Author: Linda Simpson

  • Top Floor, Please!

    According to some people, whatever you’re doing on New Year’s Eve is how you’ll spend the rest of the year.  Well, guess where I was as the clock struck midnight and we entered 2014.   On an elevator, frantically racing to get to a party.  I missed the whoop-de-doo by a few seconds. I ended up…

  • Happy Holidaze!

    I’m in Minnesota visiting family.  It’s freezing, wish you were here so we could cuddle!

  • Gathering of the Faithful

    This past Sunday at XL nightclub was a celebratory memorial for Codie Leone, one of the shining stars of downtown NYC nightlife for the past 20 or so years.     The event was a marathon—performances, video screenings, a raffle, speakers ranging from Patricia Field to Codie’s manicurist, and a very vocal and participatory audience.  It…

  • United Nations

    My hosting gig last night at the weekly Westgay party was so much fun!  Great crowd, great energy, and a reminder that one of the best parts about living in NYC is that you get to meet and mingle with people from all over the world.           I love a melting pot!  

  • Four Questions About Queens

    QUESTION: IS PANDORA BOXX OLDER THAN SHE LOOKS? Ho, Ho, Ho, look who’s teaming up for a holiday show—NYC performer Sherry Vine and Drag Race contestant Pandora Boxx.  The show’s title: A Very Cougar Christmas.     Sherry, who’s been screeching singing in drag since the early 1990s, certainly fits the cougar category.  But isn’t bouncy,…

  • The DQ Express

    Who should I run into going home from Thanksgiving dinner last night?   A couple of young drag queens—on the subway! The girls were quite tipsy, and the blond slurred that it was her first time in drag.  (New queens never have coats.)     I was little nervous for the duo because not everyone on the R…