Michael Alig

Peter Gatien, the '80s/'90s NYC nightlife impresario who owned storied clubs Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA and Palladium, has written a memoir, titled The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife, which is out in March.

The Pee-ew is the name of notorious 'Party Monster' club kid Michael Alig and his old friend Ernie Glam's YouTube talk show. It launched less than a year ago (not very long after Alig was released from prison), and they released their 201st episode today...

"Eighteen years on, looking back at the person I was at that time, I feel nothing but shame and disgust. I was a selfish junkie who killed another human being...

Michael Alig's so called friend Scotto was there to pick the released murderer up from jail and to accompany him to dinner that night, selfieng and getting press for himself all along the way...

(photos via Scotto)

Only out of jail for a few hours and already Michael Alig is surrounded by a posse of club kids once again, but this time around they're all over the internet, blurry and in real time (no more waiting for next month's issue of Project X or Paper Magazine to catch a glimp…

More than 17 years after being sentenced to jail for killing Angel Melendez, Michael Alig is a free man. Psychecyberadiant Scotto went to pick him up at the prison today with club kid Astro Erle and he's documenting the whole thing on Instagram, the video you can watch below of his first words …

In my sort-of-review of the new "Limelight" documentary I wrote sort-of-jokingly that "it would have been nice to hear a nasty quote or two in the movie from one of the many ex-Gatien employes who hated Peter's wife...

Art passed yesterday, after a courageous fight with cancer. Known to everyone with clout in the nightclub industry, Art was a familiar face for a few decades...

KIKI & HERB @ JOE'S PUB | NOV 26, 2006

I really thought I'd have this site fixed by Monday, but that looks unlikely at the moment. Here are some links...

If you were around in the early 90's, you might remember Rock n' Roll Church at Limelight. Every Sunday night, rock fans (and Hell's Angels) took over the club that belonged to Michael Alig, club kids and ravers most other nights of the week...