Lambda Lit winners include John Irving

Posted on 17 Jun 2013 at 9:56am

John Irving, Dale Carpenter win Lambda Literary Awards, but not John Boyne

Best Bets • 06.14.13

Posted on 14 Jun 2013 at 10:20am

Friday 06.14 Holocaust Museum presents play about being gay under Nazi rule A Jew and a gay man stood about equal chances of survival in Nazi Germany, which forged friendship between folks reviled simply for being who they were. The Timekeepers is a three-man play that portrays one of those relationships, where searing humor helps [...]

Fresh ‘Blood’

Posted on 14 Jun 2013 at 9:45am

  The seasons of True Blood have been as unpredictable as Star Trek movies: They seem to alternate good and bad.  Season 1? Spectacular. Season 2? Eh. Season 3? Much better. Season 4? Disaster. Last season? A bloody mix, with no interesting new villain (save a smoke monster — and Lost beat them to that [...]

Up in the air

Posted on 14 Jun 2013 at 9:30am

Exhilarating ‘Traces’ gives the circus street cred with dazzling ‘acroballetics’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES  | Life+Style Editor When Traces begins its show with a snarky curtain speech (encouraging you to text during the show and use flash photography), you know: This is not Cirque du Soleil. Cirque shows nuzzle up to you with a nudging wonder, [...]

Rebel with a cause

Posted on 14 Jun 2013 at 8:30am

Sulphur Springs native and country music sensation  KACEY MUSGRAVES has a thing or two to say about gay rights. And she doesn’t care who she ticks off. Kacey Musgraves is country music’s It Girl, but right now, she’s sitting around “with a zit mask on my face.” It’s that kind of frankness — not just when [...]

Super freak

Posted on 14 Jun 2013 at 8:15am

Zack Snyder explores a softer side to the ‘Man of Steel’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES  | Life+Style Editor The thing about iconic characters is, they can never get away from their history. James Bond has to be a womanizer, Hamlet has to be indecisive, Clark Kent has to wear spectacles. Or does he? Zack Snyder, the [...]

Gay-temala

Posted on 14 Jun 2013 at 8:00am

Charming Guatemalan village of Antigua offers history and gay appeal RICK VANDERSLICE  | Contributing Writer rickvanderslice@gmail.com In a world economy, one of the biggest considerations in international travel is how strong your buying power is overseas. While Europe can be pricey, the world in the other Americas add great value to their long list of [...]

STAGE REVIEWS: ‘One.Man.Show.’ at The MAC, ‘Sister Act’ at FP Music Hall

Posted on 11 Jun 2013 at 3:23pm

Tim Johnson’s One.Man.Show. is brilliant, while Sister Act is simply brilliant fun.

Vic-torious

Posted on 07 Jun 2013 at 10:30am

Vicci Martinez proves her mettle (with help from Cee-Lo) on ‘Vicci’   Little did you know, but a movement is under way in pop music — likely unintentional, but a movement nonetheless. The landscape is being chipped away by, of all things, lesbians. With Tegan and Sara’s recent Heartthrob and Sia’s last few forays into [...]

Daddy issues

Posted on 07 Jun 2013 at 10:15am

Father-son matters resonate onstage & off for Stan Graner   Stan Graner knows from experience that experience puts you in the know. When Graner first started performing in theater, he was entirely dedicated to musical comedy roles. After 20 years of that, however, he began to worry. “I didn’t want to become the aging chorus [...]