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…
Mindy Cohn made her acting debut in 1979 as the witty, outspoken Natalie Green in the hit comedy series The Facts of Life. In 1983, she made her first professional stage performance in Table Settings, followed by her feature film debut in The Boy Who Could Fly. She has also starred in the sitcom The…
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…
“Works to build a better community. Plans for the future. Ensures colleagues share in successes. Protects the less fortunate.” Any mother would beam with pride if her child were so described. In a performance review, such comments would garner a promotion. In Wisconsin, these traits put a target on your back. These four points are…
Recently, I was looking at a copy of Equality Maryland’s State Senate Whip Count for HB 235 – a Maryland bill that will provide housing and employment antidiscrimination protections based on gender identity. I received the whip count from a source that leaked it – it seemed very apparent to me that someone at Equality…
I am off to our state capitol for four days, and then I’m home for two weeks … hooray! “Carl DeMaio is not loyal to his gay community…” So, says San Diego Democratic Club President Doug Case in about an hour conversation I had with him this past week. Case also stated to me that…
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…
