Curve articles from August 2003

Curve archives from August 2003

Women who rock!
August 1, 2003... "Sign for these," the FedEx driver says as she hands me six overnight packages, each filled with new release CDs. By late spring, the shipments are arriving daily as publicists vie to position their artists in CURVE. Sometimes, we're...

High-flying objects. (Out in Front).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Out choreographer Elizabeth Streb (in black) has lofty goals for the dancers who will take part in the Wolf Trap National Park's Face of America performance on September 6. She wants them to fly -- at least for a short while. Streb, the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2003... Go Kings Thank you so much for your cover story about the drag kingdom (Vol. 13, #3)! Go Mo! I recently placed second in my first drag competition (Ultra Events' She King Contest in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), which was hosted by none other...

Special by choice. (Ask Fairy Butch).
August 1, 2003... Dear Fairy Butch: I've been with my girlfriend for over a year now. We live together and things are pretty good. There's one major problem, though. She's 40 years old and hasn't told her family she's gay. She's very close to her family and...

The Spirit Study. (Curvatures).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... ONE OF THE TOP ORGANIZATIONS for lesbian health, the Mautner Project, has recently announced a groundbreaking new project: the Women 2 Women Spirit Study, a critical health study of bisexual and lesbian women of African descent. Led by...

Hey! Baby. (Curvatures).(Interview)
August 1, 2003... Tiffini "Tiffbop" Gorman, 21, is a self-described "white-trash, working-class lesbo sex worker" living in Yellow Springs, Ohio. How people define their class background often depends upon a myriad of outside factors: their upbringing, how...

Save the date! (Curvatures).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Official CURVE events to add to your summer calendar: * Central Pennsylvania PrideFest, July 26 * Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, August 12-17 * Whistler Resort Adventure Summer Camp, July 28-August 3 (win your free trip online at...

Truth and consequences. (Curvatures).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Silence Won't Protect You The Puerto Rico supreme court has stripped protections for gay men and lesbians from the U.S. territory's domestic-violence laws, arguing that abuse protections are designed to strengthen the heterosexual family....

Express yourself. (Out on the Web).
August 1, 2003... SUMMER LOVING CAN TAKE MANY forms. Use the extra daylight hours, warmer weather and relaxed environs to nurture and share a passion of your very own. Virtual Mutiny www.subvertise.org Art matters, but political art -- particularly...

Long, hot summer nights. (Horoscope).
August 1, 2003... VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Prepare yourself for the most sensational, sultry summer of your life! It's fortunate that you're versatile, Virgo - your flexibility will come into play. If you're partnered, it's time to plan some beach-blanket bingo!...

The new camp classics. (Sapphic Screen).(Video Recording Review)(Movie Review)
August 1, 2003... YOU COULD TRUDGE TO THE CINEMALL this summer to see JLo's lesbo take in Tough Love or to find out if dykes appear at all in Legally Blonde 2 and Terminator 3. Certainly you should rent August's must-own DVD, Chicago, to hail Queen Latifah's...

Steak house. (Q&A).(Interview)
August 1, 2003... Mark my words: By Hook or By Crook the refreshingly complex road flick about two butches who try navigate the world around them -- has forever changed the landscape of lesbian cinema. That's great news for lesbian producer Steak House, who is...

Manchester: Britain's unruly gay mecca gets serious about its party scene.
August 1, 2003... I'M TEETERING ON THE EDGE OF a black parapet as Heidi, a musician, tells me how she met her girlfriend. The music in here is as thick as the smoke; I occasionally shrug to signal I can't hear a word and she leans in to shout in my ear. Between...

The best songs of summer: new grooves, fresh faces, old friends.(Interview)
August 1, 2003... Rip, mix, burn. The memories we hold closest to our hearts are the ones in which that song, that band, that concert, that sound becomes inextricably linked to that girl, that night, that first kiss, that summer, that heartache and that time we...

Girls rock in a guy's world.(Interview)
August 1, 2003... Naughty-girl foursome the Donnas have "made it" by all industry standards -- already five albums strong, the girls have gone from indie-label stardom to being the hardcore darlings of Atlantic Records. Their appearances on MTV and Saturday...

Summer lovin'. (Lesbofile).
August 1, 2003... BABYGIRL, COME RIGHT OVER HERE and sit by Miss Georgia awhile. Folks been talking -- and you know how folks do talk. I've got two big ears, so I know what they're saying. No, sweetness, they ain't been talking about you! You're safe sitting...

Quote unquote. (Lesbofile).
August 1, 2003... "There is a certain mold that you are supposed to fit if you are to succeed or be loved in Hollywood, but I know it will never be that way for me. It could if I wanted it to, because it is easy to lose weight -- starve yourself or work out or...

Lover's Speak. (Music Watch).(Sound Recording Review)
August 1, 2003... Joan Armatrading Devon Records Before indie music, there were the folksy powers of Armatrading. Having tucked 17 albums tightly away, Armatrading brings forth Lovers' Speak after an eight-year hiatus. This collection of 14 emotive...

One Heart. (Music Watch).(Sound Recording Review)
August 1, 2003... Celine Dion Epic Records We thought it necessary to review Diva Dion before she officially rakes over Vegas (it's not if, but when). We predict mayordom. Not even "the Chairman" had a multi-acre wing built onto the Sands and called it...

Compilation. (Music Watch).(Queerstock Queer Soup)(Sound Recording Review)
August 1, 2003... Queerstock Queer Soup HD Records Queerstock began as a rebellion against rebellion. Queerstock's mission is to support the belief that in order to be truly free, one must liberate from "the movement." In 1995, a Philly park was...

The Essential Heart. (Music Watch).(Sound Recording Review)
August 1, 2003... Heart Epic/Capitol Records Why is "Crazy on You" such a lesbian song? Because Ann and Nancy Wilson are totally hot! Heart was the female rocker duo of their era. And though it's been neatly 30 years since the song sat firmly in the...

Rachael Sage. (Q&A).(Interview)
August 1, 2003... DIY musician and self-proclaimed city girl Rachael Sage is busy these days. In addition to writing and releasing her critically acclaimed songs on her own label, MPress Records, the New York City resident is also a painter, a designer and an...

Dirty secrets about coming clean. (Dyke Drama).
August 1, 2003... I WROTE MY FIRST COLUMN ABOUT kicking the nicotine habit in 1994. That was the first time I gave up smoking. I was so proud. I wanted to share my good news with the world, to inspire other lesbians. to free themselves of the bonds of...

Catwoman: The Life and Times of a Feline Fatale. (In The Stacks).(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Suzan Colon, Ed. Chronicle Books $1 8.95 One of the sleekest, sexiest villains of all time, Catwoman has been dismally overlooked in the current superhero revival until now. Originally created in the 1 940s as Batman's nemesis and love...

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx. (In The Stacks).(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Scribner $25 For more than 10 years from the late 1980s through 2001, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc closely followed the members of a Puerto Rican community in a poor area of the Bronx in New York. Written with a clear...

Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor. (In The Stacks).(Book Review)
August 1, 2003... Harlyn Aizley Alyson $14.95 Didn't I predict a year or so ago that the gay baby book boom would continue to bloom? This memoir, written by "nice Jewish girl" Aizley, will prove big comfort for any dyke trying to get pregnant, and...

Sing your mind. (Brownworth).
August 1, 2003... AS CURVE GOES TO PRESS, CONFLICT still rages in Iraq. The war may have ended by the time this issue reaches you, but even if that has happened, wars in the Middle East, Congo, Chechnya and Sierra Leone will not have ended; tensions will persist...