Email Author Sharyn Jackson

2009 Stories by Sharyn Jackson

• LOLITA COMPLEX

  published March 4, 2009

  The government goes through Pee-wee Herman's private collection of erotic (under-age) art, but somehow Neue Galerie gets a free pass to hang more... More >>

• DUELING PIANOS

  published March 4, 2009

  Rethinking the concept of war ballads, pianist Sarah Cahill invited a few of her colleagues to write reactive new compositions about the war in... More >>

• LIVE FLESH

  published March 4, 2009

  Enough about Studio 54. Get the dirty details about another wild New York nightclub in American Swing, a new doc that remembers the beloved... More >>

• JERSEY BOY

  published February 25, 2009

  They say a good story will take you places, but the storyteller Chris Gethard is making sure of it by loading his audience onto a bus. The comedic... More >>

• CRISPY QUEEN

  published February 25, 2009

  "A lifetime of listening to disco music is a high price to pay for one's sexual preference," English dandy Quentin Crisp once remarked. The... More >>

• ENDGAME

  published February 18, 2009

  Now that depressions are all the rage, relive the last one at Wit's End, a monthly '20s- and '30s-inspired soiree that kicks off tonight.... More >>

• Triple Threat

  published February 11, 2009

  Joseph Keckler cannot be described only as a musical writer, or an opera singer, or a monologuist, because he is indeed all of these things. In... More >>

• Best Oscar Party

  published February 11, 2009

  They’re long, they’re narcissistic, and they deserve to be honored the way only a nebbishy showman knows how. Murray Hill celebrates the... More >>

• Neil Fucking Diamond

  published February 11, 2009

  It’s a wonder the neo-burlesque world didn’t pick up on Neil Diamond sooner. Against all odds, he all but singlehandedly brought sequins... More >>

• IN GOOD SPIRITS

  published February 11, 2009

  If you haven't seen the "not suitable for minors" YouTube video, "Angela Lansbury Relaxing," you are missing out on a real treat: The... More >>

• ACE IN THE HOLE

  published February 4, 2009

  There's nothing documentary theater won't tackle, is there? Crazy Christians, hate crimes, the death penalty, and now "pegging." Pegging is, of... More >>

• POSITIVELY 10TH STREET

  published February 4, 2009

  While any performer who has consistently worked in the downtown theater world for the last 20 years would garner "legendary" status purely because... More >>

• LOWER EAST SILENT

  published January 28, 2009

  Ah, 1925. Calvin Coolidge is in the White House, John Scopes is on trial for teaching evolution, New York becomes the largest city in the world,... More >>

• THE COLORADO PROJECT

  published January 21, 2009

  Colorado Springs is not particularly beautiful. When I worked at a dude ranch and it was the nearest city, my friends and I would drive two and a... More >>

• HISTORY ASKEW

  published January 21, 2009

  If you thought Spitzer had some kind of wacky private life, it's nothing compared to that of Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury, an English governor of... More >>

• DOWN UNDER COMES UP

  published January 14, 2009

  Rosie O’Donnell’s variety show didn’t survive the bad ratings, but maybe the Anna Copa Cabanna Show will have a shot when... More >>

• GOT MLK?

  published January 7, 2009

  With thousands of white kids from the Midwest adopting "Hussein" as their middle name last year, we're expecting the popularity of Martin Luther... More >>

• MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES

  published January 7, 2009

  Performance artist Shelly Mars is hard to pin down. Her characters range from "Jewish lesbian-feminist-separatist-poetess" Zana Anna Rosen... More >>