The quintessential diva returns with a new Christmas movie (it’s funny!) and she owes it all to her gay son Barbra Streisand is finally taking center stage again. The legend — promoting her first major film in 16 years — has her hair perfectly coiffed, dressed in all black with an off-the-shoulder look going on. [...]
Dancer Joel Mendoza became a Pride Parade poster boy without even knowing it ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Joel Mendoza was an Internet celebrity for months … and didn’t even realize it. If his face doesn’t look familiar, don’t feel bad — it wasn’t his, umm, face that made him a star. Think lower. [...]
Shocking ‘Drag Race’ winner Sharon Needles heads to Dallas ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor For three seasons, one thing you could count on about RuPaul’s Drag Race was that it would always come down at the end to a battle of the glamourpusses … and the most glamorous would invariably win. Then came Sharon Needles. [...]
Partners Timmy Patterson and TJ Mundell wanted a day spa as eco-friendly as they are. So they invented Green Lotus ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor As a massage therapist, Timmy Patterson was always looking for the perfect place to work. He finally found it when he opened his own spa. Patterson always had private [...]
College kid-slash-performance artist John Michael Colgin hopes to make a splash — one awkward moment at a time RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com For John Michael Colgin, homophobia is an easy term. Too easy. When people start using it as a label, Colgin sees it as losing its weight. “It gets people off topic so [...]
As we crown our local LGBT Person of the Year on the front page, over here in Life+Style we’ve been thinking about the locals who we will forever relate to helping define 2011 from the standpoint of entertainment and culture. Here are the ones who made the year memorable. — Arnold Wayne Jones ………………….. Anthony Chisom [...]
Jane Lynch has elevated the calm, withering quip to high art. Whether plying her craft in Christopher Guest mockumentaries like Best in Show or A Mighty Wind, or feature films like Talladega Nights and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, she’s become one of the most iconic comic actresses working today. She’s also been one of the most [...]
Breast cancer survivor Leslie Ezelle teams with artist George Tobolowsky to create a traveling sculpture of hope and female empowerment THINK PINK | A huge bra sculpture will lead a ‘pinking’ trend where people can donate to Susan G. Komen. JENNY BLOCK | Contributing Writer lifestyle@dallasvoice.com Turning adversity into opportunity is the hallmark of a fighter. [...]
Bob Nunn and Tom Harrover have been a couple for 4 decades. But it wasn’t until a near tragedy that they realized they were truly meant for each other LIFE GOES ON | Nunn, right, and Harrover stand before a project commissioned for the convention center hotel. Four years ago, Nunn was near death because [...]
Former Dallasite says HIV-positive status led to cancellation of contract RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com QUIETER LIFE | Wyler figures life out as he’s lost his healthy salary from making adult films and tending to his HIV poz status. (Courtesty WylerNation.com) Mason Wyler can be a hard man to figure out. He could be [...]
