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Checking in With Merrie Cherry, the Bushwig Icon and Dragula Star

Checking in With Merrie Cherry, the Bushwig Icon and Dragula Star

The founding member of Bushwig discusses the meaning of drag, starring in season four of Dragula and the recent loss of her grandmother.

Queens of Kings: Watch New Web Series About Bushwick-Famous Drag Queens [Trailer]

Queens of Kings: Watch New Web Series About Bushwick-Famous Drag Queens [Trailer]

So, it’s Sunday night and you’ve just spent all weekend celebrating Brooklyn Pride

Tip Your Local Trans Drag Queens

Tip Your Local Trans Drag Queens

“Spaces in Brooklyn are more open to all types of drag,” says Bobby LeMaire “You can do whatever as long as you can give a show.”

Meet La Zavaleta: Bushwig’s Queen Starring in Season Four of ‘Dragula’

Meet La Zavaleta: Bushwig’s Queen Starring in Season Four of ‘Dragula’

“You have to be unique,” said La Zavaleta.

Rescue Train Repeat Offers Group Walks With a Drag Queen and Dog Training

Rescue Train Repeat Offers Group Walks With a Drag Queen and Dog Training

This Bushwick-based service provides expert dog training and a supportive community for pup parents.

Ridgewood-based Canadian takes on American Politics through Drag Performance

Ridgewood-based Canadian takes on American Politics through Drag Performance

An Interview with Teresa Braun, Drag/Genderf*ck curator at The Brick Theater

Becoming Josephine: a Glam Yiddish Singer-Songwriter in Drag

Becoming Josephine: a Glam Yiddish Singer-Songwriter in Drag

“It’s ironic because now that I’m making music for a character I’m making the most genuine, sincere music of my life.”

New Beauty Salon in Bushwick Is Accused of Mimicking Existing Salon’s Aesthetic

New Beauty Salon in Bushwick Is Accused of Mimicking Existing Salon’s Aesthetic

Locals have been confused with new salon on the same block of an established business, seemingly close in style.

Pan-Asian Drag, Circus Muse, And More: 7 Events in 6 Days This Bushweek

Pan-Asian Drag, Circus Muse, And More: 7 Events in 6 Days This Bushweek

Looking out for your social life, Bushwick!

Oops! Is East Williamsburg’s Hottest Free Drag Show

Oops! Is East Williamsburg’s Hottest Free Drag Show

Wednesday nights have become a bright spot for partygoers in East Williamsburg thanks to Oops!, a weekly drag variety show that goes down at The Rosemont.

Photos: Bushwig 2017 Celebrated Everything that Makes Drag Great

Photos: Bushwig 2017 Celebrated Everything that Makes Drag Great

The Sixth Annual Bushwig Drag Festival Returns This Weekend to Knockdown Center

The Sixth Annual Bushwig Drag Festival Returns This Weekend to Knockdown Center

Photos: Spectacular Drag Ungendered at Bushwig 2016

Photos: Spectacular Drag Ungendered at Bushwig 2016

Photos: Our Favorite Instagram Pix of Yesterday Evening’s Breathtaking Double Rainbow Over Bushwick

Photos: Our Favorite Instagram Pix of Yesterday Evening’s Breathtaking Double Rainbow Over Bushwick

Sometimes you endure unbearable humidity and get caught in a crazy storm—and then get treated to a spectacular sight in the sky. Yesterday was one of those days.

Talking Bushwick Anthem “JMZ”  With Katie Lau of Painted Zeros

Talking Bushwick Anthem “JMZ” With Katie Lau of Painted Zeros

Among the tracks on “

NIGHTGOWNS and VYM Magazine: Brooklyn’s Answer to Expanding Drag Communities

NIGHTGOWNS and VYM Magazine: Brooklyn’s Answer to Expanding Drag Communities

Bald-headed glamour queens

Bushwig 2015, Annual Drag Fest, Deserved Its Very Own Crown [Photos]

Bushwig 2015, Annual Drag Fest, Deserved Its Very Own Crown [Photos]

There’s no contest

Bushwick-Based Dungeons and Dragons Company, Dwarven Forge, Raises Millions on Kickstarter

Bushwick-Based Dungeons and Dragons Company, Dwarven Forge, Raises Millions on Kickstarter

Dungeons

A Blast From the Dating Past: Kings County Saloon Aims to Find You a Winter Cling This Saturday

A Blast From the Dating Past: Kings County Saloon Aims to Find You a Winter Cling This Saturday

You know that feeling you get on a Saturday night when you can’t remember if your dating profile password was “getmeoutofhere” or “miserableloneliness” and your bottle of Malbec is at its last drop? It’s the sort of feeling that makes you wish dating was less tragic and more entertaining? Well,

The Most Amazing & Exciting Drag Festival in NYC: Bushwig 2014 is Happening This Saturday

The Most Amazing & Exciting Drag Festival in NYC: Bushwig 2014 is Happening This Saturday

 

It’s Here: A Documentary About Drag in Bushwick, Sisters of the Wicked Wig Needs Your Help

It’s Here: A Documentary About Drag in Bushwick, Sisters of the Wicked Wig Needs Your Help

As the lofts fill out, and the condos go up, it’s getting tougher to see Bushwick as the harbor of subculture and the avant-garde nightlife that has been part of its identity for the better part of a decade

Dr. Lisa Calls in Drag Performer Crimson Kitty to Talk Monogamy

Dr. Lisa Calls in Drag Performer Crimson Kitty to Talk Monogamy

In this letter I received this week, a young woman wanted to know if she should wait out to see if her boyfriend would commit to being monogamous

Bushwick Drag Queen Hosts Fun LGBTQ Web Series for Kids

Bushwick Drag Queen Hosts Fun LGBTQ Web Series for Kids

There’s so many ways to be you and me

Sex-Crazed Drag Queen and Acupuncture Treatment of Capitalism: La Pocha Nostra at Grace Exhibition Space

Sex-Crazed Drag Queen and Acupuncture Treatment of Capitalism: La Pocha Nostra at Grace Exhibition Space

This past Friday night, Grace Exhibition Space welcomed La Pocha Nostra to Bushwick, bringing their post-national, apocalyptic, trans-cultural performance with them

Are You Young, Queer & Making Art or Music? You’re BANJI!

Are You Young, Queer & Making Art or Music? You’re BANJI!

“What is Banji?” I asked myself as I read an email from Babes announcing Saturday’s event in Secret Project Robot

Thursday Night DRAGnet Files and Fem Fatales

Thursday Night DRAGnet Files and Fem Fatales

“ID please,” requests the lady bouncer at the Metropolitan Bar

Take a Walking Tour of Bushwick with Mae West, Queen of Sex

Take a Walking Tour of Bushwick with Mae West, Queen of Sex

Better known to film fans for her bawdy screen performances and her ever-quotable double entendres, Mae West was a Brooklyn native and fixture of the NYC theater scene long before moving to Hollywood in 1932 and cementing her reputation as the “Queen of Sex

The Drag Personality of the Moment: Merrie Cherry

The Drag Personality of the Moment: Merrie Cherry

It’s undeniable – drag is blowing up in New York

Dr. Lisa Talks Hooking Up w/ a Local Bartender

Dr. Lisa Talks Hooking Up w/ a Local Bartender

To get a wider view of the Bushwick social engagement action, I talked to a happening bartender who watches people interact socially for a living

Live From Bushwig

Live From Bushwig

The world’s largest drag and queer music festival recently hit nearby Queens.

PHOTOS: The Best of Bushwig 2019

PHOTOS: The Best of Bushwig 2019

“If You Don’t See Yourself Represented, Go Out and Represent Yourself”- 3rd Annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards

“If You Don’t See Yourself Represented, Go Out and Represent Yourself”- 3rd Annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards

Brooklyn’s eclectic nightlife community came together at

It’s ‘Absolutely Smut’ at the House of Yes

It’s ‘Absolutely Smut’ at the House of Yes

“My name is God Complex, but you can call me Daddy”

They’re in Ridgewood and They’re Running

They’re in Ridgewood and They’re Running

Ridgewood now has its own enthusiastic group of runners

The ‘Ridgewood Asylum’ is Back, But Now It’s in Bushwick. Spooky!

The ‘Ridgewood Asylum’ is Back, But Now It’s in Bushwick. Spooky!

With 10% of proceeds now going to a nonprofit LGBTQ+ healthcare clinic.

Dromedary Has A Brand New Bar,  And A Doughnut Shop

Dromedary Has A Brand New Bar, And A Doughnut Shop

Local Tiki enthusiast says he isn’t closing the doors on Dromedary just yet, either.