Fempaths: A Kaleidoscopic Cabaret Trantasia!
Mari Moriarty Presents Fempaths: A Kaleidoscopic Cabaret Trantasia! L
ive at The Parkside Lounge
Feb 21 2025
Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
Early Bird $20 / Advance $25 / Door $30
What do music, tarot, and deepthroating have in common? They'll all be on display at Fempaths: a kaleidoscopic cabaret trantasia! Written and performed by Mari Moriarty (creator of Club Shortbus), Fempaths loudly demonstrates the radically different paths trans people forge in America today. From “heros” to “whores”, we are never just one thing and neither is cabaret. So whether you’re a fan of piano, witches, or phallic fruit come to Parkside this February 21st at 7pm!
Runtime: 1 hour
The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Interlude Shadow Cast
Interlude Shadow Cast and Wet Spot Presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show Live at The Parkside Lounge
Feb 21 2025
Doors at 10:15 / Show at 10:30
Early Bird $12 / Advance $15 / Door $2
0
We would like… If we may… To take you on a strange journey… Join Interlude and Wet Spot for evening of absolute pleasure. Dress up, bring props, be loud! Let’s do the time warp again, shall we?
Wet Spot at Parkside: Enid Ellen, Theophobia, and Low Presh
Wet Spot Presents Enid Ellen, Invisible College, and Low Presh Live at The Parkside Lounge
Feb 22, 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Advance $12 / Door $15
A night full of live queer music and chaos with performances by:
Enid Ellen
Invisible College
Low Presh
The Unprofessional Variety Show: The Afterlife
The Unprofessional Variety Show: The Afterlife
Doors 7pm / Show 7:30
An unprofessional, unimportant, and undisciplined cabaret-style night of performance.
You never quite know what you're going to get, but it's always going to be a time.
PERFORMERS
🪐 Clay Woman
👵🏻 Fantasy Grandma
☁️ Joanie Drago
🎤 Paula Merchan
Emceed by Maya Suess @MayaSuess | Accompaniment by Klovis Gaynor @klovisgaynor
If you haven't been to Unprofessional before, check out previous shows on our Instagram page.
Tight 5 Comedy Series
Tight 5 is a comedy series curated and hosted by comedian and performer Greer Dworman. A come-as-you-are comedy show billed with unseasoned comedic performers willing to try stand-up. Universally agreed upon as the scariest thing anyone will ever do (questionably an exaggeration), Tight 5 prompts performers to “Try it. Just try it!" or "Let go and let god!"
Nath Ann Carrera: A Showgirl Turned Criminal
Nath Ann Carrera Presents A Showgirl Turned Criminal Live at The Parkside Lounge
March 1, 2025
Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
Early Bird $15 / Advance $18 / Door $25
Nath Ann returns to the Parkside Lounge with a new evening of original songwriting, intriguing obscurities, and riveting storytelling!
Immerse yourself in an enthralling musical journey through…
Cult-Laden Anti-Patriarchal Murder Balladry! Gender-Variant Occultism! San Francisco Sleaze! Historic And Contemporary Anti-Assimilationist Queer Depravity! Altars Of The Flesh! Consensual A-Moralism! The Still Liberating Gaze Of A Showgirl Turned Criminal! And BEYOND!
With a crooning voice that has been second-hand smoking since the womb and a consistently engaging narrative arc, enjoy an evening of original transportive story songs and compelling histories, reminiscent of the thematic style of their Southern Gothic series of the songwriting of Bobbie Gentry and early extreme Dolly Parton.
Photo by Gregory Kramer.
Described as "heavenly" (New York Times) and "wonderful, striking, with essayistic songs about female revenge and politics" (Hilton Als- The Paris Review), Nath Ann Carrera has had solo shows at Joe's Pub and Wild Project (I Don't Want To Throw Rice, I Want To Throw Rocks: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton), The Parkside Lounge (Where Broken Young Bodies Are Lying: The Songs Of Bobbie Gentry), La MaMa (Death To The Patriarchal Rape Heads), sings as WITCH CAMP with Amber Martin, performs with Justin Vivian Bond, opened for Martha Wainwright at City Winery, and has also sung at Le Poisson Rouge, SFMOMA, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center.
“Hauntingly beautiful”
(Broadway World)
“Nath Ann Carrera started the night off with a handful of songs that inhabited a unique place between standard country western ballads and bizarre gay-themed narratives. It was clear from (their) opening monologue that this was a performer who was about more than just the music. Carrera… was at (their) best when spinning original yarns that were as sharp and strange as (their) on-stage persona.”
(Brooklyn Vegan)
“This was the best show I’ve seen in NYC in years.”- Alexander Chee (on ‘The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton’)
MIX FEST & VISUAL AIDS PRESENT THE PREMIER SCREENING OF: PLEASE HOLD BY ALEXANDRA JUHASZ
Film Premiere of Please Hold at The Parkside Lounge
March 2, 2025
Doors at 3pm / Screening 5-7pm
Tickets are pay-what-you-can: all funds will be split between MIX and helping the film travel for future installations
Activist mediamaker, scholar, writer, and Distinguished Professor of Film, CUNY, Alexandra Juhasz, announces the premiere of her latest experimental documentary, Please Hold (70 mins, 2024). As part of a dynamic, multisensory, community-based experience, before the screening (3–5 PM) attendees are invited to come early, so as to bring and share among queer community objects that hold memories of HIV/AIDS, the Lower East Side, or the Parkside Lounge. Co-sponsored by the MIX Experimental Film Festival and Visual AIDS, the event, emceed by “High-Profile NYC Drag Queen!” Linda Simpson, will conclude with a live performance by CHRISTEENE, whose music is featured in the video.
Odd Salon NYC: DEFIANT
Odd Salon NYC: DEFIANT
Thursday, March 6 7pm EST
Stories of impudent actions, unruly rebels, bold uprisings and challenging the status quo.
TICKETS
In Person $25 | Watch from Home $20
Curated by Co-Producer: Olivia Owre-Bell
Theresa Handwerk
Uncommon Grounds: A free Black woman born to a formerly enslaved family, Elisabeth Samson fought the laws and mores of her day as well as persecution and exile.
Sarah Grant
Sotto Voce: When German opera fans Ida and Louise Cook learned that many of the musicians they adored were threatened by the Nazis, they launched a scheme that would steal the show...
Andrea Fondulas
The Dissenting Daughters of Suffrage: Through defiance, resistance, and unshakable conviction, these dissenting daughters challenged the nation’s founders and redefined the very meaning of citizenship.
Andres Camperi
Martin Luther: The man who started the Protestant Revolution is well known, but was it the Catholic church he was defying, or another powerful institution in his life?
Amanda Harris
Nancy Wake: Known as “la souris blanche”, Nancy Wake smuggled forged documents and people to safety from the invading Nazi army. But German gunfire forced her to flee, she found an even better way to help La Resistance...
Carolyn Wise
King of Spring: At the 1906 Athens Intercalated Games, Irish long jumper Peter O’Connor climbed a flagpole and made the first political protest by an athlete at an international event.
The New Colossus Festival: British House Party
The New Colossus Festival Presents British House Party Live at The Parkside Lounge
March 6 2025
Doors at 9:30pm/ Show at 10pm
Tickets $20
Performances by:
10:00 Marvin's Revenge (UK)
10:45 The Fiends (UK)
11:30 Hongza (UK)
12:15a Sterling Press (UK)
1:00a test plan (UK)
TICKETS
Mia Arias Tsang Book Release Party
Wet Spot Presents Mia Arias Tsang's Book Release Party at The Parkside Lounge
March 7 2025
7-9pm
Come celebrate the launch of Mia Arias Tsang's new book Fragments of Wasted Devotion. In her debut collection, Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love stories of her young adulthood. From dusty university libraries to Boston-bound BoltBuses, and the glimmering skyscrapers of New York City to the smoggy shores of Venice Beach, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION spans seven years of failing, losing, and finding oneself in love.
HERstory Rocks!
In celebration of Women’s HERstory Month we will showcase a vivid array of fiercely dynamic female indie ROCKERS!!!
Big News! The Patti Rothberg Coincidence will play her “Between The 1 And The 9” album LIVE in its entirety!!!
Live music 6pm - 1AM
*Merch
*$5.
Featuring:
*The Ruminators
(Jill GE & Patti Rothberg)
*Sue Lashley
*Rome 56
*Rew Starr
*Worm Catcher & Violizzy
* Exit 99
*Val Kinzler Band
* Miss J
*The Patti Rothberg Coincidence
* QueenPins
(Feat: Rigel Mary Sarjoo)
Tickets available at the door.
Deep Listening
Deep Listening returns March 9 to @the_parkside_lounge_nyc featuring performances by Ruth Mascelli (@psychic_handjob ), Justin Allen (@justnalln ), and Victoria Keddie (@vict_0r ).
The evening will also feature a popup shop from our friends at Soap Library!
$10 advance tix, $15 at the door, and $5 for students over 21 with school ID.
Follow @deeeeplistening_nyc to stay up to date on future events and see clips or photos from past shows.
Deep Listening is a bi-monthly event curated and organized byKevin Kenkel at Parkside Lounge
Ruth Mascelli pairs slinking, synth-fuelled transcendence with crooning, existential balladry. Softening the edges of the industrial textures he provides as one quarter of the notorious synth punk band Special Interest, Mascelli’s solo performances present a carefully constructed sequence of electronic mood pieces and torch songs infused throughout with a desolate cosmic romanticism.
Justin Allen works in music and sound, performance, visual art, and writing. He has been commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Shed, and ISSUE Project Room and received support from Franklin Furnace, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. He received his BA in literary studies from Eugene Lang College at The New School and his MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art. In 2024, he released his first book, Language Arts, published by Wendy’s Subway. Photo by S*an D. Henry-Smith.
Victoria Keddie is a multidisciplinary artist focused on sound, video, installation, and performance, revealing hidden narratives in everyday artifacts and spaces. She explores themes of acoustic phenomena and language. Formerly Co-director of E.S.P. TV, Keddie has showcased her work internationally. Her video works are distributed by Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US), while her sound work is released through Raster Media (DE), Chaikin Records (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US). Photo by PJ Findies.
TICKETS
HOT KNIFE, Alexis Molnar + Erik Hinton: A Fiona Apple Songbook Cabaret
HOT KNIFE, Alexis Molnar + Erik Hinton Present A Fiona Apple Songbook Cabaret Live at The Parkside Lounge
March 10th, 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $12 / Advance $18 / Door $20
If you're butter, then Alexis Molnar is a hot knife. This show is about going with yourself - a passionate expression, a deliberate proclamation, and a manifesto from a woman determined to reclaim her power back from her own turmoil, and own all the parts of herself that make her human. A personally displayed love letter to Fiona's pathos.
I’m Going to Marry Your Dad: Single Release Show
I’m Going to Marry Your Dad: Single Release Show at The Parkside Lounge
March 15 2025
Doors at 7:15pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $12 / Advance $15 / Door $18
“
I’m Going To Marry Your Dad” is presenting a release show in celebration of “I'm The Victim,” the first single from their forthcoming EP. Joining them is special guest opener Josephine of “Josephine Network”.
Poster by Lola Lancon.
CLAYWOMAN and CHRISTEENE invite you to: A Night Inside with Nath Ann Carrera and Morgan Bassichis
CLAYWOMAN and CHRISTEENE invite you to: A Night Inside with Nath Ann Carrera and Morgan Bassichis
Sunday March 16th 2025
doors 7:30 Show 8
Early Bird $20 / General Admission $25
In this darke and macabre year of 2025, a most spectacular astral occasion will thankfully take place on SUNDAY MARCH 16th at 8:00pm when CLAYWOMAN and CHRISTEENE reunite for A NIGHT INSIDE...an intimate evening of shared thoughts and artistic expressions. Like two oracles from opposite ends of the galaxy, they bring you their crusty pearls of wisdom and dusty volumes of experience along with our very special guests NATH ANN CARRERA & MORGAN BASSICHIS! Join them along with their stern sidekick, JUDITH, all at THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE, as they explore new and uncharted realms together!
Please purchase tickets in advance to assure passage to this monumental affair.
Seating is very limited!
*artwork by Brett Lindell
Low Tide with Callie MacKenzie and Colton Thorn
Low Tide with callie mackenzie and Colton Thorn
March 21, 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $10 / Advance $15 / Door $20
Queer/trans indie folk with Low Tide, callie mackenzie, and Colton Thorn. Join us for a night of radical politics and sweet harmonies to bring us together and sustain us. Come sad, come tired, come angry, come hopeful. We got you.
MAIN POP GIRLS
Abracadabra, amor-oo-na-na! Main Pop Girls returns to Parkside Lounge on March 21 for a VERY special edition of DJ Louie XIV’s all pop girl dance party. Category is Dance or Die! We’ll be celebrating Mayhem in the club, plus we’ve got a fun surprise in store – so stay tuned! The party will be hosted by Legends Only’s T. Kyle and Bradley Stern. Photos by Grace Chu.
Early bird tickets are only $15 but they won’t last long, so snag them now.
TICKETS
Early Birds Club- 80's Dance Party
Chicago-based Earlybirds Club makes its Parkside Lounge return, this time as a bitchin' 80s dance party. Wear your favorite Me-Decade looks (or don’t, you do you) at this party designed for women, trans, and non-binary folks that starts early and ends early—because we have sh*t to in the morning!
15% of ticket proceeds benefit Parkside Lounge's Bad Review Fund.
Tickets are sold out - join the waitlist here
Wet Spot at Parkside Lounge: Avatareden, Angel Hair No. 12, Lavender Tops
Wet Spot Live at The Parkside Lounge
March 23, 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Advance $12 / Door $15
Wet Spot brings you another line up of all queer live music. Come dance, flirt, bop, and support local bands!
Performances by: Avatareden, Angel Hair No. 12, and Lavender Tops
Killdeer, Bedpan Fight and The 86's
Killdeer, The 86's & Bedpan Fight
Friday March 28th
Doors
7pm Bands 7:30pm
Old school 1970s NYC-style rock and roll. Think New York Dolls, Ramones, and Blondie. You're welcome.
$10 Advance / $12 Door
@killdeer_nyc @the86srocknyc @bedpanfight
Readings at Parkside: Lynne TILLMAN: THRILLED TO DEATH
From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America’s most audacious writer —
Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman’s work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body of work that both redefined and reimagined the short story form entirely.
Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new readers alike. These selected stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman’s Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety.
With argumentative wit, Tillman’s meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence. Describing Tillman’s writing, Colm Tóibín says: “Her style has both tone and undertone; it attempts to register the impossibility of saying very much, but it insists on the right to say a little. So what is essential is the voice itself, its ways of knowing and unknowing.”
American Ambulance, Naughty Clouds, Eljin Marbles, The Pickups
New Deal Records Presents American Ambulance, Naughty Clouds, Eljin Marbles, The Pickups Live at The Parkside Lounge
April 4, 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $10 / Advance $15 / Door $20
New Deal Records inaugural showcase and party, with Twang-Punk Kings American Ambulance, NJ's best Garage Power Trio Naughty Clouds, the psychedelic savagery of Eljin Marbles, and a special set from the Pickups, who take minimalism to the max. Special guests, brand new merch and music, and more!
TICKETS
Elbaum Tanner RocknRoll Scene and Bootleg Dan Present: Maximum Garage, The Insomniacs, Muck & The Mires, The Cynz, Dragon Redux
Elbaum Tanner RocknRoll Scene and Bootleg Dan Present: Maximum Garage, The Insomniacs, Muck & The Mires, The Cynz, Dragon Redux
LIVE AT PARKSIDE LOUNGE!
April 5 2025
Doors at 7:30pm / Show at 8pm
Advance $18 / Door $20
Insomniacs 11pm https://www.facebook.com/share/17QZTgphoD/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Muck and The Mires (Boston) 10PM https://www.facebook.com/share/19UBswzxWE/?mibextid=wwXIfr
The Cynz 9PM https://www.facebook.com/share/1ECdU5LhYi/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Dragon Redux feat Joe Sztabnik 8PM https://joesztabnik.com/home
Sissies R Us Presents THAT TRACKS
Sissies R Us Presents THAT TRACKS Live at The Parkside Lounge
April 11, 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $12 / Advance $15 / Door $20
Dusty Childers & Company return to Parkside and this time it's all about the big screen. The Sissies R Us crew and extra special guests will be singing their favorite songs from motion picture sound tracks accompanied by stories and clips. We've got Joanie Drago on Guitar, James Jackson on Bass, Mike Lunoe on Drums and Paul Leschen on keys. Guests to be announced soon!
Stay Free or Die Tryin'- Benefit for the ACLU
A Benefit for the ACLU Live at The Parkside Lounge
May 9 2025
Doors at 6:15pm / Show at 6:45pm
Early Bird $16 / Advance $18 / Door $20
Fundraiser for the ACLU featuring local bands:
Red Like Ruby
St. Divine
The Side Effect
Tim Ellis & Soft Serve
Modern Beast
Nath Ann Carrera: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton
NATH ANN CARRERA: THE EARLY SOUTHERN GOTHICISM OF DOLLY PARTON
THURSDAY FEB 2oth 2025
doors 6:30 show 7pm
$15 early bird / $18 advanced / $25 at the door
Nath Ann Carrera sings an evening of early extreme sensationalistic story songs written by Dolly Parton from 1967-1971, when most of her original songs were cautionary tales about why you shouldn't trust men, have children, or get married, in any context whatsoever.
Class-Conscious Incest! Teen Delinquent Anti-Authoritarian Murder! Mental Institution Imprisonment! Speed-Addicted Swingers! Anti-Marriage Retaliation! Stillborn Suicide! Children Bursting Into Flames While Their Parents Tell Dirty Jokes! And BEYOND!
With a voice that has been second-hand smoking since the womb and a steadily compelling storytelling arc, you will walk away with a new conception of Dolly Parton's songwriting and career.
"This was the best show I've seen in NYC in years." - Alexander Chee
"Nath Ann Carrera spins a soul-fortifying web of tales confirming what makes The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton and its cautionary tales both undeniably queer and anthems for living otherwise the death-worlds of hetero-reproductive patriarchy." - Jill H. Casid
Described as "heavenly" (New York Times) and "wonderful, striking, with essayistic songs about female revenge and politics" (Hilton Als- The Paris Review), Nath Ann Carrera has had solo shows at Joe's Pub and Wild Project (I Don't Want To Throw Rice, I Want To Throw Rocks: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton), La MaMa (Death To The Patriarchal Rape Heads), sings as WITCH CAMP with Amber Martin, performs with Justin Vivian Bond, opened for Martha Wainwright at City Winery, and has sung at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, SFMOMA, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center.
HOT FOR YOU
Hot For You is a backroom disco for the family. On Sunday February 16, the majestic Lis Dalton joins us from Montréal for an all night set. Our favorite time of day is night.
Readings at Parkside: Roddy Bottum: THE ROYAL WE
Roddy Bottum wrote a gorgeous book called The Royal We that I fell hard for at first blush. It is about so many things at once that I dare not reduce it to a summary, but it’s partly gay Foxes (the brilliant 1980 film from Adrian Lyne starring Jodie Foster and Cherie Currie), a little Stand By Me, and a lot Please Kill Me in the way it captures a vital scene in formation and its myriad intersections. It is Roddy’s beautiful and brave memoir of his early days in California and specifically coming up and through in San Francisco.
Roddy and I bonded over our shared encyclopedic knowledge of after school specials and cautionary tales of the late 70s and 80s. At the time that I read his memoir he was still looking for a publisher, and to the surprise of no one, his book found a home at Akashic and will be launching in the fall of 2025. I am so excited and honored to celebrate this book in advance of its publication.
In addition to adoring Roddy’s book, I am also a BIG FAN of his infectious energy. If you know him then you know precisely what I mean and if you don’t, this is just another reason why you must join us on February 16th. I cannot wait to hear Roddy read his work and then to have the opportunity to discuss it with him after. Much to get into!
To celebrate the occasion we will have a special excerpt from The Royal Weavailable as a broadside at the event.
Heart Beat: Caleb's birthday celebration
Be my valentine? 💋
Come feel the love with your favorite lighting witch on the dance floor this Valentine’s Day! I’m celebrating my birthday at one of my favorite places in NYC and I want you to join me ❤️🔥
Get your heart beating with some with sets by some of my favorite up and coming DJs (and close personal friends) and enjoy an upbeat evening celebrating family and community. I don’t want to be the only one feeling the love on my birthday!
So come get heart on with a bunch of sexy queers on 2/14, and wear something you feel hot in 😘
Tickets are sliding scale to pay the DJs for their time and energy! That said, I want all my friends and family there, so if you can’t shell out for a ticket please reach out to me directly and I’ll make sure you get in. Any excess funds will go directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
Pinc Louds: ATTACK OF THE KILLER CUPIDS!
Pinc Louds Presents ATTACK OF THE KILLER CUPIDS! Live at The Parkside Lounge
Feb 14 2025
Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm
Early Bird $15 / Advance $18 / Door $2
0
NYC's favorite imaginary band is back with a special Valentine's Day dance party!
Come bask in the cathartic bliss of having hundreds of arrows pierce your soul until you can't help falling in love with every single thing around you (pickles and pencil sharpeners included).
Pinc Louds channels artists as diverse as Daniel Johnston, Billie Holiday and the Pixies, as well as elements of tropicalia and Caribbean music, to create a sound that is as unique and exciting as it is relatable. The band adds to the live music experience by making their shows a participatory adventure. Traveling inside giant subway puppets, reviving atomic mutants and chanting spells to a Watermelon God are all things you might expect at one of their immersive concerts.
Bandshell Showcase
Bandshell Music Showcase Live at The Parkside Lounge
feb 20 2025
D
oors at 6pm / Show at 6:30pm
T
ickets $5
Every month come down to The Parkside Lounge and watch some of the best new music the LES has to offer. The showcase is designed for up and coming artists to get some stage time and try out new work. Come see them before they are famous!
Performances by:
Raised on Candy
Hungry Bug
The People Psychologic
Joe Grisanzio feat. BranSpank'Noop
TICKETS
Grinding is Better than Sex
Grinding is Better than Sex at The Parkside Lounge
Feb 8 2025
Doors at 10pm / Show at 10:30pm
Early Bird $8 / Advance $10 / Door $12
School dances are wasted on the young. Think back to those sweaty gymnasium days. Hot. Horny. Hetero :( Tonight’s your night to dance with your crush and make all the teachers blush because we all know: grinding is better than sex. 90s slow jams, Y2k bops, reggaeton classics, and all time bangers for dancing close 🍑↕️. Times are dark, it's true. But we don’t have to go it alone. It's time to come 💦🙃 together for the queer ass dance party of your dreams.
GIRL PARTY
Pop up strip show that features all trans dancers.
A night for some of the hottest trans performers in the city to showcase their talents, kiki w their girls and get a bag.
@cometogirlparty
Emma- @eemmaowens
Kacey- @afrodite.nyc
Tai- @hartoftai
Hazel- @thezehazeleyezz
Theo- @theobrown24
Queer Grunge Night
Tami Hart Presents Queer Grunge Night Live at The Parkside Lounge
2/7/2025
Doors at 9:30pm / Show at 10pm
Early Bird $10 / Advance $12 / Door $15
Tami Hart as Nirvana, Sir Baby Girl as Hole, The Dead Betties as L7, DJ set by Desert Sharks, Lily Marotta Hosting, Kurt and Courtney look a like contest with a prize! and Dyke Beer slinging specials all night!
SLOTH #9: SWEET-TART
SLOTH #9: SWEET-TART Live at The Parkside Lounge
F
eb 7th
Doors at 6pm / Show at 7pm
Tickets $12
First they’re sour, then they’re sweet™. Come share or listen to stories about the hot and cold messes that come about in love. Some romances start like fairy tales and others snap you into a lip puckering shock. Passion can take us down wonderfully twisted journeys. It can be misery, or total ecstasy...
What are SLOTH events?
The SLOTH is our queer gathering for friends to share stories inspired by our selected themes. Come to listen or come to tell. We welcome authentic and true(ish) tales, comedy, poetry, music, and any creative form you can put into a compelling 5-minute share.
Hosted by Mike Woronuk and Tyler Armey
A TRIP TO THE MOON: AND OTHER SONGS IN ORBIT (SIDE 4: PERFECT HUMAN)
A TRIP TO THE MOON: AND OTHER SONGS IN ORBIT is a four part concert series featuring each of the four sides of the celestial rock opera, A TRIP TO THE MOON. Each night will open with curated performances within the same galaxy, followed by one side of the MOON album. Join us for a night of intergalactic mayhem!
Nath Ann Carrera: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton
NATH ANN CARRERA: THE EARLY SOUTHERN GOTHICISM OF DOLLY PARTON
SUNDAY FEB 2nd 2025
doors 6:30 show 7pm
$15 early bird / $18 advanced / $25 at the door
Nath Ann Carrera sings an evening of early extreme sensationalistic story songs written by Dolly Parton from 1967-1971, when most of her original songs were cautionary tales about why you shouldn't trust men, have children, or get married, in any context whatsoever.
Class-Conscious Incest! Teen Delinquent Anti-Authoritarian Murder! Mental Institution Imprisonment! Speed-Addicted Swingers! Anti-Marriage Retaliation! Stillborn Suicide! Children Bursting Into Flames While Their Parents Tell Dirty Jokes! And BEYOND!
With a voice that has been second-hand smoking since the womb and a steadily compelling storytelling arc, you will walk away with a new conception of Dolly Parton's songwriting and career.
"This was the best show I've seen in NYC in years." - Alexander Chee
"Nath Ann Carrera spins a soul-fortifying web of tales confirming what makes The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton and its cautionary tales both undeniably queer and anthems for living otherwise the death-worlds of hetero-reproductive patriarchy." - Jill H. Casid
Described as "heavenly" (New York Times) and "wonderful, striking, with essayistic songs about female revenge and politics" (Hilton Als- The Paris Review), Nath Ann Carrera has had solo shows at Joe's Pub and Wild Project (I Don't Want To Throw Rice, I Want To Throw Rocks: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton), La MaMa (Death To The Patriarchal Rape Heads), sings as WITCH CAMP with Amber Martin, performs with Justin Vivian Bond, opened for Martha Wainwright at City Winery, and has sung at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, SFMOMA, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center.
MAIN POP GIRLS
Pop Pantheon Presents:
MAIN POP GIRLS
A dance party with DJ Louie XIV with hosts Larisha Paul & Brittany Spanos
Calling all Main Pop Girls! Pop Pantheon returns to the Parkside Lounge on February 1 for a non-stop pop girl party. DJ Louie XIV will be playing new faves like Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter and Addison Rae alongside Beyoncé, Britney and all the other classic queens of pop. The party will be hosted by two of the most preeminent chroniclers of main pop girls, Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos and Larisha Paul.
Early bird tickets are only $15 but they won’t last long, so snag them now.
AUNTIE CLIMAX
Dance it out to bathhouse, house, dark wave, goth, disco, R&B, Dance Hall and more. A daytime dance party for aunties of all kinds who wanna go to bed early (or start their club-hopping before the sun sets), and all of their friends.
Djs Savannah Knoop, Octavius Neveux, DJ Feelings and Expertfundude.
Organized by Maya Suess, organizer and emcee of Unprofessional Variety Show, and Kris Grey co-organizer of TRANSFERNO.
The party name is from a T-shirt/artwork by Pippa Garner
*A portion of all funds collected will go to LA fire relief.
TICKETS
Play Date
Your New Year just got a little sweatier.
Coach Chris and Ryan Farr join forces to bring you Play Date, a new queer party at Parkside Lounge.
We hope to see you in the backroom and remember... participation required.
The Giblets & Friends
A Raucous Night of Rock and roll. Starting off with The Bottle Openers (formerly THE CHURCH KEYS) at 7:30 PM
GEORGE GILMORE AND THE GIBLETS @ 8:30 PM
THE PIGGIES @ 9:3O PM
Vicinity of Obscenity: A Queer as F*ck Variety Tribute to System of a Down
Vicinity of Obscenity: A Queer as F*ck Variety Tribute to System of a Down
SUNDAY JANUARY 26th 2025
ADVANCE $12 DOOR $15
doors 6pm show 7pm
Klondyke (@klondyke_drag)
Mx. Asa Metric (@evspig)
Selena Surreal (@selena.surreal)
bReAd (@breaderthanyours)
Sour Somethings (@mx.soursoursour)
A variety show based around the music of System of a Down. There will be drag, live singing, burlesque, and (possibly) sideshow all wrapped up in the revolutionary sounds of SOAD. This cast of queer and trans performers will shock and amaze you, using their music to stand up for what’s right and speak out on what’s wrong!