By Drew Grant 9/22/11 6:31pm

Club beef

Lady Miss Kier vs. the Gatiens

Lady Miss Kier Does Not Approve of Limelight

New York’s 90s club kid fixture and Deee-Lite singer Lady Miss Kier has a problem with the Limelight. No, not the club that closed twenty years ago…well actually, that too.

She recently took to Tumblr to express her outrage over being featured in the new documentary about Limelight and Tunnel owner Peter Gatien. Limelight, produced by Mr. Gatien’s daughter Jennifer Gatien (who also directed of Hounddog) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and screened last night at New York’s Sunshine Theater.

Unlike Party Monster — which focused on Limelight’s infamous murderer Michael Alig — Ms. Gatien’s film focuses on her father’s fall at the hands of Rudolph Giuliani‘s anti-drug (and club) administration. So what’s Lady Miss Kier’s problem? Read More

By Joe Hagan 3/17/03 12:00am

For Richer or Poorer, Hustvedt Revisits Murder

It’s no mystery that Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt are often characters in their own books. The dashing, Park Slope–based literary couple are fond of dressing up autobiographical details: In his 1985 noir trilogy, City of Glass , Mr. Auster invented a character named Paul Auster (with a wife named Siri, who also makes an Read More

By Simon Doonan 8/09/99 12:00am

Club Kids on the Skids: The Horrid, Lovely Alig Epic

Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland , by James St. James. Simon & Schuster, 286 pages, $23.

Disco Bloodbath is, among other things, a chilling reminder of the lengths people will go to get their hands on a few lousy drink tickets. Michael Alig glued blue dots on his face Read More