Nightclubs: Last News

awkwardly grooving at the London nightclub KOKO with pals, presumably for his 41st birthday.But according to a source, the evening was so much fun that they’re looking to make it an annual tradition for the possible future monarch.“William’s friends had the idea to take him out to a nightclub for his birthday,” an insider told Us Weekly. They continued, “William was skeptical at first but then decided to step out of his comfort zone and do something he hasn’t done in years.

RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) showing off the nail marks she sustained from the belligerent man. “Wasn’t going to post about this but might as well tell you babies to stay safe out there,” Muse, 29, wrote.

After a steady, decade-long decline in the number of LGBTQ bars and clubs in Washington, D.C., the trend has finally reversed: 2023 saw the opening of several new venues, adding to a similar number that emerged in 2022.As a result, the D.C. area now counts at least 20 LGBTQ watering holes and safe spaces to call its own.

What makes a good gay bar? Does it depend on the DJ or dance floor? Is it the strong drinks or the decor? Or maybe it depends on what cute people come in (or who you go home with at the end of the night)? In reality, it’s not one thing. The ability to be considered a “good,” if not the best, gay bar requires an ambiance composed of many things. And in Washington, D.C., there is no shortage of options.

arrested last June for using Ramirez’s credit card to buy two pairs of Nike sneakers for $544.38 at an upscale store in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood — just hours after Ramirez’s dead body was discovered inside a cab on the city’s Lower East Side. Prosecutors claim the group was also seen entering and leaving the townhouse where Umberger was staying on the night he was killed, and driving off in a red Dodge Durango, which had been rented to Demaio. After police arrested Demaio, they found two videos on his phone showing him, Hamilton, and Umberger, who appeared to be unconscious, inside the townhouse, reports The New York Post.Appearing in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon, Hamilton pleaded not guilty to the indictment.

epitomized late 1970s hedonism in NYC — and even made partner-swapping mainstream.It was an unlikely path for the Bronx-born Levenson, an absentee father of three who had previously worked as the general manager at a Brooklyn McDonald’s.“Larry was just a dumb guy who lucked into becoming the self-proclaimed king of swing,” Josh Alan Friedman, the former senior editor of sex tabloid Screw magazine, told The Post. For his column, “The Naked City,” Friedman regularly reported on the wild hanky panky at Plato’s, which Levenson, then 41, had opened in 1977. A year earlier, Levenson had been introduced to the lifestyle after meeting a housewife at a cocktail lounge — and then, later at her place, her consenting husband.

Damian Priest was running a popular New Jersey strip club.“It was a good job, paid really well, included an apartment on the boardwalk that Al Capone used to live in apparently, and a free vehicle. I was set,” said Priest, who will be performing at Monday Night Raw at Madison Square Garden.Prior to making his way onto wrestling’s biggest stage, the 39-year-old Bronx native, whose real name is Luis Martínez, ran Stiletto Gentlemen’s Club in Atlantic City.He threw in the towel in 2012 when one of the club’s owners asked him to choose between the club and his then-side gig: wrestling.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” she changed the life of legendary New York club director Steve Adelman.Adelman had booked RuPaul to perform at a club in Boston and she had such a good time that she went back to NYC and recommended him to the assistant of the owner of the Roxy, just as the West 18th Street club was opening up.“But I think she highly over-exaggerated my credentials,” said Adelman, whose new memoir “Nocturnal Admissions: Behind the Scenes at Tunnel, Limelight, Avalon, and Other Legendary Nightclubs,” was released this week. “So I appear at the Roxy with a hockey duffel bag, and I’m anointed director.”That twist — or, make that twirl — of fate in 1989 led to Adelman suddenly being a professional partymeister overseeing the dance-floor revelry and debauchery of New York nightlife’s glory days in the ’90s.

Riot! Opening Party. Billed as “D.C.’s largest pride party and main event,” Riot!, at Echostage, 2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE, will kick off the weekend on overdrive, aided and abetted by headliner Symone, winner of Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, not to mention a bevy of local queens set to work the crowd into a proudful frenzy, including S.H.E., Haus of Bambi, Molasses, Desiree Dik, Jaxknife, Bobby Decanio, and Vagenesis aka National Bearded Empress 2022.

hot-vax summer. As pandemic restrictions loosen up even more, the city that never sleeps is getting in bed with just about everyone.

Studio 54 could be a real zoo.Though many were turned away at the door of the late, great NYC icon — which opened 45 years ago April 26, 1977 — plenty of animals managed to get in.“The live leopard was my favorite — a couple brought it in on a leash,” recalled Gerard Renny, who landed a gig working security at Studio 54 when he was just 18. “They said I could pet it and needed to keep guests away from it.”“I guess I was its bouncer-bodyguard that night,” said Renny, 63, an Upper East Sider who is now director of operations at the ‘70s-themed watering hole Ethyl’s.There was also a snake — the plus one of another guest — slithering at the bar one night.

RuPaul and others spent countless hours being inspired by the depraved music and beauty happening within its walls.“We are another sad consequence of Covid-19,” the club’s final managers, Maria Narciso and Quirino Perez, wrote in an Instagram post Thursday. “The very last night we opened our doors was March 7, 2020.” A post shared by The Pyramid Club NYC (@thepyramidclub)The news came as a surprise to the pair, who were working on reopening plans and had recently received city and state permission to start operating again beginning April 2.

any relief before November looks less and less likely. “Every day that they wait, I get another email or three about venues going under across the country.”Schaefer sighs.

indoor activities — including malls and museums — are still off the table, insiders are scrambling to figure out the future.“Being on a dance floor used to be hot. Now it feels scary,” said Francesco Belcaro, who has hosted nights for the Alley Cat Amateur Theater in the Beekman Hotel downtown and the Paradise club in the Edition Hotel in Times Square — which closed after falling victim to the economic perils of the pandemic.At the buzzy Bushwick club House of Yes, co-owner Anya ­Sapozhnikova sees other places potentially becoming more ­exclusive.“The dance floor is where you make out with strangers,” she said, adding that being out there with fewer, socially distanced people would defeat the purpose.

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