Acid Betty :: New York City's Fiercest Drag BitchAcid Betty :: New York City's Fiercest Drag Bitch http://acidbetty.com/#! The Fiercest Hybrid Drag Queen in New York City (if not the world!) Sat, 18 May 2013 18:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Masked Ball in Tampa, Florida – May 4, 2013 http://acidbetty.com/#!/the-masked-ball-in-tampa-florida/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/the-masked-ball-in-tampa-florida/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:42:19 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1499
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And the winners were:
Best Bar/Club in Brooklyn: Tandem Bar (Bushwick)
Best Food Truck: Casa Taqueria (Williamsburg)
Best Outdoor Event: Bushwig
Best Venue with a Patio: Metropolitan Bar
Best DJ: Michael M.
Best Reason to Leave Brooklyn: Westgay @ Westway (Manhattan)
Best Photographer: Santiago Felipe
Best Mixed Party: Spectrum (Bushwick)
Favorite Door Person: Kim Harris
Best Event Publisher: Next Magazine
Best Burlesque Dancer: Barlinda
Best Promoter of the Year: Mr. Earl Dax of Pussy Faggot @ Public
Assembly (Williamsburg)
Best Bartender: Will Myrick of Tandem Bar (Bushwick)
Favorite Drag Queen: Mocha Lite]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/bushwick-daily-how-were-brooklyn-nightlife-awards-who-won/feed/ 0 Acid Betty Presents at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards 2013 http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-presents-at-the-brooklyn-nightlife-awards-2013/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-presents-at-the-brooklyn-nightlife-awards-2013/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:41:41 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1448 ]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-presents-at-the-brooklyn-nightlife-awards-2013/feed/ 0 Ice Ball NYE 2013 at XL Nightclub http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-hosts-ice-ball-nye-2013-at-xl-nightclub/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-hosts-ice-ball-nye-2013-at-xl-nightclub/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:33:52 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1396 For the full set of gallery images Check out XL Nightclub’s facebook gallery click here.  ]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-hosts-ice-ball-nye-2013-at-xl-nightclub/feed/ 0 50Faggots: 30 Days of Faggotry “There’s a Lot of Blood Up Here” http://acidbetty.com/#!/50faggots-30-days-of-faggotry-theres-a-lot-of-blood-up-here/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/50faggots-30-days-of-faggotry-theres-a-lot-of-blood-up-here/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:06:17 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1425 http://acidbetty.com/#!/50faggots-30-days-of-faggotry-theres-a-lot-of-blood-up-here/feed/ 0 50Faggots: 30 Days of Faggotry “Did You Want That Thing?” http://acidbetty.com/#!/50faggots-30-days-of-faggotry-did-you-want-that-thing/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/50faggots-30-days-of-faggotry-did-you-want-that-thing/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:06:15 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1424 http://acidbetty.com/#!/50faggots-30-days-of-faggotry-did-you-want-that-thing/feed/ 0 XELLE “Queen” Official Music Video http://acidbetty.com/#!/xelle-queen-official-music-video/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/xelle-queen-official-music-video/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:49:33 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1386
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]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/paper-mag-nightlife-issue/feed/ 0 Don’t Fuck with Betty http://acidbetty.com/#!/dont-fuck-with-betty/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/dont-fuck-with-betty/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:56:35 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1100 Published introspective about Acid Betty, by Acid Betty, using professional female models.]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/dont-fuck-with-betty/feed/ 0 Acid Betty’s First Single Ruthless http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-bettys-first-single-ruthless/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-bettys-first-single-ruthless/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:57:44 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=1007 Acid Betty’s First Music Single: Ruthless   ]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-bettys-first-single-ruthless/feed/ 0 2012 Fashion Week – On Top Party Gets Fashionable at Le Bain http://acidbetty.com/#!/2012-fashion-week-on-top-party-gets-fashionable-at-le-bain/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/2012-fashion-week-on-top-party-gets-fashionable-at-le-bain/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:34:15 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1228 The Blonds After Party | Le Bain, The Standard Hotel | Fashion Week NYC 2012

Check out the full set of photos on the Village Voice’s Website. Click Here.]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/2012-fashion-week-on-top-party-gets-fashionable-at-le-bain/feed/ 0 Paris is Burning at Justine’s Brasserie | Austin, Texas http://acidbetty.com/#!/paris-is-burning-at-justines-austin-texas/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/paris-is-burning-at-justines-austin-texas/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:54:40 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=915 Paris is Burning party at Justine’s Brasserie | Austin Texas 2012 ]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/paris-is-burning-at-justines-austin-texas/feed/ 0 Penny Arcade: Eroticism Without Control http://acidbetty.com/#!/penny-arcade-eroticism-without-control/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/penny-arcade-eroticism-without-control/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:42:38 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=895 Acid Betty, who might be the true heir to Leigh Bowery. You have yet to experience the very English David Cale, who has performed in New York for two decades. We see fewer London artists, and you see fewer New York artists, because of the high cost of living in both cities, as well as the airfares and lodging costs.” PENNY ARCADE.

For the full article CLICK HERE.   Transgressive New York show Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! pioneered a whole scene of gender-defying queer performance 20 years ago. Franco Milazzo interviews creator Penny Arcade on the different attitudes across the pond.   Penny Arcade’s show Bitch!Faghag!Whore opens at the Arcola Tent thid week.The Village Voice called you a “sex radical” ten years ago. Would you call yourself one now?   Anyone who thinks sex is a natural function of being human is a sex radical in our sex-phobic and sexually exploitive society. Anyone who is not judgmental about the different ways that humans need to have sex is a sex radical. Sex and its function changes as one gets older, and I continue to be a pioneer in my own destiny. The answer is yes. I am still quite radical about sex. Is America as prudish as it looks in the media? How is New York different? Britain, you may remember, exported the prudish Pilgrims to America. But yes, it is a very puritanical place. However, the use of sensationalistic sex, i.e. sex without content, as long as it is sufficiently silly, grotesque, sordid, goofy or just plain gratuitous, will always find an audience in America and in New York. New York was not America 15 years ago, though. Sadly, it’s been invaded by America, although there are pockets of cultural resistance still left in New York. Have attitudes to sex changed in America since Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! premiered two decades ago? Has it affected the show? Sexual mores have changed very little in America over the past 20 years. In some ways, things are sexually more conservative now than ever, despite how “sexualised” things may look on the outside. With the onslaught of Internet porn, more people are having sex – with themselves. One must remember that the original neo-burlesque scene that followed Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! 15 years ago was created by artists who had worked for money in erotic and topless bars, and the art they created was edgy and political. The now ubiquitous burlesque scene gives the idea that a lot of libidinally generated art is happening, but it is costume-driven and largely about personality. So it looks sexier on the surface with lots of younger women running around in Victoria’s Secret outfits, but burlesque itself is barely sexy. While gender is the big subject of people under 35, including the critique of its binary system, everything is more gendered than ever.  Even so-called “gender-fluids” are pushed into being specific about gender.  
“My London dancers are amongst the best I have ever found.”
The dancers have two functions in Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! One is to represent the audience, therefore they must be friendly, generous, good-natured and outgoing. Secondly, they must be very good erotic dancers, unafraid to show their natural sexuality, but without using it to control or seduce the public, which is opposite to the goal of dancing in a men’s club. This unusual combination requires special people. It creates an atmosphere that reeks of danger and friendliness. My London dancers are amongst the best I have ever found. You can expect to see a world of erotic dance that you never knew existed, because no one but me uses this kind of dance or dancer in performance. You will certainly never see this in burlesque. Do gay men and women have easier or better lives in 2012 than in the 60s and 70s? The world is easier now for gays and lesbians who need the approval of society, but a harder place for people who are highly individualized or eccentric. What would Andy Warhol and Quentin Crisp have made of the current cabaret scene in New York or London? I never knew Andy Warhol to be even vaguely interested in cabaret. Andy was rarely a sit-down audience member. The current trend of loungy spaces, with no entertainment and loud music that makes conversation impossible, would have suited him perfectly. Quentin Crisp disliked music to an extraordinary degree. “Music,” he would often say, “is the most amount of noise conveying the least amount of information.” However, I think Quentin would have liked cabaret, because it is storytelling through song and the songs are not raucous like rock. And cabaret is very much about individual personality. Where are you planning to sneak off to after the curtain goes down each night? I will be hanging out in the Arcola Tent Bar in the garden after shows, and at Dalston Superstore. But I love The Ship on Wardour Street, the 12 Bar Club on Denmark Street and of course the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Who do you currently rate amongst the up-and-coming New York talent? We have had notable US visitors recently, including boylesquers Go-Go Harder and Smokin’ McQueen, but very few from other cabaret fields. Is it just a case of money or is something else holding back performers from coming over? One of New York’s greatest and most unusual musical artists has been living in London for the past four years: Jack McKeever. He is amazing. Once he is discovered by Londoners he will change music the way Sade once did, with the same kind of long, slow, sexy, funky rhythms, but unique to him. Two other great music makers are Holcombe Waller and Clint Michigan, both super favourites of mine. As for other art forms, I think you are about to discover singer-drag goddess Joey Arias in a big way, Lady Bunny who is filthy and funny, and Acid Betty, who might be the true heir to Leigh Bowery. You have yet to experience the very English David Cale, who has performed in New York for two decades. We see fewer London artists, and you see fewer New York artists, because of the high cost of living in both cities, as well as the airfares and lodging costs. What makes a good lover? And what can you do if you find yourself in love with a bad lover? There are as many ways of being a good lover as there are individuals. Being a good lover is an innate quality rooted in generosity, notably the ability to share yourself. Being a bad lover has roots in being unaware and self-absorbed, but ultimately sex is rooted in chemistry. As the great sex educator and one of my greatest mentors, Betty Dodson, taught me, “just because you love someone, or someone loves you, that is no guarantee that the sex will be good.” It is we who have equated love and sex, it is not that way in nature. At any rate fear not: each of us will be our own most consistently good sex partner.]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/penny-arcade-eroticism-without-control/feed/ 0 Eva Simmons Performs Live at XL Nightclub http://acidbetty.com/#!/eva-simmons-performs-live-at-rockit-fridays/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/eva-simmons-performs-live-at-rockit-fridays/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:07 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=887 Eva Simmons Live Performance | XL Nightclub 2012]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/eva-simmons-performs-live-at-rockit-fridays/feed/ 0 Brittany Campell, Glamorous Monique and Acid Betty Perform live at XL Nightclub for Daniel K’s Birthday http://acidbetty.com/#!/brittany-campell-glamorous-monique-and-acid-betty-perform-live-at-xl-nightclub-for-daniel-ks-birthday/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/brittany-campell-glamorous-monique-and-acid-betty-perform-live-at-xl-nightclub-for-daniel-ks-birthday/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 19:28:23 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=892 Daniel K Makeup’s Birthday Party | XL Nightclub 2012]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/brittany-campell-glamorous-monique-and-acid-betty-perform-live-at-xl-nightclub-for-daniel-ks-birthday/feed/ 0 ACID BETTY RELEASES FIRST SINGLE “RUTHLESS” http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-releases-first-single-ruthless/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-releases-first-single-ruthless/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:22:21 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=876 DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE PDF Acid Betty, internationally known singer, dancer, and performing artist, has released her first single, “Ruthless.” “Ruthless” is currently available for purchase on iTunes and the music video can be viewed on her website at www.AcidBetty.com and on YouTube. Most famous for being the first and only self proclaimed hybrid drag queen in the world, Acid Betty continues to break barriers and set new trends in the nightlife and music worlds. While she personally defies any true definition or category, Acid’s music can be described as a mix of alternative and pop. People that are fans of 80’s music they can dance to will be a fan of Acid Betty and “Ruthless.” Acid Betty was featured on Season 5 of “Project Runway,” served as Ringleader at Lincoln Center for New York CIty’s “Rock & Roll Circus ”, has been showcased at the Gay Village in Italy Rome and played host of the annual “The Black Party Expo & Bazaar” in NYC. Acid Betty is available for phone interview.  Please visit Acid Betty’s website at www.AcidBetty.com for more information, including streaming music video, photos, and videos from past performances.]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-releases-first-single-ruthless/feed/ 0 Cazwell and Peaches “Unzip Me” http://acidbetty.com/#!/cazwell-and-peaches-unzip-me/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/cazwell-and-peaches-unzip-me/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:11:44 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=1014 Unzip Me Music Video]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/cazwell-and-peaches-unzip-me/feed/ 0 Brian Kent – Su-Su-Su-Superstar Music Video http://acidbetty.com/#!/brian-kent-su-su-su-superstar-music-video/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/brian-kent-su-su-su-superstar-music-video/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:47:25 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/#!/?p=1198 Su-Su-Su-Superstar Music Video ]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/brian-kent-su-su-su-superstar-music-video/feed/ 0 Acid Betty performs LIVE in Italy, Rome http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-performs-live-in-italy-rome/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-performs-live-in-italy-rome/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:39:09 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=827 Gay Village | Italy Rome 2011 ]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/acid-betty-performs-live-in-italy-rome/feed/ 0 Caligula Maximus http://acidbetty.com/#!/debauchery-in-brooklyn-caligula-maximus-at-the-house-of-yes-apr-6-17/ http://acidbetty.com/#!/debauchery-in-brooklyn-caligula-maximus-at-the-house-of-yes-apr-6-17/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:50:44 +0000 admin http://acidbetty.com/?p=824 Caligula Maximus, A Musical Disco Circus | House of Yes 2011]]> http://acidbetty.com/#!/debauchery-in-brooklyn-caligula-maximus-at-the-house-of-yes-apr-6-17/feed/ 0