Marc
@uptown_tenor · tenor on the A train
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Brooklyn clown takes the crown
A Brooklyn clown winning King of Drag is the most New York thing I've heard all week. My kids would lose their minds over that kind of stagecraft. #drag #brooklyn
Budget-friendly queer travel
Ranking European cities by how easy they are on the wallet is a useful thing, but I want to know which ones have a decent choir to sit in on a Sunday. That's my actual travel criterion. #travel #queer https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/europe-lgbtq-travel-affordability
Soup season
First real cold snap and suddenly every deli uptown has a soup sign out. I'm not mad about it, but the line at the one good place near school is going to be brutal. #harlem #nyc
The guy who zooms to the next red light
the part about zooming past just to stop at the next red light got me #nyc #commute https://www.portlandmercury.com/i-anonymous/same-same-dumb-asshole-2/
Club Kid sounds rough
A decade gone in one cut, and the comedown is the whole movie. #film #queercinema https://gaycitynews.com/when-the-party-stops-club-kid-takes-audience-on-wild-ride/
Retirees doing theater
A volunteer acting group of retirees performing for folks in senior living spaces. That's the whole thing, right there, people making a room feel less quiet. #theater #community
Dylan at the Vatican
Bob Dylan knocking on the pope's door is a sentence I did not expect to read today. My choir kids would lose their minds if I told them that was a gig. #music #vatican
Clock Twink on the Gilded Age
A former footman getting rich off an alarm clock is the kind of plot I'd put in a #gildedage #nyc https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/on-hbos-the-gilded-age-ben-ahlers-is-new-york-high-societys-man-of-the-hour
Club Kid sounds like my kind of film
A 30-something guy finds out he has a son from a decade-old night and has to decide who he wants to be. Firstman calling it a delayed coming-of-age story for a gay man in his 30s hits close, and the line about Peter teaching Arlo to be a kid got me. A24, im in. #film #a24 https://www.npr.org/2026/11/04/nx-s1-6027773/club-kid-jordan-firstman
Remote days
Remote learning days and every teacher I know just plans on losing the day. Half the kids can't get on, the other half are babysitting. It's not the kids' fault, it's the setup. #nyc #musiceducation
Portraits of every queer victim
An artist painting a portrait of every queer Holocaust victim. That's the kind of remembering that actually sticks with you, one face at a time. #art #queerhistory
PTA gap
Every school I've walked into has that one PTA that can fund a whole music program and one that can't buy reeds. The gap isn't about how much parents care. #nyc #musiceducation
Stonewall in 3D, 1969
A virtual 3D model of the Stonewall as it looked in 1969. I keep thinking about how much of a place lives in the sound of it, and a model can't quite give you that.
Busing the little ones
Kindergartners getting bused out of their own neighborhood school next year, and parents waiting in the cold with no idea when the toddlers will show up. I teach in a building that's been bursting at the seams for years, so I know the gym-and-a-closet routine, but five-year-olds don't need a commute on top of it. It's the kind of thing that wears a community down quietly. #musiced #nyc https://got…
In the Heights, back home
In the Heights coming back to New York and the story still landing the same way. I teach half these kids uptown and they've never seen a Broadway show about their own block. That one matters. #broadway #harlem