Curve articles from November 2008

Curve archives from November 2008

Introducing Curvemag.com.(Frankly Speaking)(Editorial)
November 1, 2008... We've listened to readers for years who wanted more out of our site so we reinvented Curvemag.com to bring you more content (updated much more frequently), make the experience more interactive, build a bigger community and improve our overall...

Who will you vote for in November?*.(United States 2008 presidential elections)(Survey)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... 75% Democrat: Obama-Biden 10% Republican: McCain-Palin 6% Other: I'd rather vote for Lisa Simpson than those folks 4% Not Voting: Seriously, they're all the same 4% Green: McKinney-Clemente 1% Libertarian: Barr-Root ...

I applaud not only including.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... "I applaud not only including, but featuring, plus-size fashion. As a "larger-size" woman (read: average-size American woman!), I appreciate the information, tips and general coverage of fashion forwardness for all of us gals who are not size 8...

Lesboxploitation not cool.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... I didn't expect a thorough review of Katy Perry's album ["Editor's Pick," Vol. 18 #7], but I was surprised that you didn't mention some strong reactions caused by her song "I Kissed a Girl." Some (and I am among them) see it as...

Brownworth rocks the house and the boat.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... Hey, I really want to give kudos to sister contributing editor Victoria Brownworth for her always thoughtful, extremely challenging and often emotionally charged columns. Her discussion about again in the lesbian community ["The Politics of...

No, Thank you!(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... Nicole Vicius is so hot and Itty Bitty is my favorite film, so imagine my surprise to open my curve [Vol. 18 #7] and get a poster of Sadie, You gals are so cool. Thank you. Thank you. I have already hung my Nicole Vicius poster on my wall! ...

Gay is OK in the PC.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... I was disappointed in Alison Walkley's article, "Africa the Hard Way" [Vol. 18 #7]. I served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 2003 to 2005 in the country of Uzbekistan, in Central Asia. Initially, I too had to go back into the closet as I...

Our fashion gets a plus.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... As a body image activist I was so impressed with your September issue [Vol. 18 #7] that I felt compelled to write in and tell you about it. I struggled with bulimia for 11 years and I can tell you that so many magazines these days feed...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
November 1, 2008... In "Model Behavior" [Vol. 18 #7] the model's name is Jenice Armstead, not Armstrong. The word "lesbolicious" in the caption for "College Lesbians More Accepting of Porn" [Vol. 18 #7] refers to No Fauxxx itself, not the models. In "Hot, Hot,...

Coming out at Chicago's Pride.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... I am an 18-year-old who has just come out to very close friends. I just wanted to share these pictures of my girlfriend, Torie, and me at Chicago's Pride parade. It was the first time we could actually be in a place where we felt completely...

Editor's Note.(lesbian comedians)(Editorial)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... I have a soft spot for lesbo comics, especially our cover star, Suzanne Westenhoefer, because, like me, she was a big-haired '80s kid who got her start in queer life and entertainment around the same time. I remember first seeing her on an...

Scene.(Seimone Augustus, Reno Pride and Ann Bannon)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... 1 Seimone Augustus from the Minnesota Lynx (in white) got an Olympic send-off from Los Angeles Sparks team members (from left) DeLisha Milton-Jones, Lisa Leslie (with daughter Lauren Jolie Lockwood) and Candace Parker. Augustus, along with Team...

End of the music.(Curvatures)(Katie Reider)(Obituary)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Out lesbian singer-songwriter Katie Reider died on July 14 of complications from a rare facial tumor. She was 30 years old. Reider died en route to Beth Israel Hospital in New York City while suffering from shingles and an esophageal lesion....

What's hot: keepin' dry from head to Toe.(rainy day clothing)(Buyers guide)
November 1, 2008... Nobody's raining on this (Pride) parade: Starlets & Harlots began as an eBay store specializing in goth, rockabilly and retro clothing and accessories, but thanks to a loyal clientele it was able to expand to an independent online store. Along...

Lollipop.(Curvatures)(UrbanElle.com)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Have you seen the new website for lesbians of color, UrbanElle.com? OK, I have to admit a teeny bias: I'm the editor of the website, but that means I'm the authority on Lollipop, the raging party in San Francisco where it was launched this...

Out in front.(Sister Act, Justice for All and Gay Economics)
November 1, 2008... Sister Act At 13 years old, Terenie Faison wanted to make a difference. So, she joined Sisters in Action for Power in Portland, Ore., began working with other teens, helping to identify pressing community issues, and then turned those...

Marching to their own beat.(Curvatures)(Stormi Oshun and the Giant Ass Drum Corps)
November 1, 2008... Growing up in Wenatchee, Wash., Stormi Oshun was told all her life that girls weren't allowed to drum--that drumming was "for boys." Despite the discouraging rhetoric, Oshun pursued her passion for rhythm in hand drumming classes, and in 1999...

Teresa Testa.(Open Studio)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Teresa Testa is an elementary school art teacher who is keeping the arts alive not only in the classroom but also at home through the elegant porcelain sculptures that she creates at her Windancer Studio, in Las Vegas. "It's like the clay...

Reasonable doubt: women just keep finding ways to play coy.(Lesbofile)(Jackie Warner, Jodie Foster and blind items of gays in the rap industry)
November 1, 2008... Whether it comes to your love life or your career, when in doubt: deny, deny, deny. Villain or Victim? Even though trainer and Bravo personality Jackie Warner could definitely out-bench the average Jane, outraged viewers of her show,...

Do you know your lingo?(Lipstick & Dipstick)(lesbian language)(Column)
November 1, 2008... Dear Lipstick and Dipstick: Is there specific lingo in the lesbian community that I should know? I recently came out and want to learn all I can. This has come up for me because I signed up for a personal ad, and as part of the questionnaire...

Mixed signals.(Ask Fairy Butch)(relationships)(Column)
November 1, 2008... Dear Fairy Butch: I just recently got out of a very long relationship with my partner. During my previous relationship, I developed a friendship that seemed as though it could have been more. I have to be honest--I was very hesitant, but my...

Toxic toys: is your playtime safe?(Body)(sex toys)
November 1, 2008... You know how to cinch it, stuff it and strap it on. You know how to ask about it in the store and ask for it in bed. You are a sex toy connoisseur. But, though you know what feels good, do you know if it's safe? Cheaply made sex toys are...

Hittin' the spot.(Body)(G-Shot)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Collagen and Botox revolutionized the cosmetics industry, one smoothed-out wrinkle at a time. Now, a doctor has found a new use for collagen in, shall I say, a less public area. A new medical procedure known as G-spot amplification, or the...

Light up your life.(Body)(Gaiam.com)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Autumn's sunshine is fading fast and you might already be feeling the onset of the winter blues. But why let the changing seasons get you down in the dumps? The online natural living store Gaiam.com, has a host of lamps and light boxes meant to...

Is Open Marriage for You?(Jenny Block)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... Jenny Block recounts her personal experience with open marriage in Open: Love, Sex, & Life in an Open Marriage, and challenges readers to rethink their definition of a healthy marriage. In doing so, Block--who has a long-term female partner and...

Fall delights.(Astro Grrl)(Horoscopes)
November 1, 2008... Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Sex: Whisper sweet nothings in her ear and she will follow you anywhere... except to the dentist. Don't over-ask. Career: Money flows like water this November. Is your glass half empty or half full? ...

Ten lessons on lesbian life: surviving the queer community--in and out of bed.(Relationships)
November 1, 2008... We were once so grateful to be among the three lesbians in town that if someone got drunk and banged someone else's girlfriend, we had no choice but to get over it. We couldn't afford bonudaries, with only three of us playing musical beds. Hurt...

This feels awful. It must be love. Recognizing true love is more about knowing what it's not than knowing what it is.(Dyke Drama)(Essay)
November 1, 2008... As I sat in the back seat of a rust-and-primer-splotched Trans Am, watching a slasher flick with my date's kid sister at a drive-in movie theater in Trailer Village, Ore., I began to suspect that love had forsaken me once more. On that wretched...

Don't ask, don't tell, don't discuss; "Don't ask, don't tell" needs to be an issue this election year.(Politics)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2008... Since Sept. 11, every congressional and presidential election has been fraught with discussion about national security issues. Absent from that discourse, however, has been the status of gay men and lesbians in the military. In 1992, when...

Remembering Del Martin.(Dorothy 'Del' Martin)(In memoriam)
November 1, 2008... Dorothy (Del) Martin May 5, 1921-Aug. 27, 2008 I was in college when I first met Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon in 1974 in San Francisco. I was the student representative from my college at the founding conference of the National Women's...

The O effect; Olivia takes vacationing to a whole new level.(Olivia Lesbian Travel)(Travel narrative)
November 1, 2008... I'd heard it before, dozens of times, and it always sounded cliched, exaggerated, perhaps merely the effect of too many sundrenched days lazing on a beach somewhere slightly exotic. But weeks after I disembarked from the MS Westerdam--a...

Driven by passion; Food Network star Susan Feniger hits the streets.(FOOD&WINE.)
November 1, 2008... Getting a citation from the Los Angeles Health Department is not the traditional way to begin a career as a world-class restaurateur, but Susan Feniger has never walked a traditional path. In the 1980s, her first restaurant, City Cafe, was no...

Fantastic lesbian recipes: top chef's hot kitchen mavens share a couple of thanksgiving day delights.(FOOD&DRINK)(Lisa Fernades and Jennifer Biesty of Scala's Bistro)(Recipe)
November 1, 2008... Lisa Fernades and Jennifer Biesty, the sexy women of Bravo's Top Chef reunite to bring you holiday goodies that include spicy caramel corn and a bracingly good goat cheese and Brussels sprouts saland. So, skip the canned cranberry sauce and...

D.C.'S food warrior: ten things you must know about chef Gillian Clark.(FOOD&DRINK)(Washington District of Columbia)
November 1, 2008... Over a decade ago, equipped solely with her uncompromising conviction, chef Gillian Clark began her life anew. The divorced single mother of two fought her way through culinary school and up the ranks of the restaurant industry to become one of...

Let's drink to this: award-winning wine writer Natalie MacLean recommends the perfect sip for any occasion.
November 1, 2008... "I have to confess, much as I'm drawn to its nuances, I wouldn't be writing about wine if it weren't for the buzz," says wine writer Natalie MacLean in the introduction to her newest book, Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey...

Five wine bars for the women: Shakespeare wrote, "Good wine needs no bush. "We know better.(FOOD&DRINK)
November 1, 2008... Pabst Blue Ribbon might still be the dyke drink on tap in some cities, but just as The L Word did for lesbian fashion, a crop of women-owned wine bars are subverting our beverages of choice. We now see our sisters drinking a sauvignon bland in...

8 of our favorite girl clubs.
November 1, 2008... SUE ELLEN'S 3014 Throckmorton, Dallas, Texas You gotta love a lesbian bar named after a character from the campy '80s soap opera Dallas. Like the soap, Sue Ellen's began in the late '70s, and is known for its sexy setting and abundant...

The funniest lesbians in America.(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... We all love funny women, but when we asked you, our readers, who you thought was the funniest lesbian in America we had no idea how fervently you'd cast your digital ballots--thousands of votes for nearly 100 different women! Even after the...

She's our number one: she nearly edged out Ellen DeGeneres as America's Funniest lesbian--without a daytime talk show or an Emmy.(Suzanne Westenhoefer)(Interview)(List)
November 1, 2008... In the beginning, there was Suzanne. And she was good. And gay. And out. As one of the first openly gay comics on the mainstream stage, Suzanne Westenhoefer paved the way for queer comedians around the country. For nearly 18 years, She's been...

Still laughing after all these years; Kate Clinton looks back, ahead and sideways at a world she's helped to change through humor.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... You can't talk about lesbian comedy without showcasing its grand dame, Kate Clinton. Her stage persona is alternately sarcastic and sweet, occasionally maternal, and assuredly and unapologetically political. Clinton began performing in 1981...

Ellen through the ages: a chronicle of her rise to fame and lesbo fortune.(Ellen DeGeneres)(Biography)
November 1, 2008... From small-town Lousiana to the Funniest Lesbian in America, Ellen DeGeneres' story of fame and glory is one for the ages. We take a look back at her humble beginnings, her meteoric rise, her remarkable comeback and all the women in between....

Delicious comedy: Bridget McManus is sweet, saucy and piping hot.
November 1, 2008... "It's really difficult to be a female comedian, let alone a lesbian comedian," explains Bridger McManus when asked about the title of her blog, Comedy Double Standards. "And no one wants to laugh at a pretty girl. They figure, 'What does she...

The class clown: Dana Goldberg is comedy's new kid on the block.
November 1, 2008... Ever wondered what it'd be like trying to make 700 lesbians laugh? Just ask stand-up comic Dana Goldberg, who, six years ago at age 26, found herself on stage cracking jokes--for the first time since high school--at the Lesbians for Change...

Side-splitting Sabrina: Sabrina Matthews talks about stand-up, L.A. and groupies.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... For over 17 years, Sabrina Matthews has been inducing belly laughs in adoring lesbian fans. And what's not to love? Her self-deprecatingly brilliant act on stage is side-splitting and has brought her not only gay comedy success, but all the way...

Paging television history.(Page Hurwitz)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... We are barely seated in a wooden booth at Mo's, an industry joint in downtown Burbank, Calif., when Page Hurwitz speaks up. "It's on me," she says, eyeballing the menu in the dimly lit restaurant at 9 a.m. on a Monday. It's not that she's...

Stretching for the stars: this comic newbie is taking the high road and loving it.(Julia Stretch)
November 1, 2008... Things are finally starting to take off for comedian Julia Stretch, who is currently traveling with the Dykes of Hazard on her first official tour in the United States. Based in Vancouver, Stretch started her career just four years ago and...

Who's afraid of SNL? The gals of the Big Gay Sketch Show know how to hold their own.(Julie Goldman, Erica Ash, Nicol Paone and Kate McKinnon)(Saturday Night Live)
November 1, 2008... Julie Goldman ducks into a nearby cocktail lounge, drains a glass, tosses back an olive and ta-da! She pirouettes into the fabulously sequined Super Liza. Her showstopper of a queer-loving heroine was among the new characters who leapt into...

Even comedy is bigger in Texas; Vicki Shaw left an 18-year marriage for comedy and lesbians, not necessarily in that order.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... Vickie Shaw, mother of three and grandmother of one, was the poster girl for the traditional family--until she came out as a lesbian, ended her marriage and began performing as a stand-up comic. Shaw, who grew up in a conservative Southern...

Queen of Qomedy.(Poppy Champlin)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Poppy Champlin's comedic origins are pretty fishy. Her first gig was as a stand-up fish in the cabaret Oceanics while in college at the University of Rhode Island. "I did a fish shtick, 135 puns about the ocean: I was hooked. Kelp, kelp is...

She's one hot Tamale.(lesbian comedian Tamale)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... With a name like Tamale, it's hard to avoid the comparison. But this "hot Tamale" is more than just your average spicy little treat. She's a fashionable lesbian comedian whose performance credits also include gender bending, fire dancing and...

Here she comes, miss funny lesbian ... acceptance speeches you almost missed.(Chantal Carrere, Faith Choyce, Kristen Becker, Jennie McNulty, and Michelle Balan)(Quotation)(Brief article)(List)
November 1, 2008... #6 CHANTAL CARRERE "I feel validated and like, it's about time! Thank you, curve readers! I'm not stopping here, either. I plan on ruling the world with my humor, so stay tuned for my CD release, I'm Bringin' Funny Back!, and keep an eye...

It's feeding time.(Karen Williams' I Need a Snack)
November 1, 2008... Could somebody give Karen Williams a snack? And we're not talking about the vending machine, junk food variety. The girl needs nourishment. Audiences have been feeding off the veteran stand-up comic's rhetorical rants and clever observations...

Latin lesbian laughs: from Dinah Shore to Showtime, Sandra Valls is three L-words wrapped into one.(Interview)
November 1, 2008... Smart, sassy and Sapphic, comedian Sandra Valls has taken lesbian stand-up to a new level, performing her unique brand of laughs and guffaws to audiences straight and queer alike. One of the world's only out Latina comics, Valls is as true to...

Telling it like it is.(Offensive Women)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Offensive Women, a monthly comedy series playing in both New York City and Los Angeles, gives voice to, well, offensive women. It is comic Julie Goldman's brainchild. "About a year ago, I had a conversation with a sister comedian,...

Jane Lynch loves, loves, loves her job: the hardworking actor likes to stay busy.
November 1, 2008... NEVER DOUBT how actor Jane Lynch feels about her career. "I love it, I love it, I love it," she says, her blue eyes wide and serious. "I would do it as a hobby if I had to work somewhere else." Lynch was very young when she knew what she...

In training since childhood: Orit Schwartz has made a life in Hollywood.
November 1, 2008... VISITING OREGON in 2005, Orit Schwartz heard about the BendFilm Festival and was inspired to make a short film. A year later, that film, The Frank Anderson, premiered there. The short comedy may have been the out writer-producer's first, but...

Lady and the vamp: meet TV's hottest new star, Dirty Sexy Money's Candis Cayne, and the power lesbian behind her, Nikki Weiss.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... THERE ARE FEW TV STARS with more buzz right now than Candis Cayne, the co-star of ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, and the first openly transgender series regular on network television. Though she has a long performance history on stage, it was DSM and...

Mad about Marlee: you can't keep a good woman down.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Marlee Matlin)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... AS THE L WORD actors prep for the sixth and final season on Showtime, fans are keeping Netflix busy renting the newly released season five DVD set. For those who missed it, season five was a heart-wrenching exploration for 43-year-old Marlee...

C'mon, baby, light my fire: Jackie Warner gets everyone riled up.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... WHETHER YOU LOVE OR HATE the uber-fit self-promoter Jackie Warner, there is no denying that Work Out, her reality show on Bravo, is a hit. Though she is completely open about her life on the screen, there are still a few things we don't know...

Everybody dance now: Lori Michaels is our kind of rock star.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... SHE'S KNOWN FOR her sexy, dance troupe show Me & The Girls, who make hit, sizzling hotspots around the country, and leave swooning women in their wake. Now, Lori Michaels is breaking out on her own with a new album. Living My Life Out Loud. She...

Burning desires: twenty-five years later and we'd still totally do her.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Sharon Gless)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... LONG BEFORE SHE became an icon for gay men in her role on Queer as Folk, Sharon Gless was a "dykon. "The minute she appeared on TV screens in the 1980s as tough-talking detective Christine Cagney, in the hit series Cagney & Lacey, lesbians the...

Chaiken never chickens out: with one season left, the L Word creator reflects.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Ilene Chaiken)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... LENE CHAIKEN is one of the most powerful lesbians in Hollywood. As the creator of The L Word, she has literally changed the way lesbians are perceived in mainstream culture, so we got her to discuss the show, its impact on gay rights and...

B-B-B-bad to the bone: hello, network execs? Please fund this TV show.(ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR)(Don't Go)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... THE PILOT OF Amber Sharp's sassy serial dramedy, Don't Go, which focuses on lesbians of color in Los Angeles, has been wowing audiences and winning awards on the LGBT film festival circuit over the last year. The diverse cast, includes butch...

The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.(Television program review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (Oxygen): The Self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel" (and Sapphic dabbler) Janice Dickenson returned to Oxygen for a fourth season of the trash-tastic The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. Following the...

Whose truth? Our truth. Fresh, honest documentaries put it all on the line.(Sapphic Screen)(Seeds of Summer and Football Under Cover)(Movie review)
November 1, 2008... The Sapphic screen drips with hot, sweaty action this fall--the fearless, independent, athletic type, that is. This month's picks explore the innocence of new love and celebrate the resilience of the human spirit. Seeds of Summer / Zirei...

The Brandon Teena Story.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
November 1, 2008... The Brandon Teena Story (Docurama): The 10th anniversary collector's edition of the doc that inspired Boys Don't Cry is no less devastating, even 15 years after the crime. Why get the collector's edition? The new version includes...

Shelter Me.(motion picture)(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Shelter Me (Wolfe): Marco Simon Puccioni's character-driven melodrama opens at the Italian border as lovers Anna (Henry and June's Maria De Madeiros) and Mara (Antonia Liskova) return home from a Tunisian vacation. Searching for Mara's...

Fight Girls.(Television program review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Fight Girls (Oxygen): If you think you can take on a girl Nicole Richie's size in a brawl, you'd better make sure she doesn't know Muay Thai fighting. Fight Girls places 10 women in a Las Vegas mansion to eat, sleep and scrap in hopes of going...

Four Minutes.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Four Minutes (Wolfe): A principled 80-year-old piano teacher and a self-absorbed prodigy meet in an unlikely place: a women's prison. It's unclear whether Jenny (the devastating Hannah Herzsprung) beheaded a man or not; what is clear is that...

Najarra Townsend.(Q + A)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... Najarra Townsend isn't your typical Hollywood teenager. You won't see her in the tabloids next to Lindsay Lohan or the Olsen twins. She's just a talented young actor making a name for herself by performing in indie films like Me and You and...

Turn the beat around: these are the sounds of the season.(Music Watch)(Products of the Eighties, 3-Song Sampler, Believer and A for Effort)(Sound recording review)
November 1, 2008... Whether you prefer the nightlife in a dance club, a rock club or a folk club, queer girls are providing you with some pretty awesome soundtracks. The latest from Team Gina, Dolorata, L.P. and Jenn Lindsay are sure to be on rotation wherever you...

If Less Is More ... Nothing Is Everything, Kate McGarry.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... If Less Is More... Nothing Is Everything, Kate McGarry Upon first listen, there's something vaguely familiar yet hauntingly new about McGarry's lyrics, like "I don't mind you coming here, wasting all my time." It's not until mid-album that you...

Angie Mattson.(Q + A)(Interview)
November 1, 2008... Los Angeles musician Angie Mattson recently toured with Uh-Huh Her and released a superb record called Given to Sudden Panic and Noisy Retreat, in which she wields her potent voice against a backdrop of layered guitars, keyboards and percussion...

Red Letter Year, Ani DiFranco.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Red Letter Year, Ani DiFranco (Righteous Babe): With her new mantra, "Don't forget to have a good time," the "little folksinger" is back after a two-year studio hiatus with another album out of New Orleans, of which the Rebirth Brass...

Velocifero, Ladytron.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Velocifero, Ladytron (Nettwerk): The co-ed electronic rock band from Liverpool triumph again with their fourth full-length disc, featuring 13 distortion-filled tracks of mind-numbing synths, guitars and beats. (ladytron.com)

Tango, Sonia & Disappear Fear.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Tango, Sonia & Disappear Fear (self-released): Putting a global spin on songs old and new, longtime lesbian favorite Sonia Rutstein sings in Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and English on this recent 13-track album of spirit-soaring world-pop....

The Cole Porter Mix, Patricia Barber.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... The Cole Porter Mix, Patricia Barber (Blue Note): Out-dyke jazz genius Patricia Barber offers an innovative take on several Cole Porter classics and a few original cuts in the Cole Porter classics and a few original cuts in the Cole Porter...

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Legacy Edition, Sarah McLachlan.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: Legacy Edition, Sarah McLachlan (Legacy): This delux two CD and DVD package combines all three Fumbling-era projects together and includes the original Grammy-nominated studio album (1993), the acoustic demo album The...

Love Is Dead, Kerli.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Love Is Dead, Kerli (Island): I don't really want to like this Estonian, Eurovision Song Contest-winning Bjork-alike, but I just can't help it. With her creepy, goth-friendly image and catchy electronic-tinged pop, which is both radio-friendly...

Church Bell Blues, Catherine MacLellan.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Church Bell Blues, Catherine MacLellan (True North): Hailing from Prince Edward Island, this young singer-songwriter, the daughter of Canadian music legend Gene MacLellan, offers up a gorgeous 12-track set of stunning folk and country with...

QUEER GIRLS IN PHOTOS.(Heroines and The Best of Helmut Newton: Selections From His Photographic Work)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Turns out, you don't have to be a lesbian to capture the breathtaking essense of women who are. Case in point: Heroines from Bettina Rheims, who first made a name for herself photographing strippers in the 1980s. In Heroines, she photographs...

Letters in the Attic, Bonnie Shimko.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Letters in the Attic, Bonnie Shimko (Academy Chicago Publishers): What a wonderfully crafted and lyrically told coming of age story. Bonnie Shimko so eloquently describes Lizzy McMann's navigation through adolescence, her crush on her best...

Selective Memory, Jennifer L. Jordan.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Selective Memory, Jennifer L. Jordan (Spinsters Ink): In the sixth Kristin Ashe mystery, a 2007 Lammy finalist, the author's storytelling is the most complex, intriguing and meticulous to date. Private investigator Ashe is hired to help...

Every Dark Desire, Fiona Zedde.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Every Dark Desire, Fiona Zedde (Kensington Books): I have enjoyed all of Zedde's books, but her third and newest novel is her most daring and bold. Vampire stories are highly popular in mainstream fiction and are becoming more so in lesbian...