Gays on the fringe
The annual San Francisco Fringe Festival offers quantity, quality, and variety with so few boundaries or familiar pedigrees that theatergoing choices must be made with a little bit of research and a lot of faith.
Grey Gardens
It's unlikely many would disagree that the best moments in the musical version of <slug>Grey Gardens</slug> are those moments that most closely replicate scenes from the documentary "Grey Gardens". Which pretty much leaves the songs as second-tier interruptions.
Chopin: Pr?ludes
Even though his recordings for Harmonia Mundi have ranged from Couperin and Rameau to Kodaly and Ravel, it's tempting to think of Alexandre Tharaud as a Chopin pianist, so regularly has the Frenchman returned to the music of the quintessential composer for his instrument. His new CD of the Opus 28 Preludes, that seminal work in which all of Chopin is on display, has caused a considerable stir.
Tonight's the night
Back in 1973, Karen Carpenter crooned that "every sha-la-la-la, every wo-wo-wo still shines" when she listened to her favorite songs on the radio. She might well have been singing about The Shirelles, who were then already halfway along the road to their current 50th anniversary tour.
Trumbo
"My dear son, I'm sending a book I think appropriate for a young man spending 5/7ths of his time in the monkish precincts of John Jay Hall. It is "Sex Without Guilt", by a man who'll take his place in history as the greatest humanitarian since Gandhi, Albert Ellis, Ph.D.
Muslim & gay: a contradiction?
The pioneering, heartfelt new film A Jihad for Love opens with a very brave man being raked over the coals, so to speak, on South African radio. In the comparatively liberal precincts of Johannesburg, Muhsin Hendricks gets to speak truth to power, gets to attack the logic behind a huge taboo in the modern Muslim world.
Advocate to go monthly
The Advocate, one of the country's oldest biweekly gay publications, will go monthly beginning in January, its new editor said Thursday, August 21.
Radiohead 101
By now, iconic UK band Radiohead must be more at ease with their role as trendsetters. In addition to creating the type of music that several bands have attempted to emulate (but never duplicate), they have inspired classical pianist Christopher O'Riley to reimagine a number of their songs in an unexpected yet rewarding setting, expanding both the band's and their listeners' horizons.
You Belong to Me
Ever so often I'm way off-base about a film, and a DVD release allows me to correct a blatant miscarriage of justice. At first glance, Sam Zalutsky's decidedly offbeat thriller <slug>You Belong to Me</slug> - kicking off with hunks in bed, and ending somewhere inside a queer "Twilight Zone" - seemed an ambitious psycho mind-fuck that tailed off without resolution. On second glance, Zalutsky's puzzle-box, detailing how one man's innocent obsession for another is trumped by a far more sinister Venus flytrap sprung by a seeming busybody, is a minor classic.
Corbin Fisher's Amateur College Men
Corbin Fisher's Amateur College Men (Bruno Gmunder) is a collection of exciting color photos of college-age athletes in sexual poses progressing from soft-core to fully erect and stiff hard-core. Baseball, soccer and other athletes pose in uniform and various stages of undress, some as solos, but mostly as couples, trios and even whole teams!
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