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I know most of you, like me, probably love feminism and performance art, or maybe you really just want to watch Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece and Marina Abromovic’s Art Must Be Beautiful. Art Must Be Beautiful, in one sitting. Either way I have great news for you! Right now, the ever-expanding feminist and gender critical [...]

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is ON  |  New York, United States  |  So the yearly iconic tradition, is back and ON, right in the heart of the Rockefeller Center. Yesterday the Christmas Tree went full on, glowing all the way to the top crowned by the Swarovski crystal star. Tonight after my dinner at 21 Club, I [...]

Keeping with this week’s light trends in NYC, in case you missed it last night—there was a tremendous, streaming rainbow across the sky.   The brainchild of Yvette Mattern, Global Rainbow, After the Storm, is an international response (Mattern resides in both NYC and Berlin) to the inherent devastation the East Coast has suffered due to the [...]

When I turned 16, my parents gave me a big, black, brand new SUV with a massive red bow on the windshield.  I loved that car…until the fateful summer I spent on a finger of sand jutting out into the Atlantic in a tiny town called Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Yes, 2003’s Hurricane Isabel was [...]

The Empire State Building, the #1 attraction in NYC’s skyline, has long used its fame for good, employing its floodlights as visual megaphones and being the mother of all tourist sites. After years of selfless giving, the ESB is getting something back – specifically a full-scale LED makeover from Royal Philips Electronics.  Tonight marks the opening [...]

Secret Love at Ostasiatiska Museet  |  Stockholm, Sweden  |  If there is something I love to do when I visit Stockholm, is to come and see the multiple exhibitions that happen all year round and all over the city. My favorites are the photography exhibitions, that you might find at the Fotografiska Museet or in [...]

BAM Cinema in Brooklyn is featuring several films marking LBGT History Month and the 25th National Coming Out Day with their New Queer Cinema retrospective.  These are films that throughout the past few decades have transcended the barriers of cinema, and made the AIDS epidemic and flow against Reaganism culturally available.  My Own Private Idaho [...]

In the early days of Electroclash, I remember dancing with this girl in the now extinct Ghetto Club in London.  I am not sure if the night was “The Cock” or “Nag Nag Nag”, but we were both jumping up and down listening to Felix da Housecat “Frank Sinatra” surrounded by London’s finest club freaks.  [...]

My thoughts on lobby-purchased excursions are split between my traveler and vacation mindsets. The former thinks that I better do my homework, that they should offer something that I couldn’t pull off on my own for less money and more authenticity (the best example of this is snorkeling). The latter says to hell with it [...]

Unless you have been living in a third world country, you all probably know that Vogue organizes an event which occurs simultaneously in the biggest cities in the world involving all major fashion players. I’m going to be totally honest with you, this one was my first fashion night out.  Let’s face it, drinking makes [...]