The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from July 2008

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from July 2008

This is our moment. Are you in?(FROM THE EDITOR)(California Supreme Court desicion in favor of LGBT people )(Editorial)
July 1, 2008... "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE DECISION CAME DOWN?" Years from now we may be carbon-dating ourselves with that question, just as we used to ask "Where were you on the night of the Stonewall rebellion?" That's how big this...

City girl.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... Thank you for a great birthday present with the beautiful Kim Cattrall cover [May 20]! I have loved her since Mannequin (go ahead and giggle, but you know you love it!), and she deserves every penny as much as Sarah Jessica for her role as...

The man show.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... In my opinion, Austin Bunn's profile of novelist Chuck Palahniuk ["Open Book," May 20] is one of the finest profiles The Advocate has ever published. While the bitchy, facile response to Palahniuk's mid-interview cold feet about coming out in...

The Advocate poll.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Did Thomas Beatie's going public with his pregnancy hurt the transgender movement? Yes 34% No 51% Unsure 15% How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the May 20 issue of The Advocate "I don't...

Trans visibility.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... So Margaret Somerville, Cathy Renna, et al are concerned that the publicity surrounding Thomas Beatie's baby will harm the child ["Transpositions," May 20]? Are they equally concerned about the publicity surrounding Suri Cruise and the...

Love counts.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... I found "Marrying With Money" [May 20] quite interesting, particularly the notion that legislators and business leaders still need convincing about the monetary benefits of same-sex marriage equality. As New York City's comptroller, I am...

The color of money.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... I have a couple of concerns about your article "Digging for Dollars" [May 20]. Foremost, while the David Geffen Foundation definitely funds LGBT programs and services, it is not an LGBT-specific foundation. Had the author consulted us, it would...

Correction.(FEEDBACK)(Correction notice)
July 1, 2008... In our June 17 story "The Believers," Wayne Besen was incorrectly identified as an ex-ex-gay. The out executive director of Truth Wins Out, a watchdog group that monitors the actions of the "ex-gay" movement in the United States, has never...

Out on the street.(FEEDBACK)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Hong Kong: "What do you think about China's hosting the Olympics?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abigail Lee, 35 regional manager "It's a major milestone. China has been trying to open up for a...

Art's quiet lion.(Robert Rauschenberg)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Andy Warhol asked a friend, filmmaker Emile de Antonio, why artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns didn't like him, De Antonio told him he was "too swish, and that upsets them." Rauschenberg, who died...

Will scandal sink NYC's top lesbian?(Forward)(Christine Quinn)
July 1, 2008... NEW YORK'S LGBT political leaders are holding their breath as Christine Quinn--city council speaker since 2006--has become mired in an ugly slush fund scandal. It tarnishes a lesbian many considered a formidable Democratic contender for mayor...

Know your faults.(DOSSIER)(earthquakes)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... THE MAY EARTHQUAKE in China's Sichuan Province has left tens of thousands dead. California Institute of Technology seismologist Kate Hutton, one of the nation's foremost authorities on geologic forces, has advice for her fellow gays residing in...

A kiss after dying.(Forward)(remembrance for gay victims of Third Reich )(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Germany's newest memorial to the gay victims of the Third Reich was unveiled in Berlin's Tiergarten on May 27. Unlike the commemorative statue in Frankfurt or the remembrance plaque in Cologne, Denkmal fur die im...

Gays, straights, and divorce.(Forward)(spouses announce they're gay and want divorce)
July 1, 2008... AS THE NEVER-ENDING PUBLIC slugfest between former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey and ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey demonstrates, the dissolution of a marriage is hard--harder still when the separation involves a coming-out. The anger...

By the numbers: follow the leader.(Forward)(Chronology)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The saying "As goes California, so goes the nation" may soon ring true again since the Golden State's supreme court ruled marriage equality is a constitutional right. California has long had the most emulated state supreme court. Here are some...

Sam Adams.(ELECTED)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sam Adams, 44, as the first openly gay mayor of Portland, Ore., which becomes the largest city in America to have an LGBT leader. Adams, formerly a Portland city commissioner, trounced main opponent Sho Dozono with...

Died.(Transitions)(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Larry McKeon, 63, illinois's first openly gay state legislator, of a stroke, May 13, in Springfield. A onetime police officer in Southern California, McKeon moved to Chicago in the 1980s and was elected to the state house of representatives in...

Rants & raves.(Forward)
July 1, 2008... "Let's go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the Right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful." --John Cusack on his hero,...

Datebook 06.17-07.01.(Forward)(Brief article)(Calendar)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JUNE 18-22 The international Gay and Lesbian Aquatics 2008 Championships splashes down at the District of Columbia Aquatics Club. Synchronized swimming, the best sport ever, will be featured. IGLA2008.ORG ...

Wagon Ho: Gaywheels.com's Zach Taylor left his baggage behind to test the 2009 Audi A4 Avant--but he didn't need to.(FAST LANE)(Product/service evaluation)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2009 AUDI A4 AVANT RETAIL PRICE (MSRP) $28,000-$38,000 STANDARD ENGINE 2.0-LTR. TFSI 4-CYL. HORSEPOWER 211 @ 1,500-4,200 RPM TORQUE (LB-FT) 258 @ 1,500-4,200 RPM FUEL ECONOMY (MPG) NOT YET...

Indulge your inner ironman.(FAST LANE)(sporting goods)(Buyers guide)
July 1, 2008... YOU DON'T NEED TO BE an Olympic triathlete to totally geek out on the high-tech sports and fitness gear on the market today. With things like high-tech aqua gyms, shockproof cell phones, and fancy hydration pills, there's bound to be a sporty...

Love! Valour! Commerce! The California marriage equality victory means big bucks for the state economy--and good news for the budget crisis there. But as Jen Christensen finds out, businesses around the country are raking it in too.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ruled in favor of marriage equality, wedding bells went off in many people's heads. But many others heard the sound of the cash register or the credit card machine as they...

Reversal of fortune: when Evan Fallenberg, a U.S.-born writer and translator living in Israel, split up with the mother of his children to live with the man in his life, he hadn't bargained on finding himself in a new role: wife.(FIRST PERSON)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I WAS A HUSBAND FOR NEARLY 19 YEARS. Then suddenly two Septembers ago I became a wife. No, it wasn't a sex-change operation; I'm perfectly happy with my penis and have no need for breasts. The change was that my...

His day in court: National Center for Lesbian Rights legal counsel Shannon Price Minter reflects on making the case for marriage equality before the California supreme court.(Column)
July 1, 2008... THE DAY OF ORAL ARGUMENTS, I climbed the marble steps of the California supreme court with an unwavering conviction that the court would understand it held dreams and dignity of the entire LGBT community in its hands. I had appeared before the...

Alanis Morissette.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(Interview)
July 1, 2008... For purely selfish and superficial reasons, we took Alanis Morissette's split last year from longtime fiance Ryan Reynolds especially hard--that is, until we remembered how well she's been turning personal pain into bittersweet beauty since her...

Marriage: the bliss & the battle: when California's supreme court cleared the way for marriage equality, our world changed. How will we keep our enemies from changing it back? An Advocate special report.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SUMMER OF LOVE WINTER OF STRUGGLE Even as we celebrate our new right to marry in California, our opponents are preparing to give us the fight of our lives at the ballot box in November. Sue Rochman sizes up the...

The other 48: if California indeed sets the pace in this marriage equality marathon, which states will be the next to cross the finish line?
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS GAY ACTIVISTS CELEBRATE MAY'S California supreme court victory (and prepare for the next battle in November), they're also anticipating the next states to follow in the Golden State's footsteps. Gary Buseck,...

Going to the chapel--again.(MORE ON ADVOCATE.COM)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A look at four same-sex couples who took the plunge in San Francisco in 2004 (including the city's first same-sex spouses Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, at left) and why they can't wait to walk down the aisle again.

Justice for all.(MORE ON ADVOCATE.COM)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... On May 15, the California supreme court ruled 4-3 in favor of lifting the ban on gay marriage. Meet the men and women who are forever linked to the day marriage took another step toward equality.

Your friends and enemies.(MORE ON ADVOCATE.COM)(gay rights activists)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The way we see it, there couldn't be a better time to become an activist. So we're going to make it really easy for you. Just check out our list of friends and foes and use the handy contact information provided to give them each their due.

California marriage primer: everything you ever wanted to know about gay marriage in the Golden State.
July 1, 2008... NOBODY EVER SAID marriage was easy, and in the wake of the California supreme court's decision to legalize gay marriage, there arises a host of new legal questions. We went to Lambda Legal director Jon Davidson and found out some surprising...

Roller derby queens: short skirts, fishnets, and full contact. Inside the lesbian underground of the Los Angeles Derby Dolls.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My first time watching roller derby comes on May 3 in a Los Angeles warehouse packed full of beer-drinking rockabilly kids and dykes of all stripes. Tattooed girls with tree-trunk thighs fly around a dangerously...

Relax--it's just TV: this summer brings a slate of new reality shows featuring gay participants, but forget about positive representations. As Choire Sicha finds out, it's all about the crazies, and in the end, that's the real progress.(Spectator)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BACK IN THE 1980S AND EARLY '90s, gay people used to talk a lot about "representation" in the media. Depictions of gay people were considered "good" (employed; adopting children) or "bad" (murdering; slutty). The Gay...

These American lives: the long-awaited small-screen edition of Del Shores's classic comedy about the rural South, Sordid Lives, comes to Logo this summer. Shores gives us a first look at what to expect from his cast of characters.(SPECTATOR)
July 1, 2008... Peggy (Rue McClanahan) The good Christian matriarch of the Ingram clan who is introduced to the wild side of life by ex-con Bitsy Mae. So what do you do when you fail in love with your daughter's best friend's legless husband and have...

The first cut is the deepest: born in the wrong body? This femme fatale can relate--in a whole new way.('Quid Pro Quo' and 'The Wackness')(Movie review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] QUID PRO QUO WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Carlos Brooks STARRING Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga MAGNOLIA PICTURES THE WACKNESS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Jonathan Levine STARRING Sir Ben Kingsley,...

Beyond Hatred.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIRST RUN FEATURES This documentary follows the family of a young gay French man murdered by skinheads, as they discover where the hatred of their son's killers comes from and try to forgive.

The Carmen Miranda Collection.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Who doesn't love a little fruit now and again? Five classic films from the rarely center stage (but certainly hard-to-miss) Miranda, in one all-you-can-eat package.

EXES & OHS: The Complete First Season.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PARAMOUNT In case you missed it on Logo, catch up on Michelle Paradise's delightful sitcom about girl-on-girl life in Seattle. She's the lesbian Jerry Seinfeld.

Our House.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIRST RUN FEATURES Director Meema Spadola follows five gay families of varying backgrounds from Long Island to Arizona. A wonderful look at the changing face of the American family.

Mad Men: Season One.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS The sometimes sexist but never dull series about 1960 New York ad execs includes some of the best performances on TV--and by far TV's best-looking man, Jon Hamm.

History in the making: the debut from Hercules and Love Affair recalls the golden age of '80s dance music while still marching to the beat of a fresh and original drummer.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Hercules and Love Affair MUTE/DFA INSPIRED BY A HUMPY, bronzed he-man and his string of young male lovers, Hercules and Love Affair's eponymous debut CD is hedonistic, ecstatic,...

Priscilla Ahn: A Good Day.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PRISCILLA AHN A Good Day BLUE NOTE Winsome Los Angeles singer and her understated originals sympathetically produced by Beck alumnus Joey Waronker. Is she the next Feist?

Various Artists: Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] VARIOUS ARTISTS Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 STRUT Equal parts vintage cool and futuristic heat, these 13 Italo jams compiled by Steve Kotey of Chicken Lips are 100% safe for...

Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DENNIS WILSON Pacific Ocean Blue EPIC LEGACY Nearly lost 1977 solo masterpiece from the sexiest Beach Boy. Features unfinished second album, bonus cuts, and as much magic as brother Brian ever mustered....

Ferron: Boulder.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FERRON Boulder SHORT STORY Grande dame of women's music gets a modern-day makeover assisted by Bitch, Amy Ray, and Ani DiFranco. Her originals, however, remain timeless.

Bitter: Sweet: Drama.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BITTER: SWEET Drama QUANGO Sultry vocals, vibrant beats, and theatrical flair. Enjoy it now before the songs pop up in a million car and liquor commercials.

Cartoon.(Cartoon)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Just my luck. I had to get a dog that's a chick magnet."

Angels at The Advocate.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
July 15, 2008... THIS MAGAZINE WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHEN I ARRIVED FOR A JOB INTERVIEW IN 1993. The offices were musty rabbit warrens, mismatched desks shoved together and everybody in everybody else's face. The editor in chief quizzed me from behind a pine...

Inside the insider.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 15, 2008... I thoroughly enjoyed Sean Kennedy's profile of Thomas Roberts ["The Insider Is Out," June 17], who, I confess, I didn't know is gay. All I gathered of him was as a charming, charismatic, and thoroughly professional news anchor. In that context,...

Ex marks the spot.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 15, 2008... I just finished "The Believers" [June 17] about ex-gays and ex-ex-gays (boy, don't we like labels!). Having been a part of the leadership of an Exodus affiliate, Desert Stream Ministries, I know all too easily the issues at hand. My experience...

The advocate poll.(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... Do you still practice the same religion your family did when you were growing up? How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the June 17 issue of The Advocate Yes 22% No 78% "I was raised...

Unconditional lumping.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 15, 2008... I think Azariah Southworth is still drinking a little too much of the Kool-Aid ["Unconditional Love," June 17]. While he counsels Christians to love LGBT people, he still lumps us in with the prostitutes, wife beaters, homeless folks, and...

The F word.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
July 15, 2008... "Fag" is hate speech, pure and simple ["Sticks and Stones," June 17]. I doubt Judy Gold's gay friends refer to her, affectionately, as their "kike." Try being white and calling your dearest black friend "nigger" and see what happens. No wonder...

Out on the street.(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: "Do gays make better parents than straights?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evelyn Puenima Kurup, 24 student "There are pros and cons. In Malaysia two women can legally...

Just like old times.(WORLD)(discrimination against gays)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You'd think the Russian people would remember their shameful history of pogroms, the anti-Semitic mob attacks of the 19th and 20th centuries in which tens of thousands of Jews were raped and killed. In this...

Spain's envoy for change.(Forward)(Pedro Zerolo)
July 15, 2008... IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST attacks by Basque separatists last year, Spain's Pedro Zerolo spoke about serenity of the soul and spirit. When he was called a faggot by supporters of the conservative People's Party, Zerolo, the openly gay executive...

Philly stands up to scouts.(Forward)(Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... THE ENDURING WAR between the Boy Scouts and the gay rights movement has gone quiet as of late, but a blockbuster case in Philadelphia is bringing it back to the national discussion. At issue is a parcel of land the local Boy Scouts chapter,...

Air America's sweetheart.(DOSSIER)(Rachel Maddow )(Interview)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... SINCE RACHEL MADDOW hit air-waves with her eponymous show on Air America in 2004, the former Rhodes Scholar has become one busy politico. Listeners can hear the 35-year-old California native play part logician and part devil's advocate in the...

Red Gold.(Russia repealed the ban on blood from gay male donors)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... Despite Russia's continuing hostility to gays and lesbians (see page 11), the nation in April repealed its six-year ban on blood from gay male donors. The United States and the United Kingdom bar all men who have had homosexual sex since 1977...

Yves Saint Laurent.(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yves Saint Laurent, 71, the legendary fashion designer, of a brain tumor, in Paris, June 1. Widely credited with transforming women's fashion by sending pants, tuxedos, and other masculine looks down the...

Charles Moskos.(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... Charles Moskos, 74, the father of "don't ask, don't tell," of cancer, May 31, in Santa Monica, Calif. A military expert and sociology professor at Northwestern University, Moskos saw the policy as a practical compromise that allowed gay...

Clay Aiken.(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... Clay Aiken, 29, of American Idol fame, it was reported May 29. According to news reports, Aiken artificially inseminated music producer Jaymes Foster, 50, and the baby is due in August. Aiken and Foster have been friends since the second season...

Gay and lesbian workers' rights.(Exxon Mobil Corp.'s gay and lesbian workers' rights)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... Gay and lesbian workers' rights, by ExxonMobil stockholders for the ninth year in a row, on May 28. Only 40% of shareholder votes were in favor of a resolution to establish an antidiscrimination policy covering LGBT workers. The oil giant is...

Female Catholics.(THREATENED)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... Female Catholics, when Vatican officials said the church will excommunicate women who take part in ordinations for the priesthood, May 28. Monsignor Angelo Amato told reporters that the church did net want to conflict with the will of its...

Rants & raves.(Quotation)
July 15, 2008... "It's written by guys who happen to be gay who are sluts. You have a bunch of guys who are sluts, writing for women and telling them they are supposed to act like this." --Former model Lauren Hutton, talking about Sex and the City on the...

Datebook 07.01--07.15.(Calendar)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] UNTIL JULY 6 London is lovely in the summer, and the glamorous Wimbledon tennis tourney is just one more reason to jump across the pond. Yeah, the dollar is tanking, but there's plenty of strawberries and cream!...

Onward and upward: in May 2007 a tornado nearly demolished the town of Greensburg, Kan. One year later resident David Yohn says things couldn't be better.
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN THE TORNADO'S WRATH was over, I felt relief. All of my family survived, as Did four of the homes in which we lived. It wasn't until I walked across town the next day to retrieve pain medication for my aunt that...

The parent trap: when Keith Ferrazzi and his partner decided to become dads, he used his own tools as a professional development coach to figure out how to do it.
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS I want to have a child. This something I would never say lightly, let alone in a national magazine, but after much soul-searching, I can now say it with conviction and promise. If you want...

After the fall: Oscar Wilde's only grandson, Merlin Holland, wants to shed light on the years that followed his grandfather's infamous imprisonment.(Q & A)(Interview)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS OSCAR WILDE'S ONLY GRANDSON and the executor of his literary estate, a position he's since 1977, Merlin Holland started research on Wilde in the mid 1980s. At 62, the accomplished writer is an expert on his...

David Duchovny.(Interview)
July 15, 2008... During one of the star's classic guest appearances as himself on The Larry Sanders Show, Larry's gay assistant estimates his friends' opinion of David Duchovny: "A third think he's gay, a third think he's bi, and the rest don't care--they just...

Supreme beings: there are innumerable reasons to head to the polls this November. The most important? The future of the United States Supreme Court.(elections of supreme court justices)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "There is no single factor more important to whom you support for president than the Supreme Court," says Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In other words, what matters...

The gay good fellas: inside the real gay Mafia: Gill Action Fund.
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PATRICK GUERRIERO AND BILL SMITH of the Gill Action Fund have a problem. Guerriero, former leader of the Log Cabin Republicans and onetime candidate for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and Smith, a political...

The village people: the old adage about raising children takes on new meaning as the kids of gay and lesbian families grow up with a plethora of both biological and alternative parents. Chloe Harris looks at how queerspawn and their pioneering parents are redefining the American family.(FAMILY)
July 15, 2008... ROSIE AND AMY* LIVE ON AN IDYLLIC RESIDENTIAL STREET typical of West Hollywood. The couple's 1920s Spanish Revival abode is the only home their children (Dan, 8, and Anne, 5) have ever known, and it looks pretty much like every other house on...

About a boy: Irish actor Johnny O'Callaghan went to Africa to help a friend make a documentary about AIDS orphans--but what he found was his son.(FAMILY)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THOUGH NEITHER OF THEM sees it anymore, the visual contrasts between 6-year-old Odin and his adoptive father, Johnny, couldn't be more stark. I'm sitting on the lawn of the Grove, an outdoor Los Angeles shopping...

I think I can, I think I can: four friends manage to take their off-Broadway production--called [title of show]--to the Great White Way just by saying it was going to happen.
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE their autobiographical four-person musical begins performances on Broadway, the cast members of [title of show] are arguing over who their Sea" and the City counterparts are. Including me,...

Back to school: homoerotic Oxford high jinks are remade in Brideshead revisited, but sometimes a kiss just doesn't cut it.(Brideshead Revisited )(Movie review)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BRIDESHEAD REVISITED DIRECTED BY Julian Jarrold STARRING Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, and Ben Whishaw MIRAMAX CALL IT Brideshead Revisited revisited. Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel but...

DVD picks.(Brief article)(List)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CARAMEL LIONSGATE More lesbian-adjacent than lesbian, this Lebanese comedy centers around a beauty shop and its varied customers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD HART SHARP VIDEO...

Two-hit wonder: with a reunion tour wrapping up this month in the United States, Yaz releases a boxed set surveying its modest yet astonishing career.
July 15, 2008... YAZ In Your Room MUTE EARLY-'80s SYNTH-POP DUO Yaz wasn't just a study in contrasts but a master class. Diminutive instrumentalist Vince Clarke, who split from Depeche Mode in 1981, pushed buttons and twiddled knobs, while singer...

Music picks.(sound recordings)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LADY GAGA The Fame STREAMLINE/INTERSCOPE This lady makes smartass dance music with downtown attitude to spare--kind of like Madonna back when she was still having fun. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Excess-orize your pet.(FAST LANE)(pet accessories)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
July 15, 2008... CHIHUAHUAS IN TUTUS, Swarovski-studded kitty collars? So last century. When it comes to accessorizing your four-legged diva, we've moved beyond the merely decadent (aloe and kiwi pet perfume) into the realm of true consumerist silliness. Think...

Arriving fashionably late: Volkswagen's 2009 Tiguan is a welcome addition to the compact SUV party, even if it did keep us waiting.(FAST LANE)(Product/service evaluation)
July 15, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GAYWHEELS.COM 2009 VW TIGUAN RETAIL PRICE (MSRP) $23,200 STANDARD ENGINE 2.0L DIRECT-INJECTION TURBOCHARGED 4-CYLINDER HORSEPOWER 200 @ 5,100 RPM TORQUE (LB-FT) 206 @ 1,700 RPM FUEL ECONOMY (MPG) IS CITY/25...

I don't: why one Californian, delighted with his newfound right to marry, won't dare walk down the aisle again.(COLUMN: MINORITY RETORT)
July 15, 2008... AS THRILLED AS I AM about marriage Equality in California, I'm not getting Married again. I had a lovely garden wedding two years ago. It gave me memories that will last a lifetime, but I would rather put a lit cigarette out in my cornea than...