Bartender Jonny Tingle in tonight's Jackie 60 House of Rapture!

How are you gonna make money?

What a gorge party.
Thanks Mr. Joe & Hattie.
I'm going to bed...
full report tomorrow.

That picture is fantastic Johnny. Jackie's very own John Voight and Jane Fonda. see behind them....

fun night.

I didn't see that.
What an eye you have Rob!

RAPTURE CAFE's Mr. Joe (on the right) with slim & trim & gorgeous Anna Nicole.

(Anna Nicole, I know you are shy about your picture so I'll take it down if you want but I think you look great and should work it a bit. I just hope your tits don't go down another cup size. I may never talk to you again because I'm that shallow.)

AN/ You look great! and Mr. Joe/ Are you auditioning for Fiddler on the Roof? I love the beard.

I love Daddy photoshop... bless... can u do all of my facebook pics please!! LOL

I think maybe we'll have a closing party for the show too-- date TBA, Maki so you (and others) can see the vid-- the opening party was that great!

BTW today we installed the framed original poster (complete with chocolate pudding handprints) from the very first Jackie Brown Party, on loan from the directors of the Hathaway Trust. Better late than never-- but it had to happen!

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No photoshop Anna Nicole, that's you.

A closing party is a good idea.
So many people want to watch the video again.

Daddy pointing out to Flowryder the invite that marked Flowryder's very first Jackie and Flowryder saying he didn't think so LOL.

The clip of the last Jackie with Bobby Miller on stage presenting his member attired in a golden glitter pouch much to the audiences admiration.

Me pulling out a couple invites saved (S.C.U.M. - Society for Cutting Up Men and Shlockfest '95) and more than one person saying, "I have a whole drawer full of those."

Just the sheer relentlessness of the show, making the point this party was week after week after week for so many years.

Hattie looking unbelievable on stage in a million different weekly outfits.

I agree, Old "Scene Stealer" Hathaway was riviting.
She is going to steal every scene in he movie!

Animals, small children and Hattie Hathaway...

hattie "the moth" hathaway.

Early October 2007 At Rapture Café & Books

We are saddened to open with the news that Downtown Rock & Literary legend Dean Johnson passed away suddenly and unexpectedly recently while on a visit to Washington D.C. The details are still murky, but we at Rapture Café will sorely miss our friend and frequent partner-in-crime.

In the early 1980's I had the privilege of instituting a fledgling weekly Tuesday Night music series at the brand new Pyramid Club on Avenue A. The series was called Black Tuesday: New Music Without Apology, and Dean Johnson's first musical endeavor, Dean & the Weenies, was the foremost of a tiny handful of new bands that provided the impetus for my concept-- at the time, bands which strayed from the musical norm were all but ignored by the music industry, even the so-called Indies. And being out, and gay and in-your-face, as well shaking up the the traditional instrumental lineup were what Dean & the Weenies were all about. Dean's incredible stage presence, his appearance-- 6'5", bald and wearing a short black dress, large earrings and wrap around sunglasses-- his vocal style: spoken rap-rhymes set to a punky, frenetic instrumentation, and his sardonic, incisive and downright clever lyrics, turned each of their performances into a revolutionary cultural statement. And the fact that his band was made up of the most amazingly diverse grouping-- people of all sexual persuasions, genders and musical influences-- made them literally spokesmodels for our little family of in-house misfits at The Pyramid.

As the years went by, Dean, rather than live off his laurels, consistently re-invented himself: Rock 'n Roll Fag Bar (proving early on that queers didn't solely worship disco music,) HomoCorps, The Velvet Mafia, Night Of A Thousand Stevies impetus, XXX party promoter, sex worker, and blogger extraordinaire. An amazing legacy from an amazing friend. May he rest in peace!



Our Lineup This Month...

Tuesday October 2nd, 8PM
FunFest!
Free Admission

We do love watching short films here at Rapture! Tonight, the people from FunFest! will be showing short, indie cinematic gems of all genres, speaking with the filmmakers themselves and encouraging much mingling with like-minded souls out for a good time.

Tonight, FunFest! will have a very special guest-- the amazing flmmaker Jeri Sopanen (My Dinner With Andre, etc.) and will feature some of his early work!

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Wednesday October 3rd, 8PM
Dean Johnson's Reading For Filth
Free Admission


Despite the untimely passing of Rock 'n Roll Fag Legend, Dean Johnson, Reading For Filth will go on as scheduled this Wednesday at Rapture Cafe:

New York City and the world beyond has sadly lost a true friend this week. Fierce ruling diva Dean Johnson reigned supreme in a Barnum-esque fashion over downtown New York's three-ring circus of freaks for 25 years. He will be truly missed.

Dean's body of work, his triumphs and his tragedies are legendary and well documented. In the past year Dean began producing volumes of written work via his blog on Myspace.com, yet another arena that witnessed Dean's fearlessness, his "fuck you's" and the honesty and articulate way in which he expressed his unique place in this world. His blog fast became as big in cyberspace as he and his parties and shows were in natural space.

Inspired by his own output, Dean curated READING FOR FILTH: QUEER WRITERS READ QUEER SEX STORIES back in June. Taking the stage in yet another way, Dean read from his blogs and made way for folks like John Cameron Mitchell, Taylor Meade, Joey Arias, Amanda Lepore and scores of other luminaries to share their own stories. October was to see the second installment of READING FOR FILTH each Wednesday. Despite the tragic loss of our host, we have decided that even now and true to form, Dean wants the show to go on.

This Wednesday will serve as a celebration of Dean's life, as per his family's wishes. We will continue this and each Wednesday to go
on with the reading series as scheduled. Please feel free to bring photos, music, writings or any other Dean Johnson-related
memorabilia for the Honoring Wall which has already sprung up around our stage.

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Thursday October 4th, 9PM
Dags & Fykes
Free Admission

Dee Finley & Lulu's weekly pan-sexual gathering at Rapture geared toward "gents and ladies, gangsters & molls, pirates & wenches, and all residents of Weimar..." Drinks in a teacup, anyone?

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Sunday October 7th, 10PM
OctoberFist!

In the early 1990's Daniel Nardicio, the brains behind D-List Radio, and the "Willy Wonka of Gay Nightlife," combed every village in the German hinterlands from the Black Forest to the Bavarian Alps in order to present to US audiences the only authentic Teutonic harvest festival in North America. Rolling out the barrels, brewing up the hops, and donning unwieldy colorful folk costumes was never so much fun before! With a distinctly gay slant, Nardicio named this brand of lunatic festivity Octoberfist, and a Downtown nightlife legend was born! Expect lots of beer, buxom pigtailed mädchen in dirndles, graceless group dances and drunken chorales, stern men in tight liederhosen, and incredible shows inspired by the finest spectacles in the Tiergarten.

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Monday October 8th8PM
“FEATURING…” hosted by Linda James
Free Admission

Linda James owns Mondays at Rapture. In addition to a show-stopping, jaw-dropping, eye-popping number, tonight Linda will screen the classic drive-in film, "Elvira". Popcorn will be served. Music by DJ Baby K!

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Tuesday October 9th, 8PM
Featurewell.com presents
Going Places: Revelations From the Road
Free Admisssion

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of Featurewell.com, the international syndication agency presents Going Places: Revelations from the Road. Renowned journalists Janine diGiovanni, Tom Clynes, Stanley Mieses and Beth Levine will read tonight.

Founded in 2000, Featurewell.com markets articles and columns by more than 1000 top writers to newspapers, magazines and Web sites worldwide. Featurewell.com also syndicates articles that initially appear in The New York Observer, TV Guide, E/The Environmental Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Reason, In These Times, Nextbook.org, The Hill and Mother Jones.

The reading is free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE READERS

Tom Clynes is a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure,
and author of the book "Wild Planet: 1,001 Extraordinary Events for
the Inspired Traveler." His stories have appeared in Popular Science,
Backpacker, Men's Journal, New York magazine, and The Washington Post,
among other publications, Tom is a Pew Fellow in International
Journalism, and his features often appear in Houghton-Mifflin's "Best
American" series of anthologies.

Janine di Giovanni worked for 17 years reporting wars and conflicts
before moving to Paris and becoming a mother three years ago, where
she now writes books and columns and is a contributing editor at
Vanity Fair. She has won four major journalism awards, including the
National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Awards and
Britain's Foreign Correspondent of the Year. Her last book "Madness
Visible: A Memoir of War" (Vintage Books) has been optioned by
Revolution Studios and was called "one of the best books ever written
about war" (The Arizona Republic). She is currently writing a novel
about war photographers.

Beth Levine is a Connecticut-based writer who contributes to Ladies'
Home Journal, Woman's Day and Beliefnet.com, among many others. She is
the author of many essays, one of which is included in the recent
book, "Blindsided by a Diaper," published by Three Rivers Press.

Stanley Mieses is a writer, editor and broadcast commentator and
native New Yorker who rarely travels without packing his own pillows.
He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker and features editor of
New York Newsday, and currently is a regular commentator on several
National Public Radio programs.

Featurewell.com is a grassroots electronic marketplace which offers articles and photos by journalists. It's free to read any article, but editors must purchase the content they choose to publish.

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Wednesday October 10th
Dean Johnson's Reading For Filth:
Queer Writers Read About Queer Sex
Free Admission


Tonight: Eric Leven, Jake Shears, JoeMyGod, Miss Understood & Michael Cunningham

Reading For Filth is proud to present two incredible bloggers, a pop icon, a larger-than-life drag personality and a Pulitzer Prize winner!

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Thursday October 11th, 9PM
Dags & Fykes
Free Admission

Dee Finley & Lulu's weekly pan-sexual gathering at Rapture geared toward "gents and ladies, gangsters & molls, pirates & wenches, and all residents of Weimar..." Drinks in a teacup, anyone?

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Friday October 12th, 8 PM- Midnight
Drag Bingo To Benefit the East 9th Street Soup Kitchen

Tonight, Rapture gives over our premises to a very worthy cause, the East 9th Street Soup Kitchen, which feeds about 1500 needy people each week. $20 includes 5 Bingo Cards as we Fight Hunger While Playing Bingo!
The evening will be hosted by Richard DeFonzo as Joan Rivers, with Prizes, Surprises and Special Guest Stars!
presented by Trinity Services And Food for the Homeless (S.A.F.H.)

Plus... our own Mother Flawless Sabrina & the lovely Curtsi have graciously donated their time to waitress the event!

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Monday October15th, 8PM
“FEATURING…” hosted by Linda James
Free Admission

Linda James owns Mondays at Rapture. In addition to a show-stopping, jaw-dropping, eye-popping number, tonight Linda will screen a classic drive-in film. Tonight's offering: "Teen Witch". Popcorn will be served. Music by DJ Baby K!

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Tuesday October 16th, 8PM
FunFest!
Free Admission

We do love watching short films here at Rapture! Tonight, the people from FunFest! will be showing short, indie cinematic gems of all genres, speaking with the filmmakers themselves and encouraging much mingling with like-minded souls out for a good time.

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Wednesday October 17th, 8PM
Dean Johnson's Reading For Filth
Free Admission

Tonight: Adam Dugas, Wayne Hoffman & Murray Hill

A musical phenomenon, a best-selling author and Downtown's Mr. Showbiz himself!


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Coming...

Friday October 19th, 9PM
Glenn Marla Presents
Heavy: The Heavy Metal Edition
with Thane Torres, J.J. & Moonshine

Saturday October 20th, 8PM
Reading: Werewolves & Monsters

Tuesday October 23rd, 8PM
Edgar Oliver

Will be by tonight - looking forward to Miss U's reading.

Readings At Rapture...

Saturday October 13th, 8PM
Paul Dawson
Free Admission

You may recognize Paul Dawson (AKA Pinto) from the big screen (Shortbus, Urbania,) the small screen (Strangers With Candy, Law & Order,) or the stage (The Jackie Factory's infamous Portland, OR show), but Mr. Dawson is also an excellent writer, in town to debut his forthcoming novel, Little Jack Nag.

In the words of the author:

"Little Jack Nag is a work of fiction disguised as the private journals of my alter ego Jack. Inspired by and originally drafted during three years I spent on the road and around America just after the turn of the millennium, "Little Jack" took me on what was to be the journey of my life."

Werk, our boy Pinto!

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Wednesday October 17th, 8PM
Dean Johnson's Reading For Filth
Free Admission

Tonight: Adam Dugas, Wayne Hoffman & Murray Hill

Just reminding everyone that the Jackie 60 movie footage will be screened again tomorrow night during the intermission of Reading For Filth

I guess intermission is at 9 PM or so? Anyway, we'll see you there..

Yes, Chi Chi - tomorrow night is a "bow" to the gorgeous Jackie 60 video footage (aka "Jackie Cam" by some who attended the Jackie 60 Invite Exhibit opening night party). The footage will screen during the FILTH intermission, and more after the final set of readings.

Tomorrow's Filthy readers, by the way:

Adam Dugas
Viva Domination
Wayne Hoffman
Jonny Tingle

*Murray Hill (originally scheduled for this week) will appear as a guest reader next week on Oct. 24th alongside Kevin Aviance, Chadwick Moore, Jonny McGovern, Aaron Wimmer and our very own Sweetie!

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