Entertainment
Dionne Warwick :: the pop diva speaks...
Friday Feb 5, 2010
Dionne Warwick rarely performs in the United States these days, which makes her upcoming concert in San Francisco’s Castro Theatre all that more special. In anticipation of the event EDGE’s BeBe Sweetbriar spoke with the music legend about he future of pop and hip-hop music, what she thinks of her own music, and her activism in the gay community.
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Miss’d America :: January 31, 2010
As with awards’ telecasts, beauty pageants can be a long slog through stage patter, swimsuit malfunctions, broken heels, and fire baton twirling-and yet, if an audience is lucky, there is sometimes one talent number that galvanizes the crowd into a spontaneous eruption of wild cheers and fanatical applause. Such was the case on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as Miss’d America pageant contestant Michelle Dupree took the stage and delivered a knock-em-dead, eleven o’clock number channeling the spirits of Ethel, Ella, Judy, and Josephine that had the audience immediately on its feet with near-universal consensus of the night’s most electrifying performance and ultimate winner.
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Liza’s At The Palace
By Scott Stiffler
Even non-fans of this über-gay icon will appreciate Liza’s pull-out-the-stops performance, with an added behind-the-scenes discussion of how it all came together. Sheer heaven for any theater queen.
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Alison Goldfrapp, Leighton Meester, Gorillaz
By Keo Nozari
Blasting off into a week of new dance releases, Goldfrapp is back with brand-new track "Rocket." The British electronic band takes its synth cues from Van Halen’s ’80s classic "Jump" for this fun pop-dance odyssey (written and produced by the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory) where Alison vows to put a cheating lover on a rocket and blast him into deep space, never to return. It’s the first song off their fifth studio album, Head First, due March 2. We’re ready to dive in!
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Glam Gender
By Keo Nozari | Feb 6
Glamour and charm burst from each page of Glam Gender, a collection of portraits of San Francisco drag queens and other performers like you’ve never seen before.
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The Hour of the Tiger
By Michael Martin | Jan 30
A geisha girl in 1970’s Japan finally discovers a bravery within herself to act on her lesbian tendencies. Her disruptive behavior spells the end of potential business for her mentor and keeper, who looks to his own gay lover for consolation. Traditions of old collide with a society growing ever more modernistic.
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Gay PDAs :: Not Ready for Prime Time
By Scott Stiffler | Feb 8
Americans chowed down and watched the Super Bowl yesterday. For many it wasn’t the game they were as interested as the commercials that punctuated it. From the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales to a controversial pro-life spot, these ads will not doubt generate a lot of water cooler conversation. One that huge television audience didn’t see was for ManCrunch.com, a male dating service, due to the fact it showed two men kissing. CBS didn’t consider it rose to the standard the network established for general consumption. EDGE’s Scott Stiffler looks at why the sight of two men in intimate contact remains not ready for prime time.
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Taylor Swift-lash hits new heights
By Mark Russo | Feb 8
Where has all the love gone for Taylor Swift? The Taylor Swift-lash has hit new heights, exploding in the blogosphere--fueled by a her label’s delusional response insisting she is "the voice of a generation" and the American Idol boast that she’s the only singer capable of producing high notes.
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The Harlem Renaissance - As Gay As It Was Black
By HotSpots Staff | Jan 15
This exhibition, organized by Stonewall Library & Archives, spotlights gay life in Harlem during this period, surveys the artistic movement that defined black culture in the 1920s and 1930s and profiles its leading gay, lesbian and bisexual participants.
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