thursday, march 29 Tour de Cuisine – Celebration of French gastronomy and wines Experience the 2nd Annual Tour de Cuisine restaurant week now through April 1. Get a unique French culinary experience and enjoy a great prix fixe menu of $30, $40 and $50 at participating restaurants. All of the participating restaurants have French proprietors…
In the mid 1990s Eve Ensler wrote the first draft of a series of monologues based on interviews she conducted with 200 women about their views on sex, relationships and violence against women. Those stories came to be known as The Vagina Monologues. This instant (and sometimes controversial) hit has since been staged nationally, internationally…
thursday, march 22 Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan Majestic sixth century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 21st century 3D-imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early medieval China. A video installation, touch screens and research kiosks enable visitors to…
dvr this Season premiere, AMC, 9 p.m., Sunday, March 25 The best show on television, and one of the best ever, Mad Men returns after almost a year and a half. In case you’ve been living under a rock: It is the story of the private and professional lives of New York advertising executives in…
If sidesplitting comedy is what you are after, you are in luck, times three, because this Saturday night at 8 p.m. for your delectation The Birch North Park Theatre presents the Queer Queens of Qomedy. The Queer Queens are comprised of three of the country’s reigning LGBT comics, Gina Yashere, Fortune Feimster and Poppy Champlin….
One of the best series’ on television, at least according to the American Film Institute, is AMC’s Mad Men, now in its fifth season. In fact, back in 2007, the Television Critics Association also named the production “best television show.” At the same time, aggregating the review “scores” of 31 professional television critics, Metacritic.com gave…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced that The Weinstein Company co-chairman and anti-bullying advocate Harvey Weinstein will present a Special Recognition Award to high school student Katy Butler at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards March 24, 2012, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Seventeen-year-old Katy Butler launched a…
X-Files star, Gillian Anderson has revealed that she had a lesbian relationship when she was a teenager in high school that at the time was “freaking people out.” In an interview with Out magazine Anderson said, “I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school, and…
Jeff, Who Lives at Home When I was getting my master’s in fiction writing, one of my professors had a rule that has stuck with me for the last 13 years: “You can only have one coincidence per story.” Characters should be the engine of the story; their actions, decisions, quirks and mistakes need to…
If you are a fan of avant-garde cinema and you are familiar with gallery-based video then you might have noticed the two separate media beginning to blur at the edges. Someone who has taken advantage of this trend and maybe even helped invent it is British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Julien became an art…
