Meet the Gay Record Executive who signed Metallica, Beat AIDS and Took a Bubble Bath with Nina Simone

In his recently published autobiography, Michael Alago recounts his fearless entry into the punk rock scene as a gay Puerto Rican teen from Brooklyn, the intense music biz career that followed, surviving AIDS in the 90s, his recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, and photographing some of the hottest roughnecks on the planet.

Remembering Nashom Benjamin Wooden October 9, 1969 – March 23, 2020

Downtown star, East Village fixture, writer, pop singer, fashionisto, and performer Nashom Benjamin Wooden, died at the age of 50 on March 23, 2020 of the COVID-19 virus.