I love Penny Arcade and her passionate commitment to using theater, stand up and music to being a reality check to the world she and we live in. I saw this show in its infancy about a year ago when she and Steve Zehentner were developing it ..since then she has traveled the world (literally) perfecting it performance by performance piling up nrave reviews in tough towns like London. Penny never stuck in repetition Penny always adds to the core of the piece what is happening in the world today. St Ann's gives you and me an opportunity to see a full production complete with the professionalism that professional production craft can being and takes Penny out of the secret places to most of you that I am use use to seeing her in. (and you too should discover Dixon Place, La MaMa, Pangea, Joe's Pub , Theater for the New City etc too if you have not ,,,they are all percolating! ) I ask you to support this artist .. if you have seen her before than sit back and enjoy the production values of St Ann' .. and if this is your first time ... go with a friend .. trust me you will want to talk over what just hit you as you experience this force of nature PENNY ARCADE...... or if you prefer the way fellow artist Tammy Faye describes Penny :Penny Arcade is the artist we need more than ever right now. Her work galvanizes, inspires and reflects our world into prisms of luminous and vivid perception. See her. She is the epitome of John Keats' "Beauty is truth, and truth beauty." She is the revelation and the revolution.

OH BOY NEW SONG : Regina Spektor - "Bleeding Heart" [Official Music Video]

OH Boy some good news .. REGINA SPEKTOR has a new song and here is the video   watch it twice and I just bet not only will you identify but it will be sticky in the  audio sounds section in your brain's memory bank.  Nice:  She is one of the few artists that actually gives credit to the creative team behind the song. 

Directed by Jack Dishel
Animation created & directed by Chris Tucci
Archival footage & photos by Ilya Spektor

AS I PREPARE TO TAKE TO THE STREETS AGAIN IN AN ANTI-STEVE BANNON DENO: I TURN TO RICHARD "DR LOVE" VAZQUEZ NEW INTERNET MIX: " A GARAGE HOMAGE MIX (ALL VINYL) TO GET MY BODY IN THE STREET MOOD

Dr Love's Garage Mix ..all vinyl JUST DO IT 

Death has rained on my parade with a fierceness of a tropical storm in  rage mood. Leonard, Cohen,  Sharon  Jones, are two public names but then there are the personal and private friends and "enemies " that leaped on the Bardo train and left me and you standing here godsmacked with loss.  David Mancuso was a giant among dj's all around the world and here at home.  To be let into his private party in the early '70 at his LOFT space was to step into a mostly black,  gay safe space to dance your "tits"  off. It was for me the first time I entered a non-white dominated dance space and found a freedom to feel as one with people in my tribe  I rarely saw let alone interacted with ..David Mancuso's  LOFT and his mastery of the vinyl "come together beat "was a critical part of my political understanding of community and the role race plays in America. It was a glorious time and slowly emerged in other places as the decade move on,  Nicky Siano's Gallery,  the Garage, the Saint, Studio 54 where the same core mix of people were seduced and body pleasred  by the sonic mixing of emerging generation of post Mancuso and Nicky Siano dj's and their driving force of the wheels of steel. I think of Larry Levant, Sharon White , Frankie Knuckles , Ron Hardy  and yes my Danceteria DJ Mark Kamins ,,  later Carl Cox and the Detroit spinners. Mancuso continued to have his LOFT parties all over the world and that an invitation to come hear him play at a private event spread from NYC to London , Singapore, etc. One DJ still alive and still mixing who  was present through all these decades of the masters of mix . He is Richard "Doctor Love" Vasquez  alive and still spinning on a regular basis in Miami ... I am helping put out his mixes into the world .. here is a most recent Vasquez mixtape spinning a tribute to the Garage magic of Larry Levant.  I played it  this morning to get my body ready to take the streets for an anti-Steve Bannon  street demonstration.. try it . ..Thanks Doctor Love

here is an anterview with Dr.Love made a few years ago

COMING OUT IS A LIFE LONG PROCESS : Jim Farber's Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack - The New York Times

Growing Up Gay to a Glam Rock Soundtrack - The New York Times

Jim Farber is a critic friend that I first met at the Ninth Circle. in the Village in the '70's. The bar on Waverly Place on the same street as my apartment started off as a late beatnik bar by Mickey Ruskin and Bobby Crevitt. It was originally called Le Du Margos (oh how ever the French spell it correction please?) it was like an outsider bar with a downstairs filled with poets, bikers, artists and rock'n'rollers etc  hanging out inside and in the backyard garden. Black and white, gay and straight. When Mickey left to open Max's Kansas City the name changed to the Ninth Circle (A Dante reference) it became essentially a gay men's bar. While I know Jim tries to make it a harbor of non-political gay men more interested in black leather jackets, boys who were sometimes hustlers (aka sex workers ) but would give it away to someone they liked and the distinction of who hung out upstairs or downstairs where the pool table was,It was a gay creative culture hang Jim in this article names just a few of whom were regulars . The afternoon writers salon like the one that had been started at Julius in the '60 s one block down by Sandra Scoppettone was re-invented at the Ninth Circle by people like Frank O;Hara . While Jim was not attracted (profesional sucide?)  to the emerging politics of single issue groups like the Gay Activist Alliance or the multi-issue Gay Alliance Front,  I will tell you as someone who was both an artist and political,  we did hang out there too.. 

When hetrosexual David Bowie put on a dress and some eye make up helped by his wife Angie the nules changed followed by an invasion of straight boys in androgynous drag, Some actually were gay but not to the pubic, Some after a couple of drinks and weed fell in bed without sexual orientation barriers imposed. (TBC) Glam with Bowie in the lead in London  and the NY Dolls here in NY and people like Steven Tyler blurred or should I say bridged the gender expression rules .. and it was clear that not only girls love these gender bending rock'n'rollers,  birthed in LSD and the hippie male androgyny movement with its allowance of men to be beautiful without a sexual orientation genuflection, but also gay boys did too . 

Jim Farber coming from Rolling Stone has been the Daily News music critic for years ,  Recently his byline disappeared from the paper. Good news for those of us who know Jim Farber as one of the best rock critic to emerge in the golden days of rock journalism  under the role modeling of the Dean of rock critics Bob Christgua based at the Village Voice, and the masthead list of contributors of the original Rolling Stone, Jim never apologized for liking both metal AND glam bands and some disco divas,

I am seeing Jim's  byline popping up today free of editorial  boundaries imposed by the News. I have always loved  reading him and agreeing or disagreeing with him ,,, that is what a good critic does. ( you should have been a bird on the wall when Jim and David Fricke and I stood in the lobby of the IFC after the screening of the Bert Bearns documentary (excellent)  and talked about everything music under the sun) Obviously this essay is very special to me .. I should also remind people that when you became too "gay " in public , most critics and gay taste makers leave the room and go metaphorically   "downstairs" at the Ninth Circle to distance themselves from someone like a Jobriath. But not me.

 I can hardly wait for the debate that should take place when Martin Ashton's just published in the London to rave reviews BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS OF HEARTACHE how music CAME OUT 

is published here in the new year.. can;t wait to belly up to the bar and be a part of the critic dish with  Jim Farber, Vince Aletti, Vickie Starr, Danny Fields , Howie Klein etc to vetted it. Thank you Jim Farber for letting your gay spirit out of the box and writing so brilliantly today

Jim Farber is a critic friend that I first met at the Ninth Circle. in the Village in the '70's. The bar on Waverly Place on the same street as my apartment started off as a late beatnick bar by Mickey Ruskin and Bobby Crevitt. It was originally called Le Du Margos (oh how ever the French spell it correction please?) it was like an outsider bar with aritist and poets and bikers and rock'n'rollers hanging out inside and in the backyard garden. Black and white, gay and straight. When Mickey left to open Max's Kansas City the name changed to the Ninth Circle (A Dante reference) it became essentially a gay men's bar. WhileI know Jim tries to one block make it a harbor of non-political gay men more interested in black leather jackets , boys who were sometimes hustlers (aka sex workers ) but would give it away to someone they liked and the distinction of who hung out upstairs or downstairs where the pool table was,It was a gay creative culture hang .. and Jim in this article names just a few of who were regulars . The afternoon writers salon like the one that had been started at Julius one block down by Sandra Scoppettone was re-invent at the Ninth Circle by people like Frank O;Hara . While Jim was not attractied to the emerging politics of single issue groups like the Gay Activist Allliance or the multi-issue Gay Libertion Front , I wil tell you as someone who was an artist and political we did hang out there.. When hetrosexual David Bowie put on a dress and some eye make up helped by his wife Angie the nules changed with the invasion of straight boys in androgynous drag, Some actually were closeted gays but not to the pubic, Some after a couple of drinks and weed fell in bed without sexual orientation barriers imposed. (TBC) Glam with Bowie in Londond and here in NY with the Dolls and people like Steven Tyler blurred or should I say bridged the gender expression rules .. and it was clear that not only girls love these gender bending rock'n'rollers sexually birthed in the hippie movement with its allowance of men to be beautiful without a sexual orientation genuflection, but also gay boys did too . Jim Farber has been the Daily News music critic for years coming from Rolling Stone,  Recently his byline disappeared from the paper. Good news for those of us who know Jim Farber as one of the best rock critic to emerge in the golden days of rock journalisn under the role modeling of the Dean of rock critics Bob Christgua based at the Village Voice, and the masthead list of contributors of the original Rolling Stone, Jim never apologized for liking both metal AND glam bands, 

jim farber gay/glam NYT

I am seeing his byline popping up today free of the boudries imposed by the News. I am excted to read and agree or disagree with him ,,, that is what a good critic does. ( you should have neen a bird on the wall when Jim and David Fricke and I stood in the lobby of the IFC after the screening of the Bert Bearns documentary and talked about everyting possible under the sun) Obviously this essay  obviously is very special to me .. I should also remind people that when you became too "gay " in public , most critics and gay taste makers left the room and went downtstairs at the Ninth Circle to distance themselves from someone like Jobriath. But not me. I can hardly wait for the debate that should take place when Martin Ashton's just published in the London to rave reviews BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS OF HEARTACHE how music CAME OUT 

is published here in the new year.. can;t wait to belly up to the bar and be a part of the critics like Jim Farber, Vince Aletti, Vickie Starr, Danny Fields , Howie Klein etc to vetted it. Thank you Jim Farber for letting your gay spirit out of the box and writing so brilliantly today

KNOW YOUR ENEMY: He is white, young gay Meet the Senior Editor at Breitbart News MILO: "Men Don't Give A F*** About Political Correctness"

DREAMS DO COME TRUE: A student at NYC took a master class at the Clive Davis Institute with Parrnell and guess what happened ? Maggie Rogers - Alaska

She sang him her version of his hit ALASKA .. he quite unexpectedly wept at her version'ss  beauty .

The master class was taped and it was leaked and went viral .. result she made a video of her version with NYU Tish Students and here it is.. millions have seen it ..MAGGIE ROGERS  : Dreams do come true