Kurfew

Kurfew Diary
January 2001 - March 2001
Read up on some of Kurfew's special highlights from the past.

Saturday, March 31st, 2001

Kurfew Entertainment and Reprise Records celebrate the release of the U.S. debut album of
SASHA
ALEXANDER
featuring
"Let Me Be The One"
and
"If You Believe"

Saturday, March 24th, 2001

It's the awards ceremony for the Fashion School Showdown 2001.

Find out which school (FIT or Parsons) is named Fashion School of the Year, and which designer is named Student Designer of the Year!

Saturday, March 17th, 2001

Kurfew hosts the official afterparty of the
2001 Gay and Lesbian Business and Entertainment Expo

Kurfew is the proud
Entertainment Sponsor of the 2001
Gay and Lesbian Expo
San Francisco: Feb. 10-11, 2001
New York: Mar. 17-18, 2001

Featuring a live performance
by recording artist
PAUL MANCHIN

"...The Canadian pop-star-in-waiting has been effectively mining a sound that lands somewhere between mainstream belter George Michael and club veteran Robert Owens. With his latest self-made disc, "Natural," he delivers his most assured, fully realized recording to date."
- Review by Larry Flick in Billboard
1/13/2001

Report: Kurfew's Gay and Lesbian Expo 2001 afterparty on March 17th was a major success. We noticed lots of cute new faces both from within New York City and out of town. Recording artist Paul Manchin, of Toronto, performed his catchy hit "Orange" right on the dance floor among the Kurfew boys and girls.

The Expo itself was bigger than ever. Kurfew was a Platinum Sponsor this year of the expo (held at the Jacob Javits Center), along with WKTU, Next Magazine and other gay-owned or gay-supportive companies. The Kurfew Krew coordinated all the entertainment for the two days of the show, which included your favorite Kurfew drag queens, Robin Byrd, Jimmy James, The Gay Rapper, and a slew of other established and up-and-coming performers. Kurfew Jeff was interviewed on NY1 about the Expo, and members of the Kurfew Krew had the chance to meet the cast of the Showtime hit, Queer As Folk. Pictures are coming soon!

Saturday, March 10th, 2001

FASHION
SCHOOL
SHOWDOWN(tm)
2001

Undergraduate student designers from Fashion Institute of Technology battle those from Parson's School of Design in the quest to be named the "Best Design School of 2001" and the "Best Student Designer of 2001." It's the nighttime afterparty for the schools' popular Fusion 2001 event (fusionfashionshow.com). Nearly 20 student models from each school participate....and then it's time to mix and mingle with the Kurfew Krowd! Kurfew's drag queen hostesses will select the best designers and the best school overall based on style, creativity, and audience reaction!

REPORT: It took a while to get the huge turnout into the building, but the March 10th, 2001 Fashion School Showdown between design students of FIT and Parsons was most definitely a hit! Our drag queen/club kid judging panel is reviewing video and photographs to select both the winning school and the winning designer. The awards cermony will be held at Kurfew on March 24th!

Saturday, March 3rd, 2001

Simon & Schuster
and
Kurfew Entertainment
celebrate the launch of the new
illustrated ridiculous Haiku book by the acclaimed artist and pop surrealist
KENNY SCHARF
Haiku! Gesundheit

...in the Kenny Scharf room, of course!

CHECK OUT KENNY SCHARF'S WEBSITE AT www.ScharfSchak.com

Here are the winning Haikus in our contest celebrating the launch of Kenny Scharf's new book, "Haiku! Gesundheit." The grand prize winner receives a collectible Kenny Scharf Swatch Watch while others win an autographed copy of Kenny's book!

Grand Prize Winner
Within black tower
Queen prepares to flee, with tact
"To checkmate" says she
- Ricardo R.

Winners
Here come all the boys.
Some, quite the fashion-victims.
Did you see his shoes?
- Leo L.

Four boys in one room.
No one to supervise them.
Guess what happened there?
- Terrence W.

Sweaty bodies merge,
lights flashing, people dancing,
dreams fly through the night.
- Kyle E.

I hate my boyfriend.
And so I dumped him last night.
He can go to hell.
- Justin H.

Brown dust on the plain,
a memory of time past.
Green forest once stood.
- Michael V.

honorable mentions...
The night gets younger,
the boys are mellow, pretty.
I get a hickey.
- Stan Z.

One night of glitter.
Why are they playing that song?
Look! Another queen!
- Jeff O.

I get on a train.
Ninety minutes to New York
Kurfew is worth it!
- Brad Y.

Report: The Kurfew Kids had quite a bit of fun on March 3rd as Kurfew helped Simon & Schuster launch Kenny Scharf's new illustrated "Haiku! Gesundheit" book! Kenny Scharf, of course, is the acclaimed pop surrealist who created Kurfew's furry "Cosmic Cavern." We held a Haiku Contest, both online and at the club (check back here to see some winning entries!) and authors of particularly Haikus were awarded Haiku! Gesundheit books with a special Kurfew event inscription and autograph by Kenny Scharf himself!

We also celebrated the birthdays of Tom (Rodan), Tim and Kurfew Jeff. Many thanks to Randy for the operatic birthday sing-a-long. Tim described the party as "the best birthday I ever had!" and Tom called it "my best birthday party ever." Thanks to all the "Kurfers" who made it such a special night!

Report: The New York boys partied on February 10th, while the San Francisco Kurfew boys had their first taste of Kurfew on Sunday, February 11th following the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Expo! Besides attracting some of San Francsico's cutest guys (and girls!) what was most remarkable about the San Francisco event was the positive vibe and friendly, fun-loving spirit that has made Kurfew New York so successful! The TranceFormers gave an incredible performance, and Kurfew's DJ Ian Carisi kept the dance floor moving. Pictures from our first San Francisco event are coming soon!

Saturday, February 24th, 2001

Report: February 24th drew a colorful crowd for Boy George's new mix CD release party! Ms. Cookie Buffet was our special guest from Washington D.C. and took some time to entertain the crowd waiting in line with her witty wisecracks. Cookie's light-up hairdo was a statue-of-liberty-esq. reminder to the boys and girls in line of the freedom that lay only a few steps inside!

Saturday, February 3rd, 2001

Report: February 3rd was the launch party for Head Over Heels! We gave away lots of neat prizes from Universal Pictures including automated, light-up mirrors (every model needs one of those!) and nifty Head Over Heels T-shirts.

Saturday, January 27th, 2001

"Nico and Dani" receives a
"Top Kurfew Film Recommendation!"

Report: January 27th proved to be quite a fun

night as we celebrated the launch of the amazing new film, "Nico and Dani." Lots of "Old School" Kurfews were in attendance, including Ms. Peppermint Gummybear (right), Zach, Ricardo, as well as the #1 and #2 winners of Kurfew's 1998 Cutest Cover Boy contest...and they still are adorable!

Saturday, January 20th, 2001

It's the "Kurfew Door Person" election and your vote counts...but this time you'd better get it right! The only dimpled Chads in this election will be the cute ones on the dance floor. PLUS A SURPRISE SCHARF ROOM PERFORMANCE!

Report: The performances on January 20th brought cheers and even active participants, but the night also had its fair share of controversy (particularly James' "Fag Show," with its underwear-clad boys). But nobody debated the merits of J-Rock's solid performance (left). Meanwhile, prospective Kurfew door boys and girls were working the crowd like seasoned candidates!

Saturday, January 13th, 2001

Kurfew hosts a party for GAY LIVE NEW YORK featuring the "Vaginally-Challenged" Brittany Lynn (right) as hostess!

Win prizes from the premiere gay phone chat service, meet some of the Gay Live New York models and maybe even get selected to be a future Gay Live New York model!!!

Plus...a special performance tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Report: January 13th brought not only an incredibly large crowd, but a really diverse and fun mix of people and personalities from around the country. The "Vaginally- Challenged" Brittany Lynn (Shampoo, Philadelphia), hosted the "Gay Live New York" party, handing out hundreds of dollars of Gay Live giveaways. Ms. Cookie Buffet (Velvet Nation, Washington DC) was our honorary door queen for part of the night, and kept a party going on outside while the party went on inside! Finally, Brittany, Cookie, J-Rock, Triniti and Electra all gave extraordinary performances to make for quite an exciting night!

Saturday, January 6th, 2001

Report: We kicked off the Kurfew of the 21st Century on January 6th with a line that snaked down the block and a really fun mix of old and new Kurfew boys and girls! Ms. Electra (top) is seen here doing the Spice Girl giveaways by using

(what else?) her mouth. Many old-time Kurfers remembered BeBe (right), born at Kurfew nearly three years ago and now a star nightlife attraction in New York City and beyond. Overall, we'd sum up the night by quoting a cute South African boy visiting Kurfew on vacation: "This is just so fun!"
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