After eons of being the flawless eye candy for other people's parties around the world, "America's #1 transsexual with a fully functional vag" (that's what she says on her VM) Amanda Lepore has finally snatched her own weekly packed-out party! Before bottle service and wannabe Sex and the City girl gangs took over, NYC served up the most iconoclastic parties on the planet. Amanda Lepore's Big Top, presented by original club kid Kenny Kenny and Joey Israel, is a return to DIY dress-up looks vs Cody Critcheloe's SSION videos, set inside Carnival nightclub's seriously twisted circus-themed interior, replete with carnies, cotton candy, diamond LED-lit hula hoopers, and a juggling drag queen. And since the David LaChapelle muse/recording artist's fav soundtrack is disco, she's enlisted the übexy rapper/producer Cazwell and tech gadgeteer Paisley Dalton (that's me, armed with a laptop and a German drum machine) for a mega mashup reworking of '70s-'90s classics, stuffed with new wave breaks and beats, plus hosts Ladyfag, Malik So Chic, Paul Cupo, photog Marco Ovando, and Michael Magnan and DJ Will Automagic spinning sonic electro house in a soundproof funhouse. At other parties and clubs, everything is really black. I love the colorful, themed interior on a rooftop! It reminds me of '90s New York clubs like Club USA. Pure fun and joy, corked simultaneously into the perfect party package! (via Zeitgeist World; photo: Andrew Werner)
