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Behind the scenes of The Village Voice

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Behind the scenes of The Village Voice

For some six decades, it took The Village Voice to tell the alternative story of New York each week – and with its publication late every Thursday — America itself. Beginning in the white bread mid-Fifties when The Voice was founded by the likes of Norman Mailer and a couple of cohorts, through to the … Read more

Carmen Xtravaganza, ‘Paris is Burning’ star and NYC ballroom icon, dead at 62

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Carmen Xtravaganza, ‘Paris is Burning’ star and NYC ballroom icon, dead at 62

Carmen Xtravaganza, an NYC ballroom icon who was featured in the 1990 documentary “Paris is Burning,” has died. She was 62. The House of Xtravaganza — which emerged from New York’s underground ballroom scene and for which Carmen held the position of house mother at various times — announced the news of her death Friday in an … Read more