Bars and Nightclubs

November 25, 2017

Scene Stealers: Welcome to the Campiest Place on Earth

Scene Stealers By BROOKS BARNES GREAT FALLS, Mont. — When a study recently found Great Falls the least gay-friendly city in Montana, one man wrote on […]
October 27, 2017

Up Next: An Artist and Hostess Who Calls Herself an Alt-Kardashian

Advertisement DeSe Escobar Age: 28 Hometown: Pasadena, Calif. Now Lives: In a small two-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side, with a shower in the kitchen. […]
September 6, 2017

Where to Party in New York This Fall

A few weeks ago, a subterranean lounge named Mailroom began luring downtown types to the financial district with the siren call of free drinks, food from […]
August 19, 2017

Who Needs the Hamptons When You Have the Parker House?

SEA GIRT, N.J. — “I have a time share with the dance floor — I own the front and center,” Chris Fedroff, 27, said to his […]
July 19, 2017

Amanda Lepore, Transgender Club Diva, Tells All About Her Plastic Surgery

The transgender night life diva Amanda Lepore is, to quote the filmmaker Joel Schumacher, a “moving sculpture,” a person who has made her own body her […]
June 28, 2017

The Carry Nation, a Downtown D.J. Duo, Drums Up a Hypnotic Beat

Hookup apps may be the rage, but give people a good beat to dance to, and they’ll still line up to party down. Proof comes Friday […]
June 11, 2017

Death of a Downtown Icon: Remembering Benjamin Cho

Benjamin Cho’s best friends want to make it clear, one after the other, that everyone was Benjamin Cho’s best friend. That whenever or wherever they met […]
May 23, 2017

Styles Q. and A.: Pedro Winter on Daft Punk and the Paris Party Scene He Defined

Back in the early aughts, Ed Banger Records was the leading exporter of glitchy French electronic dance music and a Parisian cool-kid scene that orgiastically blended […]
February 28, 2017

Gay Bars and Broadway: They Go Together

In the age of “Hamilton” and “Aladdin,” when shows can gross $2 million a week, gay bars are reflecting the boom with brassy Broadway nights. At […]
November 16, 2016

Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics

The wall on the left side of Neary’s, a green-canopied Irish restaurant and bar on East 57th Street that will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, […]