At a 100th Birthday Reading of Sun Ra’s Lost Works, Space Was the Place
Phast Phreddie doing his saxophone thing. (Photo: Nicole Disser) William S. Burroughs isn’t the only counterculture deity being feted with a centenial. The late Sun Ra would have been about a month shy...
View ArticleSteampunk Weekend Is Upon Us
Brace yourselves, upstanding citizens, Steampunk Weekend arrives this Friday, bringing with it a maelstrom of polyester fedoras, burlesque dancers, mustaches waxed with bee butt derived from...
View Article‘Operotica’: It’s When Burlesque and Opera Come Together
If you tend to doze off at the opera, rest assured this one’ll rouse (and arouse?) you: Sarah Screams’ forthcoming show at Drom will combine opera and burlesque to create what can only be called...
View ArticleDrom, a World-Music Oasis in a Sea of Urban Renewal
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. New York Gyspy All Stars, playing their album release show at Drom. (Photo: Kat Thornton) Earlier...
View ArticleJiggle With an Unlikely Pair: Pole Dancers and Comics Combine Powers
(Photo by Brody Brodo, courtesy of Schtick a Pole in It) Comics have a lot to compete with in this town– each other, for one– so it’s safe to assume that a stand-up can only be trying to realize some...
View ArticlePre-Christmas Performance: Experimental Nativity Reenactments, Pole Dancing +...
WEDNESDAY (photo via JACK / Facebook) The Perfect Play Wednesday, December 21 at JACK, 7 pm: $15 Not much seems perfect in 2016, especially in these last few moments. However, at Clinton Hill art space...
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