DIRTY BLONDE

Thu, Oct 22

at 7:00 PM

I've learned in my years "restraint of pen and tongue" and I focus on things I like, and dont pay the rest much mind.

That said, I LOVED Sherry Vine's Dirty Blonde when she was in New York last time, and I HIGHLY recommend it!

Sherry is what we call "a good queen", and by that I mean she chooses to do her show in a gay owned venue, supporting us here at Red Eye NY and NOT just reaching out to do The Ice Palace, but also in NYC.

I understand in New York there is a plethora of places to perform, but other than a handful like Club Cumming, or the Laurie Beechman, I dont even know who the owners are, and I like knowing I am spending money supporting queer "artists" in queer spaces owned by queer people.

I know, you've never seen Sherry vine and "artist" in the same sentence before(jk), but trust me, this show is laugh out loud funny.

I thought from her make up job in the press photo it was a Halloween show, but no! Thats just sherry "trying"

TICKETS HERE

NADA: LONG WEEKEND EDITION

Sun, Oct 11

at 9:00 PM

in The Cockpit at Red Eye NY

The Red Eye Guys and Just For Fans invite you to NADA: Naked Bar Night

NYC's Hottest Naked Party Goes Weekly! Brought to you by the creator of the ORIGINAL Underwear Party.

Hosted by Josh and Sky Myles. DJ Ben Schultz

Clothes check available. Underwear ok but drink specials if you strip down to nothing.

TICKETS HERE

Dina Martina

(a.k.a. “The Second Lady of Entertainment”)

will bring her famed holiday trainwreck back to Sony Hall November 27th!

 Martina blends a truly wondrous mix of questionable song, unnecessary dance, overburdened costumes, and side-splitting video to bring back your favorite holiday tradition. 

“Dina Martina goes way beyond drag into some new kind of twisted art.” - John Waters

"Comic genius. I've never seen anything as brilliant or as funny as Dina." - The Atlantic

"The most original drag performer working in America today." – Michael Musto

TICKETS HERE

From Nightlife to Hospitality: Daniel Nardicio’s Casa Oasis echoes the Ian Schrager Playbook

With Casa Oasis in Zipolite, Mexico, nightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio brings his instinct for people, parties and cultural chemistry into hospitality — following a path pioneered by Ian Schrager.

ZIPOLITE, OAXACA, MEXICO

Before Ian Schrager became one of the most influential figures in modern hospitality, he was a nightlife impresario.

Schrager and Steve Rubell created Studio 54, the legendary New York nightclub that understood something fundamental: a great room isn't defined by what's inside it. It's defined by who comes through the door, what happens once they're there, and how being there makes them feel.

When Schrager moved into hotels, he brought that philosophy with him. Beginning with Morgans Hotel in New York in 1984, he helped pioneer the boutique-hotel movement, replacing the anonymity and standardization of traditional hotels with personality, design, social energy and a sense that the hotel itself could be the destination.

Now Daniel Nardicio is making his own leap from nightlife into hospitality with Casa Oasis in Zipolite, Mexico.

The circumstances are different. The scale is different. And Zipolite is emphatically not Manhattan.

But the underlying idea is strikingly similar.

Nightlife teaches you that the real product is chemistry.

For years, Nardicio has built his reputation by creating parties, performances and happenings around an instinct for bringing the right people together. Casa Oasis takes that sensibility out of the nightclub and gives it a permanent home on Mexico's Pacific coast.

Located in Zipolite, Oaxaca, the famously free-spirited beach town, Casa Oasis is conceived as something more personal than a conventional hotel. It is a place to stay, certainly — but also somewhere to meet people, gather around the pool, disappear for an afternoon, make friends, flirt, relax and become part of a community.

The hotel's own structure reflects that social approach: Casa Oasis incorporates communal areas and a pool into the experience rather than treating guests as occupants of isolated rooms.

And Zipolite is an especially fitting place for Nardicio's second act.

Long associated with freedom, nudism, queer travelers, artists, bohemians and people seeking an alternative to polished corporate resort culture, Zipolite already possesses something hotel companies spend millions trying to manufacture:

a personality.

Casa Oasis isn't trying to sand down that personality. It's building around it.

That, perhaps, is where the comparison with Schrager becomes most revealing.

Schrager didn't succeed in hospitality by forgetting everything he knew about nightlife. He succeeded because he applied it.

Nightlife had taught him about entrances and anticipation, lighting and atmosphere, public versus private space, exclusivity and openness, and above all the unpredictable alchemy created when interesting people occupy the same room.

Nardicio comes to Casa Oasis with his own version of that education.

"I've never been interested in just putting people in a room," said Daniel Nardicio. "I've always been interested in what happens when you put the right people in the same place. Casa Oasis is really an extension of that. It's hospitality, but it's also community, personality and a little bit of mischief."

For Nardicio, Casa Oasis also represents an evolution rather than a reinvention.

A promoter asks: Who should be here tonight?

A hotelier asks: Why will someone want to come back?

The best of both understand that the answer isn't simply the building.

It's the feeling.

Ian Schrager helped prove that someone from nightlife could look at the traditions of the hotel business from the outside and see possibilities established hoteliers had overlooked.

With Casa Oasis, Daniel Nardicio is making a similar wager from a very different stretch of coastline.

New York gave Nardicio the nightlife. Zipolite gives him the oasis.

And if Schrager's career demonstrated that nightlife could become hospitality, Casa Oasis offers a distinctly Nardicio variation on the idea:

The party doesn't have to end.

Sometimes it just checks in.

for more information on how to own a piece of paradise in Zipolite, email daniel@thecasaoasis.com