Weekend Event Roundup: July 18-20![]() Care of The Sword's tireless editors, we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in the two meccas we currently have bandwidth to cover, San Francisco and New York. Check back soon to see us cover more gay urban centers near you (sorry, Cheyenne, we may never get to you). Our heavily editorialized listings after the jump...
Friday Tits @ The Transfer198 Church Street 10PM Check out this new, semi-monthly mixed and punky hoe-down replete with free forties of Old English. The giveaway sums up the crowd better than we ever could: expect scene fags and haircut dykes turning it out until well past last call. $4.
![]() Charlie Horse @ The Cinch 10 PM, show at midnight It's
a hike if you don't live in the Russian Hill/Nob Hill/'Loin vicinity,
but this rock-centric drag show hosted by the ever-soused Anna Conda beat out Trannyshack last year for best drag show. Tonight: Monster Show Invasion Co-Hosted by Cookie Dough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 9PM - 2AM DJ's Richie Panic and Jeffrey Paradise spin their eclectic-electro-punk-dancey best at this weekly hipster haven where you're just as likely to make out with a gay boy wearing a kaffiyeh as you are to get elbowed by a baby-dyke with lipstick smeared all over her face. ...read more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chrome @ The Gangway841 Larkin Street 10PM - 2AM The kids who bring you Trans Am on the 1st Saturday of the month bring you this sister party, on third Saturdays, for the homo bicycle mafia and their Converse-clad admirers up in Polk Gulch. $5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9th & Harrison 10PM - 4AM The sloppiest kids in town are colonizing the Stud for this Saturday night party, featuring drink specials for exhibitionists, live whip cream wrestling and Frat House DJ Kidd Sysko. ...read more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190 Folsom Street Salon Nights and Andre Shannon
present this filthy get-together with DJ Robbie Martin and featuring TitanMen Exclusive Chad Manning. Expect loud music and a mixed crowd of pervs. $10. More info here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Midnight Mass - Pee-Wee's Big Adventure @ Bridge Theater3010 Geary Street Midnight til the show ends (think 3 AM) "There's no basement at the Alamo!" This week's pre-show is the much loved "Peaches' Playhouse," featuring Precious Moments as Jambi and Puttanesca as Charo. And as with all Midnight Masses, you're there for the pre-show and the first half hour of the movie, tops. Only the hardcore cult movie people stay for the whole thing. Tix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday Beer Bust @ The Eagle398 12th Street Every Sunday, 3PM to 7PM Hey, it's actually warm out! So chill out with some beers out-of-doors at this weekly $10 all-you-can-slug bear fest. Whatever you do, for god's sake, don't go in there wearing any cologne....read more
![]() Cocktailgate @ Truck 1900 Folsom @ 15th Suppositori
Spelling hosts this weekly venue for turning your Sunday hangover into
a Monday hangover. She works the room, performs and generally spazzes
out for your drinking pleasure...read more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Friday ![]()
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ![]() Star Fridays @ Star Lounge With everyone wearing sweatpants and fucking Crocs these days, come
back to Chelsea for some style and red velvet-and-chandelier-style glamour.
Nick Van Bremen and Matt Tratner host with DJ Lina and a V2 vodka open bar from 10 to 11. ...read more 4- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tingel Tangel Club @ Deitch Studios4-40 44th Dr., Long Island City 8PM - midnight, free The Pixie Harlots and Earl Dax bring you this little taste of Weimar Berlin to NYC, featuring Novice Theory, Narcissister and DJ Mondolucien. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday ![]() The Big Time @ The Ritz 369 W 46th Street We think the name of DJ JonJon Battles new party at The Ritz is probably meant ironically, or it's a reference to the Peter Gabriel song. Anyway, try to stay clear of that narrow-ass corridor and enjoy the electro-pop goodness while sipping that low-carb vodka soda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rated X / The Panty Party @ Don Hill's551 Greenwich @ Spring 10PM, $5-10 This week Don Hill's transforms into Rockaway Beach for this dirty, dirty beach-themed party and if you check your pants you get 2 for 1 drinks all night. Dress code includes beachwear, shark-themed attire, and/or scuba gear. Hosts James Coppola and Neon Music are joined by DJs Michael T, Theo the hot body contest (bikini/speedo required) at 2AM ...read more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schmooze Saturdays @ HK523 9th Ave 10PM - 4AM Marc Berkley's come uptown with everyone else and hosts this weekly party featuring Ginelle Gordon singing her ass off and a bunch of hotties boozing it up and schmooze-talking their way into Sunday. Anyway, we always like a bar with a nice bathroom and multiple levels. We don't like standing still ...read more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . We love The Cock, except when they spray that
glow in the dark shit on everyone. The East Village was ahead of the
curve in bringing the dirtiness back to gay life in the late 90s ...read more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticklyn @ Sugarland221 N. 9th Street (Williamsburg) 10PM - 4AM Brooklyn: it's where half the under-thirty gays live now anyway. DJ Emjay spins deep house, etcetera for the Manhatts party monsters and Billyburg homos alike. ...read more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday Garden of Ono @ Hotel Gansevoort18 9th Avenue 6 PM - Midnight Josh Wood, DJ Steve Travolta and hosts Nick Van Bremen and Erik Bottcher are bringing back this series of summer garden parties, on the roof in the Meat Packing District. Last year Michael Musto gushed it was "a big oh-yes," and though everyone in New York tires of things really quickly, Cuckoo Club still hasn't died so maybe this more mellow alternative won't either. Reserve a cabana ahead if you want to be fancy like that. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's getting a little mobbed after midnight at this glam weekly fete, but given that Sundays are for drinking ...read more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rendezvous @ The Ritz349 W 46th Street 4PM It may not be as scene-y as the Garden of Ono fete downtown, but DJ Lina (and sometimes Adam Joseph) and the boys of Hells Kitchen rock out at this summer Sunday mixer with two outdoor patio decks and happy hour prices until 7PM. ... more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See more events in San Francisco and New York. | save to del.icio.us | digg it | facebook it | Comments (0) 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Weekend Event Roundup: July 18-20. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.thesword.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3569 |
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