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May 18, 2011
Life imitating art or history repeating–take your pick.
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May 16, 2011
Following Rick Welts, CNN Anchor Don Lemon comes out as a gay man. See this Towleroad link and the NYT coverage where he discusses the intricacies of being black and gay, frank talk we don’t hear as often as we should. Bravo, Mr. Lemon…
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May 15, 2011
Let the walls come down dept: Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts came out as a gay man this week. See the NYT article here…congrats, Rick…
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May 7, 2011
New York In A Tizzy Dept: The Times was ablaze this week over the City University of New York’s decision to deny Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree over his alleged inflammatory remarks about Israel. This morning the paper reports their repentance, after other past recipients like Michael Cunningham and Barbara Ehrenreich threatened…
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May 3, 2011
In the powerful revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, villains abound: there’s institutional homophobia fed by a conformist über-het society; New York’s red-tape bound local government led by a bachelor mayor rumored to be gay (Ed Koch, though never mentioned by name—oh, those pesky libel laws); the gay community adrift in a sexual roundelay…
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March 25, 2011
It’s been 100 years, but a short memory is inexcusable. The Republican Wisconsin senators who adopted a bill built to curtail collective bargaining for workers need to be reminded of the event that galvanized the movement for worker’s rights. March 25 is a notorious date for fires–in 1990 87 people died at the Happy Land…
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March 18, 2011
In the NY Times yesterday, a prefab feast: real estate developer Forest City Ratner proposes the construction of a modular tower for residential use in Brooklyn. Not sure about the long term implications (durability, stability, the usual) but those of us who salivate over the houses showcased in a certain magazine are curious to see…
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March 1, 2011
With MM in the delightfully daft Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)–she called it her favorite film. RIP.
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February 15, 2011
Spotted in Riverdale, The Bronx on Saturday February the 12th…
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January 30, 2011
Link: See them sing “Don’t Mess with Bill.” the-marvelettes-don-mess-with-1vwvs_2ey2h_.html They-Were-Great-Once Dept: the day Gladys Horton cajoled a few girlfriends into starting a singing group ultimately called the Marvelettes, they couldn’t have foreseen how happy they’d make a bunch of black kids growing up in Ohio. Their snappy, sexy melodies propelled a street-corner symphony heard around the…
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