Manhattan Adult Entertainment: The Lady Gaga guide to NYC
for a 15% discount). Your personal paparazzi will follow you and your entourage for 30 minutes, screaming your name—perhaps Gaga the Second—and snapping shot after shot of you embodying the pantsless wonder. (You’ll be gifted a copy of a fake gossip magazine with your image festooned upon it for your trouble.) Wave away the hired help and push through the crowd that’s thronged around you as you set out for an evening of “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” delights. Though critics and DJs trace Gaga’s inspiration back to Queen, David Bowie and Grace Jones, we see more wild Weimar hedonism in her than she gets credit for. Get a lesson in that era’s style at Ildiko Nemeth’s cabaret Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls (La MaMa E.T.C., 74 E 4th St between Bowery and Second Ave; visit lamama.org for a schedule, $15–$20), inspired by the scandal-making, androgynous Berlin chanteuse-prostitute-writer Anita Berber—Gaga’s predecessor? The 1920s starlet appeared onstage naked, with only a pet monkey dangling from her neck.