Many of us grew up in the 1960-70s with Elizabeth Taylor. She and Joan Rivers were the first and only stars to take a stand to fight AIDS in those early dark, lonely years of the 1980s. We have lost a true goddess … a saint … the last true star of the 21st century….
Every time I heard that the release date of I Love You, Phillip Morris was changed, I worried that it must be awful and the studio just wanted to find the perfect time to bury it. When it finally arrived last fall, I realized the delays weren’t because of the film’s low quality but because…
While some Joan Crawford fans might be appalled that someone would dare remake Mildred Pierce, the classic 1945 melodrama for which Crawford won her Oscar, when the remake is a total revision directed by the visionary gay director Todd Haynes and starring Kate Winslet, the greatest actress of her generation, I’ve just got to say,…
To quote a Cole Porter song, birds do it, bees do it, and “I’ve heard that lizards and frogs do it.” It’s springtime and the boys and girls are feeling a little frisky. Just like everything in our community, our language is quite colorful – and when it comes to topics of sex, the words…
San Diego’s biggest real estate transaction of the year closed March 24 when Bethesda, MD-based HOST Hotels closed escrow on the Manchester Grand Hyatt. HOST paid $570 million in cash and other considerations to the hotel’s developer Doug Manchester, ending the embattled Republican big-wig’s saga to sell the property. Manchester, under the veil of his…
Democratic Club’s response In (a recent) issue of San DiegoLGBT Weekly (March 17, 2011, Issue 18), columnist Nicole Murray Ramirez accused the San Diego Democratic Club of attacking announced mayoral candidate Bonnie Dumanis unfairly. Further, while calling my comments sexist and intimating that I had simply accused her of endorsing a Republican, Nicole failed to…
I would think it would be unpleasant to be Paul Giamatti. To me, he’s a sort of male version of Saturday Night Live’s Debbie Downer, a character played by Rachel Dratch who ruins everyone’s fun by pointing out how awful her life is. Her every complaint is followed by a sad trombone. And when I…
Pop Quiz: Where is the political center of the LGBT community? Urban Mo’s? No, though you could make an argument that it’s the social center. At 3909 Centre Street? No, that’s The Center, with a capital C. It’s actually somewhere near the intersection of University Avenue and the I-805 in North Park. If you want…
The great thing about covering the arts for the San Diego LGBT Weekly is that I get to learn about all kinds of things happening in town – and then share them with you! One conversation leads to another, and before you know it I find out about Moxie Theatre and its current production of…
Hands up those of you who saw David McBean play the uber-capable restaurant receptionist in Fully Committed at the Cygnet Theatre back in 2004 and 2006? A lot of you I bet. I saw it as well and forgive me, but I was so persuaded by his performance that I subsequently assumed it was the…
