Our Social Media guru Chauncey recently fashioned a chat with his Dance Parade colleague DJ McDonald, this year’s Lead Curator for DanceFest, the festival that immediately follows the parade every year in Tompkins Square Park. The DanceFest 2013 program was comprised of four stages in total as well as a handful of site-specific performances planned...
Lydia Lunch Hosts DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS ! Thu May 30 7 PM – 10 PM $10. Advance/ $15. Door Tickets Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, 101 Avenue A (Between 6th & 7th Streets) NYC HOWL! Arts and Some Serious Business Present an Evening of Spoken Word in the Raw… LYDIA LUNCH Hosts DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS! With cohorts...
Saturday, May 18th was The 7th Annual New York City Dance Parade & Festival. Chauncey’s cohort Jaime Jaget was able to snap quite a quantity of photos while stationed at The Grandstand located in Astor Place. Here are the best of the lot. Enjoy! Visit danceparade.org for more info! Czech owt… @DanceParadeNYC Virtual Flash Mob...
Pass this on. OK Everyone! After one attempt at making a splash across social media and Facebook, we are at it again. Friday, May 17th at NOON we will have another DANCE PARADE VIRTUAL FLASH MOB! Copy and paste this link onto your facebook timeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQa1fyvacQY It is the 2013 Dance Parade Trailer…....
Back in 1998, during the illicit heyday of the rhtymically and sonically gorgeous drum n bass era of electronic music, the man that everyone wished they could be but could never touch was Goldie. I certainly didn’t own every release that bore his name, but his double CD Saturnzreturn had an epic track on...
DJ Big Ragoo and DJ Chauncey D move their sardonic soiree from the EV to the WV with the help of DJ Austin Downey on Saturday, May 25th! The party, like it did, features eclectic electro, classic house and new wave seasonings along with cult film screenings and queers of all shapes and sizes….it’s our...
Chip Kidd, The Standard, ARTBOOK | D.A.P. and PictureBox invite you to join Gengoroh Tagame in celebrating the release of his new book. Thanks to our friend Ricardo for the heads up about this event! Gay. Erotic. Manga? We shall soon see what those three things together will bring. The Passion of...
Tompkins Square Park, the destination of the parade at Avenue A and Saint Marks Place, comes alive with choreographed performances, workshops and social dance–all free to the public. This year there will be a total of 3 stages of carefully curated expressions of dance: A Performance Stage, A Family Friendly Stage and Teaching Stage. Throughout...
QMF 2013 was envisioned by Rockbar NYC and Monarch Presents as a platform for the best that queer music has to offer! The roster includes a dizzying variety of acts from rock to hip-hop, punk to electro and everything in-between. This Year’s Line Up: I AM LIGHTYEAR AB SOTO JOGYO CLINICAL TRIALS COREY TUT BRIGHT...
We have all heard the term ‘fashion forward’ but this takes that term to an entirely new height. the days of the android and the cyborg have certainly begun to enter our reality and it is wonderfully inspirational that designers are pushing their own mental and creative walls and taking that which decorates our bodies...
Sean Zevran reminds us what is most important in the debate about gun control, in this Public Service Announcement. He also reminded us here at The H.O.D. what it means to be a hot blooded homosexual haha! Yes…he’s close to perfect AND a porn star…just google his name I wonder...
HOT RABBIT – Queer Dance Party – QUEEROCRACY EDITION !!! FRIDAYS @ THE MONSTER (Downstairs) 80 Grove St (W 4th/7th Ave) 10pm-4am The H.O.D. tries to support Queerocracy in any way it can…it is one of the newest evolutions of queer activism to take over the LGBT Community and the group is our very own...
Last Wednesday, May 1st, we had the pleasure of witnessing the newest evolution of the Coby Koehl live experience in the cabaret room of Don’t Tell Mama in NYC. Along with his fantastic, soulful cover of Madonna’s “Secret”, a track that has become a staple in Coby’s recent live performances, Coby debuted his newest reinvention....
Figment is an experimental dance-theater piece that asks questions surrounding death. What does it mean to contemplate what is inevitable for us? Is death the end? What comes after? Why do so many queer youth turn to suicide as a resolution and how does it affect the community? Two queer bodies will explore this spiritual...
The Clemente 107 Suffolk St New York, NY 10002 USA Become a fan on Facebook and check out updates and photos cutlog NY 2013 After four successful years in Paris, cutlog art fair is pleased to announce the launch of its first New York edition from May 9-13, 2013. Approximately 45 galleries and curators will...
We have never heard of The NEW IDEAS Festival until we were invited to the event by the fine folks over at Art in Odd Places. The festival takes place from May 1st through the 4th culminating with a overload of the artsy at their annual StreetFest on the Lower East Side. Art in Odd...
“Fate”. New York City Legend Coby Koehl returns to Don’t Tell Mama with a brand new show and a brand new band on Wednesday, May 1st. The show follows in true Coby Koehl tradition and will feature some original works as well as startlingly magical reinventions of classic soul and imperfect pop songs that we...
A violently amazing classic house throwback track with a video challenging homophobia? Sign us up! This track is sick and the video is brilliant! Thank you LOGO! (no not that Logo) The Parisian duo LOGO reveals the video of “Cardiocleptomania” their new stunning EP out on Kitsuné!Beautiful and questioning, the video is designed to...
WWTTON : What Will They Think of Next? We were going to save this for Sunday, The Lord’s Day, but some things are just too good to wait for. Thank you to Laughing Squid, one of our favourite blogs and hosting provider, for posting this brilliant Laughing Squid Tip amongst all the other...
A powerful supporter of Dance Parade and the arts, NYC talent and the magic of house music in general, WBAI Radio needs your help! Kicking off the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Liquid Sound Lounge, +LSL and Groove Collective present a fundraiser for WBAI Saturday, May 11th at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn! Click to...
#DanceEventi Rain or shine, celebrate International Dance Day April 29 @ 5-7pm Put on your dancing shoes and join the party. We are getting our “Psy” on April 29 in conjunction with International Dance Day and ALL are welcome! Free entry. With music by DJ Huggy Bear from 5-7pm and all day long dance moves from Under...
KA – BLOOM! Visual Aid’s Spring Art Auction Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 hosted by Temple Nightclub and Mirus Gallery, 540 Howard Street, SF L-R: art by Andrew Belshner, Jamie Brunson, Derek Lynch, Ferris Plock Click here for an online preview of featured art Purchase tickets now and bid on great art to...