The Big Gay Ice Cream Shop is taking a day off after a fun-filled weekend: Stephen Merritt played a few songs during the shop’s anniversary party yesterday (as you can see in video posted by co-owner Doug Quint, the Magnetic Fields frontman was backed by an advertisement for the ice cream shop’s cookbook, out in spring of 2014). A sign on the shop’s roll-down gate explains the temporary closure: “We have a big staff meeting, a major store cleaning, and then a staff karaoke party.”
