In MJ’s Shadow
ARMOND WHITE remembers Michael Jackson’s pop open-mindedness
Michael Jackson made the best cinema of 1991 with the music video “Black or White,” which was easily superior to any short or feature-length film released to the public that year. To find a comparable example of visual montage, you have to go back to one of Alain Resnais’ time-shifting études, the marriage scherzo in Citizen Kane or the chase-trial fugue in D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance. ...
Bash Compactor: Ring My Buell
Bebe Buell (and her daughter Liv Tyler) at Hiro Ballroom
Bebe Buell has been famous as a Playboy Playmate, the first lady of 1970s groupies and Liv Tyler’s mom. Now, at age 56, she wants to be Tina Turner—a big star who succeeded against all the odds. But first she had to convince the audience gathered in a nightclub in the basement of the Maritime Hotel, that her act can move downloads.
Bash Compactor: Pleasure & Pain
Getting Pierced with Elayne Angel
Have you pierced your labia yet or did you wimp out with a little diamond in your bellybutton? One in seven Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 has a piercing somewhere other than the earlobes. Feel like getting your mojo cranked up a notch? Try getting pierced in one of the pleasure zones. Of course, you may feel an intense pinch or maybe even some real pain. But you can also get a rush of adrenaline from the pr...
LES Heatwave
Break out the waterproof mascara, things are getting HOT! Downtown
EARL DAX THOUGHT he was through with the HOT! Festival. After helming the annual queer theater event in 2006, the ubiquitous Downtown culture guru had moved on to events like Weimar New York and Tingle Tangle, plus a seemingly endless amount of globetrottingin the last few weeks, he jetted from the U.
Speed Freaks Take Soho!
New exhibit exposes the alchemy of American counterculture
DON’T BOTHER WITH the back room at Café Select. Forget the basement of La Esquina.The new place to be in Soho is the burnt out meth lab on Wooster Street. Beginning July 2 at the Deitch Projects annex on Wooster Street, you’ll find an artistic mishmash so thought provoking and racy that it will give the neighborhood’s usual debauched haunts a run for their (rolled up) money. I’m talkin...
Flavor of the Week: Airport Lust
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL enjoyed a bumpy ride without ever leaving the ground
Last year, I managed to miss five flights, out of probably three times as many total, due to lateness, transportation errors and general disorganization. Most of them weren’t such a big deal; I could take the next one out, or pay a fee and wait around a few hours. I don’t tend to mind, since it gives me time to catch up on the gossip magazines in the airport bookstore. I’ve come to the conclusion th...
