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Family Equality Council Event: Night at the Tavern 2009

March 29, 2009 by Green Dads

Night at the Tavern, Family Equality Council's annual New York City event will be held Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at Tavern on the Green in New York City. The event brings together LGBT parents, friends and allies to celebrate the progress we have made as a community of loving families towards full equality.

In 2009, Night at the Tavern will feature a cocktail reception, a full-course seated dinner, live entertainment, a silent auction and the opportunity to mingle with old friends and meet new ones. At the event they will be honoring Platinum Recording Artist Clay Aiken and Director of Center Kids at the LGBT Center in New York Terry Boggis and will have a special guest performance by Linda Eder.

Poor Clay, who has nothing going on, will be....

A judge on America's Next Top Model April 8
Honored at Lambda's Family Circle " Night At The Tavern" April 21
Mentoring "Rosie's Broadway Kids" in a fundraiser and Show April 27
On "30 Rock's" season finale May 14

...and he still hasn't told us what he'll be up to this year.

Amanda Palmer asks via song to get dropped by record label
By
Rachel Dovey
on April 2, 2009 1:00 PM |

Clay Ai:ken, The Shins and Lady Sovereign have all waved a graceful goodbye to their labels in the recent past, but Amanda Palmer seems determined to cause a scene before she kicks Roadrunner Records to curb. And this is your classic Blair Waldorf kind of scandal, malicious and brilliant, except instead of tweeting to her neighborhood Gossip Girl, Palmer is calling the label out onstage, in song.
Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) went public with her distain for Roadrunner's umbrella label, Warner, when the company claimed YouTube owed them money and then pulled their videos off the online sharing site. At the end of 2008, she said, "Did I mention that being on a major label is starting to seem like...not such a grand idea?"

She was also embroiled in the "Leeds United" fiasco last year. Palmer was furious when Roadrunner asked to remove shots of her "unflattering" belly fat in the video, and the singer began her search for a new label in earnest.

So she wrote a song, and performed it in Ft. Lauderdale on March 28. The melody belonged originally to "Moon River," but the lyrics are a creation that could only be dreamed up by an outraged punk queen. As a final zinger to Roadrunner, she added, "As soon as you get home, will you just put this up on YouTube?" Watch her tirade below (via The Daily Swarm):



http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/04/amanda-plamer-sings-goodbye-song-to-roadrunner-rec.html