The list is legend The GayVNs. The Grabbys. The Hookies. The XBiz Awards. The Hard Choice Awards. Presented in venues across the country from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles and celebrating the movers and shakers of a multibillion-dollar industry, gay-porn award programs are as diverse and sometimes as kitschy as the people they…
After being out of the public eye for more than 20 years Kristy McNichol has decided to come out as a lesbian to help kids who are being bullied. People magazine reports McNichol, 49, who has lived with her partner Martie Allen for the last 20 years, has decided to make a statement about her…
About ten minutes after the end of maudlin 9/11 drama Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I was standing outside the theater, feeling the tears drying on my face and the crying jags subside, and I got angry. I asked my friend who I now feel guilty for bringing along, “Why in the world was it…
thursday, jan. 19 Stars in the Salon: Artists from Salome Join your favorite opera stars for a look at San Diego Opera’s 2012 international season. San Diego Opera Stars in the Salon (formerly Artists’ Roundtables) is a thrilling experience for anyone who loves opera. A distinguished guest panel from the opera Salome will take a…
Dovetailing with a year of protest in the U.S. and around the globe, The San Diego Repertory Theatre is offering a timely world premiere workshop production of A Hammer, A Bell, and A Song to Sing. Inspired by the work of legendary folksinger and activist Pete Seeger, it celebrates the history of change from the…
As it turns out, 2011 was a really great year for independent queer cinema. I’ve mentioned multiple times over the last few months my love for Weekend, one of best gay movies ever made. And now San Diego is getting to see Pariah, one of the best lesbian films I’ve ever seen, which has won…
One of the luxuries of living in the Uptown/North Park neighborhoods is that we are surrounded by many fine eateries. You can literally walk out the door to great food and gorgeous company. It is so easy to forget we live in a diverse county with close to three-million residents and a mixture of cultures…
dvd of the week On my favorite movies list of 2011, Moneyball manages to make baseball statistics dramatic and funny. Bennett Miller’s crafty use of slow motion, muted colors and slyly gorgeous cinematography creates an epic grandeur for what is really a story of office politics. He and the screenwriters use American audiences’ sentimentality about…
dvr this One of the best cop shows on TV, Southland is the only one that features a gay beat cop, Officer John Cooper, played with awesome anger and arrogance by Michael Cudlitz. In the season premiere, Cooper has just returned sober from medical leave (thankfully, since his painkiller addiction was not the greatest pilot),…
thursday, jan. 12 Brahms and Schumann: A love in common Johannes Brahms opened his Third Symphony with three notes, which stood for “Free but Happy!” It had been a long road for the 50-year-old bachelor. Long gone were the days of his conflicted love for Clara Schumann. But Clara was never far from his thoughts….
