Improv and Other Amazing Feats

The Improv crowd is a pretty wacky, hard-working while hard-partying crowd, as FestBuzz found out earlier this year in an introductory intensive. But this weekend the gloves REALLY come off as the Upright Citizens Brigade Del Close Memorial Improv Marathon goes off at 6 different venues in Chelsea and the East Village.

You can literally see improv all night. The larger venues - SVA theaters and FIT Haft auditorium, play host to long-running favorites as well as teams of alums who have gone on to fame and fortune on TV. A weekend pass is only $30. Un-freaking-believable. I miss these guys so much... can't wait to go back.

When: June 29-July 1, 2012
Where: Venues throughout Manhattan
Website: http://www.delclosemarathon.com/dcm14/schedule

Folsom Street East Hits New York

Don't be bashful even if you don't have your own leather chaps - the (mostly) chaps at Folsom Street East will welcome you just the same. The east coast version of the famous San Francisco leather fair for the BDSM community will take place tomorrow on the block of 28th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. Expect vendors of leather gear and other items, plus musical performances and lots of open dialogue on sexual freedom.  The fair is free to walk through but a $10 suggested donation goes to nonprofits promoting the LGBT community and sexual freedom.

When: June 20, 2010
Where: West 28th Street between 10th and 11th Aves
Website: http://www.folsomstreeteast.org