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Odessa was one, and Leshkos was the other. Hear Rosie Perez talk about her first time at CBGB: Six days a week I arrived every morning between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. Ive always been a pretty good cook, and I could make these very good dinners in this tiny kitchen. Now nothings open after 11. The silhouette I was doing broad shoulders and thin hip was my way of reinterpreting masculine power, but with humor. They put their names all over the mens room! The theater had been trashed. I really loved those people the heroism of their everyday lives was palpable, and that was woven into the tapestry of the East Village. Although it didn't hold up against Chili's, TGI Fridays, and Applebee's, there was a time when it was fairly ubiquitous throughout the states. The deal with him was he never had to come and he never had to give any money, but he would give his name and a recommendation. A restaurant my wife and I definitely did not frequent was Elaines. She was the ultimate ballerina, and she became that on Fame. I was excited that I would be able to introduce this new band of gypsies to the Hollywood scene. He wasnt exactly made of money, though he fished through a bucket of change every morning to buy his one meal of the day, a bagel but Block claims this was a time when it didnt cost a ton to open and run a bar in Manhattan. Sometimes I didnt eat for two days. When AIDS hit, the lines were drawn: You were either straight or gay. In the summer of 1992, New York Magazine published a photo of the Slalom Shots alongside a brief blurb and, according to Block, That more or less started the anarchy in the neighborhood.. I didnt have the scratch to make it livable, but I met this guy named Peter Marino [the architect and designer] in the elevator who was doing a high-end renovation on the top floor and negotiated with him. And if we didnt have the money, wed go to the matre d it was absurd because this restaurant was in the middle of the slums and say, Can we pay you tomorrow? and theyd let us. I dont even know if it was named AIDS at that point. Id go for two, three, four hours and have a fairly good time. Bars & Clubs Gay Bars. Youd get into costume, put makeup on, make sure your props were in the right place, talk to the stage manager. Hes a Leo all the Leos I know love history. One of my responses was to just keep working. It was established, owned by and named after Elaine Kaufman, who was indelibly associated with the restaurant; Elaine's shut down several months after Kaufman died. The era might have been old New Yorks last real gasp a time when the very streets, dirty and unsafe as they were, seemed infused with possibility. Veselka was the go-to place to eat and get cake the lemon bundt or the mohn. But as soon as we walked in, nearly everyone stood and applauded. Some of them were lying about their age and I knew it, but I didnt care. There was likewise Brother Jimmys, a Southern BBQ joint that served overproof punch out of rubber garbage pails. He recognized me and stopped to congratulate me on the film. Originally part of the Pillsbury Corp., the restaurant was founded in 1976. The only place that designated who you were was the Upper East Side. Elaine's was a bar and restaurant in New York City that existed from 1963 to 2011. Youd establish dialogue with great artists like Lawrence Weiner. And by 1991 a good dozen of the neighborhoods bars were offering similar ladies night deals. What if they just let all women drink for free? The bathroom of Area nightclub, which was located on 157 Hudson Street and opened in 1983. One time a girl a teenager, maybe 15, 16 came in with her dad. Its until you pass out.. I was one of the champions of the golden age of promiscuity, though that all ended with AIDS. 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We had a prom, a debutante ball, a ladies wrestling night. 1. Meanwhile, 25 new bars had opened between 76th and 96th Streets in the first years of the 1990s as well. Did you come to see the show? She was very busy editing books of her own, among them Jane Fondas Workout Book, Thomas Keneallys Schindlers List, Margaret Atwoods Bluebeards Egg and Rosalynn Carters memoir First Lady From Plains. At one point Nan traveled to the Carters home in Plains, Georgia, an ordinary split-level with an imperial iron fence that had been Richard Nixons from Key Biscayne (the Carters didnt believe in waste). It must have been late spring of 1981. Or I would throw a party. The bodegas played loud salsa music late into the night, as Dominican men played dominoes on the corner. At the end of the night I would walk all the way home. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. 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