Richard Move Channels Martha Graham
One of the great pleasures of going to clubs in the nineteen-eighties and nineties was the live performance.
Clubs like the Clit Club, the Pyramid Club, and Jackie 60 offered fabulous stage shows, presented with seriousness.
Examples include the Duelling Bankheads and the Night of 1000 Stevies, where people performed as Stevie Nicks.
- Idiosyncratic bookstores
- A retrospective for Vaginal Davis
- The new Springsteen movie
you wondered if—while watching the amazing Duelling Bankheads, for instance, or so many people who got up so brilliantly as Stevie Nicks on the Night of 1000 Stevies—you were high on the entertainment, or on dancing with your chosen community, or just amazed by what New York had to offer by way of creativity.
Author summary: Exploring nightlife in the 80s and 90s.