Email Author Sharyn Jackson

2008 Stories by Sharyn Jackson

• GO TRANNY, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!

  published October 22, 2008

  Whether you were born too late or were just too boring to have ever been invited to one of Warhol's infamous Factory parties, you can finally buy... More >>

• SEE DEAD PEOPLE

  published October 22, 2008

  On any other day of the year, if we saw zombies roaming the streets, we'd think it was just the result of a coffee shortage. But today, the reason... More >>

• CASTING CALL

  published October 22, 2008

  Many believe in the power of art as a healing process or coping mechanism. Those (all) of us still traumatized by the Florida voting-booth fiasco... More >>

• IT'S YOUR CHOICE

  published October 8, 2008

  You can't avoid election commentaries, so don't even try. But you do have some control over how you choose to get your daily dose: Fox News or... More >>

• ONE SONG MORE

  published October 8, 2008

  If you're one of those girls (or boys) who sang "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" or "On My Own" in front of your mirror relentlessly from the ages of 13... More >>

• NUCLEAR FAMILY

  published October 1, 2008

  The new opera season might be full of the usual suspects, including boatloads of crowd-pleasing Puccini and Verdi and a full 18 hours of German... More >>

• WORK IT, GIRLS

  published October 1, 2008

  We like these women for their minds, we swear. They probably have great personalities, too. It's not merely the fact that the '40s- and '50s-style... More >>

• FABULOUSLY 4TH STREET

  published September 23, 2008

  For all of the East Village’s glass towers and gentrification run rampant, one block of 4th Street remains fabulous, at least for artists and... More >>

• NO SLOPPY SECOND

  published September 23, 2008

  Tina Fey was already the supreme grand ruler of comedy when her Emmy sweep came along and essentially made her a living legend. And now that we... More >>

• THE VIEW

  published September 23, 2008

  You can't judge a book by its cover, and you certainly can't judge an avant-garde film by its title. Let's look, for instance, at Bruce Connor.... More >>

• POLY WANTS A CUDDLE

  published September 23, 2008

  After a long work week, what more could you ask for than a hug from a stranger? A hug from a hundred strangers, of course. Kicking off Poly... More >>

• HEY THERE, GEORGIE BOY

  published September 23, 2008

  If you ask us, everyone is focusing a bit too much on the wrong George W. The dance-theater artist Ann Liv Young brings us back to our nation's... More >>

• GOLDEN OLDIES

  published September 10, 2008

  It’s been 10 years since the Public Theater opened a cabaret next-door, which has since become one of New York’s pre-eminent small... More >>

• PASTIE-A-GO-GO

  published September 10, 2008

  Fall generally means “back to school,” but for burlesque performers from around the world, it means back to New York for the Sixth... More >>

• LIZA = NEW YORK

  published September 3, 2008

  Liza Minnelli is a resilient gal: At her free concert on Coney Island this summer, the living legend sang her greatest hits from an odd... More >>

• POTTER GOES BAREBACK

  published September 3, 2008

  In Peter Shaffer’s 1975 play Equus, a psychiatrist tries to understand an adolescent boy who has a penchant for going out naked on late-night... More >>

• GESTAPO = BOFFO B.O.

  published September 3, 2008

  Long before Springtime for Hitler became a Broadway hit inside the fantasy world of Mel Brooks’s The Producers, the Nazis were... More >>

• CAT FANCY

  published August 27, 2008

  “Ambassador Baby, Bucket of Cuddle, Confetti, Darling, Evie, Fixodent—these are good cat names,” says Joseph Keckler as he opens... More >>

• SMARTY LONG LEGS

  published August 27, 2008

  She may have a 34½-inch inseam, but the girl’s made of more than just legs. “I have a very expensive piece of paper that says I... More >>

• VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN

  published August 19, 2008

  You’ll never see the Living Theatre do a Disney adaptation, that’s for sure. The company, which was founded in 1947 by Judith Malina and... More >>

• THE END OF THE RAINBOW

  published August 19, 2008

  Darlinda Just Darlinda is over the rainbow: After a year of dressing according to the color of the month (on even months, she wore a single color;... More >>

• THE ORIGIN OF LOVE

  published August 19, 2008

  A couple years ago, at a Hedwig & the Angry Inch tribute concert at Don Hill’s, a packed house of barely legal gay boys looked up with... More >>

• FATHER’S DAY

  published August 12, 2008

  You probably know Hardy Dardy. Considering the number of Midwestern transplants in New York, the likelihood that your dad is a... More >>

• MARGIN NOTES

  published August 5, 2008

  Martha Plimpton and Lucy Wainwright Roche both come from a just-left-of-center pedigree in their respective theater and music worlds, but if the... More >>

• WORLD OF MIRRORS

  published July 29, 2008

  Starting tonight, Spiegelworld, the glitzy, pre-fab performance venue, sets up shop for another season on Pier 17, sousing the smelly... More >>