friday, nov. 18 Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Legendary horn player Herb Alpert and vocalist Lani Hall perform innovative arrangements and skilled improvisations that make old songs new and bring new songs to their audience. The blending of their vocal and instrumental talents will make for an evening of pure enjoyment of great songs. Balboa…
Jackson and Coleman Vrana – of the angst-ridden, twin gay brother hip hoppers known as Elephant – return to the airwaves this month with the release of their new single, “Queer Nation.” A call-to-arms for gay youth to claim their rightful place in pop culture, the song is the band’s first track from their new…
The new neighbors moved in last week, and you don’t quite know what to think. There are three adults in the household, and two of them seem to be married but you don’t know which two. They obviously work, but at the oddest of times and there are bikes in the yard, though not on…
A Restaurant Insider recipe Cake ingredients 2 1/2 cups cake flour, unbleached and organic 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon sea salt or fleur de sel 1 1/2 sticks unsalted organic butter, room temperature 2 cups sugar 3 3/4 ounces semisweet fair trade dark chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla seeds 2 eggs 1 1/2…
dvr this I must admit I didn’t see The Way We Were until it was referenced, and part of it recreated, in the season finale of Season 2 of Sex and the City, the great episode Ex in the City. Sydney Pollack’s 1973 film features one of the more iconic Barbra Streisand performances in a…
After Kurt Hummel, played by Chris Colfer, found love last season with Blaine Anderson, in the hit show Glee, the course of true love is not set to run smooth in season three. TVLine has exclusively revealed that Glee has tapped up-and-coming theater actor Grant Gustin to play the recurring role of Sebastian, a gay…
Lady Gaga has announced the launch of the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF), which will support programs and initiatives that deal with all aspects of “empowering youth.” According to the non-profit charitable organization, it will “lead youth into a braver new society where each individual is accepted and loved as the person they were born…
Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar As 20th century American politicians go, J. Edgar Hoover is tied with Richard Nixon on the evil-o-meter. Only Joe McCarthy beats them. A megalomaniacal red-baiter who destroyed countless lives and probably made the United States no less secure for the trouble, McCarthy had no redeeming qualities. Hoover and Nixon –…
thursday, nov. 10 The Bangles It was 30 years ago that guitarists Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson and drummer Debbi Peterson formed the Bangles in a Brentwood, Calif. garage. They did so based on two crucial elements: their common love for rock’s golden age and the crystalline sound they quite naturally created when they blended…
