Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep overshadowed her in this Christmas’s Into the Woods, and Neil Patrick Harris and Jack Black did it to her in the opening number on the Academy Awards last week, but in the barely released but wonderful musical The Last Five Years, Anna Kendrick reminded me just how amazing she can…
Your people understand you. That’s because you speak the same language, dance to the same music, and wear the same uniform. You might not be related by blood or ceremony, but you belong to them and they to you. You’re family but, as you’ll see in the new book A List of Things That Didn’t…
dvd of the week Both Mark Shultz (Channing Tatum) and his brother David (Mark Ruffalo) won gold medals at the 1984 Olympics, and while David parlayed his fame to a coaching job, Mark is at loose ends, living alone and training with scowl. One day, out of the blue, Mark is asked to fly to…
dvr this The CW, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. After the success of Arrow, the CW and DC Comics created a spin-off focused on the red-suited speedster superhero called the Flash, whose real name is Barry Allen. Played by the appealing and sweet Grant Gustin, this version of the Flash is a forensic investigator who is struck…
thursday, feb. 26 Taking Back Sunday For influential Long Island band Taking Back Sunday, happiness is being able to tour with your friends and perform for thousands of diehard fans night-after-night. That sentiment is what keeps the band going and has helped fuel their rewarding and lengthy career. It’s also what drives them to create…
The first episode of WNET and PBS Digital Studios’ new web series, First Person, has gone live. In this episode, host Kristin Russo interviews artist Skylar Kergil to examine transgender visibility and transitions. The series is the first to come as a result of the previously announced strategic partnership between WNET’s Interactive Engagement Group and…
Jason Burch, a former Minor League baseball player, has come out as gay. Burch played in the Minors for four different MLB franchises from 2003-2008. He played in college for Nebraska. He was gay the whole time, telling teammates when they asked. Looking back, he wishes he had come out more publicly while playing, he…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera is presenting the second ever mariachi opera, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (The Past is Never Finished), featuring the world famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán and composed by the same team from 2013’s wildly popular mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the…
An unexpectedly huge hit, Coming Home, the story of a young man who comes out to his parents during the Chinese New Year holiday, has also had the unintended consequence of prompting many Chinese parents to ask if their child is, in fact, gay. BBC Trending first reported this unusual story after word leaked that…
Michael Sam, who made history last year as the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL, is moving into reality TV by joining the 20th season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, reports The Huffington Post. Other notable names to join Sam for this season of “Dancing With The Stars” include Patti…
