Bash Compactor: Fight Makes Right

Written by Chris Varmus on October 8, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

On Thursday night, while the rest of the world watched Sarah Palin and Joe Biden duke it out in the VP debate, Saint Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo provided a venue for a more harmonious— if still unusual— combination: Folk dancing and amateur boxing, with a little jazz thrown in for good measure. All proceeds from
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Bash Compactor: Fathers and Sons

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

Rapper Frank Lucas Jr. was running late for the release party for his new single, “Street Star,” last week at the Plumm. If his name rings a bell, it’s because his father— also on his way to the soirée—was a legendary figure in the Harlem drug trade, recently made famous by Denzel Washington in American
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Bash Compactor: Gutter Sluts

Written by Matt Harvey on September 24, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

“I get molested by audience members a lot,” Justin Tranter frontman of the self-proclaimed “gutter glam” outfit, Semi Precious Weapons, told me as we sat at Rebel where the band had just finished a set. “I saw some chick grab his cock,” American Top Model, Whitney Thompson, who keeps pulling up her “little red Versace
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Bash Compactor: Where There’s A Will…

Written by Matt Harvey on September 24, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

“Look at me, man, I’m trying to close a bar.” Jud Mongel was holding a broom in one hand and a dustpan in the other. He had more important things to do than talk about his new, hipper-than-thou Greenpoint bar, Five Leaves; I’d also started to catch some nasty stares from the “friends and family”
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Bash Compactor: Fame On

Written by C. Edwards on September 24, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

If you spent your pre-show time at last week’s Rubin Singer collection scanning the front row for celebrities, you would have been disappointed. In their place, however, was former blog darling and would-be superstar, Julia Allison. She had hopped across the runway from her second-row spot the moment the lights went down. It was a
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Show Us Your Lits

Written by Matt Harvey on September 24, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Between the Brooklyn Book Festival, the untimely passing of David Foster Wallace and the slew of literary events on our calendars this week, books have been on the brain. The writerly weekend kicked off early, however, with the launch of the newest season of lit lady Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending Reading Series. When I first
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Bash Compactor: No New York…Just Queens

Written by Matt Harvey on September 17, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

At P.S. 1 with James Chance and others
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Bash Compactor: Fame, fame, fatal microfame

Written by Matt Harvey on September 17, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

“Let’s walk and talk,” said Misha Calvert, the driving force behind last week’s “Mr. and Miss Williamsburg” pageant, a project she took on as part of her community service for lifting beer from a deli. I was trying to pay attention to her assurances that the pageant wasn’t a rigged advertising gimmick, but what was
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Bash Compactor: Grand Old Party Indeed

Written by Mark Peikert on September 17, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Blazers and ties abounded for the men, while women genteelly fingered single strands of pearls around their neck Thursday night, when the Metropolitan Republican Club and the New York Young Republican Club came together on the Upper East Side to watch John McCain’s Republican National Convention speech. When my boyfriend—yes, I took my boyfriend to
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Bash Compactor: The Parade Must Go On

Written by Linnea Covington on September 17, 2008. Posted in Bash Compactor, Posts

Despite last weekend’s weather, the annual Deitch Projects’ Art Parade went on in spirit at Santos Party House. Dressed impeccably in a blue-and-white pinstripe suit, Jeffery Deitch lorded over the event, the smile never leaving his bespectacled face. “We can’t fight a storm, so we try to do it this way,” he said. DJs Justin
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