When TV audiences were introduced to their first real live “gay in captivity,” Lance Loud, on the PBS documentary An American Family in 1971, it didn’t exactly open the floodgates to more of our kind being shown as they were, and not as they were written by sitcom and drama scribes of the day; it…
Over the past few months, I’ve reported on and written about various events, contests and festivals. I have really been impressed by the display of all the leather arts, crafts and history behind it. As most of us were, I was exposed to the naked human body through paper pornography. It was used for its…
San Diego is considered to be one of the oldest cities in California. It was officially founded around the mid 1700s and has a rich history. As a result, we have many neighborhoods that have beautiful old homes, in addition to the “newer” homes that were built in the last sixty years. Although you may…
MOVIE REVIEW: If your jaw dropped at how realistic, how life-like and creepy Gollum was when you first saw him in The Fellowship of the Ring ten years ago, it will fall open again and your mouth will dry out when you see Caesar, the super smart chimpanzee at the center of Rise of the…
At the risk of losing my gay card, I’ll admit I don’t really like reality TV. More annoying is when reality TV invades reality, as when the cast of The Learning Channel’s Sister Wives sued the state of Utah over its anti-polygamy laws. Thanks largely to right-wing talking heads, TV polygamists have entered the marriage…
Thursday, Aug. 11 Don’t feed the plants! Cygnet Theatre presents Little Shop of Horrors. This wildly inventive rock musical is based upon Roger Corman’s campy B-movie horror flick of the same name. Seymour, a hapless loser, makes a Faustian bargain with a mean, green, man-eating plant to provide fresh meat in exchange for money, fame…
Looking on the web of late, I’ve found what anti-trans minded folk say about all stripes of trans people, but especially transsexuals. I found something that was a cheerless discovery. Anti-trans sentiments that have been expressed by some radical lesbian feminists read very much like the anti-trans sentiments that have been expressed by some on…
One of Jesus’ best known miracles is the feeding of the 5,000. (Remember the child who shared two fish and five loaves of bread – Matthew 14:13-21?) Someone said to me recently, if Jesus were alive today, he probably wouldn’t be allowed to get away with half the miracles he performed! It’s not just that…
Luna Grill – fast casual Mediterranean restaurant featuring all-fresh, high-quality, wholesome, made-to-order Mediterranean fare – has just opened its doors for business on its fourth restaurant. The newest location is in the Hillcrest area of San Diego, at 350 University Ave. at Fourth Avenue. “The Hillcrest community has been one of the friendliest so far,”…
As I wrote when the movie opened, “Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre is smartly taut, with Moira Buffini’s screenplay restructuring the telling of the plot without losing any of its themes or power. Fukunaga also retains the beauty of Charlotte Bronte’s prose, not by using voice-over but by shooting the movie with literary precision: exquisitely detailed…
