Sunday, June 27, 2021
Grant Shaffer's NY See — Pride edition
At the 27th annual Drag March
Photos by Stacie Joy
Last year's edition was a much smaller, and more organic gathering during the throes of the pandemic.
The 27th annual Drag March was an aptly joyous start to Pride Weekend...
... and as the march got underway along Ninth Street ...
The Drag March got its start during the Stonewall 25th anniversary celebrations in 1994.
Here's a HuffPost piece from 2018 with more history:
Brian Griffin, aka Harmonie Moore Must Die, was a member of the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP and Women’s Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM) in the mid-1990s, an activist who saw the power of drag to confront intolerance and practice civil disobedience in a way that also celebrated queerness. But at planning meetings for the Stonewall 25th anniversary celebrations, Griffin told HuffPost, the committee made it clear that it was only interested in presenting a somewhat sanitized version of LGBTQ activism.
"The committee for Stonewall 25 had actually asked — and it still seems quite unbelievable — that they didn't want anyone to show up in leather or drag. It still, 25 years later, blows my mind," Griffin said. "They wanted to normalize the image of gay America for a mass audience. They wanted to present a palatable image of gay men and women, men and women who were normal."
Week in Grieview
Posts this last week included (with a photo in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg) ...
• Report: Mount Sinai Beth Israel decides against plans to relocate and downsize (Monday)
• A Visit to Brix Wines and Barnyard Cheese Shop on Avenue B (Thursday)
• Owners of the Masalawala said to be opening to-go spot for Indian street food on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)
• Who is Savannah Guthrie? This Jeopardy! guest host helped raise $105K for the Bowery Mission (Monday)
• 6 a.m. on the fire escape (Friday)
• A petition to fund Public Land schoolyards for community use (Thursday)
• Last few days for Spring Into Pride at 3rd & B’Zaar (Friday)
• Avenues is a real-estate office-espresso bar opening on 10th Street (Monday)
• Do you have what it takes to Stomp? (Wednesday)
• Sushi next for the former Fresco space on 2nd Avenue (Tuesday)
• City pools reopen (Friday)
• Reopenings on Avenue A: the Library, Sing Sing (Monday)
• A residential conversion for the former storefront at 111 St. Mark's Place (Tuesday)
• Al Horno Lean Mexican Kitchen looks to have closed on 1st Avenue (Monday)
• Notes for Apt. #2 (Wednesday)
• A quick turnover at 328 E. 6th St. (Wednesday)
... and congratulations to S'MAC owners Sarita and Caesar Ekya, who celebrated 15 years in the East Village on Thursday... (photos by Lola Sáenz)...
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Savannah Guthrie raised $217k for the Bowery Mission while guest host of 'Jeopardy!'
In honor of the late Alex Trebek, the show matches contestant winnings with a donation to the charity of the guest host's choice.
Guthrie's choice was The Bowery Mission. After her first week, she raised more than $105,000.
And upon completion of her second week, she totaled $217,985 ...
A total of $217,985 goes to The @BoweryMission as part of @SavannahGuthrie’s two-week stint as guest host! pic.twitter.com/Nn1g2fYTG8
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) June 25, 2021
Young red-tailed hawks are off to a flying start in Tompkins Square Park
These photos by Steven from earlier this past week show one of Amelia and Christo's offspring heading out of the Park and onto a building on Seventh Street...
... and a rare photo of the siblings together...
... and with Papa Christo...
...and some bonus footage via Greg Masters of one of the juveniles with his very first pigeon...
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Celebrating the work of Jillian Jonas, who captured 'a golden age of LGBTQ+ nightlife and performance'
Per the description:
Jillian Jonas was the house photographer at the legendary Boy Bar on St. Mark's Place in the early 1990s, where she captured thousands of images of drag performers who mixed gender-bending and illusion with downtown in-your-face attitude. This collection includes images not only from Boy Bar, but the Pyramid Club, Wigstock, the Gay Pride Festival, and dozens of other downtown nightlife and performance venues of the early-to-mid 1990s.
Her pictures capture a golden age of LGBTQ+ nightlife and performance, as well as an edgy slice of life when drag and blurred boundaries of gender were just beginning to make inroads into the broader public consciousness, largely through this vibrant local scene.
You can check out the collection here.
An art collective today at First Street Green Art Park
The free event includes some (unplugged) musicians:
Momentum 1 p.m. (Jazz)
Dave Scott 2 p.m. (solo)
Aliens 3 p.m. (art duo)
Lün Badi 4 p.m. (solo)
The show takes place from noon to 6 p.m. at First Park, 33 E. First St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue.
[EVERYTHINGISM] on 9th Street this weekend
NYC-based photographer/multidisciplinary artist Avery J. Savage is hosting [EVERYTHINGISM], a solo exhibit of his work today and tomorrow at Chiro-fit, 432 E. Ninth St. between Avenue A and First Avenue.
You can check out his work today from noon to 7 p.m. and tomorrow from noon to 4 p.m. (You can book a time slot here.)
Friday, June 25, 2021
Friday's parting shot
Hold the phone
The debut full-length record from the Brooklyn-based Pom Pom Squad — a Friday at 5 favorite of late — is out today.
The audio clip here is for "Drunk Voicemail."
You can read an interview with lead singer/lyricist Mia Berrin at NPR.
Free vaccinations tomorrow at Middle Collegiate Church
Last few days for Spring Into Pride at 3rd & B’Zaar
This is the last few days for Spring Into Pride over at 3rd & B’Zaar, the mixed-vendor market and event space at 191 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.
The space, featuring 30 local designers, vintage sellers and artists, ends its two-month run on Monday. Hours: 1-6 p.m.
The organizers have held a variety of special events here in recent weeks, including a Drag Bingo night, which EVG contributor Stacie Joy documented...
3rd & B’Zaar debuted late last year with a month-long Holiday Market ... followed by Sex, Love & Vintage in February.... with several art shows in between.
Organizers will soon unveil the next theme for 3rd & B’Zaar this summer.
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