cocktail party. Enjoy drinks

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15 4 YEARS

ROCKBAR’S FOURTH ANNIVERSARY Rockbar, 185 Christopher St (@ Weehawken St), rockbarnyc.com. Rockbar has been rocking for four years and tonight the gay boys at the western-most frontier of Christopher Street are ready to celebrate. Get ready to dance as DJ Billy Pfeiffer spins the tracks that get the boys movin’ and groovin’. 9pm; free.

TOM BIANCHI BOOK SIGNING BGSQD, 83A Hester St (btwn Allen/Orchard Sts), bgsqd.com. Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines Po-

laroids, 1975–1983 documents the gay vacay mecca in its sexy, heady heyday. The acclaimed writer and photographer will be at BGSQD tonight to sign copies of his book and reminisce. 8pm– 11pm; free. JIZZ Metropolitan, 559 Lorimer St (btwn Metropolitan Ave/Devoe St), Williamsburg, metropolitanbarny.com. DJ Sparber’s monthly party takes over the Met once again with a nocturnal emission of house and hip-hop. The lineup of special guest DJs is always impressive, so be ready to dance til last call. 10pm; free.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16 18+

HABIBI Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St (btwn Bleecker/W Third Sts), habibinyc.com. This sexy dance party for Middle Eastern gays welcomes the next generation. Habibi is 18+ this time around, so the city’s hot young things can party it up as DJs IZ and Samy go head to head. 11pm; $15 before midnight/$20 general admission. THE CARRY NATION Steel Drums, 35 Beadel St (btwn Kingsland/Morgan Aves), Bushwick, facebook.com/thecarrynation. All the way from the U.K., special guests Hannah Holland and Josh

Caffe are gonna put a little extra bass in this warehouse party. Patrick Crough, Gage of the Boone and birthday boy Casey Kenyon host, and of course Carry Nation resident DJs Will Automagic and Nita Aviance will be there to heat up the dance floor. 10pm–5:30am; $5 before midnight/$7 general admission. HONEY 2: BEARS IN SPACE The Space, 50 N Third St (btwn Wythe/Kent Aves), Williamsburg, honeydanceparty.brownpapertickets.com. TheUrbanBear.com presents this warehouse dance party for bears, cubs, hairy hipsters, beefy

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17

carbs to soak up Saturday night’s excesses or indulge in a little hair-of-the-dog at Elmo’s weekly brunch. Guest DJs spin as the Chelsea boys get their chat and chow on. 2pm; free.

ROXY REUNION Copacabana, 268 W 47th St (@ Eighth Ave), twitch-productions.com. The Roxy may be a distant memory, but Twitch Productions’ Michael Theriault is keeping it alive at this extra special reunion party. Original Roxy DJs Johnny Dynell, James Andersen and Merritt take the turntables by storm, while dragster Celeda performs live. This one should definitely take you back! 10pm; $25 in advance/$30 general admission.

BOXERS BEER BLAST Boxers, 37 W 20th St (btwn Fifth/Sixth Aves), boxersnyc.com. Sundays are a blast with $15 Coors Light pitchers at the original Boxers. Drink up and play a few rounds of pool—it’s free all day long! 1pm–1am; free.

BOY BRUNCH Elmo, 153 Seventh Ave (btwn 19th/20th Sts), elmorestaurant.com. Load up on

SALACIOUS SUNDAYS The Monster, 80 Grove St (@ Seventh Ave), manhattan-mon-

WEEK and hors d’oeuvres and learn more about the amazing work Lambda Legal does to further LGBT and HIV equal rights. 7pm–9:30pm; $75. FINALLY Nowhere, 322 E 14th St (btwn First/Second Aves), nowherebarnyc.com. Gay New York’s favorite British pop import, Bright Light Bright Light, joins DJ Sean McMahill for a night of classic ’90s dance tracks and R&B jams. Yuengling and Bud Light drafts are just $2 all night at this monthly ’90s party. 10pm; free.

THE BUNKER Output, 74 Wythe Ave (@ N 12th St), Williamsburg, outputclub.com. The gays infiltrate The Bunker once again for a night of epic music and dancing. Wrecked DJs Ryan Smith and Ron Like Hell turn it up along with Kim Ann Foxman and Mike Servito. 10pm–6am; $15 in advance/$20 general admission. BASURA Atlas Social Club, 753 Ninth Ave (btwn 50th/51st Sts), atlassocialclub.com. Sammy Jo takes control of the tunes on Friday night. The Scissor Sisters’ DJ spins an eclectic mix of electro, disco and retro tracks. 10pm; free.

boys and bearded bros. DJ Bill Pfeiffer rocks the 5,000 square foot space as go-go bears flex their furry muscles. 10pm; $10 in advance/$15 general admission. MISSION Remix, 27 Park Pl (btwn Church St/Broadway), 917-274-7177. Mission is all about the Scorpios this week. Promoter Ren Farmer’s throwing a special Scorpio Masquerade at his weekly party for sexy gay brothers and their friends. Expect tons of masked men causing mischief. 11pm; $5 before midnight/general admission varies.

ster.com. Ultra Music’s DJ Ricardo has some scandalous fun planned. It’s never too late in the weekend for a little debauchery in the form of $5 drink specials and sexy go-go boys. As for the music, the name says it all: salacious! 10pm; free. UNTUCKED AND UNCENSORED The Ritz, 369 W 46th St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves), ritzbarandlounge.com. Hostess Marti Gould Cummings lets it all hang out at this uninhibited weekly gig. Miss Thang has got shows in store for you, hunty, yes! DJ Clayton Moore hits you with the beats. 11pm; free.

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WEEK

KARAOKE CITY THE ROUNDUP

from Britney to Broadway, Belt out your favorite tunes—or win the approval of the party’s host By singing their faves—at these gay karaoke nights.

Fairy-oke Fairytail Lounge, 500 W 48th St (@ 10th Ave), facebook.com/fairytaillounge, Mondays at 9pm; free. HOST BRENT HEUSER: “Look at Me Now” by Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes “I’m a giant corn-fed white boy that sings John Mayer to Broadway, so I live to shake the crowd up and speed-rap my face off.”

Manic Monday Karaoke Sugarland, 221 N Ninth St (btwn Driggs Ave/Roebling St), Williamsburg, sugarlandnightclub.com, Mondays at 10pm; free. HOST DAN PAUL: “I Will Always Love You” “I always sing the Whitney Houston version. That’s my goto. If I want to impress somebody, that’s the song that I sing.”

Karaoke Tuesday Pieces, 8 Christopher St (btwn Greenwich Ave/Gay St), piecesbar.com, Tuesdays at 8:30pm; free.

Karaoke Kraziness Bamboo 52, 344 W 52nd St (btwn Eighth/Ninth Aves), bamboo52nyc.com, Tuesdays at 9:30pm–2am; free.

Queeraoke Metropolitan, 559 Lorimer St (btwn Metropolitan Ave/Devoe St), metropolitanbarny.com, Tuesdays at 10:00pm; free.

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St (btwn Seventh Ave S/Bleecker St), bootsandsaddlenyc.com, Wednesdays at 8pm; free. HOST VICTORIA CHASE: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” “It’s a powerful song and every person—gay,straight,bi,man or woman—has had a painful breakup and can identify.”

Rockbar-eokee Rockbar, 185 Christopher St (@ Weehawken St), rockbarnyc.com, Thursdays at 8pm; free.

Center Stage Karaoke Elixir Lounge, 43-03 Broadway (btwn 43rd/44th Sts), Astoria, elixirloungenyc.com, Thursdays at 10pm; free. HOST MARTI GOULD CUMMINGS: “Proud Mary” by Tina Turner “Everyone knows and loves it. It’s agreatsongtogetthecrowd pumped up and clapping.”

Karaoke Fridays The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St (btwn Seventh Ave S/Waverly Pl), thestonewallinnnyc.com, Fridays from 6pm–10pm; free.

Karaoke All Stars Club Evolution, 76-19 Roosevelt Ave (@ 77th St), Jackson Heights, eclubnyc.com, Fridays at 11pm, free.

Humpday Karaoke

Truth or Dare Karaoke

Xes, 157 W 24th St (btwn Sixth/Seventh Aves), xesnyc.com, Wednesdays at 9:00pm; free.

Xes, 157 W 24th St (btwn Sixth/Seventh Aves), xesnyc.com, Sundays at 10pm; free.

HOST NICHOLAS PARK: “Somebody to Love” by Queen “I have a rendition on my phone thatIchoppedupandIhavefound ways to mash it with some Broadway tunes. It’s a blast and always seems to be a crowd pleaser!”

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Karaoke with Victoria Chase Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St (btwn Seventh Ave S/Bleecker St), bootsandsaddlenyc.com, Sundays at 8pm; free.

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SECRET

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656 Ninth Ave

9TH AVENUE SALOON

642 10th Ave

BAR-TINI ULTRA LOUNGE

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THE RITZ

753 Ninth Ave

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XES

ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB

742 Ninth Ave

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VLADA 331 W 51st St

POSH

405 W 51st St

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793 Ninth Ave

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XL NIGHTCLUB

401 W 47th St

BARRAGE

697 10th Ave

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500 W 48th St

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LE BOY 104 Dyckman St

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992 Amsterdam Ave

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AFTER GETTING EVERY GAY ON THE DANCE FLOOR WITH THEIR DEBUT SINGLE “I LOVE IT,” THE LADIES OF ICONA POP HAVE FINISHED THEIR FIRST HEADLINING TOUR, RELEASED THEIR SECOND STUDIO ALBUM AND SHOW NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN.

year ago this week, the synth-heavy music of Swedish duo Icona Pop—a.k.a. Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo—was just landing stateside. Best known for their now-platinum mega-hit “I Love It,” Icona Pop’s selftitled debut album dropped on November 14, 2012, and its lead single—a pre-album release— was already on every in-the-know gay’s iPod. When I spoke to them in early September 2012, they had just moved to New York, were about to release their first E.P., The Iconic, and had been tooling around town for their second Fashion Week. Excited at the success they’d seen at that point—they called it “‘I Love It’ chaos” at the time—they were ready to revel in their abruptly found fame. They had no idea what was about to happen to them. Two days after talking to Hjelt and Jawo, I saw them perform a short set at Santos Party House. Icona Pop hadn’t been released yet, and aside from “I Love It,” it was obvious that only a small handful of people there knew any of their music. They were literally just two girls standing behind tiny DJ tables, jumping around and singing. But even if they were only turning a few knobs, singing their Swedish hearts out, the girls had an unmistakable presence—and some fierce outfits.

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WE GOT THE WORLD Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt of Icona Pop in New York

Of course, they’ve never really tried to conform to whatever the norm is for pop music these days anyway. “I think it’s very clear we’re keeping to fuck-it mode and then we can do whatever we want and call it pop,” Hjelt told me before the Santos show. “We have our soul in all of our songs.” Fast forward a year and I’m standing in a sold-out crowd at Music Hall of Williamsburg. To my left, there’s a curly haired hipster with blue glitter strewn across his face feverishly dancing with his made-up-and-muscleshirted friend to “All Night,” the video for which solidified Icona Pop’s commitment to gay New York—and the ball scene in particular. (And an Absolut Tune commercial partnership, but that’s another story.) This time around, they’ve got the same stage presence—and the same penchant for fab fashion—but their set is much longer, the stage is much larger and their confidence even higher than before. Their onstage productions are something they tell me they’ve had a strong hand in designing. “This tour gave us an opportunity to finally do it our way and do it the way that we wanted,” Hjelt tells me in her slightly accented English. “When it comes to the production, the lights, the stuff that we built to get it right—our little spaceship that we have onstage—we wanted to bring people into our little world for an hour.” The girls are sweet, too polite even. Up close, their youth— Jawo is a young-looking 27 and Hjelt just turned 26 on November 8—shines. They have a quiet energy about them that seems to turn up to 11 when they get onstage. Though critics will point out that the massive success of “I Love It” is likely in large part due to the fact that up-and-coming pop scribe and performer Charlie XCX co-wrote it, the girls insist that their other songs are absolutely theirs. “We’ve been writing for four and a half years,” Hjelt states unequivocally. They say that the difficulty in writing isn’t coming up with new ideas, but actually finishing the ones they’ve already started. “It’s very easy to start a song, but to end it, it’s…” Jawo trails off. “It’s very boring because it’s so much more fun to start a new one,” Hjelt interjects. Even a year ago, when Hjelt and Jawo were just starting to see signs of major success, they felt they’d come a long way. At the time they were about to leave New York for Los Angeles to finish recording some of their second album, This is…Icona Pop. They left for their tour, but suddenly had to postpone a large portion of their West Coast dates. “I got really sick. I went to the hospital,” Jawo recalls. “I’m fine now. But it’s been a long way.” Jawo’s illness raised questions about the sustainability of their meteoric rise. Could they keep up the pace? Would they ever reach the level of success of their first hit again? “There will never be another ‘I Love It,’” Hjelt says. “So, we’re not even trying to make another ‘I Love It.’” But they say they’re glad they found success the way that they did. “We just try to see it more as a song that opened so many doors for us,” she says. And she’s right. The insane success of “I Love It” has meant bigger budgets, corporate money (they’re currently signed to Atlantic Records) and an enormous PR engine pushing their other work. “I mean, we didn’t start Icona Pop to make one song and then disappear,” Hjelt notes. Jawo adds, “I know that as long as you think that the things you are doing are good and you are proud of it, then that’s the thing that counts in the end.” Cut back to the Music Hall show and their lasting success is apparent. Almost everyone in the crowd knows all of the words to every single one of their songs. One girl near me cries throughout the entire show. Everyone is dancing. “We have so many songs that I think are absolutely as good as ‘I Love It’; they’re just different,” Hjelt says. “And this is just a start. I’m not even worried. I’m just excited.” N This is…Icona Pop is available now. Visit IconaPop.com for more info.

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ERASURE RETURNS WITh ThEIR FIRST hOLIDAY ALBUM, SNOW GLOBE.

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RUE ELECTRO-POP ROYALTY, the two-man band erasure—whose debut single, “who needs love like that,” will celebrate its 30th birthday in 2015—is spreading a certain holiday mood with its latest album, Snow Globe (mute), which hits november 11. do note, however, that words like “festive” and “cheer” are conspicuously missing from that sentence, since both synth whiz vince clarke and openly gay vocalist andy Bell feel that christmas isn’t necessarily the happiest, brightest time of the year. in fact, for them, it can be a bit dark. “to me, i think it depends on where you’re at,” says Bell via telephone from his london home, “because i had quite a few christmases where, especially when my previous partner [paul hickey, who passed away in 2011] was really ill, i hate that feeling of when you have to be somewhere. you don’t want to, but have to.” Bell says he likes to keep his schedule free—be a little self-indulgent even—over the holidays. “at the same time you do have to think of other people. it sounds terrible.” not that Snow Globe, which entails both cover versions of classic holiday tunes and all-new original ditties, is downbeat. clarke’s electronic beats and melodies are as poppy and synthalicious as ever, and Bell’s dynamic, layered harmonies are like a tasty lady m crêpe cake. But there’s a restraint compared to previous outings, and an atmosphere that Bell describes as being “like a black and white movie in some ways.” “it’s really quiet and i think the song ‘silver Bells’ at the end really reminds me of the film It’s A Wonderful Life,” he adds. in addition to “silver Bells,” erasure put a synth-laden touch on “silent night,” “white christmas,” and traditional latin carol “gaudete,” the incredible stop-motion animated video for which is currently online (crafted by animators from Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas).

Barely two years have passed since clarke, who resides and has a recording studio in Brooklyn, and Bell released their 14th full-length studio album, 2011’s Tomorrow World. during the time between albums, Bell worked on his third solo outing, which he anticipates will hit next year. he says that, after several solo breaks, falling back into erasure mode has become routine at this point. “we always get nervous before we meet again, me and vince,” he admits. “it’s like meeting your ex-wife or something and once we’ve been together for a half-hour it’s fine again and back to normal. all the solo stuff is still ongoing and hopefully some time next year more will come out.” as for whether there was any noticeable change in technique or mood while recording this first holiday album—as opposed to their previous efforts—Bell says no. although there were some monks involved. sort of. “i recorded the vocals in london and it just so happened that next door there were two real monks from italy making a christmas record as well,” he recalls. “they were wearing brown robes and everything. But the pressure was much less so [recording the cover versions] than when you do all-original songs.” in fact, the band has routinely reimagined classic tunes in synth-driven fashion, notably with 1992’s abba

law there is repealed. “i really don’t mind christmas,” he notes when asked if he ever gets grinch-y. “i just don’t like the pressure it puts on parents with all the ads on tv, but i especially love the parades, glitter and dressing up!” that said, would he ever want to dress down and sauce it up like miley cyrus did at the vmas? after all, Bell can get quite flamboyant during performances, even if not as overtly sexual as twerking against robin thicke’s crotch. “well, maybe,” he muses. “i feel like i might be a bit of a frustrated porno star! so if i was younger i probably might be tempted to go off and do something like that, but i’m glad we came out when we did because it was a very different climate [in the ’80s and ’90s],” he continues. “there’s a huge amount of pressure on young people to become sexualized now.” N snow globe is available everywhere November 11. Visit ErasureInfo.com for more info.

“We always get nervous before we meet again, me and Vince. It’s like meeting your ex-wife or something and once we’ve been together for a half-hour it’s fine again and back to normal." cover ep, Abba-Esque, 2003’s Other People’s Songs and a take on “ave maria” (from 2003’s Solsbury Hill u.s. maxi single release) that Bell says was inspired by the version on Barbra streisand’s 1967 holiday album. as for Snow Globe’s original tunes, hans christian andersen’s tale of “the steadfast tin soldier” served as inspiration for the song “Blood on the snow.” “a sad christmas story,” Bell acknowledges. “it’s beautiful though!” life has been pretty cheery for Bell of late, though. in january, he and american boyfriend stephen moss were joined in a civil union (moss lives in florida, and Bell splits his time between continents), and they hope to enjoy a full-on legal u.s. marriage in florida—where the state constitution’s amendment 2 currently forbids and refuses to recognize same-sex unions—once the

ELECTRO LIGHT ORCHESTRA Erasure’s Andy Bell and Vince Clarke

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“Little gay-looking boy / So-gayI-can-barely-say-it-with-astraight-face-looking boy (haha!) / You witnessing-massacre-likeyou-watching-a-church-gathering-taking-place-looking boy / ‘Oy vey, that boy’s gay,’-that’s-allthey-say-looking-boy / You-takea-thumbs-up-pat-on-the-backthe-way-you-go-from-yourlabel-every-day-looking boy.” —Eminem, “Rap God”

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“Break a motherfucker’s table over the back of a couple faggots and crack it in half.” —Eminem arlier last month, with a collective “ugh, this again?” Eminem released his new single “Rap God.” In 2013, there is absolutely no excuse for homophobic language in popular music. None. Ever. But unfortunately, as Eminem’s new track shows, not everyone in the music industry agrees. Yes, we’re looking at you Universal Music. And somehow people are actually praising Slim Shady’s new track. If a mainstream artist or pop culture figure made disparaging remarks about any other minority, it would be an outrage. Paula Deen makes a comment about African-Americans and her career spirals down the drain like old butter washed from a greasy pan. Eminem makes a rap song with violent hate comments about gays and it is gleefully hailed “divine” by Time Magazine and raved about by Rolling Stone and MTV News. What the hell, guys? It’s not just straight critics or audiences who are praising this song. What’s sad is that gays also praise Eminem. They use some tired excuses, too. They usually say something similar to Elton John’s reasoning for performing with him at the 2001 Grammys (after Eminem first came under fire for his homophobia)—that he should be allowed to protect his artistic expression. These Eminem backing gays somehow believe that he doesn’t really hate gays. Or some other lame-ass, idiotic, misguided excuse. It’s as though they can’t help it because he does a duet with Rihanna and she slays them (let’s not even get started on Rihanna’s other poor personal decisions and mindboggling duet partner choices). Eminem’s violently homophobic lyrics should not be over-

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looked or deemed excusable. We’ve made significant strides since he first gained popularity in the late ’90s, but the reality of what happens to LGBT youth hasn’t changed: the CDC reports eight out of 10 gay students are verbally harassed in school and one in five have been a victim of physical assault. Then there are the suicides: gays are two to three times more likely to commit suicide than other teens. We were under the impression that regardless of whatever “artistic license” rappers are given, that they’d gotten the point: homophobic rap lyrics lead to real-life homophobia. Since Eminem went into his pseudo-retirement, we’ve seen gays gain an affirming amount of visibility in the oncenotoriously homophobic rap community. Beyond openly bisexual Frank Ocean, we witnessed enlightened straight acts like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis release their stunning, LGBTaffirming “Same Love.” They took a positive stand and garnered millions of fans in the process. They not only exhibit far greater talent and sensitivity, they also clearly illustrate the generational divide. Younger artists are far more likely to be in touch with the lives and feelings of their gay brothers and sisters. All of this is not even to mention the fact that Eminem’s tracks are completely devoid of a single original musical idea. His raps are tired and sound like they’ve been pulled out of a time capsule from 1999. He’s become a copy-and-paste artist worse than Flo Rida. Oh, and the concept of “Monster,” his new single with Rihanna? It’s so four years ago. How many more songs are going to talk about monsters? Lady Gaga wore it out in 2009, people! Eminem’s brand of homophobia is so decidedly outdated, someone needs to put him out to pasture where he belongs. He’s no “Rap God.” He’s more like Anne Coulter’s Godless. N

Andrew Durbin

Outwords By Jameson Fitzpatrick

Andrew Durbin’s My World Tour hough Andrew Durbin has in person sometimes struck me as a drolly laconic type, as a poet he’s one who loves to hear himself talk—or, more accurately, think. And this isn’t a condemnation; rather, the pleasure and challenge of his poems arise from the glimpse he offers readers into the unusual, intricate and excessive inner workings of his mind. Aptly enough, Durbin speaks directly to this point when I ask about his process: “In the great tradition of New York writers, I like to talk. I like to turn that talking into writing. And what I talk about the most is what I read about online and it just happens that most of what I read about, talk about, think about is what most of the United States reads about, talks about, and thinks about.” His new chapbook Believers (Poor Claudia) puts his imaginative gymnastics on full—and fine—display in a series of long, monologue-like poems invoking some of the most beloved and hated figures from pop culture. Whether the book’s speaker finds himself on a plane contemplating Justin Bieber’s “sliming” at the Kids Choice Awards as a sort of neon cum baptism (“Smile on a Jet”), or re-envisioning an Oprah interview with Paula Deen as a full-scale Lacanian analysis (“Sighing from Above”), the absurdity of these loosely ekphrastic poems is intelligent, often funny, even tender. “Sighing from Above,” with its Paula Deen and Guy Fieri cameos, truly centers on the speaker’s troubled relationship with a Tamagotchi angel. Just before “dying,” the Tamagotchi delivers a soliloquy, beginning “The difference between us is I can reboot whereas you cannot…” and followed by a litany of recycled language from spam emails—heartbreaking in its explicit inhumanity. Durbin’s “talky” tone, pop culture references and engagement with the art world all place him solidly in the tradition of the New York School poets, many of whom also are or were gay. When I inquire about their influence, however, I can’t (as is often the case with Durbin) tell how much of his response is tongue-in-cheek: “All of my work is an effort to reconstruct John Ashbery’s Three Poems by other means. In terms of my sex life, I think I’m closer to Frank O’Hara.”

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When he went on to cite Eileen Myles’ The Importance of Being Iceland as “central to my understanding of critical writing’s possibilities,” I felt certain that was meant seriously, but his statement on his work’s relationship to camp reinforced my instinct to question just when he means what he says: “I’m campy insofar as it allows me to be sincere and vice versa.” Then, when I asked what—with a chapbook called Believers— he believed in, I once again got a flash of the wry reticence with which I’ve always associated Andrew Durbin. His answer was short: “Andy Warhol.” N Andrew Durbin (contrarily) recommends: “Who reads books? Check out Brian Droitcour’s blog, Lonely Christopher’s YouTube account and Alex Da Corte’s Instagram.”

Bookmark obert Siek’s Purpose and Devil Piss (Sibling Rivalry Press) chronicles a decade in the life of the Brooklyn-based poet, with poems that wittily and insightfully capture the queer quotidian: gym culture, dentist appointments, menial jobs and, naturally, plenty of sex. Siek’s diaristic tone (and his ability to make light of his darker subject matter) makes for an inviting and appealing debut. Before (or after) seeing the much-buzzed-about steamy lesbian film adaptation, be sure to check out the original Blue is the Warmest Color (Arsenal Pulp Press), a graphic novel by French author/illustrator Julie Maroh. Critically acclaimed when it was first published in France, the English translation is now available in paperback. Fashion lovers rejoice! In conjunction with the exhibit at the Museum at FIT, Yale University Press has now released A Queer History of Fashion: From Closet to Catwalk, edited by Valerie Steele. With contributions by some of the most respected minds in queer and fashion scholarship today—as well as 100 color illustrations—A Queer History is both an intellectually rigorous read and a beautiful object destined for New York City coffee tables. N

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Time Investment: 120 min. Return on Investment: 75 min. ow do you top a movie about the end of the world? Very loudly, according to Marvel. The comics powerhouse is starting to show fatigue with their latest superhero epic, Thor: The Dark World (Disney). Much like May’s record-setting Iron Man 3, TDW picks up after The Avengers with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) putting things back together on his home planet of Asgard. All looks like it will be ok until an ancient elf arises to seek revenge—and kill some main characters. I could attempt to explain the plot in more detail, but I’m exhausted by the thought of it. Thor has always made for an interesting comicbook with its mix of science-fiction and real Norse mythology (something that most likely attracted original Thor auteur Kenneth Branagh, who is replaced here by Game of Thrones director Alan Taylor). But in TDW, we get a few more genres to deal with: fantasy epic, period drama, war film, revenge flick, hell, even romantic comedy. It’s as if Marvel is so at a loss for how to top The Avengers (the highest grossing film of all time) that they decided to throw anything and everything into the script. Despite its many great elements—beautiful period costumes, elaborate old-world sets, mostly coherent Star Wars-like action sequences, visually-arresting pseudo science, Hemsworth’s smile—this approach creates a convoluted, crowded and exhausting movie. And good luck trying to savor the moment. Marvel’s already on to its next sequel. —Benjamin Solomon

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n 2009, Alex Gibney got unprecedented access to film the Tour de France comeback of cycling icon and sports hero Lance Armstrong. Despite having won the French race seven times since 1999—and all after recovering from testicular cancer—Armstrong had come out of retirement to silence rumors he had used performance-enhancing drugs to win. Armstrong placed third that year and Gibney’s film lacked an ending—that is until Armstrong told Oprah last May that he had, after all, doped during every single one of his Tour victories. Following the Oprah Winfrey interview, Armstrong sat down with Gibney one last time and, together with the interviews of Armstrong’s former teammate’s and the original footage from the 2009 Tour, Gibney constructed The Arm-

strong Lie (Sony Pictures Classics), a revealing look at the cyclist’s decade of deception. Lie is Gibney’s personal attempt to understand why Armstrong did what he did. He explores the widespread drug culture of the Tour (almost all of Armstrong’s rivals were busted, too) and the lengths Armstrong went to hold onto his Livestrong empire. Gibney inserts himself into the doc in a much bigger way than he has in previous films—like the Academy Award-winning Taxi to the Dark Side—as a way to both humanize and vilify out of Armstrong. Gibney isn’t just an observer; he too was duped by this man, a man he believed in and trusted. For the once-conflicted filmmaker, it is possible for the cyclist to be a great man—and he leaves no doubts about Armstrong’s talents, his ability to inspire, and his charity—but he makes his feelings about Armstrong clear: in Gibney’s eyes, he’s a very, very bad man. —BS

DOPE FIEND lance armstrong in The Armstrong Lie

norbert leo Butz, Zachary unger & sarrah strimel in Big Fish; (inset) debra jo rupp in Becoming Dr. Ruth

BIG FISH PHOTO: PAUL KOLNIK; BECOMING DR. RUTH PHOTO: CAROL ROSEGG

Curtain Up Big Fish Juno and the Paycock

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Luce The Landing Becoming Dr. Ruth By David Hurst ased on Daniel Wallace’s 1998 novel and Tim Burton’s 2003 film adaptation, the musical incarnation of Big Fish is an utter delight from start to finish. Now, did Big Fish cry out to be turned into a big, splashy Broadway musical? No. But, to be sure, far stranger vehicles have been musicalized with phenomenal success. (Sweeney Todd, anyone?) And now that director and choreographer Susan Stroman, composer Andrew Lippa and book writer John August have set it to music, audiences should evaluate its merits free of comparisons to its source material. To that end, Big Fish is a sweet, charming, big-hearted tale of fathers and sons, filled with vibrant production numbers and a lush, melodic score that allows its talented cast to shine. That cast, including Bobby Steggert, Zachary Unger, Krystal Joy Brown and Kate Baldwin, are all superb, but they’re all supporting players to the phenomenal star turn of Norbert Leo Butz in the central role of Edward Bloom. It would be nice to report the Irish Rep’s revival of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock is wonderful, but alas, it’s merely serviceable. Though J. Smith-Cameron and Ciarán O’Reilly lead a competent cast as Juno and Jack Boyle, respectively, this production about a down-on-their-luck Irish family in 1922 Dublin never grabs your heart the way it could. Smith-Cameron never seems entirely comfortable in this period drama and O’Reilly

doesn’t own the stage the way he should. Mary Mallen fares best as their daughter, while Ed Malone’s emotionally unleashed performance as their son comes across as overwrought. Promising playwright JC Lee’s Luce turns the tables on a wealthy white couple with an adopted son from the Congo when, 10 years later as a 17-year-old high school senior, the couple realize their son may not be the person they think he is. Luce receives a top-notch production with an excellent cast, but its ending falls flat when Lee fails to confront the issue at hand. Sometimes, ambiguity just doesn’t work. The Landing, a head-scratcher of a trio of one-act musicals that have nothing to do with each other, is a chore to sit through despite a talented cast that includes David Hyde Pierce, Julia Murney and Paul Anthony Stewart. It’s not awful, but it’s not good either. That’s doubly a shame since the music is by John Kander in his first outing with book-and-lyric writer Greg Pierce, who wrote the recent Slowgirl at LCT3 (and who is David Hyde Pierce’s nephew). Comprised of Andra, The Brick and The Landing, this triumvirate of banality should never have been put together in a program, and somebody at the Vineyard needs to do some serious soul-searching over it. The Barrington Stage Company’s production of Mark St. Germain’s Becoming Dr. Ruth has transferred to New York chiefly on the presence of the talented Debra Jo Rupp, who’s both heartbreaking and hilarious in the title role though she’s not nearly as short as the real Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Best known for her work in That ’70s Show, Rupp is a savvy actress who totally inhabits the character with just the right amount of humor and zest for life. Regaling us with Dr. Ruth’s fascinating and unbelievable life, Rupp is terrific. N Big Fish plays through March 9 at the Neil Simon (250 W 52nd St, BigFishTheMusical.com). Juno and the Paycock plays through December 8 at the Irish Rep (132 W 22nd St, IrishRep.org). Luce plays through November 17 at LCT3’s Claire Tow (150 W 65th St, lct3.org). The Landing plays through November 24 at the Vineyard (108 E 15th St, VineyardTheatre.org). Becoming Dr. Ruth plays through January 12 at the Westside Theater Upstairs (407 W 43rd St, BecomingDoctorRuth.com).

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The Russian Tea Room

Joe Allen

Let’s Go to the Movies! Shhh! The movie’s starting as we pull some of our favorite food-centric films into focus.

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By Peter Sherwood lthough some of the following restaurants may have undergone changes over the years, the cinematic memories linger on. The Russian Tea Room (150 W 57th St, 212-581-7100, RussianTeaRoomNYC.com) played an important part in Tootsie when Dustin Hoffman came in as Dorothy Michaels and “came out” to his agent, played by Sydney Pollack. Should you not wish anything as drag-tastic as that, try trios of caviar, buckwheat blinis and gorgeous crème fraîche. Waiters in handsome Russian military jackets prepare the caviar at the table: smooth and slightly fruity Imperia vodka mingles marvelously with pinkish pearls of Wild Alaskan salmon roe that taste of cold shores; paddlefish roe is a sensual, dark green color. And unlike the Russian government,

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The Russian Tea Room loves to service us gays. Rod Steiger takes a drunken, lurid turn at Joe Allen (326 W 46th St, 212-581-6464, JoeAllenRestaurant.com) in 1968’s No Way to Treat a Lady. Preferring meat to murder, we love to start with the aromatic, buttery steak tartare flavored with a strong sense of mustard, sharply pungent onions and tangy capers. The huge, delicious burgers are fantastic and the thinly sliced calf’s liver is too, with diaphanous slivers of bacon, grilled onions and a side of whipped potatoes. The Caesar salad is scrumptious, too. Call it a wrap with chocolate pudding cake, vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. Years ago, Meg Ryan faked a famous orgasm in When Harry Met Sally at Katz’s Delicatessen (205 E Houston St, 212-254-2246, KatzsDelicatessen.com). Despite our penchant for pastrami on rye,

our rallying for a Reuben or making a move toward matzo ball soup, we’ll still “have what she’s having.” Woody Allen and Diane Keaton make a stop into Lanza’s (168 First Ave, 212-6747014, LanzasRestaurant.com) in Manhattan Murder Mystery and have a lot of wine with Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston, who poses her theory on the surrounding nefarious plot. Since 1904, Lanza’s has been serving up classic Italian dishes—try the sausages with peppers, mushrooms and rosemary before the meatballs marinara with spaghetti, fettuccine with salmon in cream sauce or chicken parmigiana with tomato sauce and mozzarella. Although the Club Room doesn’t really exist at the historic ’21’ Club (21 W 52nd St, 212-582-7200, 21Club.com), it does in All About Eve—and we’d still like to witness Bette Davis’ character, Margo Chan-

ning, clock Anne Baxter’s notorious Eve on the head with a Champagne bottle. In the meantime, we’re content with the three-course $37 prix-fixe lunch available Tuesday through Friday in the Bar Room, featuring grilled shrimp, pork tenderloin and devil’s food crunch cake. We wouldn’t mind a lobster dinner, though, as Grace Kelly ordered for Jimmy Stewart at home in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. The restaurant also unveiled a new bar last year, an approachable 10-seater in the lounge area on their ground floor. Executive Chef John Greeley delivers bites such as soft New York pretzels and sausage-andsauerkraut fritters. And don’t even talk about what went down between Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey at Tavern on the Green (Central Park West/67th St, 212-873-3200, TavernOnTheGreen.com) in Beaches! N

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IT PUTS THE LOTION ON IT’S SKIN Tate Ryder in Silence of the Cams, Part 1

Silence of the Cams, Part 1 Dominic Ford, DominicFord.com, CameraBoys.com omeone is logging in to live webcam shows and murdering the performers. Who said a little cybersex never hurt anyone?

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ROD: There may be a “cam killer” on the loose, but there’s also a boner killer out there...and his name is Jake Genesis. I couldn’t even get to half-mast watching Genesis, because I’m still so fucking bored with how repentant he was about his short career in porn. Even watching him eat Bryce Evans’ ass couldn’t resurrect my dick. MANUEL: Genesis—a former cop and nearly a priest, too—renounced porn as perverted, destructive and exploitative and then begged fans for forgiveness, so I call him a “penitent” (which is also what I call the thing my morning wood turns the bedsheets into). Backstory aside, this handsome and masculine hunk seemed made for gay porn. Still, his kitchen fuck with Evans was by-the-book. The hand that reached through the laptop screen and murdered Genesis must have agreed. ROD: Evans copes with his boyfriend’s apparent murder by jumping onto Topher DiMaggio’s cock. Works for me! DiMaggio has the most perfect jet-black Superman hair in porn. I loved watching his abs as he pumped Evans. Talk about super core strength. And you really notice what an unadulterated breeder tan Evans has. He’s white down to his knees and halfway up his back. He must sunbathe with half his clothes on! MANUEL: Evans could write the book of cliché porn dialogue. “Put it in. Ooh, yeah. It’s so big. God, you’re so fucking good.” Now imagine it delivered as loudly and insincerely as possible. I just focused on Topher’s smooth ass and hairless taint. ROD: It’s kind of trippy to see Trenton Ducati as Clarice talking to his real-life ex Tate Ryder (Lecter) in prison. Ryder still has the best ass in porn and totally deserves his 2013 Hookies Award! He offers to give Ducati information to solve the case if

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ROD:

MANUEL:

Ducati promises to fuck him. There are some great homages to Silence of the Lambs—“He said he could smell my bunt,” “Put the fucking lotion on your basket!”— but having to listen to beautiful porn stars recite dialogue is painful. MANUEL: I can tolerate a barely inspired, poorly executed porn satire if there’s great fucking, but alas, the sex scenes don’t quite surpass average. Mind you, Dominic Ford has hot guys, but the videography does them little justice. You can’t go wrong with DiMaggio fucking Ryder, but like most of SOTC, much of their scene is shot from too far away (why no closeups?) with poorly framed tripod shots. (Composition 101: be sure the important bits are inside the frame.) ROD: But I loved the Blu-ray 3D. Every-

one’s tattoos were practically popping off the screen! MANUEL: Speaking of popping off, Ryder’s face was soaked after Topher’s fantastic cumshot, but I laughed out loud as an after-glowing Ryder kept trying to pull splooge-averse Topher closer to make out. ROD: Finally, Angel Rock and Lance Luciano put on a cam show to lure the killer. But we all know that you don’t want to get an error message that reads “Sorry, model is offline.” MANUEL: As if handsome, well-hung Luciano weren’t attractive enough already, he opens this scene at a piano, teasing us with a few measures of Chopin’s FantasieImpromptu in C# minor before doing A Major number on Rock’s 8½-inch Cuban organ. Who doesn’t love a big pianist? N

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