“PERFORMANCE AT THE STARLITE”

The Starlite Lounge, a Crown Heights watering hole whose days as a “non-discriminating” bar date back to the pre-Stonewall era, (possible the nation’s oldest Gay Black Bar) is at the risk of closing. To call attention to its plight, the curator David Fierman has organized a day of performance art.

The lineup features Kalup Linzy—a Guggenheim fellow whose star turn in the self-produced video cycle “Conversations wit de Churen” has earned him comparisons to Cindy Sherman and Eddie Murphy, as well as the appellation “Spike Lee in heels”—Fetchin’ Gretchen, and Dynasty Handbag, among others. (1084 Bergen St., at Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn. 718-771-3340. March 14 at 4.)

(VIA THE NEW YORKER)

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