When I got to see FORCE MAJEURE’s October/Halloween show (because by law anything in October is part of greater-metro Halloween), I was told by Tanya Solomon, the show’s MC-Impressario-organizer-producer (who is also a magician-comedian-hyphen hoarder), that her mission was to bring back the variety show. I wondered, but didn’t ask,

While Bushwick Book Club combines bitchin’ music with works of literature, the Inbred Hybrid Collective’s book club multiplies the sexiness of reading times five. Their Burlesque Book Clubs feature local artists and performers in shows about a piece of literature. They’re starting the year with The Curious Sofa, Edward Gorey’s

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

I am awed by many things in New York ‘“ the women in spike heels lugging their lives on their shoulders who still manage to look captivating, the indefatigability of the squirrels in Washington Square Park come fall, and the strangely comforting bellow of the subway evangelical preachers.  But, one