Patrick sent out an exciting update on the already exciting Salon New Year's Eve Eve party happening on Wednesday, December 30th: THE SALON is thrilled to announce sponsorships by DEWARS and INFINIUM SPIRITS! This includes free Scotch tastings all night long by Dewars and top-shelf premium spirits from Infinium featured in our specialty cocktails, at…
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Swinging at the Piano Store 10 Years Ago! (video)
Here's some really neat footage of folks dancing and hanging out at one of the coolest swing venues ever, the short-lived Piano Store in the Lowereast Side, back in March 2000. The Piano Store was an actual old piano store that some folks converted into a clandestine hangout for lindy hoppers, loungers, jazz musicians and…
Breaking Photoshoot by my Dad! (pics)
For my Christmas present this year, my dad — quite an accomplished amateur photographer — gave me a free photoshoot! I asked him if he would shoot me doing some breaking moves outdoors, which he happily obliged. We had lovely shooting conditions on Tuesday morning. We found this nearly empty skate park in the…
Baby Micah likes my singing… to a point (video)
Here's my friends Manu and Karen's baby Micah cracking up as sing to him. And then… not.
Jive Off those Holiday Pounds with Maksim, Ashly and Kym of “Dancing with the Stars” (video)
For Christmas, my sister got our mom this "Cardio Dance" DVD featuring "Dancing with the Stars" professional dancers Ashly Costa, Kym Johnson, and Maksim Chmerkovsy. My mom is a huge "Dancing with the Stars" fan, so we knew this would be a hit with her. The Jive routine in particular is cheesy swing goodness from…
Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 10v!
After a few months of trying to live with the Windows XP on my Dell Mini 10v netbook, I finally got sick of it and hackintoshed my machine. Now I'm the owner of a very tiny, fast and sexy netbook running Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6). It's heavenly. It was no big thing to install,…
Yehoodi 3.0 Going Live on December 28!
After lots of planning, coding, head-scratching and bickering, I am extremely excited to announce that the new Yehoodi 3.0 site is about to launch! For the past 11 years, Yehoodi.com has been the virtual hangout for thousands of swing dance and swing jazz enthusiasts from around the world. While our web platform has served us…
Building an inclusive swing dance community
Picture of “SwingingOUT” Group in Toronto, Canada. I’ve heard that there are a couple of lindy hoppers who are working on creating a LGBTQ-friendly swing and blues dance in New York City, which I say is long past due. Other places like San Francisco and Toronto have had long-standing queer-friendly swing dances for years and…
What shirt goes best with my awesome Christmas sweater? (animated gif, sorry!)
My friend Voon helped me pick out a couple of shirts to go with my incredibly sexy Christmas sweater vest. They are appropriately red and green. Shooting pics of myself in the vest, I realized it would work perfectly as a holiday-themed animated gif. Enjoy!
Watch this 70-minute Review of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” (seriously)
This guy at RedLetterMedia has created the “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode One)” review to end all reviews. Clocking in at 70-minutes in seven installments on YouTube, I kid you not when I say it is worth watching from beginning to end. It kind of reminds of listening to my friend Frankyboy tell a…