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michaelgruberfan · 2 years

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Timeline of Michael’s shows/ work up to 2013 will add more as I get the time (Taken from the Michaelgruber Angelfire website but will be updated by me at a later date (ill rb it then))

2012-2013 -- Bye Bye Birdie Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, MN 2012 -- Roman Holiday The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN 2011-2012 -- Hairspray Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Chanhassen, MN 2011 -- Jesus Christ Superstar Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, Chanhassen, MN 2010 -- Hairspray TUTS, Houston, TX 2010 -- Hits from The Music Man, Seattle Symphony, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA 2009 -- White Christmas 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, WA 2009 -- A Chorus Line National and International Tours 2009 -- Singin' In The Rain Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN 2009 -- Grey Gardens Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN 2008 -- White Christmas Theatre Under The Stars, Houston 2008 -- A Chorus Line National Tour 2007-2008 -- A Chorus Line Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City 2007 -- Stairway To Paradise - 50 Years of Revue in Review An Original Encores! Production, New York City Center 2007 -- Irving Berlin's Easter Parade - World Premier Chanhassen Theatres, Chanhassen, MN 2006-2007 -- Irving Berlin's White Christmas 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle and California Musical Theatre, Sacramento 2006 -- My One and Only Reprise Concert Series, Freud Playhouse, Westwood, CA 2006 -- Godspell Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia 2006 -- Applause for the Golden Boy: The Music of Charles Strouse - benefit tribute - New York Historical Society, New York City 2006 -- Guys and Dolls Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL 2005 -- Irving Berlin's White Christmas Wang Center Theatre, Boston 2005 -- And Then I Wrote... The Songs of Steve Marzullo - concert Birdland Jazz Club, New York City 2005 -- What A Glorious Feeling - World Premiere Production Mason Street Warehouse, MI Dec. 2004 - Mar. 2005 -- Singin' in the Rain - tour Houston TUTS Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Sacramento's California Musical Theatre 2004 -- Anything Goes Avon Theatre - Stratford, ON 2003 -- A Manhattan Christmas - cabaret King Kong Room, New York City 2003 -- Laughing Room Only Brooks Atkins Theatre, New York City 2003 -- Wizard of Oz Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma City 2003 -- Crazy For You Marian Theatre and Solvang Festival, CA 2003 -- Anything Goes Riverside Theatre, FL 2003 -- Taboo - reading New York City 2002 -- Ain't That a Kick in the Head - workshop The New 42nd Street Studios, New York City 2002 - Smokey Joe's Cafe California Musical Theatre 2002 -- Dames at Sea Goodspeed Opera House 2001 -- Red Hot and Blue Paper Mill Playhouse 2001 -- Kiss Me, Kate Martin Beck Theatre, New York City 2000 -- Anything Goes 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle 2000 -- Rags Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia 2000 -- Singin' in the Rain Music Theatre of Wichita 2000 -- Symposium on theatre at SUNY's Stony Brook campus 2000 -- 14th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City 1999 - 2000 -- Swing! St. James Theatre, New York City 1999 -- Floyd's Follies - Benefit Paper Mill Playhouse 1999 -- Tommy - concert tour 1998 -- History of Sex Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas 1998 -- Follies Paper Mill Playhouse 1997 -- filming of Cats video Adelphi Theatre, London 1997 -- Wizard of Oz The Theatre at Madison Square Garden 1996 -- Angela Lansbury - A Celebration - benefit tribute Majestic Theatre, New York City 1996 -- Dodsworth Douglas Fairbanks and John Houseman Theatres, New York City 1996 - 1999 -- Cats Winter Garden Theatre, New York City 1995 -- New Year's Eve Celebration Paper Mill Playhouse 1995 -- West Side Story The Muny Theatre, St. Louis 1995 -- Oklahoma! Arizona Theatre Company, Tucson and Phoenix 1995 -- Little By Little Eighty-eights Club, New York City 1994 -- Harvest of Stars - ArtsPower Benefit Paper Mill Playhouse 1994 -- Songbook Arts and Artists at St. Paul's/National Music Theater Network, New York City 1994 -- Singin' in the Rain Paper Mill Playhouse 1994 -- West Side Story Music Theatre of Wichita 1994 -- Kiss Me, Kate Goodspeed Opera House 1993 -- Little Me Birmingham Theatre, Birmingham, MI 1993 -- Falsettos Alliance Theatre, Atlanta 1993 -- Anything Goes Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- Good News! Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- Singin' in the Rain California Musical Theatre 1993 -- 7th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition Broadway Theatre, New York City 1993 -- Assisted with choreography of Singin' in the Rain Indian Hill (OH) High School 1993 -- Songs of Unlikely Lovers - A Valentine's Day Review Music Theatre of Wichita 1993 -- My Favorite Year Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City 1992 -- Singin' in the Rain Music Theatre of Wichita 1991 - 1994 -- Miss Saigon - original company Broadway Theatre, New York City 1990 -- West Side Story - national tour 1989 - 1990 -- A Chorus Line - final company Shubert Theatre, New York City 1988 -- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Alaska Light Opera, Anchorage 1988 -- Dreamgirls Elmsford (NY) Dinner Theatre 1988 -- West Side Story - European Tour 1987 -- My One and Only Paper Mill Playhouse

#Gruber Lore #Michael Gruber

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epersonae · 2 years

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@xoxoemynn just tagged me on my "top 5 songs of the moment", and I think I must have been tagged on this recently, because as soon as I started thinking "well that's just the new Carly Rae Jepsen album" I realized I had already posted about it 😅

So here's another song:

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The other thing I've been listening to quite a bit lately is Peter Gregson's Recomposed Bach Cello Suites, here's a particularly good one:

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The Bach Cello Suites is comfort music for me: I particularly associate the Yo-Yo Ma Six Evolutions album with the early pandemic, but I've loved them since I was a young teen. (Played adaptations for the viola, then saw Yo-Yo Ma in concert, when I was in junior high) And I love a solid standard rendition but also what Gregson does with them is just fascinating and lovely.

actually, maybe I can post five different songs, because here's the Six Evolutions rendition of Suite 3, Prelude, which is one of the ones I learned to play (not nearly so well obvs lol) and so it's just close to my heart:

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And I've also been listening to Philip Glass Solo Piano (thx @mxmollusca), and all of it is very good; there's something particularly restful about Wichita Vortex Sutra:

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And then one of my oldest friends got me the Depeche Mode 2007 reissue of Music for the Masses on vinyl, and I am as much of a soft touch for Never Let Me Down Again as I've ever been

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#tag games #I tend to stick with a single album or playlist until something knocks me out of it #so I am still in my CRJ The Loneliest Time era #not tagging anybody but feel free to post if you are in the mood #Youtube

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lboogie1906 · 2 months

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President Barack Hussein Obama II (August 4, 1961) is an attorney and politician who served as the 44th POTUS from 2009 to 2017, the first African American to occupy the White House. He was born in Honolulu. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Kenyan graduate student, and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita.

He continued his higher education at Occidental College. He transferred to Columbia University, graduating with a BA. He graduated from law school at Harvard University, receiving his JD. He was president of the Harvard Law Review. He began working as a community organizer and lecturing at the University of Chicago Law School on the subject of constitutional law.

He married Michelle Robinson (1992), an attorney. They have two daughters, Malia and Natasha (Sasha).

He was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He helped craft legislation to create the state Earned Income Tax Credit. He was elected to the Senate from Illinois. He gained national prominence as a keynote speaker at the DNC.

On February 10, 2007, he announced his candidacy for POTUS. On June 3, 2008, he secured enough pledged delegates to become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. His broad appeal and message of hope, change, and “yes we can.”

On January 20, 2009, he began his first term as POTUS. He proposed a series of measures enacted by Congress to respond to the economic recession. The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 allowed for the first time the full participation of gays and lesbians Armed Forces. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (often called Obamacare) became by far the most controversial measure of his first term. His foreign policy accomplishments included de-escalating military involvement in Iraq, negotiating a new arms control treaty with Russia, and ordering the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden. He became the third US president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in office.

He became the first Democratic President since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected and reelected with at least 51 percent. On January 20, 2013, he began his second term as POTUS. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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dankusner · 4 months

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Freak unique

UnShaunte DeFox is a hot obnoxious mess of couture and a punk-funk rebel.

The Dallas illusionist tests the mettle of the Miss Texas of America pageant

By DANIEL KUSNER | Aug. 29, 2008

DeShaun Elliot was a young teen when he first saw Grace Jones, dripping in foxtails while performing "Do or Die" on "Dance Fever. "

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And the little gay boy from Wichita Falls was immediately obsessed, "Here was this beautiful, ugly, blue-black, mysterious, tough chick. She was a super-freak. And she had this power — she seduced everyone," Elliot remembers,

"She became known for telling people to fuck off. She'd slap people during interviews."

That was more than 25 years ago.

Now 40, Elliot has created another persona — UnShaunte DeFox, a drag illusionist molded in the freaky tradition of Grace Jones.

In fact, the "fox" part of DeFox was inspired by the foxtails Grace Wore on "Dance Fever."

On Sundays, DeFox is a regular entertainer at Elm & Pearl, and on Wednesdays he regularly performs at Woody's Sports Bar & Video.

But he's not a traditional pantsuit diva who tries to master Celine Dion's subtle nuances.

In fact, most of the Dallas drag queens tell Elliot that his performances might fare better in New York.

"I've been known to put microphones in my mouth. During my routine, I'll kiss girls on the mouth. I'll drink people's drinks or lick their straws. I'll chew dollar-bill tips and then spit them out. One time, I swallowed the dollar and then opened my mouth, and stuck out my tongue to prove it," Elliot explains.

He says that Dallas' drag scene has a stereotype.

"There's lots of silicone — and cliques. I'm the different one. But I'm not a bitch. I'm very nice to the other drag queens, and they're nice to me. They tell me they think I'm extraordinary," he explains. "I'm not a drag queen because I'm transgender. To me, being an illusionist is an art form."

He says drag doesn't always have to be elegant.

"It's boring to just try and look like a woman. Drag is being bigger than life. When I see drag, I want people to drop from the ceiling. I want them to lick the floor," he says:

DeFox's aggressive performances are complimented with outre fashions that he designs himself.

"Sickening illusions — like having my entire face and neck done in mirrors with bull horns sticking out of my head," he explains.

During a recent photo shoot, he donned a silver lame gown with a futuristic mirrored hat with a brim that covered just one eye.

There was also an enormous matching cape with hood, billowed armholes and sleeves with five-foot extensions.

Being the weirdo in Dallas' drag scene seems to be working.

It's even working on the pageant circuit.

DeFox is Miss Gay Dallas of America 2008, and she recently handed over her crown for Miss Texas Latino American 2007.

On Thursday, she begins chasing after the Miss Texas of America tiara.

In order to maintain the surprise of her show, she can't divulge her routine.

But it will involve 15 backup dancers, a fierce Grace Jones homage, a doppelganger — and probably her tongue licking something.

LONE STAR PAGEANT

The theme for Miss Gay Texas America 2008 is "Naughty Girls: The Chanel Experience."

Categories include evening gown, male interview, solo talent, onstage question and final talent. (For more information, visit MissGayTexas, biz.) Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 10:30 p.m.: former titleholder revue at Illusions, 4100 Maple Ave. Thursday, Sept 4 at 9:30 p.m.: competition night at The Rose Room, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. Friday, Sept 5 at 9:30 p.m.: final talent at The Rose Room

Dallas’ Starck Club’s 40th anniversary reunion: ‘A Temple of Future People’ visit the past

Dallas’ decadent ‘80s club was a Studio 54 for Dallas, a moment that defined the era. For one night only, the moment was back.

UnShante DeFoxx performs during the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show at The Kessler in Dallas, TX, on May 12, 2024.(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

The marquee above the Kessler Theater read THE STARCK CLUB, but when I arrived on a rainy Sunday at 7:45 p.m., the only sign of anything unusual was a woman near the entrance in a hot pink coat of gauzy ruffles that looked so fashion-forward you could practically tip it to the ground.

A giant pink bow in her sleek black hair, paired with combat boots.

“Get on in here,” said Jeff Liles, maestro of the Starck 40th anniversary reunion, opening the door to the Kessler in his old black T-shirt and blond dreds.

And with that, I entered the matrix.

Guests relive their 1980s party nights during the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show at The Kessler in Dallas, TX, on May 12, 2024. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

Exactly 40 years ago, on May 12, 1984, the Starck Club opened its silver doors near the West End, transforming an abandoned warehouse into an epic space of billowy white curtains and black terrazzo tile.

Gender-neutral bathrooms were so big that clubgoers had sex in the stalls, and if that’s only a myth, please don’t tell me. (It’s not.)

The club’s name evoked New York’s Stork Club as well as the apt description “stark” — bold colors, bracing soundscapes, looping visuals — but mostly it summoned the designer Philippe Starck, who left his native France in the early ‘80s to build a temple of music and beauty and decadence in (of all places) Dallas, Texas.

“I think this club can be a temple of future people,” Starck said at a press conference for the club’s opening, scarf tied around his neck, a scene captured in the 2024 documentary Pure Ecstasy: Inside the Infamous Starck Club by Dallas producer Michael Cain.

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The film premiered at the Texas Theatre last week, and Cain hopes to make it more widely available by the end of summer.

Mixing eye-popping footage and recent interviews with founders as well as clubgoers like Owen Wilson, Thomas Haden Church and J.R. Ewing himself, Larry Hagman, Pure Ecstasy is a 100-minute injection of music lore, lost history, and American innovation, tracking the rise and fall of the Studio 54 that thrived under the Woodall Rodgers overpass.

Blake Woodall (no relation to the street) was the man behind the idea, a rich kid from Preston Hollow eager to make his mark.

He’d witnessed the valhalla of Ibiza clubgoing.

“I saw an environment some would call debauchery,” he says in the documentary.

Others would call it escape.

The opening night in 1984 was legendary: The Dallas Symphony performed, but so did New York’s avant-garde icon Grace Jones.

The club raked in $125,000, a number that could probably still make Nick & Sam’s green with envy.

Over the next five years, Starck became a mecca for art weirdos and thrill-seekers and drag queens and people who wanted to be seen, but not in bright light.

Most famously, the Starck was the place where MDMA, then legal and known as ecstasy, entered the North American bloodstream.

It was a place of fashion and intrigue and flash and the casual gender-bending that accompanied gay culture’s mainstreaming.

Men in Flock of Seagulls hair and guyliner, women with Dorothy Hamill cuts and pill-box hats. Everyone wore broaches one season; I have no idea why.

I guess you had to be there.

And finally, I was.

Guests relive their 1980s party nights during the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show at The Kessler in Dallas, TX, on May 12, 2024. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

I thought far too long about what to wear, because much of my wardrobe comes from SuperTarget, and no shade on Merona, but they could not match this moment.

I sprung for a slinky-shimmery gold gown in the Marilyn vein from U.K. retailer Wolf & Badger, and paired this with patent leather high-heel boots that really shouldn’t be worn at my age, but oh well.

I invited my older brother, an engineer and actor whose fashion radius extends from blue polo to red polo, but he accurately predicted and nailed the right look for straight men — black jacket, black shirt, black jeans.

Your basic “don’t mind me” outfit amid the sumptuous carnival.

My brother and I grew up in Dallas, but we were underage during the Starck Club’s reign.

We were too busy going to Spaghetti Warehouse and Six Flags to know that history was unfolding downtown.

I’d spent the past few days poring over archival footage, a parade of youthful folly and ‘80s excess, so maybe what struck me first about the crowded lobby of the Starck reunion was (and I feel bad saying this) how old everyone was.

Men had silver hair or no hair at all.

Women wore sensible heels and glasses. It was almost like the dewy-faced denizens on my laptop screen had entered a time machine and aged, well, 40 years.

My brother and I are no spring chickens.

I’m 49 and he’s 54, but as we made our way up to the stairs to the VIP room, he clapped his hands and exclaimed, “I feel so young!”

Lithium X-Mas performs during the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show. Toward the end of the set, two women who looked like human disco balls swiveled neon hula hoops on either side of the stage.

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The VIP area was very chill, a version of the fabled Cold Bar at the Starck where folks went to cool off from a sweat-soaked dance floor.

Downstairs on-stage, the psychedelic art-rock band Lithium X-Mas was raging through a live set, but the VIP area was low-key, a service dog roaming the premises, and I took a seat on a couch and stared at video projected onto the ceiling: a woman lassoing a fire hydrant, a picture of men with floppy hair and sunglasses, parallelograms of magenta and yellow.

I recognized an old Apple commercial, rainbow colors across a piece of fruit. It struck me how many words that once captured the natural world — mouse, tweets, streams — had been co-opted by technology to describe the digital age rising up to swallow us whole.

“Do you wanna hear a real story?” asks Clyde Haygood, a celebrity hairstylist from LA who looked like a ‘90s-era Dave Navarro.

He was wearing the same snug black Gaultier jacket he’d rocked in 1984.

“We started a trend of pearls and gauzy fabrics,” he explained, sitting beside former doorman Dale Brasel, a tall professor-type in a sharp suit and white Doc Martens. “When we were done with it, we would come up to people inside the club with scissors and cut them off.”

By “we” he meant his friends, not Brasel, who was soberly guarding the door as his buddies wreaked playful havoc on strangers.

“I would tell him, just don’t hurt anybody,” Brasel said. He worked the door from 1984 to 1986, peak Starck, though the drugs and hedonism were somewhat lost on him. “I was always outside getting cussed out and spit on.”

Clyde Haywood, left, former Starck doorman Dale Brasel, and Kendall Morgan at the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

Brasel cut our conversation short to greet an old friend, someone he hadn’t seen in decades.

As an interloper, the scene was a bit hard to penetrate, a return to a moment you missed the first time.

I headed downstairs to an outdoor area where I recognized the dapper man in a black jacket and black T-shirt: Russell Hobbs, a major force behind the emergence of Deep Ellum in the ‘80s.

“Are you on X?” he asked me, and I shook my head. “Everybody else is.”

I wasn’t even drinking, having given that up 14 years ago after my long tenure in the bosom of import lager and top-shelf tequila.

Hobbs wasn’t on ecstasy, either.

“I’m high on the Holy Ghost,” he told me, and he really did say that. Hobbs is famously born-again, a story for another time, but he sat beside me on a wooden bench to reminisce for a minute.

“The Starck Club was exquisite from Day One,” he said. “I was living in the eye of a hurricane over in Deep Ellum, so I didn’t go much, but Blake came over in his slippers to talk to me.”

Blake as in Woodall, still Hobbs’ best friend.

Woodall wasn’t able to attend the reunion because his daughter was graduating from Columbia University (a very different scene).

“Dallas in 1984 was a materialistic clone mall,” says Hobbs. “I didn’t fit in, so I created my own world.” Woodall did the same, part of what bonded the two. “Starck was much more than drugs. Music, art.” Hobbs was staring into the distance, almost as though he were watching the white curtains flutter above the red carpet. “Blake created a little taste of what heaven would feel like,” he said.

The dance floor at the Kessler at the Starck 40th Anniversary Show. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

Heaven, or what it might feel like, turned out to be very loud.

Inside the performance area, the live band had been replaced by dance music blaring over the sound system.

White lights swept the floor like a UFO about to land.

I didn’t recognize the song — was it even a song?

It was more like a vibe, the throb of the bass rattling the wall I leaned against, too sober to join the fray.

The middle-aged clubgoers were doing the “nod and sway” as the white light turned red, then purple. From where I stood, it looked less like 150 people moving and more like one enormous body pulsing.

“Here’s something,” my brother said, yelling into my ear over the music. “The percussive beat feels like .50-caliber machine gun on your chest.”

My brother is in the Navy Reserve, and he served time in Iraq.

The machine gun was part of his training (he never used one), but the comparison clicked into place why my nervous system felt so rattled. “The sound literally compresses your heart,” he explained.

Would I feel differently on MDMA? Probably. I’d been a dive-bar lush, but I remained a drug prude who never tried X, or E, or molly (whatever you call it). I’ve never even seen cocaine in real life, a claim that made a male companion younger than me clutch his head as though it were about to explode. “Who are you?” he asked.

I’m a child of the War on Drugs, the Reagan-era push back to the decadence of places like the Starck Club. Less than 10 years separate me from most folks on the dance floor, but that decade brought so much change: HIV/AIDS, the drinking age hiked to 21 (and thus the ramp-up of underage binge culture), and a crackdown on pills and powders, including a major drug bust at Starck in 1986.

The club’s famous silver doors finally closed in 1989, the finish line of the decade it helped define.

The ‘90s brought grunge, guitars over synthesizers, long ratty hair instead of Aqua Net bangs.

A night club is a promise you will never grow old, that you’ll never die.

You’ll always be young and beautiful. Life outside a night club is a reminder that everything I just said is a delusion and a lie.

A late night getting later at the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

I never did join the pulsing hive on the dance floor, but later on Instagram, I saw Gretchen Bell, founder of my favorite vintage store Dolly Python, posting about being inside it.

“I’ve never seen so many men in sheer multi-colored pantyhose tops in my life. Dillard’s must have had a sale.”

So much about the evening had the wink of an inside joke, but it never felt alienating; quite the opposite, even outsiders were welcomed into the fold.

Moms brought college-aged daughters, who giggled and took selfies in mini-skirts and platform wedges, looking relatively tame compared to an earlier generation of boundary-pushing rebels. Was this the first generation of American kids to dress more modestly than their parents?

A Grace Jones impersonator took the stage in a black catsuit and a flamboyant red robe.

I missed most of this, since I’d left to chat with George Baum and Cheryl Sharp, two former clubgoers I’d interviewed for the News last week (Baum was working the door back then as well as at the reunion show).

But when I returned to the VIP area, my brother was quick to fill in details.

“I’m 60, bitches!” he said, repeating the line performer UnShante DeFoxx had crowed a few times.

The actual Grace Jones is 75, so I suppose this was breaking character, but if I looked that good at 60, I’d do the same.

UnShante DeFoxx performs during the Starck Club 40th Anniversary Show. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)

My feet were killing me.

Walking on 3 ½-inch spikes is for teenagers, I swear.

But as tired as I was by 10 p.m., it was hard to leave the circus.

Under the Edison bulbs right outside the entrance, I met Natalie Kates, a raven-haired stunner who’d flown in from New York for the event.

She was dressed in head-to-toe Comme des Garçons, including a pair of gobstopper pearl brass knuckles she tried to pack in her carry-on until security told her it was a weapon.

“It’s fashion!” she insisted.

No dice.

Kates grew up in Texas, though she grew cagey when I asked for more details, and I don’t blame her: She had the air of a woman without a past, who lived everywhere and nowhere at once.

She’d come to the reunion because former doorman Michael Dyess asked her; they’d been Starck companions back in the day.

She tried to summon him on her phone but grew impatient when he failed to answer.

“Where is Michael Dyess?” she yelled to people around here, managing to seem queenly and adorable at once.

When a text arrived on her phone, she tilted the screen to a man beside her.

“I don’t have my glasses. What does that say?”

Dyess arrived soon after, a sleek silver-haired gentleman in a black designer jacket over extravagant chain mail that dripped all the way down his hairy chest.

He’d worked the door from 1987 to 1989, and he flashed a picture on his phone from that time: Luscious dark hair, full makeup, as eye-catching as any woman in a rock video.

“Were you nice?” I asked him, and he smiled at me. Sweet girl, naive girl.

“Uh, no,” he said, and we both laughed. That was the point then — to feel inclusive but to be exclusive.

I had to leave them.

It was late, and my feet were screaming, but I blew kisses as I parted like we’d known each other far more than five minutes.

The side street seemed quiet and dark after we left the matrix. My brother was the one who put my thoughts into words. “I haven’t seen that many people happy in America in a really long time,” he said.

They say you can’t go back home again. They were wrong. We were there.

Dallas Artist David Hynds Unloads a Starck (Club) Raving Mad Collection of Nightlife Art

From T-shirts to tickets, memorabilia from the legendary club goes on sale at Ephemeral Space.

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"No dance” buttons from the time the club was busted are on display alongside a vintage Dallas Observer.

Dallas’ most infamous night spot still has nightlife denizens eager to get past those velvet ropes.

We’re talking about the Starck Club, the Philippe Starck-designed icon of the 1980s, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its opening this month.

To mark the memory of those glory days of legal ecstasy use, big hair and 12-inch singles that never seemed to end, the Kessler Theater announced a reunion party to be held on Sunday, May 12.

It was so hotly anticipated that it sold out within hours.

(The Kessler has added a more chill pre-party set for the night before, with tickets still available, and the Texas Theatre will air the long-awaited documentary The Starck Club on Friday, May 10, and Sunday, May 12.)

But judging by the Facebook groups “Starck Club Survivors,” “Starck Club Friends,” “Starck Club Documentary" and “Starck Club Revisited,” there’s still not quite enough Starck to go around.

Since the reunion was announced, members have been peppering their feeds with images of their gloriously eye-lined youth and YouTube links to dancefloor classic spun by the club’s late DJs, Go-Go Mike DuPriest and Rick Squillante.

The East Dallas gallery Ephemeral Space is also leaning into nostalgia with its latest art show, Starck Art, which opens Saturday, May 4, and runs through May 18.

The show presents the collection of David Hynds, who was there for the entire lifespan of the club, including tickets, fliers, tees and invitations the artist has been hanging onto for decades.

According to Hynds, the art show was in the works before the reunion was booked.

We spy a flier for one of Drag Race superstar RuPaul’s early concerts.

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“When the club closed, [all the material] went into boxes, but by that time, I’d been so familiar with it, I wasn’t going to throw it out,” Hynds says. “I went to one of the openings of Ephemeral and thought, ‘I’ve got a lot of paper stuff, and that’s definitely ephemeral.’ So I talked to [co-founder] Jason Cohen about doing the show and mentioned it.”

Hynds’ friend and colleague Mark Ridlen (DJ Mr. Rid), who spearheaded the Kessler event, mentioned that it was coming up on the Starck’s anniversary.

So the duo got busy pulling everything together with perfect timing.

Looking back, Hynds couldn’t have predicted his unusual job would become a lifetime obsession.

He was delivering furniture and working as a part-time film editor when he had the opportunity to edit some footage for a new nightspot.

“The first day I worked was the opening night investor party where Grace Jones and Stevie Nicks played,” Hynds says. “I was watching Grace Jones perform and wanted to check the feed in my office. The bar had an exit right across from my door, and I almost got run over by Grace Jones dressed in a gorilla suit!”

Soon, he ran the “entertainment behind the music” during the club’s opening hours from Thursday through Sunday.

In the very beginning, Starck didn't show music videos as it did later; instead, it opted for unique visuals that weren’t intended to match the beat.

Hynds roped in another colleague with a film background, Suzie Riddle, to fill in when he was sick.

The video was so crucial to the club’s vibe that the owners sent the duo to the New Music Seminar in New York, where they discovered work from artists such as William Wegman to add to their roster of strange and unusual clips.

They also started producing their own pieces to add to the mix.

Soon, Hynds was creating fliers and tickets for the Starck’s many events and concerts, starting with 1984’s Republican National Convention in downtown Dallas.

“They had the slide projectors and asked me to a do a set of slides with the [Republican] elephant, and I think it's the first art piece I did,” he says. “The next one was for a New Year’s event invitation. I did a line drawing with a spilled glass of Champagne and the [Starck logo] dancing man, and after that, they started using me all the time.”

From rodeo and psychedelic parties to concerts by Jones and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hynds created everything the club needed.

He even crafted three-dimensional props, such as a mechanical skeleton band made out of foam core for a Dia de los Muertos event.

Raiders of the Lost Starck

As he often had leftover fliers from the print runs, Hynds began stashing away tickets and artwork.

That way, when he was sourcing video artists, he would have something to send along to let people know what the Starck was all about.

When the club closed in 1990, it was all packed in boxes until it was time to pull it all together for Ephemeral.

Hynds has curated framed pieces dedicated to theme parties and musical events, which take over three walls of the gallery.

Featuring a mix of fliers, artwork and tickets, these will retail for from $30 to $650.

The promotional videos he made will be on view at the back of Ephemeral’s space.

Sixty limited-edition VHS tapes containing a Starck promo clip along with surprise footage from everyone from Lene Lovich to house band Happy TVs will be on sale for $87.50.

Hynds also printed a series of new T-shirts ($36.50) with vintage designs and new graphics marking the 40th anniversary.

A few of Phillipe Starcks’ original furniture pieces will also be on view, although he says he’s not quite ready to let those go.

With collectors and fans worldwide reaching out for a little piece of the club, Hynds is confident the show will sell well.

But for him, it just feels good to spread the love for a moment of freedom and creativity to the people who experienced it firsthand.

“I was thinking that after I’m gone, my kids are going through my stuff, and they won’t know what to do with all of this,” he says. “It’s better to put it in the hands of people now. My motivation is just to move it onward and get it out in the world for the people who still remember this to enjoy.”

The opening of Starck Art will be 5–8 p.m., Saturday, May 4, at Ephemeral Space, 203 S. Haskell Ave. The show is open Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., through May 18 and by appointment during the week. click to enlarge

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Meet the Incoming Class

PHD/Black Mountain Institute Fellows

Heather Peterson (Fiction)

Heather Wells Peterson earned her MFA in Fiction from the University of Florida. Since then, she has worked as an adjunct writing instructor, a book doula, an editor, and in tech. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Rumpus, Subtropics, and Lit Hub, among others. She's looking forward to moving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas with her partner, Bredt, and her dog, Nelson. You can learn more about her at https://www.heatherwellspeterson.com/.

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Sabrina Shie

Sabrina Shie is a writer from the Bay Area. Formerly a software engineer, she's given up and is having a lot more fun wrangling her internal dialogues into readable fiction. She also enjoys performing improv and stand-up, sometimes to live audiences, sometimes to her cat.

Per Loufman

Per Loufman is moving to Las Vegas from Philadelphia, PA, where he was born and raised and received a degree in Creative Writing. He has spent the last seven years working in restaurants throughout the city. His fiction often takes place in real worlds full of different things like loss, addiction, and love.

Julia Lu

Julia is a fiction writer born and raised in Houston, Texas. She studied film production in college and is currently living in Chicago. Julia enjoys cooking and baking, taking walks, and picture books. Her favorite season is summer.

Ahmed Naji

Ahmed Naji is a writer from Egypt currently exiled in Las Vegas. In 2016 he was sentenced to two years for obscenity and disturbing public morals because of his novel “Using Life”, After a year in prison, he was able to sneak out of the country and immigrate to the USA in 2018. His literature fiction works include the novels “The happy ends” (2023) , “and tigers to my room” (2020), “Rogers” (2007), and a collection of short stories, “The Mystery of the missing liver” (2016). His work has been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian and more. His coming book “Rotten Evidence”, which chronicles his time in prison, is due out in September (2023) by McSweeney's. In addition to being a writer, Ahmed Naji is also a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and official criminal. Throughout his career, he has received several awards, including Best Short Documentary Film at the Washington DC Film Festival for his documentary "For Vegas" (2023), a Dubai Press Club Award for the Best Culture Article (2011), and a PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award (2016).

Brandon Cunningham

Branden Cunningham was born, raised and educated in the silver state. He went into activist work around environmental issues and spent close to eight years in that arena before changing gears to work two years on criminal justice reform. He brings his decade of activist work to his writing.

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Jenna Farhat

Jenna Taha Farhat is a poet, journalist, and Arabic interpreter from Wichita, Kansas. Her journalism has appeared in the Miami New Times, ArtBurst Miami, The Sun News, the Wichita Eagle, and other publications. She earned a BA in creative writing from Wichita State University.

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Ezra is a Vegas native with restless legs and always-full hands. Among other things, they currently work in marketing for non-profits. Despite the long hours, it's the most fulfilling job they've had. They're fresh out of UNLV with their Bachelor's in English, but they love the writing community enough to stay for another three years.

Alex Farhat

Alexander Farhat is originally from Dallas, Texas, but has lived in places across the U.S. from bustling metropolitan cities to rural towns. He earned his BA in English from WFU and now finds himself relocating to Las Vegas to pursue an MFA in poetry.

Lauren Gleave

Lauren Gleave is a poet from Utah, where she earned her B.A. in health, society, and policy from the University of Utah. Her work often explores identity as it interfaces with religion, mythology, and folklore. Other than writing, her great loves in life are vintage clothing, old houses, and new people.

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Polly Llewellyn is from rural Utah and lives in Salt Lake City. She likes pretty music and spiders. She spent the last five years working at the city library but is now at the front desk of a fertility clinic, where she steals free time to research the first world war. Polly is excited to move past the heat exhaustion she suffered in years past while selling lemonade at the Las Vegas San Gennaro festivals and discover a new side to the city.

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Tracie Williams

Tracie Chavonne, a Chicago Native, made her way to Las Vegas in 2020 to escape California. With her career as a flight attendant in jeopardy, she decided to complete her undergraduate degree after a fifteen-year hiatus from academia. Having received her Bachelors of Arts in English with a Summa Cum Laude distinction in the Spring of 2023 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she has set her sights on continuing her education, pursing college professorship, deepening her relationship with writing, and creating a successful and lucrative career as an author by enrolling in the MFA Creative Writing Program in UNLV.

Sada Malumfashi

Sada Malumfashi is a writer and cultural curator from Nigeria. He curates the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF), a crisscross festival of arts and language by and for African creatives in an indigenous language. His writings have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Akademie Solitude, Olongo Africa, The Republic, Lolwe, Bakwa Magazine, Transition Magazine and New Orleans Review. His works have explored Hausa feminist writings and how censorship, religion and conservatism affect the representation of queer lives and relationships in Hausa literature inflected and influenced by local conditions and cultural nuances.

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