Die, Die My Darling
Inside the bloody, lusty world of Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
Neil Gaiman is in his underwear. I’ve been in his hotel room, the penthouse suite at the Maritime Hotel, for 15 minutes and Gaiman has stripped down, save for a button-up shirt and jacket bought off a homeless guy for $40, to follow his paramour Amanda Palmer (former Dresden Doll, current singer, author and all-around goth-girl heartthrob) into a bubble bath.
Her Humps
Humpday’s Lynn Shelton dishes on her film—and her promised straight-up porno
Bank On It
In a race to the bottom, nightclubs such as Element market gimmicks to make a quick buck.
Traffic halts while the five blondes flash their popsicle-colored thongs as they drunkenly pile into a cab on East Houston Street. Car horns blare. Wolf-whistles and shouts pierce the air as a FDNY truck zooms close by. Adding to the carnival-like feel, the air is thick with the smell of vendors barbecuing street meat at nearby pushcarts. Standing here, watching scores of barhopping twentysomethings stagger around b...
Homo Panic! at the Cinema
Quasi-queer movies such as Bruno and Humpday are late to the game, while Nia Vardalos’ rom-com, I Hate Valentine’s Day, provides better gay imagery
Convenient political correctness is what stunts Sacha Baron Cohen’s humor and keeps him from being a great comic artist. It’s why his 2007 film Borat ultimately was worthless. Because Borat catered to liberal/conservative partisanship, even GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination) came to expect that Baron Cohen’s latest film, the homophobia charade Bruno, would conveniently line-...
Heist and Humidity
LES gallery sweats out summer with the rest of us
Summer in New York is long, slow, hot and brutal—especially for art galleries. Many of the people who might actually buy something are out of town, and the traditional tourist is not known as a big art consumer. Few artists or galleries want to commit the time and money to a one-person show. Hence the rise of the phenomenon known as the “summer group show.” Galleries come up with overarching themes ...
