BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In recent years, the LGBT community has adopted the issue of anti-gay bullying as a cause célèbre, leveraging tragic, high-profile cases to shine a light on intolerance and advance gay rights. More often than not, the issue is reduced to black and white — bullies are evil, victims are saints. For [...]

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN  |  On January 12th, more than ten weeks after the devastating storm surge of Hurricane Sandy hit the Chelsea gallery district with unexpected and unprecedented force, things finally seemed to be getting back to normal. That day, the last group of galleries located on the block of 27th Street, between 11th Avenue [...]

BY JERRY TALLMER | For Teresa Deevy, playwright, born 1894, the sounds of silence were everywhere. For Katie Roche, house worker, not yet twenty years old — lovely, impatient, illegitimate Katie of little Lower Ballygar, Ireland — the temptations to greatness, particularly the call of the convent, were everywhere. But none of it went anywhere. [...]

BOOK RELEASE: REVEREND BILLY’S “THE END OF THE WORLD” No definitive word from the mountain as to whether the world will end with a bang or a whimper — but when it does, you can tell the desperate citizens fighting over the last Twinkie that Reverend Billy tried to warn us all. The righteous trickster [...]

  Iconic dancer maker’s company lovingly reinvents BY GUS SOLOMONS JR  |  How does a dance company survive after the death of its founding choreographer? That’s the question companies like Ailey and Limón have wrestled with successfully — by expanding their repertoires with works by new choreographers who reflect consonant aesthetic points of view. The [...]

Classic clown Avner defies logic, gravity Having fallen hard during Hurricane Sandy only to make a spectacular recovery, the newly refurbished Canal Park Playhouse — a frequent host to jugglers, magicians and all manner of vaudevillians — welcomes to its previously warped boards a thoroughly warped  performer who bends the rules of gravity, and logic, [...]

French cinema fest a state-of-the-art survey of Gallic film BY RANIA RICHARDSON  |  “Renoir,” a lush, languid film that follows the aging impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son, legendary filmmaker Jean, is a highlight in Rendez-Vous with French Cinema — the annual state-of-the-art survey of Gallic film. Now in its 18th year, Rendez-Vous will [...]

Exhibitions draw upon interviews, intimate snapshots Open Sesame In this exhibition, organizer Ola El-Khalidi revisits the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which happened on August 2, 1990. The Gulf wars that ensued contributed to the violence that is still very much a part of the region today and which shaped the lives of a whole generation. [...]

Horse Trade’s FRIGID is a fine cousin of CAFF BY SCOTT STIFFLER  |  Taking its cue from our always chilled and frequently cool neighbors to the north, the 30 shows featured in this year’s FRIGID New York Festival are — literally — random acts. Not as large in number of participants, or as physically sprawling [...]

Rev. Jen, on what makes a Mr. Lower East Side BY SCOTT STIFFLER  |  When she’s not conducting guided tours of her Lower East Side Troll Museum, hosting the Anti-Slam at Pyramid Club or writing books (such as the upcoming “BDSM 101”), chances are elf-eared art star icon Saint Reverend Jen is busy prepping for [...]