NUTCRACKER ROUGE : Cocktails & Burlesque at Home

  We wonder what Pyotr Ilyich would think if he knew what people wound up doing with his classic Nutcracker Ballet?   Company XIV has been mounting their take on it all for  the past  10 years. This year it’s called NUTCRACKER ROUGE Cocktails & Burlesque at Home. and its a mix of ballet/theater/cabaret/circus/performance art and … Continue reading

Nuts

This is the mostly true story of the larger-than-life J.R. Brinkley who turned out to be one of the country’s biggest and most successful medical charlatans of the last century. Documentarian filmmaker Penny Lane= chose to tell this totally bizarre tale by mainly blending animated visuals with archival footage and using narration by different actors. She starts by … Continue reading

NY Cab Drivers DO have a sense of humor after all ……

The annual New York Taxi Drivers Calendar  is a very tongue-in-cheek parody of all those way-too-serious beefcake ones.  It also is for a good cause too and too date it has raised over $60,000 for University Settlement, America’s oldest settlement house (1886) serving over 30,000 immigrant and working individuals and families every year with basic services. Created … Continue reading

NY: Justin Pecks swaps ballet pumps for sneakers

January 26th 2017 sees the world premiere of The Times Are Racing the latest work by New York City Ballet star choreographer and principal dancer Justin Peck.  According to an interview in The New York Times, Peck said he had started choreographing the dance before the presidential election, but after Donald J. Trump won, he said, the … Continue reading

NY queer artist COURTNEY CHARLES celebrates his PTown debut

Queer NY artist Courtney Charles is making his #PTown debut with a stunning new exhibit #DOLL: an homage to Barbie’s BF Ken. He talked to QUEERGURU at the Adam Peck Gallery about his work and what inspires him ….. and more. The interview with Roger Walker-Dack was filmed by Dan Desjardins for www.queergurutv.com.   P.S. Queerguru would love you to bits if you did … Continue reading

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