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In 1993, an unhappy Matherson started a "Move Out of New York Before It's Too Late" campaign complete with a hearse, banners and TV ads. [3] An article in 1993 in The New York Times provided details about his campaign, including information that the New York State Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control raided the club one year earlier in 1992 ...
This is a list of notable current and former nightclubs in New York City. A 2015 survey of former nightclubs in the city identified 10 most historic ones, starting with the Cotton Club , active from 1923 to 1936.
The Washington Post wrote in November 1977 that the club attracted "a mix of punks, hairdressers, socialites, and suburbanites", [189] while The New York Times said the club was "tolerant of errant squares". [190] Andy Warhol, a regular guest of Studio 54, said the club was "a dictatorship on the door but a democracy on the dance floor".
In 1982 Les Nickelettes traveled to New York City and presented the cabaret/theatre show Anarchy In High Heels, a compilation of skits and songs from their previous shows. [10] In 1985 the group produced the last Les Nickelette full-length production: Oh Goddess! a spiritual musical comedy play.
Xenon was a popular New York City discotheque and nightclub in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was located in the former Henry Miller's Theatre at 124 West 43rd Street (now the site of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre) which, prior to Xenon, had been renamed Avon-at-the-Hudson and was operating as a porn house.
Plaque commemorating the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City. The ballroom went out of business in October 1958. [22] Despite efforts to save it by Borough President Hulan Jack, Savoy Ballroom manager and co-owner Charles Buchanan, clubs, and organizations, the Savoy Ballroom was demolished for the construction of the Delano Village housing complex between March and April 1959. [23]
Less than a decade after the spectacular commercial failure of his self-titled debut album, Jobriath, who had reinvented himself as New York cabaret pianist Cole Berlin and had disavowed his ...
Reisenweber's Cafe was known for introducing and/or popularizing jazz, [5] cabaret, [2] and Hawaiian dance [3] in New York City, the modern cover charge, [6] and for its high-profile Volstead Act lawsuit and shutdown decree during Prohibition. [7]