Friday, May 17, 2013

Interviews with Susanne Bartsch, Mr. Eagle NYC 2013 & Eagle NYC's Owner

Last night was totally awesome. Due to the cancellation of an event Next wanted me to cover, they sent me to a couple of events that I'd suggested covering. My timing worked out perfectly so that I could hit both of them back-to-back, and I ended up having an amazing time.



First I dropped by The Eagle for Code Night, a special send-off edition for Mr. Eagle NYC 2013 Arsenio Amadis's trip to International Mr. Leather in Chicago next weekend. I grabbed an interview with him, and he roped in the Eagle's owner, Derek Danton. Then I hopped down the block to Marquee for Susanne Bartsch's party Catwalk, which Joey Israel has been telling me I need to check out for months now (check out my write-up for Next here). She's a nightlife legend from the 80s and today (and also the ex wife of gym owner David Barton). You'll hear her compliment my boots, which was a gag considering she was giving a severe look herself with CHAINS HANGING FROM HER EYELIDS!

The rest of the night is a whole 'nother blog post (hanging with the kids from House of LaBeija), but here are the interviews. Enjoy!




Click here to check out the night I turned a look for Susanne Bartsch's Greenhouse party back in '09. 

Friday, May 10, 2013

INVITATION: TONIGHT, Come Celebrate the 5-Year Anniversary ofTheBlackoutBlog.com!

Tonight, I will be celebrating the 5-year anniversary of this here blog as well as my 30th birthday tonight at BoiParty's Penthaus at Copacabana. It's Hell's Kitchen's biggest gay party on a Friday, and I'll be hosting a table for the night. Here's the Facebook invite.


The look: all white (so we can glow in the UV lights by our table!).

Wednesday night, I guest-hosted at No Parking for their Cockfight party, and it was a goddamned BLAST! So you know tonight will be off the chain.


I'll also be guest-hosting on Sunday for Summer Camp at SkyRoom (a rooftop party). Here's the Facebook invite for this party. If you walk in with me, you can cut the line! I'll be aiming for a 5pm arrival. Email me (TheBlackoutBlog at gmail) and we can coordinate! The look: wigs and shades.


Penhaus Fridays
Copacabana
268 W 47th St. (Use the entrance on 8th Ave and say my name for free entry)

Summer Camp Sundays
SkyRoom
330 W 40th St. (No cover!)


See you there! Oh, and BTW, this is my 600th post :-)

Click here to check out my outrageous Beyoncé B'day.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Holly Day's Wanted Mondays at Boots and Saddle in NYC

I've been observing Holly Dae for a while now (like, back when she went by her maiden name). She's always been adorably offensive and fun as a party host, but it wasn't until recently I got to see her actually perform. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing her in Distorted Broadway, and she invited me to check out her show Wanted at Boots and Saddle, a gay bar in the NYC's West Village.


 read more after the jump...

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Cast of Ru Paul's Drag Race Does Impressions of Ru Paul

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind, but the highlight was getting to attend this year's RPDR finale party and press event. I got interviews with almost everyone I wanted, and everyone in the cast was super sweet!

In this video, I asked the queens (and Michelle Visage) what they REALLY think of Ru Paul. Then I asked them to impersonate her. The results are hilarious! Be sure to watch til the very end.



alaska, the 49th state (of intoxication)

jinkx monsoon, season 5 winner (and the back of andrew werner's head)

coco montrese (being felt up by roxxxy andrews's hand), vivienne pinay, alaska thunderfuck, michelle visage, jinkx monsoon, penny tration, detox icunt

More videos to come, but for now, click here to check out videos from last year's Drag Race finale event. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Interview with Frankie J. Grande

Last night, I dropped by Boxers HK for the first night of Broadway performer/producer Frankie J. Grande's Monday Musical Madness event. Basically, all his friends are fabulously talented Broadway performers, so he sings with them and has fun messing with them on stage. Click here to check out my out my write-up for Next.

We sat down for a short interview, and it was so much fun that I wanted to share it. Didn't edit it or anything, so it's all raw and uncut (which, according to recent studies, is just how the gays like it).


Check him out at Boxers HK every Monday starting at 11. And check Boxers's website/Facebook page after Drag Race's finale because I wouldn't be surprised if they moved it up after the show stops airing.

Click here to check out that time friends and I rented a house on Fire Island for Labor Day Weekend (mess!).
 

Friday, April 19, 2013

Shirtless men! Hot men! (Another Fabulously Messy Sunday in NYC)



My Sunday started with a friend’s suggestion to meet for brunch at Limon Jungle. DJ Matty Glitterati spins for their brunch, and usually Bootsie LeFaris hosts. But according to the Facebook invite, Tina Burner was supposed to be filling in (I’d just seen them both perform in Distorted Broadway on Friday... click here for my write-up for Next and here for my Facebook album). Turns out neither was there, so we basically had a laid-back brunch with Glitterati and unlimited drinks.

By the time Glitterati had told me he was putting me on his list for his Mission Sundays party at Santos Party House that evening, I was a good 3 frozen margaritas past the dance class I was planning on taking. So I joined my brunch mates for a movie and more alcohol at a friend’s house, opting to buy my own bottle of vodka rather than trusting the Georgi our host had put through a Brita water filter.

that might be cazwell.

Mission turned out to be a really great time! The first thing I noticed (besides Miss Pussy Couture at the door) was the abundance of shirtless men! Hot men! Between them, the hot music, and the go-goes in the jock straps, I would have been totally awesome. But then Mila Jam gave a dance performance to her new single “Masters of the Universe” (with an awesome nod to the Tetris theme), serving a black-light-with-body-paint effect!


 I didn’t even know til the next day that I’d missed the 5-6 open bar (as if I needed free liquor at that point).

On my way out, I noticed Ari Kiki’s post about performing at Tina Burner’s one-night-only Invasion of Stonewall, so I shot up to the Village with a fist full of dollar bills! Tina turned it out with her guests, Ari Kiki, Brenda Dharling, Jada Valenciaga, and Kiki Darling. They even brought up Kizha Carr (as a boy), who’d just found out he’d been cast in Book of Mormon. Click here to check out my Facebook album from the show.

that fuck-you-god song from book of mormon

After a dynamic show (including a live rap from Jada), I hopped across the street to see Sir-Honey Davenport and Flippe Kikee at Sunday Beat Juice and was elated to run into photographer Davide Laffe, who had been living in LA. Just as I was getting ready to leave at the sensible hour of 3, promoter John Jones popped another bottle of champagne!

Did I mention that I still had to go cover F#&K IT Mondays at No Parking the next night, which doesn’t get going til 1am (write up for Next here)? Yeah.

Hot mess of a Sunday, no? Click here to check out when there actually was a Sunday party called Hot Mess (god did I live up to the name that night).

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Robin Byrd's "Men 4 Men LIVE!" @ The Cutting Room

This show was everything! Easily one of my most fun nights in NYC.

You'll have to add me on Facebook to see the NSFW album, but click here to check out my write-up for Next.

robin byrd, topher, go-go harder & mike dreyden

More photos after the jump!


go-go harder

mike dreyden & robin byrd


the cast of let my people cum

francisco

it didn't stop there

Click here to check out my post on Mike Dreyden's 40th birthday. #throwback