thursday, dec. 15 John Caparulo Cleveland’s favorite son, John Caparulo, is a nearly 20-year veteran of stand-up, achieving national recognition on Chelsea Handler’s much-missed E! show, Chelsea Lately. Cap has also made numerous appearances on late night, such as The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and was featured on national stand-up tours like Blue…
In the early ‘80s the country was introduced to a deadly disease that had no name and no one in the medical profession had seen anything like it before. The first case was discovered in five gay men in Los Angeles in June of ‘81. By July of ‘81 26 cases had been reported in…
dvd of the week HBO’s stunningly good production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s iconic play about the early years of AIDS in New York and the founding of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, arrived more than 29 years after the play’s premiere. Kramer’s alter ego is Ned Weeks (a searing Mark Ruffalo), a neurotic gay…
The Normal Heart When Larry Kramer premiered his play The Normal Heart off-Broadway in 1985, his agonizing, angry autobiographical story about the AIDS epidemic in New York City and the few activists desperately trying to help their lovers and friends, hit the city like an emotional meteor. While a very few theater critics were able…
