Tag Archives: Danceteria

Mark Kamins RIP

February 17, 2013 – 5:59 pm

I was stunned to hear that Mark Kamins had passed away in Guadalajara, Mexico. The legendary DJ had discovered Madonna at Danceteria and spun discs all around the world. The famed singer told Billboard, “I’m very sorry to hear about Marks death. I haven’t seen him for years but if it weren’t for him, I […]

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Barney Johnson LIVING FOREVER

January 30, 2013 – 10:10 pm

Last night I attended a wake for a fellow atheist. The service was at a Ukrainian Funeral Home in the East Village. Barney and I had met in 1978. He was my boss at Hurrah, a punk disco on West 62nd Street. He survived the era of errors to be a proudly gay man with […]

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Danceteria Reunion – Aspen Bar 47th Street

May 11, 2010 – 8:48 pm

I never attended my 20th high school reunion. Xaverian Brothers was all-boys. The brothers failed me for religion. I didn’t believe in the idea of a god. Brother Karl flunked me for German 101. I never blamed him for my failure. My stutter was hard on languages, but I was the only one of his […]

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MARK KAMINS IN THE ORIENT

December 16, 2008 – 4:53 pm

Mark Kamins is headed to the Orient to DJ at the fleshpots of the Far East. He was such a good DJ that I never noticed him playing at Danceteria or Mars or any of the thousands of nights he spun records for the sleepless of New York. Here’s our last conversation via the Internet […]

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