Growing up gay in the Mormon community gave up-and-coming alt-country musician Justin Utley a unique perspective. After spending two unsuccessful years in church-run ex-gay therapy, he split from the church in 2005 and moved to New York City to pursue a music career. Utley’s second CD, Nothing This Real, chronicles his journey. Abby Walker: How…
The Scissor Sisters have announced that they will launch their North American tour, June 15, at the Las Vegas House of Blues in support of their forthcoming album, Magic Hour. The outing will include a show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, June 16, and conclude with a two-night stand at Terminal 5 in…
I Love This City, the new electronic music festival event produced by Live Nation Entertainment and LED makes its San Diego debut this coming Memorial Day, Weekend, Sunday May 27. Skrillex will top the bill at the San Diego show; also set to appear are A-Trak, The Crystal Method (DJ set), Dirtyloud, 12th Planet, The…
(CNN) — Patty Schemel, the former drummer for the Courtney Love-fronted band Hole, is starring in the upcoming documentary “Hit So Hard.” The film examines Schemel’s roots, her rise to fame with Hole and her drug addiction. Schemel spoke to CNN about “Hit So Hard,” her relationship with Love and Kurt Cobain, and her thoughts…
The award winning contemporary repertory dance company, The PGK Dance Project, will turn Hillcrest nightclub, Eden into a performance venue April 19 at 7:30p.m. The program includes “Love is Gone” featuring the music of David Guetta, “Stay” featuring the music of Dave Mathews and the premier of the new solo work “A Song for You”…
Assembled in a large, unadorned meeting hall at the University Christian Church on Cleveland Avenue, a gathering of mostly-white, all-male singers are taking direction from Gary Holt, the artistic director of the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus. Gary, the current artistic director and a warm, enigmatic presence, has also served as the former artistic director…
Like Haley’s Comet, the Olympics and a compromise in Washington politics, a concentrated cluster of innovative art activity happens once in a blue moon in San Diego. I am not thinking about the monthly art walks here, there and everywhere, but rather a set of independent art activities arranged by the small, non-profit art organizations…
thursday, april 12 Tim Minchin Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer Tim Minchin has been performing his unique brand of musical comedy in front of appropriately excitable and ever growing audiences since 2005. During his shows he plays the piano, “… always nicely and oftentimes wildly and excitingly, whilst looking wonderfully athletic, in a pair…
Blues legend Bonnie Raitt has something to talk about in her new ‘Right Down the Line’ music video: love is equal. Raitt’s first music video in fourteen years is fashioned in her signature style – a laid-back, soulful blues tempo featuring shots of loving couples including a decidedly handsome gay couple who share a kiss…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — I thought she was over. Madonna, that is. I thought she was too old to be referring to herself as a “girl.” I thought pop music passed her by. I thought Lady Gaga had killed her. And then I look at this week’s Billboard chart and I see…
