‘Game of Thrones’ returns, and not a moment too soon Fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones don’t just love the show — they loooove the show. I should know; I’m one of them. (It was one of my Top 10 of 2012.) It’s the third-highest-rated series in HBO history, made even more significant considering [...]
Olympus Has Fallen. To say that this political action film is derivative — it is almost a point-by-point cross-section of Air Force One and the original Die Hard, with the White House itself standing in for Nakatomi Plaza and the president’s plane — is not to diminish its effectiveness as an actioner. Great filmmaking? Of [...]
How can you cover massive Alaska in one trip? Our travel expert has some ideas I spent 15 days touring Alaska with a friend last summer — my second extended trip in the past three years to our nation’s largest state. My previous trip included a cruise through the Inside Passage, followed by a four-day [...]
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman (2012 Candlewick Press), $26; 257 pp.; two CD set (Brilliance Audio), $23; 80 mins. We all know the story. He was outnumbered: Two local boys in a bar with a pitcher of beer. One petite college student, sitting in the same bar, alone. But most of us [...]
When news that Erica Andrews passed away broke on Monday night, the outpouring of grief was not only widespread and sincere, but surprisingly diverse. Andrews, who died unexpectedly on March 10 of a lung infection in Chicago, straddled many communities. She amassed an impressive list of drag titles in her decades-long career, including Miss Gay [...]
Out C&W artist Drake Jensen makes a viable shot at stardom with ‘OUTlaw’ The music genres of hip-hop and country & western may be the last bastions where their mainstream makers still struggle to find a queer voice. Even so, both have undergone some opening in the closet doors, thanks to artists like K.D. Lang, [...]
How to do what’s wrong right HOWARD LEWIS RUSSELL | Special Contributor askhoward@dallasvoice.com Dear Howard, I’m 22, hot looking with a monster endowment — I’m talkin’ horses move back! My goal is to fall in love with a rich man someday soon — only a rich man — and to “marry” him. My friends call [...]
Gay antiques collector Max Tibbits had good taste before you did When Max Tibbits was growing up in the 1960s, his house was in “kind of isolated” part of Central Texas. “There were not a lot of kids in the neighborhood,” he says in a recent phone interview. Tibbits’ mother designed and built houses, so [...]
Oddly Normal by John Schwartz (Gotham Books 2012). $26; 290pp. When we’re born, our parents count our fingers and toes. They lovingly stroke our skin, look into our faces and wonder what might become of us. That was certainly true of John Schwartz, though in his memoir Oddly Normal, he explains how some real battles laid [...]
We’ve followed Joel Harloff all around Dallas for years, from back in his days in the gayborhood at The Landmark inside the Melrose Hotel. We’re glad to see he’s landed as the executive chef at Ocho Kitchen in Preston Center. He’ll be revamping the lunch and dinner menus soon. The Dallas chapter of Les [...]
