"[17] Bond moved to San Francisco in 1988. Bond was credited in the band's album of the same name. [66], The musician Rufus Wainwright, son of Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, was another rising star from the downtown club scene who befriended Bond at this time. calendar, a “circuit party” for people who wouldn’t normally be caught dead on the circuit. Consisting of a drunk, delirious septuagenarian lounge singer (played by Justin Vivian Bond) and her long-suffering gay piano player (Kenny Mellman), Kiki and Herb reinvented downtown cabaret and thrust a hot, angry knife through the stiff dogma of the Bush era. "[62] Backups included Matt Ray on piano, Claudia Chopek on violin, and Nath Ann Carrera on guitar. Justin Vivian Bond Makes Broadway History with Tales of the CityThe casting of the genre- and gender-defying artist is a breakthrough moment for transgender actors on Broadway.When Mx. Alternative March returns Pride to its roots. It will be released sometime later in 2018. Alternative To NYC Pride Has Different Message: 'It's Not Over'. Justin Vivian Bond, born Stanley Huffman Bond III, is an American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, and actor. Justin Vivian Bond Will Host Auntie Glam's Happy Hour Today. In a night dedicated to Judy Collins — a great influence on Bond — tunes from folk singers Tom Paxton (“Leaving London”) and Richard Farina (“Reno, Nevada”) mixed with swinging surprises by Stephen Sondheim (“The Girls of Summer”) and Duke Ellington and Carl Sigman (“All Too Soon”). "[80], Bond has decided to clarify an identity as a trans-person, explaining that "for me to claim to be either a man or a woman, feels like a lie. Bond, who prefers they/them/their as gender pronouns, has a house near Hudson, 20 miles upriver from Bard, where they escape New York City each summer. The New York Public Library has one of the largest collections of LGBTQ artifacts from that tumultuous period, which is now being displayed in a major exhibit, "Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50." It’s an event that’s been a beloved addition to the New York Fashion Week calendar since circa 2013, but one she took a break from two years ago. Bond’s friends are sometimes famous, and always interesting. Bond had a Top 20 Single on the UK alternative chart and was named one of England's fifty funniest people by Time Out London. “And I got a lot of requests. Justin Vivian Bond Would Like to Sell You a Bag. "[41] A poster on tribe.net reported hearing them mentioned on an episode of Will and Grace early in 2006, noting that "now they have crossed over. The day tickets went on sale, the Joe’s Pub Web site crashed. The event includes panels, workshops, keynotes, installations and performances from global LGBTQ artists including Hari Nef, Macy Rodman, Kate Bornstein and Severely Mame, among others.Mx'd Messages aims to reimagine the world without binaries, looking at how that affects gender, politics, theology, sensory perception and race. The project, “My Model | MySelf: I’ll Stand by You,” proudly puts what Bond calls a “queer face” on the glamour created by gay people that has long been appropriated by mainstream culture. “This brings it back to its roots.”. A turning point occurred when Kate Bornstein cast Bond in her new play, Hidden: A Gender, using the life of the French, intersex person Herculine Barbin as an autobiographical device. Justin Vivian Bond. "[31] "I created an invulnerable character in Kiki," Bond reflected elsewhere, "and as soon as I got rid of the character, there were a lot of bad habits that sort of fell away. A DVD was released in 2013. ‘Tis the Season: Justin Vivian Bond Subverts the Spirit of the HolidaysJustin Vivian Bond has a habit of gracing holiday cabaret shows with sentiments attributable to a slightly skewed perspective. Herb, her devoted sidekick and accompanist, was at the piano, his gray hair in a ponytail and the rest of him in a Vegas-style silver suit. Genre-hopping guitarist Marc Ribot recruited singer-songwriter Steve Earle to front his moving tribute song “Srinivas,” the first sample of a new album of anti-Trump material, Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance 1942-2018, out September 14th via ANTI- Records. A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna. Joe’s Pub ― The closest thing I have to a temple. "[81] Bond undergoes hormone treatment to appear more feminine,[5] and reported feeling great as a result, noting that "I like the way my body looks. Showcase. And what do Bond and Comey have planned this time out? When I was a wee baby queerling, one of my favorite things to do with my grandmother was to watch the Home Shopping Network and QVC. I also loved it because of the club’s beautiful MC, a gender-ambiguous chanteuse called Justin Bond, who sang an anthemic song called “In the End”. The episode will be hosted on their Instagram live, here. [19] Participation in Queer Nation and ACT UP, advocacy groups combatting HIV/AIDS, anti-gay violence, and media prejudice, gave Bond "a voice and a sort of grounding in politics" that were new. Alongside it, the Whitney Houston Biennial has quietly made a return too, in a space run by Chashama just 1.5 miles from the main event and lasting for 10 days instead of four hours. [24] In 1994, Bond appeared on film for the first time, as Amphetamine in John Moritsugu's Mod Fuck Explosion, and again the following year in Fanci's Persuasion. 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The album is still streaming free from Mellman’s Soundcloud account, and I believe, if you feel troubled by the state of the world but still want to wish Joy to it, it is the only Christmas record that can capture the true essence of this season. New York–based artist Justin Vivian Bond’s breakout came in San Francisco in the 1990s as part of Kiki & Herb, a dastardly and delightful duo that paired Herb (a sometimes-screaming pianist played by musician Kenny Mellman) with Kiki, a pill-popping, cocktail-swilling lounge singer that Bond embodied with élan. Transformation with Glenn Close and Ted Nash With Nijawwon Matthews, Wayne Brady, Adriane Lenox and More. It was about a queer sex club in Brooklyn, and it was mildly notorious at the time because none of the sex was simulated. Justin Vivian Bond: The Biploar ExpressThe downtown cabaret icon returns to Joe's Pub for an annual holiday concert. It wasn’t staged in Brooklyn like usual, but at La Mercerie on Howard Street. "But if you’re trans, you have to look outside of your family to think about role models and the way you want to be.”. [36] They performed extensively, namely in London's Soho Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall and New York's The Knitting Factory and Carnegie Hall, as well as a host of other venues worldwide. If all of that as the underlying subject of the last episode of High Maintenance's first season sounds heavy, well—it is. In 2011, Bond stated that "we are going to celebrate our birthdays together this year. Justin Vivian Bond is the Upstate goth in the chambeige minivan. The artist’s voice is a unique instrument of beauty and honesty that captivates from the opening notes, taking the audience on an emotional ride through moments of transcendent beauty and witty repartee. Bond pays homage to Collins by tracing her diverse vocal terrain and covering songs by giants, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, as well as Duke Ellington, Jacques Brel and Stephen Sondheim. Pink Slip was recorded at Le Poisson Rouge and Bond hoped income from the EP would help fund the recording of an album. Bond channels Collins, and her songwriters. "[54] Bond also appeared in Paul Festa's Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006).[55]. BWW Review: Justin Vivian Bond Is 'Golden' in Anniversary Show at Joe's PubIf this is what the end of THE GOLDEN AGE OF Justin VivIan Bond looks like, here's hoping for an extension. Described as the best cabaret artist of his generation and a tornado of art and activism, Bond first achieved prominence under the pseudonym of Kiki DuRane in the stage duo Kiki an Here is what we found: Justin Vivian Bond Serves QVC Realness for JW Anderson. Rachel Comey’s Dinner and a Fashion Show Returns With Even More to Chew On, Thursday night, after a show well done, Rachel Comey tucked a dinner menu into her purse to take home and show her husband, who she says she hasn’t seen “in days.” She’s been busy putting together a dinner-party-slash-fashion-show for a small group again. lens in “LatinXoxo” (Oct. 15, Nov. 6-7). On a recent February afternoon at a Lower East Side bar, Bond and Mellman admit they haven’t even begun rehearsing for the impending engagement (which runs April 21 through May 22). [56][57] Justin Bond is Close To You reinterpreted Karen Carpenter's album Close To You as part of Joe's Pub in the Park in Central Park in 2007, later moving to Australia's Sydney Opera House. Finally I started to vibe in the East Village with people like Mistress Formika and Sherry Vine. They were on a mission from Catherine Did It, a focus group affiliated with San Francisco's brand-new chapter of the ostentatious activist organization Queer Nation, which had an estimated 40 chapters around the country. The Hudson Hawk, Spice World, and Gosford Park actor couldn’t find much info about the best-selling-celebrity-biographer-turned-forger’s friend and accomplice to inform his performance. Olga Neuwirth says androgyny and the rejection of gender stereotypes have inspired her ever since she first read Woolf's novel as a teenager. Bond has hosted the Weimer New York variety show since its inception in 2007. But with Richard's lilting new piano arrangements foregrounding Karen's inimitable alto, the song shot to the top of the charts. I knew nothing about downtown until I started working with these people. It was pretty glamorous, looking back on it.I tried to get a lay of the land, because I didn’t want to get sucked into the wrong scene. Soon people began asking about the striking designs, and—as these stories often go—Apparatus turned into a fully formed entity. Reasons to Love New York Our favorite New Yorkers share their favorite places across the five boroughs. "[43] Locked into a stage act consisting of one other person, it appears that Bond had also begun to feel socially constrained. “He said: ‘Now, come on Bobbi, we can drop that.’ He didn’t care a damn.”. Bond, dressed in black, sits across from Mellman, who sports a sweatshirt emblazoned with a moon face, along with biblically long hair and a beard. The answer is no!” zinged Murray Hill, downtown’s favorite Drag King of Comedy—heir unapparent to the likes of Henny Youngman and Rodney Dangerfield. VIENNA — The prompter’s box at the foot of the stage of the Vienna State Opera houses the person to whom divas can turn at forgetful moments for a snippet of text to get back on track. Bond took the job partly to find out "whether or not I could, if I had to, make a living in the 'straight' world" as a "normal, middle-class, semi-closeted gay..."[17] According to Bond, this experiment provided the confidence to "plunge into my life as a gender non-conforming queer in San Francisco a year later believing that I could – in case of emergency – break the glass ceiling by returning to my closeted white male privilege again one day if need be. Everyone was age-inappropriate and everything about it was so wrong, but so sparkly and wonderful. On the second evening of the show's four-night run earlier this month, Bond's control over the melodic rasp of v's voice was impeccable. I said something about Justin, how much I loved his voice, and he said, “Oh, but Justin isn’t ‘he’. It was here that Bond turned androgyny into a professional asset, developing an identity as a queer performer and activist. You need to know that as a direct result of your actions people's lives are being placed in grave danger and many will die. Kiki and Herb met in the Eerie Childrens Institute in Western Pennsylvania in 1934. Justin Vivian Bond's LIVE IDEAS Series 'Mx'd Messages' Reimagines a World Without BinariesRunning this week is New York Live Arts' 2017 LIVE IDEAS festival, which features a series called "Mx'd Messages," curated by queer icon and trans-genre artist Justin Vivian Bond. The duo traveled repeatedly to London, where Bond continued to work on an MA in scenography at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design when not performing. Entdecken Sie alle Hörbücher von Justin Vivian Bond auf Audible.de: 1 Hörbuch Ihrer Wahl pro Monat Der erste Monat geht auf uns. Interview: Kate Bornstein on Their Broadway Debut in Straight White Men. It tells the story of a one-of-a-kind place in the Ozarks where Christian piety and a thriving queer community coexist featuring Lee Keating and Walter Burrell, proud husband-owners of Eureka Live Underground, a local gay bar they liken to a “hillbilly Studio 54.”, “Just because we serve alcohol doesn't mean that we're perverted and we’re not Christian,” Burrell says in an exclusive clip released to OUT. Welcome to 28 Barbary Lane,” will be an affirmation.Tales of the City’s New York arrival—even if only for a one-night-only benefit concert—has been anticipated since its 2011 premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre. What Anderson and Hendifar may have lacked in experience they make up for with their eye for material, texture, and the unexpected. By Christopher Bollen Illustrated by Ruben Baghdasaryan September 17, 2020. "[15] Bond referred to the film as a "gorgeous little time capsule. “They’re thinking about their hopefulness. They are the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, and a Tony nomination, an Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant for Artists, and The Art Matters Grant. represents their first public reunion since a 2007 Carnegie Hall concert. In addition, Bond has labored tirelessly in support of queer causes and organizations and has been numbered "amongst New York City's most beloved performers . They received their first New York Times review for Have Another, (1999),[35] a show that earned a GLAAD media award the following year. 1 Hörbuch Ihrer Wahl pro Monat. [72], In July 2009 Bond made an appearance on the Logo TV comedy series Jeffery & Cole Casserole, playing a Catholic nun who serves as the principal of the show's all-girl Catholic school. Do you think you might add more?Justin Vivian Bond: Nooo.Kenny Mellman: We’re old. Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Actor: Shortbus. Though they made their start in small clubs, Kiki and Herb eventually ended up on Broadway. ‘Do You Hear What We Hear?’: The Sacred Profanity of Kiki & Herb. For years now I have been transfixed by its endless stream of must-see art exhibitions from some of the most important and subversive contemporary artists working today: Chris Ofili, Jim Shaw, Pia Camil, Nicole Eisenman, Cally Spooner, Pipilotti Rist, Raymond Pettibon, Carol Rama and Kaari Upson have all delivered knock out exhibitions at the storied Bowery-located museum since 2015. Justin Vivian Bond on the Inevitability of Assholes. Turned me onto the poetry of nihilism at a very tender age. An Explainer by Way of 10 Past Met Gala Looks. The sophomore feature from Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher (October Country), Gospel of Eureka explores how the denizens of Eureka negotiate differences around religious beliefs, gender expression, and sexual freedom through drag performance and political action. A spiritual manifesto as well as a heartbreakingly beautiful read, this book explores themes of gender, the oppression of women and queers in the old West and is an intense portrayal of the power of the human spirit. Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels von Justin Vivian Bond und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf AbeBooks.de. Cabaret — a form of entertainment that sometimes seems to be mired in the past — is alive, well and pointed straight into the future in the form of trans-genre entertainer Justin Vivian Bond. And now, after eight years, Kiki and Herb are reuniting for a monthlong engagement beginning Thursday, April 21, at Joe’s Pub, as part of the commissioning program New York Voices. Through the hat, which purportedly inspired Bob Dylan’s song “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat,” Bond explains how their fascination with the actress and model has evolved. These intensely beloved characters, the cabaret noms de plume of Mx. In the show’s world premiere, Anna Madrigal—who reveals that she is transgender—was played by Tony Award-winning actor Judy Kaye.“I thought it was fantastic,” Bond says of the ACT premiere. The next in the series is the artist and performer Justin Vivian Bond, who stars in “Kiki and Herb: Seeking Asylum!” at the Public Theater this month. [7] The young Bond idolized "more icy people" like Joan Didion, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Vivien Leigh, and Grace Kelly,[8] keeping scrapbooks of Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. Emotionally, it's evened me out. It was all these old people dressed up in feathers and plumery. The stream is free to watch, but Bond accepts tips through a virtual tip jar, located here. "[62] Elsewhere, Bond has said that "if it wasn't for my family and the rage they engendered in me, I wouldn't be here. Way back in March, during a conversation with Andrew Lloyd Webber in New York, Glenn Close dropped a surprising nugget about one of her future projects: she mentioned she was doing a musical podcast with Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s John Cameron Mitchell. "[68] In May of that year, Bond appeared with various artists in "A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle", at New York City's Town Hall, to commemorate the passing of the Wainwrights' mother, who had succumbed to cancer the previous year. [46] In a 2011 interview with The Guardian, Bond quipped that Kiki DuRane, if not actually deceased, was at least "in a nursing home in New Jersey."[29]. Downtown being downtown, the event was also a fundraiser for two essential cultural institutions: Participant Inc., the nonprofit art space led by superhero Lia Gangitano, and The Gender and Family Project, which provides space and services for the families and loved ones of gender-talented children. New York’s Most Subversive Christmas Show: Review of ‘Justin Vivian Bond: The Bipolar Express’The latest installment of Justin Vivian Bond’s two-decades-plus cabaret act, currently at Joe’s Pub in New York City, is true to the spirit of its mischievous title.A cult figure with crossover appeal, Bond is a Tony-nominated performer who rose to acclaim as Kiki of the Kiki and Herb cabaret duo, which ran from the ‘90s up until 2007 and enjoyed a revival series of shows earlier this year.Screen roles such as in the film Shortbus and the HBO web-turned-television series High Maintenance have followed. Bond has also been a vocal and visible transgender activist. Instead, the show now features 11 songs V has never before performed onstage. "All our friends were dying of AIDS, and it was a way to get out all our rage," said Mellman. I spent quite a bit of time with my friend Victoria Leacock in her duplex on 9th between Fifth and Sixth. On the surface the duo, full of irreverence and rage, might seem a little over-the-top. It’s with this notion that HERE, a New York organization dedicated to presenting cutting edge artworks in a variety of media, staged its Queer As I exhibition. Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando which deals with themes of gender fluidity and duality. The exhibition seems undercooked—more like one of New Museum’s shambolic Triennials than a thematic show with a persuasive curatorial thesis. More performances are scheduled for London in February 2015. With a libretto by Ms. Neuwirth and Catherine Filloux, and costumes by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, it premieres on Sunday, and will be available to stream for three days, starting on Dec. 18, at staatsoperlive.com. In an essay accompanying the exhibit “69 Witch Eyes,” Justin Vivian Bond, who uses the pronouns they/them, asks a pertinent question for life during the pandemic: “How do we care for others during times when we ourselves feel existentially threatened on the daily?” Bond, Justin Vivian Bond, Justin Vivien Bond [a345485] Artist . Obsessions can be comforts and also a form of sickness. Kiki is a drunk, brazen, over-the-hill lounge singer. Alvin Orloff's new memoir documents crazy nights, retro-camp glamor, and punk sensibility in the face of the AIDS crisis. I loved it because it was so honest about the difficulties of physical as well as emotional intimacy. Featuring more than 40 artists and collaborative groups, “Trigger” grows out of the idea that what we talk about when we talk about gender has shifted from a fixed and simple binary to something multiplicitous, contentious and unstable.But given the dynamic provocation of its title and the urgent charge of its topic, the show comes off as a surprisingly lugubrious affair. Drag Queens Tackle Sexual Expression and Religion in Gospel of Eureka. Find Justin Vivian Bond stock photos in HD and millions of other editorial images in the Shutterstock collection. [50], In 2012, Bond toured nationally with lesbian-feminist, spoken-word collective Sister Spit. Others utilize chains made of materials like porcelain and horsehair. Rip cords or no, over cocktails at a restaurant near Comey’s newish Los Angeles store, the two dropped a few hints about their plans for the designer’s L.A. debut—and dished about the differences, or not, between the East Coast and West Coast. The ethereal soprano that guided listeners through the 1960s — the “gentle voice amid the strife,” as Life magazine proclaimed on a May 1969 cover — still resonates in 2019. Bond's first album came about unexpectedly, as the result of an improvised concert with experimental, electronic sound artist Bob Ostertag and a Japanese turntablist from the Tokyo noise underground, Otomo Yoshihide, at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall in 1997. "[63], Writing for The New York Times, Frank Bruni noted that Mitchell had relied heavily on friends in casting the film, and that Bond was no exception. Though it wasn’t expressly positioned as a response to the Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Houston Biennial seemed to revel in inclusivity and, in that sense, felt like a rebuttal.Now the 2017 Whitney Biennial has arrived in the museum’s new home, bringing it with both praise — for showcasing a more heterogeneous group of artists engaged with the world around them — and considerable critique — for hollow depictions of violence. This reigning royal figure of New York’s downtown performance scene, who uses the gender-neutral honorific Mx., is joining Le Poisson Rouge’s 10th-anniversary celebrations with two nights of Pride-themed cabaret. “It rained,” she said. This original work was inspired by pieces, curated by Close, exploring the idea of transformation in the tangible and intangible sense, from chaos to order, darkness to light, hatred to forgiveness. KM: And, luckily, a lot is going on.JVB: It’s helpful that Kiki and Herb have known several of the current presidential candidates personally. [58] Bond has appeared with Carol Channing, Tilda Swinton, and Chocolate Genius, Inc., among others. A friend joked that I was the only homeless queen she knew who was staying in a duplex off Fifth Avenue. 'Trigger' Exhibition At The New Museum Tackles Gender But Ponders So Much MoreThe New Museum’s curatorial program, in my opinion, is currently without peer. The NEW YORK — The massive LGBT Pride March that will pass the Stonewall Inn on Sunday likely would not be possible without the riots that unfolded there 50 years ago this month. But even with a museum delivering shows as sophisticated as The New Museum, any show with 40 plus artists is going to run into curatorial issues. ‘Disasterama!’ chronicles SF’s wild, lost queer underground. Mx Bond is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, published by The Feminist Press and Susie Says… a collaboration with Gina Garan (Powerhouse Books, 2012). (Bond uses the pronouns they/them.) Just look at the debacle over the Whitney’s inclusion of Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmet Till. Prior to retiring Kiki in 2008, Bond already was touring nationally and abroad, appearing in film, and recording under the name of Justin Bond. Just be thankful you're okay. [12] Consequently, Bond grew up feeling "invisible", resenting the younger sister who "got everything I wanted. Which, by the way, was the last line of the show. But it's fine with me. I had little money and a terrible futureless job and I had never been happier in my life.I’d been in the city for less than a month before someone took me to Fez, a club on Lafayette Street with an underground performance space where you could see an amazing show and eat an overpriced burger at the same time. The legendary performer and label have teamed up for a festive video series to help you live your best Christmas life. Bernhard told the room that she’d written no memorial Tweets that day, no posts “riding on other people’s tragedies”; she publicly shared no memories of 9/11. The title role is played by the singer Kate Lindsey. From crystal-clear photography to abstracted compositions — the portraiture, an image for each year since the Stonewall Riots, reflects a gloriously diverse range of creativity. Herb, with sprayed-on gray hair and a kitschy suit, hammers a keyboard and sips Canadian Club. Also scheduled: Salty Brine (Sept. 18-19) with his latest “Living Record Collection” mash-up, in which Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” meets the Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead.”, Tony Nominee Justin Vivian Bond to Host 2019 Bessie Awards. More dates were added, and quickly sold out. Bond is transgender[4] and uses the gender-inclusive honorific Mx. “Lipstick Traces” gives a profound and well-documented introduction to countercultural history and is a wonderfully enlightening window into the intellectual underpinnings of rock ’n’ roll. (in place of Ms./Mr.) It's a risky choice that occasionally pays off in big ways. Their pieces are at once retro leaning and forward thinking, whimsical and utilitarian, altogether uncommonly chic. That's a "We Are The World" of Downtown greatness, plus she coaches Grammy-nominated jazz singer Roseanna Vitro and rock legend Debbie Harry.The petite and lively 81-year-old welcomes these people into the home she shares with her husband (a retired singer/actor who was in Phantom of the Opera for years), where, for reasonable rates, she infuses them with her long-acquired vocal wisdoms. [59], Bond starred as Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis in Jukebox Jackie as part of the 50th anniversary season of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club between May and June 2012. (V also pioneered and campaigned for the non-binary title Mx.). In November, Bond announced a performance to benefit the Ali Forney Center for LGBT youth in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. [69], Identifying as a queer performer infused Bond's art with an activist ethos from the beginning. (Ten free standing-room tickets are dispensed nightly.). More! Described in one place as "tragically hip",[28] the inspiration arose "out of my own trauma regarding AIDS and so many people dying,"[29] according to Bond. This song features Justin Vivian Bond & Domenica Fossati. The series will have three editions, featuring the brand's Keyts, Anchor Logo and Bike handbags, in that order. [39] The mockumentaries entitled Kiki and Herb on the Rocks (2005) and Kiki and Herb Reloaded (2005) followed the pair to London and around the UK, respectively, featuring the composer Philip Glass, among others. In 2004, Bond and Mellman did a cameo in the Sony Pictures release Imaginary Heroes, with script by Dan Harris. Friday and Saturday at Le Poisson Rouge, Manhattan; lpr.com. As a child Bond preferred lipstick and Barbies to masculine-coded items and also entered into relationships with boys. Through it all, Bond’s engaging personality and quirky-yet-dignified stage presence infuse an eclectic set list of covers, holiday standards and original compositions with signature charm. [73] Also on display was a music video of the Bond composition, American Wedding.[74]. An artistic chameleon, nothing is out of their grasp. Like the Basilica of Maxentius or the Colosseum, The Bipolar Express feels structurally unsound but is still completely unmissable.We learn right off the bat that an entirely different program of old favorites had been planned, but was changed up after the November election. Bond onstage will be the self-described “trans poptronic princess” Ah-Mer-Ah-Su, as well as other guests to be announced. 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