Bash Compactor: Bowled Over

Written by Matt Harvey on November 7, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

I was avoiding the dehumanizing press scrum bunched around the red carpet at Bowlmor Lanes’ 70th anniversary party last week and taking advantage of the open bar. Who can I talk to? Two cute girls, a blonde and a brunette, came strolling in, giggling like eighth graders at a school dance. Hi girls. The blonde—charms
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Political Party Animals

Written by Stephanie Lee on October 30, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

From pro-Obama go-go dancers to Republican-friendly Lower East Side joints (yes, they exist), find your election night go-to here
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Bash Compactor: Do You Wanna Touch Me There?

Written by Matt Harvey on October 30, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

A bunch of gamers and frat-types showed up to the Village Pour House last week for the Penthouse Photo Hunt Tournament. The crowd swilled domestic draft and gawked at the two Penthouse pets—Krista Ayne and Justine Joli—who had come along to host. Lans, a bearded bohemian, and odds-on favorite, had schlepped in from Greenpoint to
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Bash Compactor: Donkey Show

Written by C. Edwards on October 22, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Both the politically conscious and the sexually adventurous got a little action at the unveiling of Politics, a large-scale satirical painting by Molly Crabapple last week at the Museum of Sex.The event started out with everyone perusing exhibitions of homemade sex machines, male physique pictorials and Real Doll sex toys—and ended with a viewing
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Bash Compactor: Beat Happening

Written by Matt Harvey on October 22, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

John Chandler, a dead-ringer for the Kool- Aid guzzling preacher Jim Jones, led a psychedelic gospel band, kicking off all sorts of wild-eyed shenanigans at Spiegelworld last Thursday night. Thick-fingered, hyperkinetic Mike Edison (pictured)—a former High Times and Screw editor—had brought in the cultist lookalike as well as Jon Spencer, formerly of Pussy Galore and
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Bash Compactor: Scary Monsters & Super Freaks

Written by Matt Harvey on October 22, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Ghosts and demons came early to NYU’s Casa Italia on Saturday afternoon for “Boy/Girl or None/Both of the Above,” a grad school panel on gender. The distinguished panel featured Hattie Hathaway of the Pyramid Club and, more recently, the late, great Rapture Books, and serpentine Brit post-punker Genesis P- Orridge. Ever-young tranny Allanah Starr was
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Bash Compactor: A Wilde Time

Written by Jamie Peck on October 22, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Thursday’s opening at the Morrison Hotel Gallery saw a father/daughter show of prolific rock ‘n’ roll photographer Autumn De Wilde and her never-before-exhibited papa, Jerry De Wilde. A protégé of Robert Frank, the elder De Wilde documented counterculture from the Beat Generation to the flower children of the 1960s and beyond, befriending figures like Ken
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Bash Compactor: Rock ’n’ Roll Animals

Written by Matt Harvey on October 15, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

An army of downtown weirdos descended on the Highline Ballroom Monday night for “Gimme Shelter,” an annual fundraiser for “no kill” animal shelters
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They Can Run…

Written by Chris Varmus on October 15, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Rick MacArthur doesn't think Obama is black enough
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Bash Compactor: When You’re Young

Written by Matt Harvey on October 8, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

“Yeah, I got along with Toby all right, but in typical fashion, he missed his flight and is going to be a couple hours late,” Simon Pegg groused Wednesday night as we took the elevator up to the fourth floor of Soho House. The Shaun of the Dead star, Toby Young’s avatar in the movie
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