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About us [please email us if you're curious about our loft]
Miss Scorpio (Larisa Fuchs)
Miss Scorpio dazzles audiences worldwide with her outrageous wit and wardrobe, constantly shocking the status quo into something more fabulous. She is an attention-getting, opinionated, stylish and intellectual artist who has worked for high-powered design firms and traveled with carnivals & gypsy bands, among many unique life experiences. A brazen Scorpio, she regularly talks to strangers.
When she's not practicing her Scorpio arts of seduction on innocent bystanders, she is deftly weaving her way through New York City's cultural landscape: from world music to circus to puppets to burlesque to underground parties, she knows a little of everything and nearly everyone behind it. Armed with this knowledge, she's been editing the G&S weekly list of fantastic happenings you'd otherwise never hear about and producing all G&S fetes since the site's inception in 2002.
Over the years, G&S events have become known for tight curation and creative themes, live performance by talented artists, eye-popping spectacle and a devoted stylish following. Inspired by their success, Miss Scorpio is also in the process of opening a 5,000sq ft performing arts venue with a team of talented others. She's frequently called on as an expert in event production, curation and promotion by a variety of creative entities, from the likes of National Geographic Traveler to Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls.
You can catch her at her trusty PowerBook at
Miss Gemini (Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh)
Miss Gemini is an old-world mystic, Bollywood deity and rock star bottled within the body of Tinkerbell. A fan of both Buddha and Hello Kitty, she seeks enlightenment through rigorous study of metaphysical texts and almost anything that glitters or comes in fruit scents. An unstoppable Gemini, she regularly double-turns herself into the ground Ñ only to find the earth intriguing enough to merit further study.
Gemini is the senior editor of Vital Juice Los Angeles, the daily online mailer about healthy living (from the same backers as Daily Candy). She spent 10 years as the entertainment and features editor for Bauer Publishing. She is a frequent contributor to National Geographic, regularly interviews celebrity directors and producers, and has penned infomercials for such indispensable products as the Tummy Trimmer and the U.S. Perfect Time Clock. She authored one of the top two most-reviewed entries in Amazon's breakthrough novel competition, and, in her work as a newspaper managing editor, managed to fend off a burglar while simultaneously finishing the newspaper's layout. Stories of her adventures with Miss Scorpio have appeared in a variety of publications, providing good examples and vicarious thrills to thousands.
Gemini and Scorpio
Gemini (a sweet, bright, angelic creature) and Scorpio (an intense, dark and moody siren), are two artsy downtown gals and creators of Gemini and Scorpio's Fabulous Guide to Online Dating, a funky handbook for the Web 2.0 dater.
Through their website, weekly NYC events list and their own, sometimes unbelievable, parties, Gemini and Scorpio have gathered an online and offline community of artistic, intelligent, offbeat thinkers and generally fascinating people, a crowd The Village Voice called "quirky, comely, artistic, and friendly" in their Best of 2006 writeup highlighting the girls' fourth annual signature Valentine's Day bash, "Get Off...Line." In its four years of existence since, the event, held in a real Russian Banya with a live gypsy band (often playing in the jacuzzi), luxury vodka sponsors, and free pierogies for all, has become a New York underground institution, garnering praise from multiple press outlets ("Epic" -- Brooklyn Based; repeatedly selected as TimeOutNY's "Your Perfect Weekend" pick, etc).
Since the brand's inception in 2002, G&S have hosted dozens of parties and entertained thousands of guests. The events created by the dynamic duo are varied and outrageous: a circus throwdown in a turn-of-century wood-and-mirrors tent; a series of vintage-themed dance parties with live swing bands ("An event worth wearing that ridiculous zoot suit for" -- TimeOutNY "Your Perfect Weekend" pick; "Gatsby-era fun with a twist of new school-vibe" -- The Village Voice); a weekend of custom-created video art (The Village Voice "Pick of the Week"), a Belle Epoque-themed high-fashion costumed ball in a Victorian mansion that attracted the legendary designer Jean-Paul Gaultier as a guest ("corsets and top hats tweaked with studs and leather are totally appropriate" -- The New York Times). In 2008, G&S was named "Best List of What-To-Do in NYC" by the formidable Girlie Girl Army newsletter. In 2009, TimeOut kicked off a new weekly feature in which nightlife experts give a week's worth of event recommendations, with Miss Scorpio as the focus of the premiere article. In 2010, The New York Times took note, saying G&S and related producers were "redecorating the landscape of the city's after-dark underground."
You can read more on our Past Events and Press pages.
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