Jun. 4—Nicky Siano is an integral part of the disco scene. He began playing clubs in 1971 and by the end of the decade, he was one of the major figures in the New York scene. "I'm very glad to be part ...

“The War on Disco,” a new PBS documentary, explores the backlash against the genre and the issues of race, gender and sexuality that informed it. By Chris Vognar The plan was simple enough: Gather a ...

That hypnotic stare haunts historical photographs and album covers alike. Rasputin's unlikely path led straight through the ...

Had anyone in the late 1970s predicted that either Richard Nixon or disco — then both widely disparaged — would one day be held in considerably higher regard, they would have been promptly laughed out ...

Set against the grit, the garbage strikes, the graffiti of 1979 New York City, This Ain't No Disco tells the story of drifters and dreamers searching for their place in the night world of Studio 54 ...

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In 1979, Northeast Pennsylvania caught a bad case of Saturday Night Fever. Luckily, the 25th Hour nightclub at the Treadway Inn in Wilkes-Barre had the cure. Owner Gary Kornfeld paid an estimated $200 ...