Sad to learn that Buffalo, NY’s stellar venue Sugar City is closing down.
I brought my Richard Hunt show there in January 2010, and they were one of the most well-organized and professional places I’ve ever performed — slightly ironic because they’re so DIY!
Colin Dabkowski does a nice tribute to them here, including a shoutout to yours truly! Hope they find a new space.
I’ve had a longtime goal of publishing 100 times by my upcoming birthday. Happily, my recent Greenpeace piece (“Greenpiece”?) put me over the top! 101 publications: 47 articles/editorials; 18 poems; 13 essays/creative non-fiction; 10 zines; 8 reviews; and 5 NYT Metropolitan Diary entries. What fun!
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I was asleep on Amtrak, traveling down the Hudson after a long weekend at my parents’ place near Albany, going back to my home in New York. Continue reading
Why do we speculate on the love lives of puppets? Because it tells us so much about ourselves.
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending the opening reception for the new Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. 
And I’ll be commemorating what would have been Hunt’s 60th birthday with a public event later this month!
Please enjoy my eyewitness account from the Stonewall Inn on the night gay marriage came to New York state, “Does Gay Marriage Endanger Queer Community?” While gay marriage is a great step forward for many families, let us never forget that we are family.
And a bonus article! Has Dan Savage’s fatphobia finally gone too far?
