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The 10th Annual @HowlFestival Schedule of Events May 31st through June 2nd! #artaroundthepark
For more than a century, the East Village has been home to poets, jazz musicians, Vaudeville and Yiddish theatre, artists represented by blue chip galleries and those painting in the subways, rock stars, and performance artists. Building on this tradition and inspired by long time East Village resident Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem, the HOWL! Festival...
Lydia Lunch Hosts DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS! A Benefit for H.E.L.P. @ Pyramid Lounge 5/30
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...
Dance Parade 2013 Photos by Jaime Jaget : A View From The Grandstand!
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...
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DO SOMETHING : March in Response To Hate Crimes Against The LGBT Community Monday, May 20th
A lot of attention and energy is surely focused on same sex marriage and marriage equality but just because members of the LGBT Community are able to profess their love legally, it certainly does not mean we are invincible. Early this morning, the third tragic hate crime against a member of the LGBT Community...
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“FATE” Drives Coby Koehl Back To Don’t Tell Mama May 1st With New Show, New Band
“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...
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Seeking New Columnists & Contributors as The House Of Dandridge Ventures Further Into Its 4th Year!
The House of Dandridge is still on the hunt for blog contributors as it ventures further into its 4th year in business! Do you have something to say but need a platform? Do you see a lot of live shows and/or off Broadway theatre you’d like to review? Do you have strong opinions about...
Exploring Elsewhere : Living With Pride : Ruth Ellis @ 100 by Yvonne Welbon
As the civil rights movement for the LGBTQ Community keeps on moving forward, we use our column Exploring Elsewhere to shed some light on iconic members of the past and present along with events, ideas and concepts often times ignored by major media. This is a snippet of a documentary featuring one of the...
“TOM” Trailer Teases Us With Life Story of Gay Icon Erotic Artist Tom of Finland
His artwork is ingrained in every gay man’s mind. Images of insanely masculine, impossibly endowed leather and denim clad super men forcefully frolicking with one another in sado-masochistic flavoured scenes and over the top caricatures of fetish and aggressive erotic situations. If you are a practicing homosexual over the age of at least 30,...
Spring Cleaning? Join The Housing Works Thrifts #CleanOutGiveBack Campaign And Get A Chance To Win $50 Gift Certificate!
Donate your gently used high-quality items to Housing Works Thrift Shops and provide thousands of New Yorkers with medical and dental care, mental health services, transgender support, HIV/AIDS support and advocacy. CLICK TO FIND OUT THE HOUSING WORKS THRIFT SHOP LOCATION CLOSEST TO YOU!
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Chauncey Chat : Falling Out with Author, Ingenue and Friend Kenyon Aubin Oster
Have we got a new Chauncey Chat for you! It took some time to complete with both Chauncey and Kenyon’s busy schedule. Chauncey saving lives by day at Housing Works and keeping lives exciting at his numerous DJ gigs around New York City while Kenyon spent nights serving hungry New Yorkers and days promoting...
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Barry Brandon Pulls It All Together With “Etcetera” A Compilation Of Music So Far (Available on iTunes)
Lately the word around the street is riddled with lots of frustration and plain ole bitching about that entity that has taken over pretty much all of our lives : Facebook. Although, we could add a few complaints to the growing list, one of the things that we have to send gratitude towards the big...
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CALL FOR ARTISTS (DEADLINE EXTENDED to 1/2/13) : Submit Work To The 15th Annual “Postcards From The Edge” Exhibiton & Benefit for Visual AIDS
Our very own Chauncey has volunteered at this event for the past two years and even submitted a piece of artwork for last year’s benefit sale. The most exciting part about this event is that the people who submit a postcard sized piece of artwork range from seasoned and successful artists all the way to...
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Exploring Elsewhere : What Did The Transgender Day of Rememberance Mean To You and Me?
This year’s “Transgender Day Of Rememberance” certainly crept up on us and it just proves that although ‘Transgendered” people are making quite a decent amount of headway in the realm of their own civil rights war, the media is still somehow avoiding the topic for the most part and obviously the budget for spreading...
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“Writing An Introduction After Placement of the Final Punctuation” aka “The Night Obama was Reelected” by Chauncey Dandridge
what a goddamn relief! i managed to meander down to Times Square after work tonight…just to see what was going on there. I didn’t know what to expect but was quickly swallowed up in the various pockets and pincushions of excitement around me, subdued for the most part, diluted by worry and doubt and fear...
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Exploring Elsewhere : “Status Update from a Single Issue Voter” by Dominick Pupa
We were so incredibly moved by this status update on the eve of the 2012 election that we asked our friend Dominick Pupa, the author, if we could share it with our readers on The House of Dandridge. He said “Yes We Can”. I am a single issue candidate. For me, that issue is quite...
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(CANCELLED) S©ORPIO RISING! new queer extravaganza debuts Saturday, November 17th in the south bronxxx
* UNFORTUNATELY DUE THE DAMAGE THE BRUCKNER BAR & GRILL ENDURED FROM HURRICANE SANDY THIS PARTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! Come celebrate a Decade of Dandridge on Saturday, November 17th as DJ Chauncey D commemorates the 10th Anniversary to the day he first stepped behind the booth at Bruckner Bar & Grill in...
Love vs. Lust : Meri Wallace’s new play “Tango Fever”slow burns up and into an inferno at Teatro LATEA
We were recently invited to attend one of the highly acclaimed performances of “Tango Fever” by Meri Wallace at Teatro LATEA located within The Clemente Soto Velez Center on Suffolk Street on The Lower East Side. We have been to this wonderfully quirky space, a former public school turned entertainment venue and gallery, several...
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Behold…The 4th Annual MADONNA WORSHIP NIGHT @NowhereBarNYC Sunday, August 5th
Beetlejuice : The 4th Annual Madonna Worship Night Sunday, August 5th 10:00pm-4:00am 22 years ago on Sunday, August 5th, 1990, The Blond Ambition Tour aired on HBO and Z100 LIVE simultaneously. On vacation with his family, without cable access, a very young Chauncey listened to the entire show with no visuals to associate with the...
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H.O.D. Flashback : Chauncey Chat : Falling Into The Music and Mind of Dimitri Minucci
We’ve known Dimitri Minucci for almost a decade, his apartment was very close to a bar that Chauncey used to DJ at and work the door on some nights. As creative people usually find inspiration at the strangest times, someone stationed at a bar nearby is the perfect compatriot to share new creations in the...
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Unprecedented! Five Different Ways To Experience The “DJ Chauncey D” Experience In Just 4 Days
This week is unparalleled in the almost ten year DJ career of one Chauncey D. There are five ways to experience the “DJ Chauncey D Experience” beginning on Thursday, May 3rd and ending on Sunday, May 6th. Here’s the rundown of all the activities you can attend and adventures you can go on! 1....
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Chauncey Chat : The Gospel According To Yolanda!
We recently caught up with the incomparable and irreverent Reverend Roger “Yolanda” Mapes while djing for The Will Clark Show at his last show at Pieces in the West Village. The show has found a new home at The Ritz every Thursday night at 7:00pm. We first met Yolanda while bartending The Hedda...
Trans4/2Digital : SoulXpres – Get Down (Tapio Schnaars Remix)
Introducing yet another new column to The House Of Dandridge, we have Trans4Digital! As an early holiday gift, Chauncey’s housemate Edwin aka The Q Raider suprised him with a digital usb turntable. The machine has the power to play records through your computer and transfer vinyl into mp3s! This is certainly not a...
