Where were you when the lights went out? A half-dozen or so disaffected New Yorkers, linked together by fate or coincidence, sing about coping with death, loneliness, aimlessness. If that sounds like Rent, or even Avenue Q … well, it’s not, but it is just as smart and entertaining, with a little big of Robert [...]
GayTravel.com guru Bryan Kosarek may live in Austin but admits he loves Dallas You know the old joke: “I just flew in from Miami; boy, are my arms tired.” Well, that’s sort of Bryan Kosarek’s actual life now. The transplanted Texan (a Chicago native) has been winging it for more than two months, and still [...]
Even queer lingo doesn’t get past gay ‘A Way with Words’ host and logophile Martha Barnette RICH LOPEZ | Contributing Writer getrichindallas@gmail.com We applaud when someone like NBA player Jason Collins comes out of the closet. But why was he in the closet anyway? No, not metaphorically, but really. Is “the closet” some arbitrary [...]
Booking the right event space for your ceremony and reception can be half the battle J. DENTON BRICKER | Contibuting Writer dentonbricker@gmail.com Weddings used to be done “a certain way:” You had to have a big cake, fine china and serve a full dinner in the grand ballroom of a hotel. But gays have always [...]
Designer Dian Malouf branches out into wedding rings for gay couples ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor Dian Malouf came up with the idea for her line of men’s wedding rings, as she does most things, in the middle of the night. Malouf has been a jewelry designer for 20 years — a career she [...]
Wedding gown designer Xay Vongphachanh can help same-sex couples establish their dress code FARAH FLEURIMA | Special Contributor farah@thedallasdiva.com Xay Vongphachanh knows wedding wear trends well before they hit the street. She should — as head designer at the bridal label Watters, Vongphachanh helps set the trends. And from Watters Bridal (an upscale line) to WToo [...]
Runoff likely in District 14, where frontrunners Abtahi, Kingston and Rogers have all expressed strong support for the LGBT community DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer With a crowded field of seven candidates in the District 14 race, three have emerged as frontrunners, but a runoff is expected. All of the candidates were contacted twice, but [...]
Eden Riegel, who played lesbian icon Bianca on ‘All My Children’ for a decade, chats about the resurrection of the citizens of Pine Valley … online STEVEN LINDSEY | Contributing Writer stevencraiglindsey@me.com It’s common knowledge that nobody on a soap opera is ever truly dead — even if the actor portraying a role dies, the [...]
Naysayers of the ’12 Civic will sing a different tune about the ’13 model CASEY WILLIAMS | Auto Reviewer crwauto@aol.com Between Consumer Reports failing to bestow its somewhat over-hyped “Recommended” rating upon the re-designed 2012 Honda Civic, and the boo-hooing from the rest of the journalistic flock, you’d think a person would have had to [...]
Uptown isn’t the only neighborhood that can do a proper gay brunch When Claude Griffin decided to start a Dallas version of Big Gay Brunch, it was mostly because he was tired of waiting for someone else to do it. “I’ve traveled around the country and seen them in other cities,” Griffin explains. “I had [...]
