Email Author Sharyn Jackson

2010 Stories by Sharyn Jackson

• STRIPPED BARE

  published May 11, 2010

  Breaking into showbiz is never easy, but the delicious downtown entertainer Erin Markey got her start in stage performance when she snagged a... More >>

• HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

  published May 11, 2010

  Mother’s Day may have been a couple weeks ago, but tonight, moms are in the spotlight once again at Hot Mama Burlesque. Hostess Raven Snook,... More >>

• JUST JACK

  published May 11, 2010

  In the Burt Bacharach musical Promises, Promises, Sean Hayes plays an ambitious pushover who lets his higher-ups take advantage of him in order to... More >>

• ISLAND’S END

  published May 11, 2010

  For the past six years, Lost, like Desmond, has been our constant: our constant confusion, our constant frustration, and—this season, in... More >>

• ISLAND’S END

  published May 11, 2010

  The recap band writes its last song tonight after the two-and-a-half-hour episode screens. Sun., May 23, 7 p.m., 2010 More >>

• TOY STORY

  published May 4, 2010

  The festival that brings fan-fic to a whole ‘nother level is back—and it’s taking no prisoners. The GI Joe Stop Motion Film... More >>

• BROKEN OUT

  published May 4, 2010

  If you get stuck in a subway car lined with ads for Nurse Jackie—Edie Falco’s stern face staring you down on the way to your... More >>

• HAG THAT FAG

  published April 27, 2010

  For the second year running, the girls who didn't recoil when their best friends came out to them on the playground (and, in many cases, opted to... More >>

• HEY MISTER

  published April 20, 2010

  Borscht Belt vet Murray Hill might be getting up there in years, but he's as in touch with the zeitgeist as Justin Bieber. Speaking of transmen,... More >>

• UNDER THE SEA

  published April 20, 2010

  "Dreams really do come true," according to the website for Weeki Wachee Springs (a/k/a the City of Live Mermaids). At the roadside attraction an... More >>

• THE OFFSPRING

  published April 13, 2010

  Dan Savage, nationally renowned columnist of "Savage Love," may know a thing or two about sex, but one concept that remains a mystery even to him... More >>

• DRESSING UP FOR THEATER

  published March 24, 2010

  While the Obies don’t dole out awards for best drag number, there’s no denying that good drag requires a level of theatrics on par with... More >>

• ALL HAIL THE QUEENS

  published March 24, 2010

  Those who fear that the gay agenda has something to do with homosexuals taking over the world will be both vindicated and terrified by the... More >>

• THE QUESTIONNAIRE

  published March 24, 2010

  We might still be recuperating from the party celebrating Michael Musto’s 25 years as a columnist at the Voice, but we’d never... More >>

• BRUSH UP ON YOUR RUSSIAN

  published March 24, 2010

  If your knowledge of Russian consists mainly of the words "Pravda," "vodka," and "Do svidanya," you've got your work cut out for you. The Maly... More >>

• BETWEEN THE LINES

  published March 24, 2010

  Jules Feiffer began cartooning for the Voice in 1956 and, over the course of his career, has won a Pulitzer, an Oscar, a Lifetime... More >>

• GOLD BOND

  published March 16, 2010

  A perusal of Justin Bond's recent tweets reveals what a charmed life it is to be the premier gender- and genre-bending performance artist... More >>

• FIGHT CLUB

  published March 16, 2010

  If you're already as tired of the 3-D film craze as we are, skip Tim Burton's new pic and experience 3-D in its original form: live people.... More >>

• NICE TATS

  published March 9, 2010

  If the sight of a full sleeve of body art makes you see hearts (with the word "Mom" penned across it, naturally), INKED Speed Dating is for... More >>

• FLIGHT OF FANCY

  published March 9, 2010

  If there's one good thing that has come out of the recession for Eric Wallach, creator of Flight 18, it's the empty retail space. The... More >>

• FEMINIST AT 40

  published March 2, 2010

  You can personally congratulate/console Sapphire for the Oscar wins/losses of the film based on her searing novel Push. She’s one... More >>

• JAZZ HOT BABY

  published March 2, 2010

  Whether you fell for her along with Seth Green in Can’t Hardly Wait, or wished you were cool enough to drive a hearse as she did in... More >>

• PARTY LIKE A PERSIAN

  published February 23, 2010

  When did Purim become the coolest Jewish holiday ever? (Sorry, Shavuot . . .) The one day a year that kids go to Hebrew School dressed in clown... More >>

• HOT AND COLD

  published February 16, 2010

  You know it's summer in New York when your mascara melts before you've even left the house—and when theater festivals fill every spare,... More >>

• NUNSENSE

  published February 16, 2010

  Charles Busch has a habit of writing plays about Hollywood; now, he's donning a Hollywood-inspired habit in The Divine Sister. The... More >>