Voyagiste

Gay NYC: 101 Can’t-Miss-Places, As Banned by Apple

tonynow — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:22:48 +0000

Entry #1: Stonewall Inn

Pledge allegiance

If you don’t know why this place is important, you shouldn’t be using this app.
But if you do and you are, know that this piano bar is still a good, mellow place to go for a drink, particularly Thursdays through Mondays.

Is this the world’s coolest airport terminal?

tonynow — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:03:46 +0000

Eero-dynamic

Thank Bjork for Gaga

tonynow — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:25:29 +0000

Her bad press is Gaga’s armor.
Remember Bjork’s “infamous” swan dress that she wore to the Oscars? Castigated by the hypocritical, ill-informed American media, for daring to wear something different to an event of such marginal artistic merit that its importance is ritualistically overblown by a culture seething in stupidity, Bjork’s career in the U.S. never recovered.

However, inured to a little fashion innovation, the wild eclecticism of Gaga is more readily accepted by the media. But maybe Gaga should have invited Bjork backstage at Radio City, to thank her, instead of Donald Trump. Of course, dumb journalists will find something else to criticize about Gaga in the customary American knee-jerk attempt to discredit anyone with a shred of originality.

“This is my sausage! Look at my sausage! My wonderful SAUSAGE!!”

tonynow — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:15:37 +0000

In Verona.

This movie just looks really, really stupid

tonynow — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:31:10 +0000

But if you like the idea of John Travolta dolled up like Mr. Clean running around a largely irrelevant town with a gun, then maybe From Paris With Love is for you.

Gaga: The World in One Lady?

tonynow — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:56:24 +0000

Was that a thunderclap over Manhattan last night? No folks, that was the firestorm of applause that greeted that Gotham gal gone fame-wild, the pop and glam rock queen Lady Gaga, as she burst forth onto the stage of Radio City Music Hall, coolly if unwittingly menacing the legendary venue’s very foundations with her otherworldly costumes, mesmerizing musical maneuvers and nonstop frenzy of slammin’ Number Ones and hits-to-be. Don’t wanna sound holier-than-thou, but we’ll put forward that Lady Gaga is as vital to the renascent American cultural zeitgeist, which has been in undeniable though perhaps not irremediable decline since the Supreme Court’s foolhardy decision to throw the 2000 presidential election to the Republicans — a freefall that accelerated with the terrorist attacks of September 2001 and subsequent corporate assault on the debt-ridden middle class — as the stones of the Western Wall are to Jerusalem. For art is the mark of civilization; commerce simply moves it along.

What about Haiti? As the response of the French, who bear primary responsibility for the bleak social dimensions of this disaster, continues to be monstrously underwhelming, Lady Gaga announced on her recent emotional, groundbreaking Oprah appearance that all proceeds from the Jan. 24 Radio City concert will be channeled to Haitian earthquake victims.

Some might say suffering of an admittedly infinitely lesser intensity has befallen the spirits of those travelers in New York who, through bad timing, bad romance or lack of resources in this persistent recession have been unable to secure tickets to one the final concerts of the American leg of Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster tour. I mean, “Experienced Massage Therapist Seeking 2 NYC Gaga Tickets”? The things one finds on the Internet…

Lady Gaga Welcomed Back to New York

tonynow — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:11:50 +0000

Gotham is Gaga-friendly

Did Georgie Bush get a similar welcome upon his return to Crawford, Texas? Oh yeah? Prove it.

Nice work, NY Daily News but…

tonynow — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:22:07 +0000

…by George if we didn’t scoop ‘ya. Who is this Anderson Cooper, anyway…Mother Teresa with a microphone? We’ve said it before and here we go again — the people on the scene who should be helping the Haitians are the French. There’s 58 million of ‘em last time we checked, and not all of them are sitting in Parisian bistros slurping foie gras. Get those pansies on planes, ship ‘em to Port-au-Prince and tell them to get busy. I miss the sight of Anderson and his thin wasp toucas at the gym.

Memo to Argentina: Los Falklands Aren’t Yours

tonynow — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:59:22 +0000

Did somebody at the Argentine tourist board just get bit by a radioactive vizcacha (pictured)?

Maybe, because according to their glossy new brochure, “Argentina Invites You,” the Falkland Islands are actually “Islas Malvinas (Arg.).” Sorry guys: Here at Voyagiste, we may be no great fans of the British (burning Joan of Arc alive and taxation without representation do not get you an automatic seat at our picnic table), but can we please tamp down the wishful thinking? Seriously, do Germans still draw swastikas over their maps of France? You lost the war that you started, it was humiliating, let’s tango.

Pictures from the Rubin Museum of Art Giftshop

tonynow — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:39:53 +0000

Do you really have to ask why?