Category Archives: Nightlife

ENTREZ NOUS by Peter Nolan Smith

September 29, 2011 – 10:03 am


January 1983 was a good month to get out of New York. The NYPD wanted to interrogate me about a murder and police corruption at the Continental Club on West 25th Street. The case was a year old. The killer’s trail had gone cold. A friend from Paris called to offer a nightclub job. I [...]

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SHORTEST FIGHT IN THE WORLD by Peter Nolan Smith

September 27, 2011 – 1:33 pm

The World on East 2nd Street hosted a screening of the Tyson-Spinks fight on June 27, 1988. The nightclubs’s door was handled by the tough guy mooks hired by the Bensonhurst fat boys hosting the event. The fee for televising the fight was $20,000. The Brooklyn boys wanted $25 a head. The NYFD occupancy limit [...]

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Peter Nolan Smith Reading Tonight

July 22, 2011 – 4:31 pm

34 years ago lightning struck the power lines feeding NYC. The city was thrust into a black-out. Burning and looting in the Outer Boroughs. I tried to emulate the anarchy in Midtown Manhattan. Tonight I will be reading TRASH FIORUCCI for Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Reading Series at Happy Ending! Located at 302 Broome St. in [...]

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I’m A Poseur Too

July 22, 2011 – 10:08 am

Last month I re-wrote a story about the Damned’s show at Hurrah in 1978. I thought that the Dead Boys from Cleveland were touring with the British group. Cheetah Chrome emailed a comment excoriating my time-misplacement. What an honor. Here is his email. SONIC REDUCER rocks. The Damned Live 1978 Cheetah Nice story , too [...]

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MOSES’ BEST FRIEND by Peter Nolan Smith

July 21, 2011 – 2:25 pm

New York City showed its teeth the winter of 1980. The police were racketeering our after-hours nightclub. One of the Continental’s backers was a gangster from Odessa, Russia. He was going out with my old girlfriend from Buffalo. Vadim smuggled stolen icons and passed bad paper. Lisa looked good in his furs. The newest investor [...]

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