Logo, a television network associated with MTV and intended for LGBT-friendly viewers, announced a number of greenlights today for the upcoming programming year. Among the new shows scheduled for Logo’s 2011-2012 year are “Sex Rx,” a reality series covering the world of sex addiction and dysfunction, as well as “Setup Squad” and “Pretty Hurts,” premiering…
Paul Marcarelli, the “can you hear me now?” guy featured in countless Verizon cell phone commercials, told reporters at The Atlantic that he is being phased out of the Verizon advertising campaign strategy. Marcarelli won fame and household recognition as the Verizon Test Man, but insists that, while grateful for the financial security afforded by…
Travel a little south (to Chula Vista, that is) and you’ll find a story about the south (Texas, of course) as OnStage Playhouse presents Del Shore’s gay comedic romp, Sordid Lives. Billed as a black comedy about white trash, writer Del Shores developed this clever, campy and often raunchy tale based on his experience growing…
thursday, april 14 Laugh out loud! Martini’s Above Fourth premieres The Laugh Out Proud Comedy Show, featuring local LGBT comedians Sean Wherley, Lauren Holiday, Larry Tadlock and headliner Sarah Burford. The show showcases the region’s top LGBT and allied comedians in a safe environment for the LGBT community. Come early to enjoy a full dinner…
The King’s Speech is out this week on DVD, and if you missed it in the theater, and you need to see it so that you can say you saw it, then, well, do that. But as I’ve said before: Yawn. So, instead, I suggest you do the opposite, and either see or re-see one…
Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, April 16, 1:15 p.m.: Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve came out the same year (1950) and neither Gloria Swanson nor Bette Davis won an Oscar for their iconic roles in these iconic films. No, that year Judy Holliday won the Best Actress Oscar for Born Yesterday, which is also notable for being…
About two-thirds of the way through Hanna, Marissa, the CIA agent hunting the film’s title character, says, “Sometimes children are bad people, too.” You already know that Hanna isn’t bad, just badass – a 13-year-old superhuman fighting machine Marissa created and now wants to kill. You feel for the naïve Hanna and hate the sociopathic…
I have a confession. I have never been to the Timken Museum of Art before. I have seen it, I have walked around it and I have passed by it many times on my way to other museums along the Prado in Balboa Park. But I have never gone in. I went in today and…
The medical drama television series Grey’s Anatomy is to stage its first lesbian wedding. Orthopedic surgeon Callie Torres (Sara Ramírez) and pediatric surgeon Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) are going to make their union official in this season of the show. It has been revealed that the impending nuptials of the lesbian lovers will happen in…
The Old Globe has announced it is staging the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s new comedy, Life of Riley. Directed by Richard Seer, Life of Riley runs in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of The Old Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, with previews starting April 30 and opening night May 5. Alan Ayckbourn,…
