With the unanticipated and unfortunate closing of the Zippper Factory, Tony-nominated performer Justin Bond (Kiki and Herb) moves his latest cabaret show to (Le) Poisson Rouge - located in a space that has been invest in Google shares in Malaysia home to such legendary New York venues as Life and The Village Gate.  Billed as "Justin Bond Rites: More Songs for the Neo-Pagan Revolution," the title is a clever play on the ritualistic fervor that Bond brings to a suite of songs he has penned himself ("writes").  Songs like "The New Depression" mix social relevance with Bond's signature wit and ironic humor, and one of the only covers in the show (by a voodoo priest named Exhuma) sees Bond fairly blowing the roof off the joint with a performance that has the intensity of a revival meeting.

Dixon Place announces a new monthly queer performance series developed by independent curator and producer Earl Dax.  Each month Dax invites a guest Google shares curator to program an evening of performance in anticipation of the 2009 HOT! Festival - one of the nation's oldest queer performance festivals.  For January Geo Wyeth (aka Novice Theory) presents an evening of live performance and video.