Curve articles from August 2002

Curve archives from August 2002

Back in our hearts. (Frankly Speaking).(Margaret Cho)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... After spending much of her childhood in her family's bookstore on San Francisco's Polk Street, one of the gayest streets in the country, comedian Margaret Cho became a fag-hag (her word) at an early age. It seemed natural that when she started...

Letters.
August 1, 2002... STORIES UNTOLD This is a horrific story and I'm glad that CURVE devoted more than just a few paragraphs to the issue of men in South Africa raping infants to be cured of AIDS. In "Stories Untold" (Vol. 12, #3), Victoria A. Brownworth...

Striking a chord. (Out in Front).(SIBL (Songs Inspired by Literature) Project to promote literacy)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Gretchen Lee Nationwide, about 44 million adults are illiterate, and one in five American adults can't even read a simple story to their kids. There are troubling statistics to Deborah Pardes, an award-winning singer-songwriter who founded...

Ask Fairy Butch. (Curvatures).
August 1, 2002... Dear Fairy Butch: I'm a lesbian high-school senior. I've been dating this great girl for almost a year now, but I have a problem. I'm a little bit girlier than she is (she's a little bit butch) and I want to go to my senior prom. We're only out...

B&B(&B)s for health. (Curvatures).(MAUTNER PROJECT for Lesbians with Cancer)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... THE MAUTNER PROJECT for Lesbians with Cancer has joined forces with lesbian-friendly bed-and-breakfast inns nationwide to educate more women about the risks of breast cancer. In May, the Mautner Project furnished free Beds, Breakfasts and...

Hey! baby. (Curvatures).(musician Alicia Champion)(Interview)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Alicia Champion might be only 20 years old, but she has the skill and dedication of musicians twice her age. When CURVE last interviewed her, Champion was just 17 and had produced her first album, Stories of My Soul, out of her bedroom. Now...

Even without free files from. (Out on the Web).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Napster, finding quality music by female artists on the Web requires very little song and dance. Plenty of sites serve up any MP3 a girl could want, while a number of online music stores feature women-centric catalogs. But what if after all...

Go Girls Music. (Out on the Web).(www.gogirlsmusic.com)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... www.gogirlsmusic.com This online community for female musicians juggles an extraordinary number of elements on its mixing board. Go Girls Music serves up editorial features each month--spanning everything from Indigo Girls concert reviews...

Drummer Girl. (Out on the Web).(www.drummergirl.com)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... www.drummergirl.com The only tragedy of the tremendously well-designed Drummer Girl site is that I couldn't find any equally agile Web communities for bass- and guitar-slinging gals. Though primarily a resource for female drummers, the...

Girlpunk.net. (Out on the Web).(www.girlpunk.net)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... www.girlpunk.net Though you're certainly not going to find Dar Williams news here, Girlpunk.net is less exclusionary than its hardcore name suggests. While the site favors indie-label ilk and Riot Grrrl progeny, Girlpunk also registers...

Love through the signs. (Horoscopes).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... ON JULY 10, VENUS SLIPS INTO earthy, sensual Virgo. Three days later, Mars charges into lusty Leo. This duo just about breaks the love 'n' sex bank--but passionate investments yield high interest for the next three weeks. On the 22nd, the...

Family fun for everyone. (Sapphic Screen).(gays on television; film Kali's Vibe)
August 1, 2002... QUEERS TAKING OVER YOUR TV! The conservatives must be having a field day. This year's flap about the two (yes, two!) gay television networks currently in development for cable subscribers, plus Ellen's Emmy hosting gig and the slew of gay...

How to make it in the music biz.
August 1, 2002... Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? Record producer? Songwriter? Musician? If you've always dreamed of a career in the music business, read on for great ideas on how to succeed -- whether behind the scenes or in the spotlight. ...

Rumors from the lesbian nation. (Lesbofile).
August 1, 2002... AS THE B-52'S ONCE SANG, "It's the summer of love, love, love, and I'm in love with the love, love, love." How about you? Rosie's in love and now we know with whom, but to whom is she saying, "How do you do?" Jodie's out of the Panic Room and...

Reads for road-trippers. (In the Stacks).(lesbian literature)
August 1, 2002... FINALLY BUYING MY FIRST CAR has given me a new love and appreciation for all things automotive. Drive: Women's True Stories From the Open Road (edited by Jennie Goode, Seal Press $15.95) was therefore a tantalizing read for me. Drive is a...

Simply good. (Music Watch).(4 CDs)
August 1, 2002... Copper Wimmin Etheric Bodies Reclaim Records Who needs instruments when three voices join in perfect and haunting a cappella harmony such as those of Alyx Benham, Tenaya Wallach and Sophia Mallie? Now in their mid-20s, the...

To serve and protect. (Dyke Drama).(having your ex over for dinner)
August 1, 2002... HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU HAVE YOUR ex over to dinner and still have a healthy relationship with your partner by the end of the evening? It's no use warning you against having an ex over for a meal. It's as much a part of our lesbian culture as...

The importance of lesbian desire. (Brownworth).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... DESIRE TALK TO MANY LESBIANS and a disquieting majority deny having any. Among my lesbian friends, sex is often a distant memory. One tells me sex just isn't important any longer; children and career take precedence. Another explains that...

The story behind the classic lesbian pulp. (According to).
August 1, 2002... WHEN ROCK HUDSON'S AUNT and uncle, who had cared for him as a boy, learned of his final illness, they could hardly credit the news. How could this be? Shaking their heads gloomily, they said, "but he was always such a nice young man." If...

Art project. (Photo Play).("Straight to Hell: 10 Years of Dyke Action Machine!" exhibition)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... This summer, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosted "Straight to Hell: 10 Years of Dyke Action Machine!" Since 1991, Dyke Action Machine!--the only specifically lesbian public art project in existence--has been creating...