Dr. Sketchy’s is celebrating the New Year with burlesque queen Madame Rosebud in a tribute to the novel, Disco Bloodbath.  AND if you show up dressed in an Angel costume, you get in for FREE! Now what is Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School you might be wondering?  This a life drawing

It’s virtually impossible to sort through the endless amount of mindless romantic comedies produced in the past decade — they’re either almost indistinguishable from one another, or simply hard to ascertain which ones are more offensive than others.  Much has been written (this, this, and this being more to my

As someone who’s recently passed the “mid twenties” mark into the “early late twenties”, I’ve been a bit more fixated on age.  Now I’m not sure if I just happen to be meeting a lot of younger men (I’m talking 22-25-ish) lately or what, but to paraphrase noted philosopher David

UNSILENT NIGHT So tonight is the night for all you Christmas carolers who don’t really sing. Join Phil Kline’s annual Christmastime boombox parade from Washington Square Park to Tompkins Square Park! Each person carries a different musical part of the whole piece creating a 44-minute electronic Christmas Carol which has

In honor of me being kne/erd-deep in Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City, I’ve decided to delve further into the oeuvure of Lita Ford.  For those of you unfamiliar, Lita started out as the guitarist for The Runaways– a band most known for being fronted by Joan Jett (incidentally, a movie

We’ve all met this guy, perhaps several time in our lives, and in various forms.  His roots can possibly be traced as far back as Dylan McKay.   You know who I’m talking about– that semi-disheveled, cooler-than-thou, seemingly confident guy who’s maybe a musician, idolizes Cool Hand Luke, seems to always

To paraphrase Troy McClure in the Planet of the Apes Musical, in my dating life, I’ve definitely felt like every ape from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z–  uh, so to speak.  Specifically, there have been times where I’ve let a relationship go on for too long because of my ridiculous fear of

I’ve already written about what not to wear on a first date, what your dude’s & girl’s celebrity crushes say about them.  But what about things you should be well advised NOT to say? It can be a bit stressful to go on a first date and worry about the