Curve articles from February 2002

Curve archives from February 2002

Open highways.(frankly speaking)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Jump in your Subaru Forester wagon and head for the hills! With more than 50 great road-tripping getaways, this issue of CURVE has something for everyone. Our tours start in five hub cities, and then spread out across the country. Start from...

All in the answer.(letters)
February 1, 2002... I just read Michele Fisher's Dyke Drama column ("Hard Answers to Easy Questions") in the November (Vol. 11, #7) issue of CURVE and give a hearty thanks! It is obvious she understands the plight of these women and "gets it." I'm the dyke...

Bland as folk.(letters)
February 1, 2002... My friends and I get together now and then for a dose of Queer as Folk and some Thai food. I enjoy the show, and it fits the bill as far as light entertainment goes. I have to say, however, that I have major misgivings about it as a piece of...

Word from the south.(letters)
February 1, 2002... I am currently a freshman at the University of South Carolina at Aiken. I am here on an athletic scholarship all the way from Seattle. Yes, I miss my beautiful and understanding Pacific Northwest, but I am being opened to so many beautiful...

But how will it affect the kids?(letters)
February 1, 2002... As an expectant mother, my interest was piqued by Michelle Hinebrook's "All in the Queer Family" (Vol. 11, #7). I have often wondered whether my children will turn out gay or straight. It's interesting to learn that many queer kids have a...

The girl gives good word.(letters)
February 1, 2002... I first saw Alix Olson at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, inspired by her fast-paced lyrics on inclusivity, gender, racism and classism. I've been looking for her ever since. Needless to say, I appreciate the space you gave her and Amy...

Cool products.(letters)
February 1, 2002... Thanks for including products from Queen Bee Creations in your gift guide this year (Vol. 11, #7). They're a cool women-owned company and deserve to get some props--and their products rock! I wish you all at CURVE a happy holiday and new year....

Correction.
February 1, 2002... In our November 2001 (Vol. 11, #7) issue, we mistakenly reported in our holiday gift guide that the product Happy Cozy Heart by the Happy Company[TM] retails for $45. The actual price of the Happy Cozy Heart is a mere $15. For more information...

A fighting chance.(Out in Front)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... "A cancer diagnosis is experienced by almost everybody I've ever talked to as a death sentence, at first," says Nancy Lanoue, a 13-year breast-cancer survivor. "Then you sort of start to breathe and start being able to listen to what the...

Ask Fairy Butch.(curvatures)
February 1, 2002... Dear Fairy Butch: I've had a problem ever since the tragedies of September 11: I'm having difficulties having sex with my girlfriend. I guess with all the worries about terrorism and anthrax and airplane travel, not to mention the war itself,...

Shakespeare's hidden lesbians?(curvatures)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2002... SHOULD LIZ HAVE PLAYED IT GAY in the 1963 film Cleopatra? Dr. Theodora Jankowski, a former professor of English literature at the University of Washington, claims Shakespeare viewed the queen of the Nile as a Sapphic heroine--a concept that...

Hey! Baby.(curvatures)
February 1, 2002... What is Radical Cheerleaders? How did the group get started? Radical Cheerleading is performance art plus activism--it's a direct-action kick in the ass. We like to take the idea of the cheerleader, which is a very gender-specific construction...

Out on the Web.(curvatures)
February 1, 2002... ARE YOU DREAMING OF ESCAPING the winter doldrums? Girlfriends all over the country will soon be sending for brochures, contacting travel agencies, getting friends' advice and bickering about where they will spend their summer vacation. But...

Love through the signs.(horoscopes)
February 1, 2002... JANUARY SETS THE TREND for 2002 on the 4th, when an irresistible seductress woos you. Just say, "Yes!" Late on the 13th, an Aquarius new moon sends you off to beddy-bye, where eerily predictive dreams may give you a sneak preview of your...

Independent views.(sapphic screen)(Movie Review)
February 1, 2002... DESI'S LOOKING FOR A NEW GIRL (One of 9 Cubanitos) www.oneof9films.com Desi's Looking for a New Girl is Mary Guzman's six-years-in-the-making homage to young Latina lesbians. Desi (played by Desi del Valle) is an adorable urban girl...

Barbara Hammer.(Q & A)(Interview)
February 1, 2002... PROLIFIC FILMMAKER Barbara Hammer recently screened History Lessons (First Run Features), an experimental documentary that reframes lesbian-themed footage from the late 1800s through the Stonewall era. In this film, as well as in other film and...

Hitting 40 love: Martina Navratilova passes 40, finds "till death do us part" love, and makes a million bucks for dyke charities.(Interview)
February 1, 2002... SPORTS FANS KNOW MARTINA NAVRATILOVA FOR HER 25 YEARS of grinding tennis play. She holds the women's all-time record for singles championships. In the mid-1980s, she was the top ranking female tennis player for all but a few weeks. She...

The road less traveled.
February 1, 2002... Ready for a weekend getaway? A ROAD TRIP IS ALWAYS WITHIN REACH, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR BUDGET OR WHERE YOU LIVE. AND IF YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN IT ALL, CHECK OUT OUR BIG, BIG LIST OF MORE THAN 50 GREAT PLACES TO SEE AND FUN THINGS TO DO, ALL WITHIN...

Rumors from the lesbian nation.(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The updated Swept Away co-stars Jeanne Tripplehorn, whom you might remember as the police psychiatrist on Sharon Stone's tail--I mean trail--in Basic Instinct. Sources close to the project say down time on the set has been spent making up...

Madonna rides again.(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... After countless mechanical bull rides onstage during her Drowned World tour, Madonna, suffering from abdominal pains, reportedly drove herself to a local hospital for treatment, but didn't stay long. Less than two years since she gave birth to...

Hilary Swank straps it on.(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In a time of celebrating heroes, let's hear it for that dashing Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry). People magazine reports that Hilary was visiting the Humane Society in midtown Manhattan when she heard calls coming in about dogs and cats trapped...

Coming to theater near you.(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Orange County -- Lily Tomlin is the light in this comedy, in which a guidance counselor mistakenly sends the wrong transcripts for an overachieving high-schooler to Stanford University. (Release date: January 1, 2002) The Panic Room --...

90210 girls get sweaty.(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Walking every step of the Los Angeles Avon 3-Day was the smarty-pants do-gooder Andrea Zuckerman from Beverly Hills 90210, Gabrielie Carteris (who celebrates a birthday on January 2--happy 'birthday!). Carteris sweat it out with a smile on her...

Free Paula!(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Did anyone notice Paula Poundstone is a free woman? Well, she's cleared of the alleged acts of lewd conduct and she will be free in a few more weeks when she completes 180 days in a live-in alcohol-treatment program. Prosecutors dropped charges...

Crow lady sings the blues.(lesbofile)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Faith Hill, Alicia Keys, the Dixie Chicks and others took the stage on America: A Tribute to Heroes; Heather Locklear gave blood; and Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock joined Rosle O'Donnell in the seven-figure club donating to 9-11 charities....

When will we matter?
February 1, 2002... IT IS 2002, A FEW MONTHS AGO many of us wondered if we would ever see a new year. September 11, 2001, changed America and Americans forever. Irrevocably. The murders of thousands at the hands of terrorists and the ensuing months of...

Queer USA.(in the stacks)
February 1, 2002... WHATEVER ELSE IS HAPPENING IN these crazy times, you can be sure that at least there will still be new books to read. While everyone else is catching up on their reading on Islam, how about briefing yourself on the state of the queer United...

Rita Mae Brown.(Q&A)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2002... RITA MAE BROWN WROTE THE BOOK ON GROWING UP lesbian in the South with her 1973 dyke classic, Rubyfruit Jungle. Now 57, Brown continues to explore sexual awakenings in her latest book, Alma Mater (Ballantine $24). Set in Virginia in 1980, the...

Resolutions and delusions.(dyke drama)
February 1, 2002... I GUESS WORLD PEACE would be a stretch this year, but I will do my part. This year, my head is full of more noble and lofty goals than in years past, when my list of resolutions started with either "Quit smoking" or "Lose the weight I gained...

Raw and real.(music watch)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2002... India.arie Acoustic Soul Motown Music www.indiaarie.com Here's what you get: acoustic soul rhythms not unlike the Fugees, yet taken down a few beats. But don't be misled; there is still plenty of plugged-in here. ...

Bitch and animal.(Q&A)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2002... BITCH AND ANIMAL NEVER REVEAL their real names, but they just might reveal their breasts. On their second album, Eternally Hard (Righteous Babe), the duo pay homage to the "Sparkly Queen Areola," glorify the dildo, and continue their campaign...

When I die ... I'll have my tongue made into a girls bicycle seat.(In Memoriam)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Author, cartoonist and CURVE contributor Kris Kovick died on October 26, 2001, in San Francisco after an eight-year struggle with breast cancer. The first woman to enter the printing trade in the Pacific Northwest, Kovick worked as an etcher...