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The new Whitney Biennial (at the Whitney Museum, duh!) features trans artist Wu Tsang.     Tsang’s cinematic contribution is Wildness, about an experimental party that he and his artsy friends threw at a working-class Latin trannie bar in L.A. called Silver Platter.  (Tseng prefers using masculine pronouns to describe himself.)       From the Whitney…

In 1974, a new band called the Ramones is born in Forest Hills, Queens.  In a dramatic flourish, all its members change their names to synch with the group, including Joey Ramone (a.k.a. Jeff Hyman).     In 2009, the memoir I Slept With Joey Ramone is released, written by Joey’s younger brother Mickey Leigh (who…

You know how when you’re sick, sad news is even more depressing? I’m still combating my cold, and to find out that adorable Davy Jones of the Monkees has died seems devastating. The Monkees were such a great pop band.  Even though they were a manufactured act brought together for a television show, they produced some fantastic…

Which members of the male species did I spy this week?