dvd of the week In her Oscar-winning role, Julianne Moore is Alice Howland, a renowned professor of linguistics at Columbia University, married to a handsome and successful scientist named John (Alec Baldwin), and mother to three children, slightly petulant Ann (Kate Bosworth), bright and handsome Tom (Hunter Parrish) and struggling actress Lydia (Kristen Stewart). When…
dvr this HBO, Sundays, 10 p.m. The tech bros of the Bay Area are lovingly satirized in Mike Judge’s fantastic sitcom Silicon Valley. Now in its second season, the show has figured itself out after a shaky beginning, and it is now one of the funniest on TV. Thomas Middlemarch plays Richard, a delightfully awkward…
thursday, may 7 Gator By The Bay San Diego’s 14th annual Gator By The Bay is the largest, most authentic Louisiana-themed music and food festival this side of the bayou and will be held from May 7-10 at the Spanish Landing Park, across from San Diego International Airport. Presented by San Diego’s Bon Temps Social…
WASHINGTON – Today, just hours after Grammy Award-winning music legend Elton John urged Congress to bolster its fight against AIDS, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, in collaboration with AIDS United, released a guide on HIV prevention and care, as well as a unique online Q&A feature. This new resource is supported in part by…
AUSTIN, Texas — Humans have used symbols to communicate since the first hominids scratched pictograms onto cave walls. But in the thoroughly modern age of emojis, commonly available images just don’t fit every user. That’s why a trio of creative Austinites developed Gaymoji — a new app featuring a series of emoticons designed by and…
In 1990, same-sex marriage wasn’t even a blip on our cultural radar and men and women were barred from openly serving in the United States military. In 1990, in Eastern Europe, former Communist strongholds were collapsing with dizzying speed and the year’s Best Picture was Driving Miss Daisy. And in 1990, 25 years ago, a…
U2’s latest album, Songs of Innocence, has come under fire, yet again, only this time it’s neither from their fans nor their critics. A Russian Duma deputy has accused one of the world’s biggest rock bands of distributing “gay propaganda,” a consequence of their 2014 album cover which shows the band’s drummer, Larry Mullen Jr,…
Miley Cyrus officially launched her non-profit organization The Happy Hippie today, with a mission to rally young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth and other vulnerable populations. Cyrus launched the organization with a video of her and Joan Jett performing “Different.” Posting on Facebook Cyrus wrote, “Officially launching The Happy Hippie Foundation…
By any measure, OUT at the Park 2015 was a huge success. I rode the beautifully refurbished vintage trolley to the event and quickly found the tailgate party. I was greeted by Pride Director of Development, Sarafina Scapicchio, and she handed me tickets for the game, as well as complimentary food and drinks. She introduced…
The new documentary Kumu Hina premieres tonight on PBS’ Independent Lens. The film follows Hina Wong-Kalu, a transgender native Hawaiian teacher and cultural icon for Hawaii’s mahu (those who embody both a male and female spirit). As Hina plans the school’s final all-boy hula performance, she meets mahu sixth-grader Ho’onanani who is navigating the mixed…
