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QxBxRx Cocked & Rocked by Little Victory and Edie Sedgwick & Xtina Midnight

March 12, 2010 in Music, Nightlife by smhayhurst | No comments

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QUEERS, BEERS & REARS | Cake Shop’s crowd at the monthly QxBxRx homopunk party last Saturday was just as sticky and moist as we had heard. Edie Sedgwick and Xtina Midnight’s energetic performance kicked off the evening while the rock-n-roll go-go boys—Twinkie, Stachie, and Wolfie—kept the audience entertained between sets. Next up was Little Victory—for which HN’s Mister Zan is the lead singer—who electrified the audience with their first public performance. We left before High Teen Boogie came on, but you can listen to some of their songs as well as music from other bands who’ve appeared at QxBxRx after the jump.

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Drag Off @ The F Word [NSFW Edition]

March 11, 2010 in Nightlife by smhayhurst | No comments

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While Spicky Hilton, Mimi Imfurst, Sherry Vine and the other queens were putting on a show for The F Word Drag Off, the crowd—not at all shy in showing off their goods… or showing what they could do with a beer bottle—was providing plenty of entertainment of their own. Note to self: g-string + suspenders + sock garters are going to be the hottest new look.

You can view the work-safe photos here.

Photos by Bobby Joe.

Drag Off @ The F Word [SFW Edition]

March 10, 2010 in Nightlife by smhayhurst | No comments

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Queens across New York dropped big sound, big attitude, and big bootay—but not their wigs, thankfully—at Michael Formika Jones and Mark Nelson’s The F Word party at Rebel for the Drag Off Friday evening. Winner Spicky Hilton made the acquaintance of three new Benjamins while Mimi Imfurst and Sherry Vine were among the royalty in attendance. Check out the flamboyant flair in the work-safe gallery after the jump.

UPDATE: Check out NSFW photos here.

Photos by Bobby Joe.

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Mary Literary Launch Party

February 26, 2010 in Literature by smhayhurst | No comments

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The bow tied editor and publisher of ‘Mary,’ a literary quarterly, William Johnson, hosted a launch party Sunday at Duplex for the most recent issue. Johnson, who we met at the Fine and Dandy launch party in June, spoke with Homo-Neurotic last month about the DUMBO-based magazine that features gay writing and art. Check out excerpts from the magazine after the jump, including an interview with gay hip-hop artist Last Offence (Facebook page, Myspace page), the coverboy for this issue who joined the handsome crowd in attendance.

‘Letters of Note’
A blog of fascinating correspondence

January 29, 2010 in Fashion, Film, Literature, Music by smhayhurst | No comments

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Let’s be honest; it’s probably going to happen in the near future. We’re going to see J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece of teenage angst and rebellion translated (twisted?) onto the silver screen. With his passing earlier this week, I imagine producers are circling the estate with hopes of securing the movie rights for The Catcher in the Rye (people are already salivating at the prospect of reams of unpublished works in his safe).

McSweeney’s Bazar of Literary Treasures

January 25, 2010 in Literature by smhayhurst | No comments

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If your day is anything like mine, it’s punctuated by several short bursts of procrastination from work. I’ve found the gems of fiction, bizzare lists, and essays on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency—a division of the eponymous publisher that also puts out The Believer, Wholphin, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern—are perfect for a few minutes of diversion before tackling your bloated inbox or the pile of files on your desk. With contributors including James Franco, Spike Jonze, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Ames, and a deep-sea spatulator there’s always something to tickle your fancy, and they even have a nifty iPhone app that pushes these pearls—including exclusive content not published on the website—to your phone.

Check out excerpts from McSweeney’s archives after the jump.

Ice Queen Johnny Weir’s ‘Johnny Be Good’ Premieres on Sundance Tonight

January 18, 2010 in Television by smhayhurst | 2 comments

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weir_coinslot_censoredThe much-anticipated ‘Be Good Johnny Weir,’ an eight-part series documenting Weir’s preparation for the US Figure Skating Nationals, begins tonight at 10:30 PM on the Sundance Channel (check out the episode guide for encore performances in the case you miss it). The series is a continuation of the 90-minute documentary ‘Pop Star on Ice,’ produced and directed by James Pellerito and David Barba, that we covered at New York’s LGBT film festival NewFest in June (additional photos from the after party are here). There’s no suspense if Weir will make the Olympic team—the USFSA announced yesterday that Weir, along with nemesis Evan Lysacek and Jeremy Abbott, will represent the US in Vancouver—but we look forward to seeing Weir work toward redeeming himself after a disappointing 5th place finish in the 2006 Olympics. But we wonder if the flirty flamboyance portrayed in the video excerpts we’ve seen thus far are suggesting that this is also documenting his coming out. To date, Weir has not confirmed—verbally, that is—his sexuality. In any event, we trust his antics prancing around half-naked (yes, that’s his badonkadonk to the left) will keep the audience entertained.

Check out the video teasers (and Johnny’s coin slot) after the jump.

Glamour Warrior | Tetsuya Noguchi’s Chanel Samurai Armor

January 18, 2010 in Art, Fashion by smhayhurst | No comments

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Tetsuya Noguchi’s alloy of the Chanel brand and the badassery of samurai armor presents an intriguing statement on the elevated position of class, wealth, and ethics. Or he understands the protection one needs—while looking fashionable—on the shopping battleground that is Soho on the weekends. Presented at the 2007 DansDans “Le Monde de Coco” show in Tokyo, Noguchi was one of several artists who created Chanel-inspired pieces (apparently it’s taken nearly three years for this to percolate through the English-speaking blogosphere). Images of other artwork appearing in the show can be found here and here (Japanese sites).

How many $75 anal bleachings does an L.A.-area salon perform each day?

January 15, 2010 in Print by smhayhurst | No comments

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Harper’s Index—the smart, humorous, thoughtful pastiche of statistics and tidbits that has been arguably the publication’s most-thumbed section for the past 26 years—is available online as a searchable database, we recently discovered (see this month’s round up to check out its format as presented in the magazine). We warn, though, that it’s a superb vehicle for procrastination with its facts about the odd nooks and crannies of our culture. Where else would you have learned the amount of Bill Clinton’s charitable donations for his used underwear from 1986 to 1993? Or South Korea’s previously broad definition for acts of lechery. Or the cost per minute to hear the Bill of Rights read over the phone “in a provocative manner” by a woman named Bambi? (BTW, if anyone can find Bambi’s number email us!)

Hail the Wale:
The Corduroy Appreciation Club

January 1, 2010 in Attire by smhayhurst | 3 comments

All Wales Welcome | Our inner dandy was tickled to find on Revel in New York—a fantastic site highlighting the quirky characters in New York from a foot fetish model, to a pigeon lady, to a pot guru and more—an interview with Miles Rohan, President of The Corduroy Appreciation Club, who considers the cloth of the king to be ”more like armor than like fabric.” The social club not only provides events where appreciators can connect, its website is a great resource for wale watchers—we found horizontal corduroy reseller Cordarounds there—and features members’ tributes to their favorite fabric, such as this excerpted poem by Andrew Rosentock:

khaki, you rub me wrong
your bagginess appears silly.
denim, you hang too much
i am no 90’s rap star
but corduroy
corduroy
oh corduroy, i not a care of your extra material

The group’s grand meetings are held only on dates which closely resemble corduroy (11|11 and 1|11), so mark your calendar for Thursday, January 11th. Two pieces of corduroy are required, and don’t even think of wearing velvet, for which the club’s disdain is especially strong as noted in the FAQ section of the CAC website:

Velvet, or “The Fog,” or “poor mans Corduroy” is a great deceiver. From a distance it looks like Corduroy, but then disappoints when up close. We’re not fond. But it is looks good on Leprechauns.

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Photos by Asha Fuller.

The Search for Unpasteurized TV
The Best of Vintage Britcoms

December 18, 2009 in Television by smhayhurst | 3 comments

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RAW, PLEASE | With just a week remaining before Christmas, master procrastinators out there—like me—still have quite a bit of shopping to do. A recent suggestion of the DVD box set of ‘Chef!,’ a mid-90s BBC show, reminded me of all the superb Britcoms that my friends and family (and readers) would wholly appreciate.

Gifted Holiday Guides

December 4, 2009 in Accessories, Design, Literature, Music, Objects by smhayhurst | No comments

christmas_giftsSnooty Doonan declares on high that to holiday gift guides we should say goodbye. “Fiddle faddle,” I say to that pecksniffian blatherskite. I appreciate their suggestions and the ideas they alight.

Such guides sift, sort and, I daresay, curate selections of gifts that I may never have come across otherwise. (I most likely wouldn’t have found his partner’s love/hate/joy/anger druggist ceramics were it not for the suggestion of a gifted guide.)

Both the Gray Hag and NY Mag offer fairly comprehensive guides that are always a good place to start, but I’d like to introduce a few sites I’ve used in recent years that have listed intriguing gifts or that focused on specific types of items (the sites themselves—mostly blogs—are worth a look as well). I’ve also included links to past year’s guides as they still have some interesting, if not entirely timely, suggestions. The next step, of course, HN’s own gift guide. In the meantime, though, I hope these spark some ideas.

Core77

Industrial design magazine

Journal of Popular Noise Solvate: outsource customer service haggling Piggy bank + altruism
‘Journal of Popular Noise’ Solvate: outsource customer service haggling Piggybank + altruism
BoingBoing

A directory of wonderful things

Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster Get High Now (without drugs) Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years (on DVD, searchable)
‘Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster’ ‘Get High Now (without drugs)’ ‘Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years’ (on DVD, searchable)
Notcot

Catalog of ideas, aesthetics, and amusements

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Glass vacuum coffee maker ‘God is a Verb’ poster AK-47 ammunition ice cube tray
Gizmodo

Gadget blog

Casio Exilim EX-FC100 Camera with 1000fps slow-motion video Panasonic X1: Best 42-inch HD TV under $1,000 Stellar sound: Shure SE110 earphones
Casio Exilim EX-FC100 Camera with 1000fps slow-motion video Panasonic X1: Best 42-inch HD TV under $1,000 Stellar sound: Shure SE110 earphones
…and for the swine lovers among you:

Neatorama

Mish-mash of nifty curiosities

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Twirling About Town

November 20, 2009 in Art by smhayhurst | 1 comment

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Photographers Richard Calmes and Kent Atwell teamed up to create ‘Beautiful Dancers on the Town,’ a dramatic series of images capturing New York-based dancers defying Newton’s laws. Among the models are several Alvin Ailey performers, including a few we photographed at Pride this year. Check out Atwell’s behind the scenes photos for some more impressive shots (and bodies).

All photos copyright by Richard Calmes.

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Toys for Tots | Fun-lanthrophy

November 18, 2009 in Activism by smhayhurst | No comments

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Among the biggest Holiday events each year is the Toys for Tots party at Chelsea Piers, and I highly recommend it if you can attend. Few other events give you the chance to rub elbows with such a large, well-polished crowd. This year it’ll be held on Sunday, December 6th, 2009 5-9pm. It always sells out; so I recommend you get your tickets ($35 + 1 unwrapped toy) early.

Info:
www.facebook.com

Tickets:
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Rome’s Gorgeous @ Alpheus, Part II:
Lips, Nips & Tongue Edition [NSFW]

November 6, 2009 in Nightlife, Travel by smhayhurst | 1 comment

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GAYSL | For the record, I don’t speak any Italian. The gestures for “stick out your tongue” and “show me yer tits,” however, are apparently recognized by homos and hags the world over. The Gorgeous partygoers at Rome’s Alpheus nightclub (see Part 1 of our Alpheus photo essay) were happy to indulge the suggestions of this hands-on photographer.

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Homo Halloween

November 5, 2009 in Nightlife by smhayhurst | No comments

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TRICKS, TREATS, SWEETS & TEATS | During the marathon party circuit that was Halloween, the Homo-Neurotics documented the carnage from the East Village to the West Village and beyond. Thankfully we ran into a few ambiguously gay superheroes, butt pirates, and boi scouts to guide us through our travels.

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Rome’s Gorgeous @ Alpheus, Part I

November 3, 2009 in Nightlife, Travel by smhayhurst | No comments

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From the archives | About this time last year I was exploring the nightlife in Rome, and when I arrived on Friday I headed over to Coming Out, a solid home base homo bar two blocks from the Coliseum, to check out the scene. I befriended a Spanish ballet dancer who passed along a flyer to the big, gay Gorgeous party at Alpheus the following evening. What I discovered was a huge dance club complex the likes of which New York hasn’t seen for years—room after room of different shows, DJs, and hot Roman men. Enjoy this Tuesday tickler… there’s more to come soon.

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Yabu Pushelberg Book Release Party

October 23, 2009 in Nightlife by smhayhurst | No comments

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Acclaimed design studio Yabu Pushelberg celebrated the release of its first book documenting the work of the firm headed by George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg. Toronto’s Hazelton Hotel, New York’s Bergdorf Goodman and Carolina Herrera, Asia’s Lane Crawford stores, and Las Vegas restaurants Fin and Shibuya are among the clients of the luxury retail, hospitality, and residential interior designer featured in the book. Vogue contributing editor William Norwich composed the essays included in the volume.

Top Chef winner Hung Huynh, Homo-Neurotic’s favorite celeb photog Chiun-Kai Shih (the man behind the shutter for the Zachary Quinto photos for GQ Taiwan), and Ford model Daniel Liu were among the guests at the tony party hosted at Bergdorf Goodman’s restaurant. Check out more pictures from the book signing as well as the after party at the ritzy West Village Yabu Pushelberg apartment after the jump.

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Boys Gone Wilde – A Queer Poetry Salon

October 19, 2009 in Literature by smhayhurst | 4 comments

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“Wilde Boys is a queer poetry salon for beautiful boys who write and appreciate beautiful poems”, as its creator Alex Dimitrov puts it. The salon brings together established and emerging queer poets in New York City.

Organized and run by Dimitrov, a 2009 Sarah Lawrence graduate who now works at the Academy of American Poets, the salon meets monthly in Manhattan and Brooklyn at the apartments of various salon members, and frequently at poet Tom Healy’s West Village apartment. The first meeting was held there this past May and began with a reading and discussion of the poems of James Merrill.

“I wanted to create a smart and sexy gathering of queer poets where aesthetic, formal, and political issues pertaining to contemporary poetry could be discussed without pretension,” says Dimitrov. “I was, of course, inspired by the original French salons of the 17th and 18th century, and I also wanted to adopt Oscar Wilde as our patron saint.”

BoysandLipstick Unsealed

October 8, 2009 in Nightlife, Online by smhayhurst | 2 comments

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Our friends at the BoysandLipstick gossip blog (a funnier, cuntier version of Perez) hosted a belated launch party over the weekend, so we broke out the duct tape and some cheap, trashy lipstick to recreate their logo. After a few drinks, the lipstick lovers used the duct tape in all sorts of places without regard to the adhesive’s skin-stripping properties. Note to self: nipple hair is most excruciatingly removed with duct tape.

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