Monday 08.11.14
The Week 8/11–8/17
A guide for artsluts
So the supermoon happened. If you’re like us you may have been seen in the corner of a party chanting to the gods, bought way too many croptops at a thrift store and worked through two whole bottles of poppers. Anyway we’ve had some visions and we can literally kinda declare that life is really amazing right now.
♥Mark & Paul
Enjoy Babi Audi’s PETIT CORE MIXTAPE as you read.
MONDAY 8/11
BLUE MONDAY @ BABY’S ALL RIGHT (146 BROADWAY) Her majesty Princess Nokia gets live with three new songs, plus tracks from her last album, following performances by Regular Fantasy and J. Albert at this gig hosted by Waverly Mandel. 9PM, FREE WITH RSVP!
RYAN RAFTERY IS THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN FASHION @ JOE’S PUB (425 LAFAYETTE ST) Through popular music, performance, and maybe a bit of creative license, Ryan Rafferty imagines a day in Anna Wintour’s life as she waits to be fired over that infamous Kimye cover. 9:30PM, $20.
HOT FRUIT @ METROPOLITAN (559 LORIMER ST) Our girl Cheno joins Andy Pandy, Momo Shade, and Danny DeVero for midnight shows accompanied by Ethan Weinstock’s trippy video art and featuring sexy giveaways from The Pleasure Chest New York. 10PM, FREE!
BATHSALTS @ DON PEDRO (90 MANHATTAN AVE) Tonight is TaranTINA at Bathsalts, and with no Bill in sight Macy and Mame will try to kill each other, or maybe the audience, or maybe themselves in tonight’s bloody hot mess. 11PM, FREE! …
Sunday 08.10.14
Event: Baauer & Boys Noize
We told you to go to the new Governors Island when it opened in spring, but if you’re like us (busy, lazy, name your excuse) then you’ve probably failed to get over there, which is a shame because from what we hear it’s awesome (if not a bit overrun with families and tourists.) Well this Sunday, we really have no excuse. There’s an electronic music event happening at the Governors Beach Club featuring some wonderful performers: Baauer, Boys Noize, L-Vis 1990, Le1f (DJ Set), Pilo, Samo Sound Boy and Spank Rock. What’s even better, since it’s a special 18+ event, it’s unlikely that you’ll run into any families or tourists (OK, maybe a couple of tourists, but they’ll be cool tourists, trust). It goes from 4:00PM-12:00AM — rain or shine. Hopefully it will rain; molly, music and a bunch of wet noizey boys on an urban island sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon.
Wednesday 08.06.14
Event: Naked Geometry
I was always so terrible at math. In 8th grade I asked my grandma to mentor me (she was a math genius who went to college aged 15). She tried her best, but I just couldn’t get it. If only math classes were as interesting, and illustrative, as what they’re doing at the National Museum of Mathematics. “Using animations, digital pictures, and sculptures, mathematician and award-winning artist Mike Naylor will share his techniques for making cool shapes from human bodies and using them to explore creative mathematical ideas. Frieze patterns, polygons, polyhedra, connected graphs, fractals, and tessellations will be created using only hands, arms, legs, and torsos, allowing everyone to physically become a part of mathematics.” If only they’d offered this in highschool I might have actually made it past 8th grade math. I wonder if they’ll be demonstrating the “69,” I’ve have had some practise with that shape (my grandma would be so proud lol). Email mathencounters@momath.org to reserve a space.
Tuesday 08.05.14
THE WEEK 8/4
A guide for artsluts
New York City in the summer is actually everything, isn’t it? Our metropolis is sweating out more sticky salty sexy summer fun that you can lap up — but if you’re like us, you’re greedy and you want it all. So here it is.
♥ Mark & Paul
Enjoy JX Cannon’s #THROTS mix as you read.
MONDAY 8/4
JAG @ PALISADES (906 BROADWAY) Corrupt your niece and little cousin at this all ages dance party featuring some ofthe hottest DJs in Brooklyn, including our beloved JX Cannon. 7PM, $5
HOT FRUIT @ METROPOLITAN (559 LORIMER ST) WillSheridan is joining David Sokolowski as the new regular host at David’s weekly queer arty dance party, with midnight performances by Charlie Denverr, Aja, and Felix and the Future. 10PM, FREE!
BATHSALTS @ DON PEDRO (90 MANHATTAN AVE) Come hear our girls Macy and Mame serve their finest Southern accents at tonight’s cowboy themed edition of Bathsalts, featuring lots of Madonna circa 2000 looks. 11PM, FREE!
TUESDAY 8/5
BODY ACHE @ THIS N THAT (108 N 6TH ST) Miss TNT herself, Charlene, hosts this night of shows shows shows, including Drag Therapy, where we will work through our feelings using the words of female pop stars across generations, and Drag Roulette, where you queens get a chance to show your knowledge of drag standards. Beats by JX Cannon and bartendrix John Lowther will be getting you liquored up. 11PM, FREE!
BUSHWICK BURLESQUE: KATE BUSHWICK @ BIZARRE (12 JEFFERSON ST) For the 3rd annual Kate Bush burlesque, the Bushwick Burlesque girls team up with our bae Severely Mame to give you a night of Kate Bush devotionals in honor of her recent birthday. …
Thursday 07.31.14
Event: Printed Matter Summer Sale & Party
You know what I love to see in a boy’s apartment? A big, healthy stack of smart coffee table books. If they’re art books, even better. So I suggest if you want me to come to your place you should first attend the Printed Matter Summer Warehouse Sale and pick up some books. It’s on all week and all inventory is been sold at the wholesale price (up to 40% off). On Thursday the shop is throwing a party to celebrate the last day of the sale. The hope is that you’ll get a little drunk and go crazy with your credit card and stock up on their massive selection of art books from around the world (they have thousands). Music for the event will be provided by psychedelic electronic performer EarthMasters and synth/noise group DROOIDS. Say hi to Shannon while you’re there, he’s the bearded Australian and sometimes behind the counter with a salty attitude (he’s really a sweetheart, I promise).
Friday 07.25.14
Event: Free Pizza Fridays
Did you read the name for this event? Have you taken it in? Free pizza, that’s no joke — we wouldn’t play you like that. Every fourth Friday of the month Via Tribunali Neapolitan Pizzeria on Ludlow Street in the LES hosts a free pizza night to support a worthwhile cause (what generous homos). This month they’re donating to God’s Love We Deliver, “a not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition.” Here’s how it works, you show up, enjoy free Neapolitan pizzas, and $3 Peronis, and then you donate a couple of bucks to the cause. It’s the easiest fucking good deed you’ll ever do. Give it girl.
Saturday 07.19.14
Event: This. Is. Balloonacy!
I can’t even imagine myself going to an event like this unless I am a) wasted or unconscious b) blindfolded or c) I was on a “quirky” Internet date. However, after viewing a video of a Balloonacy event I think it could be a lot of (claustrophobic) fun. One room at an art gallery in Brooklyn will be filled with 2,000 LED balloons — creating “New York’s first ever interactive balloon immersion.” It’s inspired by the work of the San Francisco based, Awesome Foundation grantee, George Zisiadis. Expect art from 2:00-5:00PM, dancing from 5:00PM-10:00PM and “balloons will be happening always and forever.” This sounds like a good workout and one of those events you will only ever have the chance to go to once (OK, now I’m completely sold). Go to balloonacy.splashthat.com to reserve a space.
Saturday 07.12.14
Event: I’m From Driftwood’s 4th Annual Summer BBQ
I’m From Driftwood is a wonderful site that aims to collect coming out stories from all over the country (and the world). Some of these stories are funny, some are sad, some (like the one I recorded a few years ago) are just plain weird. It’s an amazing treasure trove of shared queer experiences, and something we should help keep alive — which is why we’re happy to do whatever we can to support them. This Saturday is the perfect chance to do just that at the I’m From Driftwood Summer BBQ Fundraiser. Tickets are $100, BUT, if you mention GAYLETTER you’ll get one for $75. There’s only 10 with that discount, so get on to it. The ticket includes an open bar, all you can eat food, cooked by Andy Baraghani, the food editor at Tasting Table (that boy can cook), plus live music, raffle prizes and all kinds of cute, social conscious boys. Last year was great fun, we have no doubt this year will be the same.
Frank O’Hara Fire Island Pines Poetry Festival
You may have partied hard the way only Fire Islanders can over Pride and the 4th of July weekends, but wait … there’s more gay fun to be had! This Saturday, July 12th, the Fire Island Pines Arts Project is hosting the Frank O’Hara Fire Island Pines Poetry Festival. We know what you’re thinking: poetry party? Well, as if the line up of big names such as Edmund White and Saeed Jones isn’t enough to send you rushing to pack your weekend bag, organizer Adam Fitzgerald insists that, far from a sombre affair, attendees can expect “mosh pits, flying dildos and thongs!”
From 4:00-6:00PM, poets will be reading selected poems of Frank O’Hara as well as their own in celebration and memorial of one of our most iconic gay poets. Sadly, O’Hara’s love of Fire Island took on a tragic hue when he died in a freak accident on the beach in 1966. At only $10 a ticket, this beautiful tribute to a beautiful man is an absolute summer must.
Monday 07.07.14
The boys of Bonnaroo 2014
A photographic trip to the famous festival
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival nestled in the heart of Tennessee is an 80,000 strong convergence of campers all loyal to the the high-five ideology of “radiating positivity” while listening to some world famous musical acts. Elton John’s set was a showstopper as were those by the amazing Jack White, Frank Ocean, Lionel Richie, Die Antwood, Disclosure, Janelle Monaé and Bobby Womack (his final show before his recent death). All together there were about 100 bands playing throughout the 4 days. But the music itself is only half the Bonnaroo equation. The magic of “being on the farm,” as they call it, is living in a tent, floating around in the heat, and meeting new friends in the bliss of the moment.
Ah, but I’ve been to Coachella, I hear you say. Bonnaroo couldn’t be father from the experience of it’s somewhat superficial West Coast cousin. Sleeping in a tent and living 4 days off-the-grid creates an atmosphere of “we’re in this together” amongst the Bonnorovians.
There’s plenty to do at the festival besides listen to music. Just take a walk to “This Tent,” “That Tent” and “The Other Tent.” This year there was comedy from Broad City, a giant waterside, World Cup broadcast on giant a screen under an artsy color wheel tent, and of course, the Silent Disco. If there was ever a worthy contender to Woodstock, Bonnaroo might be just be it. This year I got lost there photographing all manner of freaks and geeks, and some wicked hot boys too. …
Tuesday 06.24.14
GAYLETTER’S PRIDE GUIDE 2014
Start drinking plenty of water before you start reading...
NYC Pride is a wonderful week in which you can fully commit yourself to some non-stop summer hedonism, while also supporting the LGBTQ community and celebrating those who make it easier for all of us to be homos. But when it comes to deciding what to do, there are a hell of a lot of options. That’s why GAYLETTER has stepped in to give you the definitive list of parties and community events for the week. If it’s not on the list, it’s probably not worth going to.
But before you get started don’t forget we want to celebrate with you at our second annual GAYLETTER GAY PRIDE BALL! Get tickets and get excited for a wild night — it all happens Friday June 27 at the gorgeous Wythe Hotel, you can find more info below.
We asked the illustrator Chad M. Weaver to create some original art for our extensive and super useful Pride Guide 2014.
TUESDAY 24
Lulu’s Pride and Diversity Night
This cute Midtown hotspot is putting on a five-course, Pride Week banquet to raise funds for the Ali Fornay Center — those amazing people who aim to make NYC a safer place for homeless LGBT youth. Their tasting menu, which sounds incredible, will be accompanied by a “selection of beers and wines.” So you’ll feel better knowing your shameless gluttony and drunkenness is helping others for once! $65, 6:30PM, LuLu & Me, 253 5th Ave. New York, NY. INFO + TIX
‘The Wizard of Oz’ Outdoor Screening
This is the first official NYC Pride event of the week, and it sounds pretty damn delightful. …
