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UPTOWNTOOLBOX: Charity bingo (9pm)SUITE: Glam Gavin’s karaoke (10pm)WEST END: Open Mic Night (10pm)HELL’S KITCHENPOSH: DJ Xavier Mazara (9pm) HARDWARE: Sutton Lee Seymour & Cacophony Daniels (10pm) THERAPY: Marti Gould Cummings hosts “Stage Fright”  (10pm) closedATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Musical Mondays (10pm)VSBU: “Reel Thirsty Mondays”  movie viewing (10pm) RISE: Honey Davenport (11pm) RITZ: Tina Burner (midnight) INDUSTRY: Marty Thomas’s DIVA (midnight)  Miz Cracker (11pm)EAST SIDEUNCLE CHARLIE’S: BrentContinueContinue reading “Christmas (12.25.2017)”

UPTOWNSUITE: Karaoke Sundays with Glam Gavin (10pm)HELL’S KITCHENHARDWARE: Jasmine Rice & Brita Filter (6pm); Miz Cracker & Monet X Change (10pm);Marti Gould Cummings (11pm)  THERAPY:Paige Turner (10pm)  closedATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Shuga Cain (8pm)POSH: DJ Panos Mitos (9pm) VSBU: Adriana Trenta (10pm) RITZ: DJs David Michael & Eugene Edo (10pm) INDUSTRY: Holly Box-Springs  (midnight)MURRAY HILLLIPS: Superstar Sunday with Morgan Royel (7:30pm)UNCLE CHARLIE’S: piano bar (8pm)CHELSEAEAGLE NYC: SundayContinueContinue reading “Sunday (12.24.2017)”

UPTOWN PARILLA LATIN BISTRO: Jeannie Sol, Sugga Pi Koko & more (10pm) TOWNHOUSE: Live Doo Wop (9pm); Gogo boys downstairs (10pm)ALIBI: Impacto Saturdays (10pm)SUITE: Octavia Anyae (11:30pm)HELL’S KITCHENHARDWARE: JanSport (6pm);DJ 2Face, Elizabeth James & Ruby Roo (10pm)BOXERS HK: Butch Cordera’s Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament (6:30pm);Cafe con Crema Latin dance party (10pm) RITZ: DJ Scotty Rox (7pm);DJ Xavier & TBA  (11pm) ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Tammy Spenks  (10pm)  FAIRYTAILContinueContinue reading “Saturday (12.23.2017)”

Who kept nightlife amazing this year? Literally thousands of amazingly talented and hard-working people. Thotyssey has a point-of-view about stuff, and has hand-picked 250 people and places that really knocked it out of the park this year. Agree or disagree about the choices, that’s your right… and that’s the fun of these lists, isn’t it? SoContinueContinue reading “The tHOTlist 2017”

100)  Marty Thomas Famous Broadway wig and hair stylist Marty Thomas maintains his super-popular weekly revue DIVA at Industry, where he and a cast of female singers and special guests cover the best in pop and showtunes. This year he also started hosting an open mic night at Rise Bar, and he continues to doContinueContinue reading “tHOTlist 2017 # 100 – 51”

150 ) Scarlet Envy One of NY drag’s most beautiful queens shined brilliantly this year: serving the boys fish during a summer residency at Fire Island’s the Island Breeze, gracing National Sawdust in Brooklyn with a luminous multimedia performance via Sasha Valour’s first “NIGHTGOWNS” there, hosting the all-are-welcome weekly Monster party KWIR, and starring inContinueContinue reading “tHOTlist # 150 – 101”

200)  Lady HavokkBrooklyn’s fiercely fashionable queen owns her Aspergers, as she reads you to filth and destroys the physical venue she’s performing in all at once. These days you can catch her at Macri Park.199)  Hystee LauderWhen they’re not Door Goddessing at Bizarre Bushwick, this performance artist’s specialty is making you squirm.198)  Gary CarmichaelThe only drag king toContinueContinue reading “tHOTList 2017 #200 – 151”

250)  Jahlisa A. RossThe newly crowned Miss Project Achieve / Columbia Research Unit (PACRU), this fashion forward dance diva is as inspirational an HIV awareness advocate as she is a drag queen.249)  Svetlana StoliGLAM-nominated door queen of the Voss Events brunch at the Highline Ballroom, Svetlana is astutely political, pleasantly goofy, incredibly Russian, and needs to performContinueContinue reading “tHOTlist 2017 # 250 – 201”

50)  Bizarre BushwickFilmmaker Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire bought the Bizarre property (a large pre-war townhouse in Bushwick) to use as a set for a film project, but in a very Brooklyn twist wound up converting it into a venue where some of the most interesting and intimate drag/burlesque hybrid shows in the city can be found (plus all matterContinueContinue reading “tHOTlist 2017 # 50 – 1”

UPTOWNTOWNHOUSE: Go-Go Boys (9pm)TRIAD THEATRE: Hedda Lettuce: Lettuce Rejoice (9:30pm)SUITE: Brenda Dharling & Miz Cracker (midnight)HELL’S KITCHENPOSH: DJ Kamil (6pm); DJ Alex Mendez (9pm)HARDWARE: MoMo Shade & Kandy Muse (7pm);“Super Size Queen Fridays” with Bootsie LeFaris (11pm) GREEN ROOM 42 @ YOTEL: Stephanie’s Child: PrEP the Halls (9pm)RITZ: DJs Xavier & Eugene Edo (10pm) THERAPY: DJ AJ Sanchez (10pm)RISE: DJ Steve PaulContinueContinue reading “Friday (12.22.2017)”

UPTOWNTOOLBOX: Jack Daniels drink specials (8pm)ALIBI: Caribbean Night (8pm)SUITE: Karaoke with Jackie Dupree (10pm)HELL’S KITCHENRITZ: “Beers & Bears” happy hour upstairs (6pm); Morgan Royel with DJ Scotty Rox (11pm)THERAPY: Shade viewing party with Brita Filter (10:30pm); “14th Annual Christmas Spectacular” with Brita Filter, Michelle Dowdy, Jan Sport, Lagoona Bloo & more (11pm) HARDWARE: Shuga Cain (8pm);Shade viewing party withContinueContinue reading “Thursday (12.21.2017)”

UPTOWNALIBI: Extended happy hour with DJ Poison Ivy (6pm)TRIAD THEATER: The Doris Dear Christmas Special (7pm)TOOLBOX: Karaoke with Jackie Dupree (9pm) WEST END: Golden Delicious (11pm)HELL’S KITCHENBEECHMAN:  Paige Turner’s Christmas Carol (9:30pm) VSBU: Karaoke with Ally Ganza (10pm)ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Men of Adonis Lounge (10pm)POSH: Bear Wednesdays with DJ John Marto (10pm)HARDWARE: Dusty Ray Bottoms  (8pm);Paige Turner (11pm) THERAPY: PixieContinueContinue reading “Wednesday (12.20.2017)”

Coming this weekend to Thotyssey NYC…The tHOTlist! 250 people & places that made the scene in 2017!Are you on the tHOTlist????

UPTOWN / BRONXALIBI: Take It Back Tuesdays, old school Hip Hop & R&B (9pm)TOWNHOUSE: Michael Ferrari hosts an open mic contest (10pm)EVO LOUNGE: Brava Tuesdays (10:30pm)HELL’S KITCHENBARRAGE: Glow Party hosted by Nicolay (5pm)MR. BIGGS: Drag bingo with Chaka Khanvict & Ally Ganza (8pm) FAIRYTAIL LOUNGE: Gogo boys all night (9pm)BEECHMAN: Paige Turner’s Christmas Carol (9:30pm) BOXERS HK:ContinueContinue reading “Tuesday (12.19.2017)”

UPTOWNTOOLBOX: Charity bingo (9pm)SUITE: Glam Gavin’s karaoke (10pm)WEST END: Open Mic Night (10pm)HELL’S KITCHENBASERA: Sugga Pi Koko & FiFi DuBois (7pm) POSH: DJ Xavier Mazara (9pm) HARDWARE: Sutton Lee Seymour & Cacophony Daniels (10pm) THERAPY: Marti Gould Cummings hosts “Stage Fright” with George Wendt & Adam Chandler-Berat (10pm)ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Musical Mondays (10pm)VSBU: “Reel Thirsty Mondays”  movie viewing (10pm) RISE: HoneyContinueContinue reading “Monday (12.18.2017)”

UPTOWN BAAD THEATER: Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo feat. Barbra Herr (8pm) SUITE: Karaoke Sundays with Glam Gavin (10pm)HELL’S KITCHENHARDWARE: Jasmine Rice & Brita Filter (6pm); Miz Cracker & Monet X Change (10pm);Marti Gould Cummings (11pm)  Private event (11pm)STAGE 48: Drag Race: Christmas Queens (9pm) THERAPY:Paige Turner (10pm) ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Shuga Cain (8pm)POSH: DJ Panos Mitos (9pm) VSBU: Adriana TrentaContinueContinue reading “Sunday (12.17.2017)”

UPTOWN / BRONXPARILLA LATIN BISTRO: Jeannie Sol, Sugga Pi Koko & more (10pm) BAAD THEATER: Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo feat. Barbra Herr (8pm) TOWNHOUSE: Live Doo Wop (9pm); Gogo boys downstairs (10pm)ALIBI: Impacto Saturdays (10pm)SUITE: Octavia Anyae (11:30pm)HELL’S KITCHENBEECHMAN: Courtney Act: Lump of Coal (4pm & 9pm)HARDWARE: Monet X Change (6pm);DJ 2Face, Elizabeth James & Ruby Roo (10pm)BOXERS HK: Butch Cordera’s TexasContinueContinue reading “Saturday (12.16.2017)”

UPTOWN / BRONXBAAD THEATER: Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo feat. Barbra Herr (8pm)TOWNHOUSE: Go-Go Boys (9pm)SUITE: Brenda Dharling & Miz Cracker (midnight)HELL’S KITCHENPOSH: DJ Kamil (6pm); DJ Alex Mendez (9pm)BEECHMAN: Alaska: For Heaven’s Snakes! (7pm);Courtney Act: Lump of Coal (9pm)HARDWARE: MoMo Shade & Kandy Muse (7pm);“Super Size Queen Fridays” with Bootsie LeFaris (11pm)  ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: Shane Tate’s “Bear Social” (10pm)FREQ: “SupaFreq″ with KennyContinueContinue reading “Friday (12.15.2017)”