Featuring my "Let's All Chant!" Halloween house/gay circuit mix as background music click the artwork at left for a 5 minute preview of my 24th Annual 17th Street Heel Race 2010 video walk docu-project at Veoh.
Free and open to the public, these twice-yearly open studio events draw hundreds to the Mid City area in downtown DC to see where art is created. Plan your Saturday and Sunday treks by flipping through the artists' pages online to see what you like, who is new, and who is participating. Download the map to guide you along your journey. Check out our business supporters, have snacks, do some shopping, and view Mid City artists' exhibits in the neighborhood shops and galleries.
In celebration of the 2010 FotoWeek DC Festival click the artwork at left to view my October 2010 "Moments" retro-spective photo montage of images taken by me during my Saturday, 7 November 2009 visit to the 2009 FotoWeek DC Festival in Washington DC.
Since 2006, I have often re-launched my ongoing "In The Fall Of The Year" docu-project with a ritual Labor Day Weekend or early October photo walk through Georgetown.
In addition to Robbie Leslie's TOTM / 30 two cd set, DJ Michael Fierman has also released a 2 cd set of his performance during this past Sunday's TRIPPIN' ON THE MOON's 30th anniversary celebration of THE SAINT at the Santos Party House in NYC.
This past Sunday’s TRIPPIN’ ON THE MOON (The 30th Anniversary Celebration of Dancing Under the Dome) event is now the stuff of legend.
Click logo to read Metro Weekly Update dated Tuesday, 26 October 2010 pertaining to MW's LIVE video-streaming of tonight's 24th Annual 17th Street High Heel Race from 8 until 9:15 pm.
In celebration of the 24th Annual 17th Street High Heel Race which takes place on Tuesday evening, 24 October 2010 in NW Washington DC click the cd cover at left to listen to my "Let's All Chant!" Halloween House / Gay Circuit Mix.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 20 September 1980 opening of THE SAINT, this Sunday, 24 October 2010 Christina will host TRIPPIN' ON THE MOON V at the Santos Party House in NYC. Featuring a tracklist of music from the Timothy Hartley Smith Collection that was played at THE SAINT in its early years click the cd cover to listen to my October 2010 "Eye In The Sky" gay circuit mix. If you're traveling to NYC for Sunday's TOTM V event you may also wish to download (for your Ipod or car cd player) my "Journey To The Moon" Halloween trance mix and tribute to THE SAINT and TOTM V. While this is not music that will be heard at THE SAINT it may be excellent for driving. Or, for a 'sex' party after Sunday's TOTM V. For more of my mixes visit the Elvert Barnes Mixology archives.
The count down is on to TRIPPIN" ON THE MOON V. Only one week away from the 30th year anniversary of dancing under the dome on Sunday 24 October 2010 from 4 pm until 4 am at Santos Party House at 96 Lafayette Street in New York City.
In celebration of my 57th Birthday which took place on 5 October 2010 and the 30th anniversary of The Saint which opened on 20 September 1980 I recently created two music mixes.
Click the cd cover at left to listen to and/or download the mix.
Seven DJ’s, all who graced the turntables at one of the most spectacular clubs in the world will come together for one very special evening at TRIPPIN ON THE MOON V. Not since the closing party in 1988 have they all been under one roof. Please join us for what will sure to be a monumental event as we celebrate 30 years of music, dancing, friendship and memories.
The American-Turkish Association of Washington DC (ATA-DC) will host its 8th Annual Turkish Festival on this Sunday, 3 October 2010 at Freedom Plaza in NW Washington DC from 11 am until 7 pm.
When last week that I read a Metro Weekly Update pertaining to Rob Smith’s 20 September 2010 article “Black and Brown and Discharged All Over” I thought to myself, here is yet another study that sheds light on what I have spoken of and written on for almost two decades.
In Issue 23 of JPG Magazine, the contributors first identify aspects of their world that represent forward progress for the theme Transformations. Also, JPG members recognize that since Decay is a natural process of life, there is an abundance of beauty to document. Finally, take a trip down memory lane through pictures that remind us of time gone by in Nostalgia. All these great themes and more can be found in Issue 23 of JPG Magazine!
On Saturday, October 2, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans from across the country will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate our re-commitment to change.
Scheduled for publication in December 2010, "Breakin´ the City" by Berlin photographer Nicolaus Schmidt shows New York from an unusual perspective. A new form of city life by moving planes and whirling through the urban canyons of the megacity. Amidst the hustle and bustle living sculptures seem from another time dimension to the product. This illustrated book, also an urban photo tour of New York shows, break dancers from the Bronx and Brooklyn who see the city as their stage, as the two young dancers who show during the frantic drive of express trains on the New York Subwaysystem their adventurous leaps. In the second part of the book is the photographer in front of the dancers in striking portraits, and reports in addition to his own personal experiences with the most amazing break-dancers and their life stories.
