Curve articles from February 2001

Curve archives from February 2001

THAWING THE FREEZE.
February 1, 2001... If you're like me, you're tired of the cold chill of winter and you've begun to think about vacationing somewhere sunny. For the past several years, we've been publishing our travel special issue in January. While the cold winds blow all around...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2001... WHAT'S THE BUZZ? As I read "Butch Buzzwords" (Vol. 10, #6), a thought crossed my mind: "Someone understands what I have had to go through."... On June 13, 2000, my exsister-in-law made me so ticked off, I asked my girlfriend where...

Ask Fairy Butch.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Hard-Up Hard Andro DEAR FAIRY BUTCH: I'm a hard andro who's just looking for some borderline/soft andro to spend my life with. I'm not overly intense, just prefer my gas-mask bag to a purse and prefer my sandals to shoes. And while makeup...

Cross-Dress for Success.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... THERE COMES A TIME IN EVERY woman's life when she knows what she wants, and will do anything to get it. Long before gender studies was a twinkle in Judith Butler's eye, some women seized opportunities they might have been denied as women by...

HEY! BABY.(Interview)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Sherisse Alvarez, 19 is a writer working on her first memoir. She lives in Union City, NJ. Your memoir is not in traditional autobiographical form, but is told through a collection of short stories. What made you decide to write it in the...

Out on the Web.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... National Center for Lesbian Rights www.NCLRights.org So you say you're still looking for a political fix after our binging for weeks on end on the presidential race? First step, try the National Center for Lesbian Rights...

TWO GIRLS AND A BABY.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (part of the compilation video Short Shorts) www.PictureThisHomeVideo.com This 24-minute Australian film follows Catherine and Liz as they decide to have a baby. Catherine searches for sperm, Liz struggles with telling her family --...

COSTA BRAVA.(Review)
February 1, 2001... www.electralux.com/costabrava In this 1994 English-language Spanish film, director/actress Marta Balletbo-Coll plays Anna, a Barcelona tour guide working on a monologue in which she's a Communist housewife with a lesbian neighbor who...

CELESTIAL CLOCKWORK.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Mecanicas Celestes) Director Fina Torres has said that her 1995 French film is symbolic of the Cinderella story every woman experiences (will the glass slipper fit?), but for most dykes it's a light-hearted and fun fable of love and...

FRENCH TWIST.(Josiane Balasko )(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Gazon Maudit) www.miramax.com Josiane Balasko directed and starred as Marijo in this 1995 comedy, which much to the chagrin of some folks became France's foreign-film Oscar entry that year. Burchy Marijo's car breaks down near the...

STAGE DOOR.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Hu-Du-Men) In this touching and brilliant 1996 Hong Kong film, Lang Kim-sum is a popular female Cantonese opera star who plays male characters on stage. As she is about to retire, she faces unexpected turmoil in her personal and...

MODERN ROMANCE.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Lian Ai De Tian Kong) How modern can love get, asks the tagline of this 1994 Cantonese anthology. With that, the film sets out to look at women's sexuality in 1990s Hong Kong. It introduces us to a superstitious young woman who will marry...

WOMEN FLOWERS.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Nuren Hua) If the Georgia O'Keefish title isn't a dead giveaway, the setup is. This 1994 flick revolves around the "Comb Sisters," a group of women working in the silk mills of Southern China circa 1900 who vow never to marry. Their...

FOUR FACES OF EVE.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Si Mian Xia Wa) If you loved Eyes Wide Shut then you'll probably enjoy this 1996 Kubrickesque film. It offers up vignettes about a forlorn sex worker who stalks her shrink, a wife who bonds with her husband's mistress, a woman who chucks...

KIDS FROM SHAOLIN.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Shao Lin xiao zi) Okay, admittedly, this is hardly art-house fare. This 1980s Hong Kong actioner pits two rivaling families (one with boys who practice Shaolin kung fu and another with daughters who practice the Wu-Tang swordery). Papa of...

SWEDEN HEAVEN AND HELL.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso) The Italians made this 1968 documentary after several countries were encouraged by the Swedish government to make a film about what they love about Sweden. Edmund Purdom narrates the documentary, which shows,...

ANOTHER WAY.(Review)
February 1, 2001... (Egymasra Nezve) A breathtakingly brave lesbian love story, in 1982 Another Way became the first Eastern European film to address lesbian and gay issues. Director Karoly Makk's film focuses on two women reporters who fall in love in...

Love Through the Signs.
February 1, 2001... GET READY TO SHED AN OLD SKIN as we enter the Year of the Metal Snake in January. Romance is coiled, ready to strike. On the 3rd, seductive Venus slips into Piscean silk lingerie. Mysterious lunar forces ripen to their fullest in Cancer on the...

FEAR OF A BLACK LESBIAN PLANET.
February 1, 2001... WHY YOUNG BLACK WOMEN FEEL MORE EXCLUDED NOW FROM LESBIAN COMMUNITY THAN EVER BEFORE IT'S THE BIG PINK ELEPHANT in the middle of the room. Everyone knows it's there -- and we quietly tiptoe around it, afraid that even acknowledging its...

SISTER OUTSIDER REVISITED.
February 1, 2001... IN HER BOOK SISTER OUTSIDER, AUDRE Lorde virites: "Being an open lesbian in the Black community is not easy, although being closeted is harder." As a 35-year-old, middleclass, Black lesbian feminist, and a member of an interracial couple,...

Road Rules.
February 1, 2001... LESBIAN COMEDIANS SHARE THEIR BEST BETS FOR THE OPEN HIGHWAY Delayed flights. Dingy, cramped hotel rooms. Desperate mad dashes for late-night dinners. There's nothing funny about spending night after night on the road. Whether you travel...

Dark angel, bright star.
February 1, 2001... Dark Angel fans know Valarie Rae Miller as the streetwise Original Cindy, the loyal friend and sidekick to Max (Jessica Alba), the genetically enhanced tough-but-tender warrior woman who's kicking ass Tuesday nights on Fox TV. Miller's role, it...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation.
February 1, 2001... COWBOYS AND ROSIE ARE ON THE LIST Almost Famous' Kate Hudson, Goldie Hawn's 21-year-old daughter, recently appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show to support her latest film, Dr. T and the Women, but Rosie got a little too close for Kate's...

LESSONS OF THE GAY HOOKUP IN HOLLYWOOD.
February 1, 2001... Moving to Los Angeles from Washington, D.C., by myself to start a new career was a daunting proposition. I was pursuing a competitive vocation in a place already teeming with aspiring filmmakers, and I was heading to a town where I hardly knew...

ON A COLD WINTER'S NIGHT.(Review)
February 1, 2001... IF YOU DIDN'T GET WHAT YOU asked for during the holidays, console yourself now with the gift of art. Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, by Harmony Hammond (Rizzoli $55), includes gals like Catherine Opie, Nicole Eisenman, and...

Don't Leave Town Without It.
February 1, 2001... WHEN THE FOLKS AT CURVE TOLD ME THIS ISSUE WAS going to have a travel theme, it was like a bent, serrated butter knife through my heart. I have always wanted to see the world, but I have barely seen even my corner of it. Since I am under no...

Laurie Anderson.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology Rhino Records WHAT A TREASURE, SPANNING 20 years of experimental sounds and lyrics created by a somewhat unknown genius. But beware: You either get Laurie Anderson, or you don't. Like when your...

Chante Moore.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Exposed MCA MORE SWEET THAN SALT IN HER past, Chante Moore has chosen to shake it up on her fourth release, Exposed, by inviting provocative rapper Da Brat to do her stuff on riff "Take Care of Me." The combination of Moore's lulling...

Llewellyn.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Moonlore New World Music www.newworldmusic.com IRISH WHISTLES, GUITARS, PIANO, flutes and Celtic skin drums melded with keyboard textures on Moonlore combine Old and New World vibrations. And for those who practice goddess...

Madonna.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Music Warner Bros. AH, THE MANY FACES OF MADONNA. Now she's gone ghetto chic on this latest CD with furs, champagne and jewels as she pimps along via limousine in the video for the lead track and album's title, "Music." And then there...

Adding Heart to Valentine's Day.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... THE QUINTESSENTIAL WOMEN'S holiday, Valentine's Day is gilded with cards, flowers, candy, jewelry, champagne, can dlelit dinners -- the accoutrements of love and romance. Women are primed for love and romance, schooled by society and our...