Arts & Entertainment
February 22, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell
While this week’s issue devotes much of its contents to the 84th Annual Academy Awards and the big-budget films and indie darlings that were nominated for trophies, it’s important to look ahead at some queer cinema. Here are four films… Read more…
February 22, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell
Last year’s hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway were totally panned. This year’s Academy Awards saw its first host, Eddie Murphy, quit amid the gay-slur controversy surrounding his pal Brett Ratner and now we’re stuck with Billy Crystal (just hoping… Read more…
February 17, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell
This Means War, the latest romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, has its work cut out for it. Water for Elephants didn’t fare very well at the box-office despite its best-selling story, How Do You Know bombed harder than the… Read more…
February 15, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell
Melanie Amaro, winner of the inaugural season of the US X Factor, was featured with Sir Elton John during the Super Bowl in the elaborate Pepsi commercial. First, nobody bought Elton John as a king- a queen maybe after all… Read more…
February 15, 2012 | by Romeo San Vicente
Downton Abbey matriarch cage match! The only thing that could possibly be better than watching Downton Abbey’s Maggie Smith, as the Dowager Countess, stop the rest of the cast dead in their tracks with withering glances and haughty comments… Read more…
February 12, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell
When Brandi Carlile sings Sometimes I lose my faith in luck/Don’t know what I wanna be when I grow up in the opening lines of the first single, Hard Way Home, from her soon-to-be-released 4th studio album Bear Creek, you… Read more…
February 8, 2012 | by Joseph Brownell
With the wild, runaway success of Adele you can expect an onslaught of imports from Europe this year as record companies seek to duplicate the sales and the worldwide phenomenon that is she. While some will fall short of the… Read more…
February 8, 2012 | by Randall Carpenter
W.T.F- Wrestling’s Trashiest Fighters Episode 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race starts off with a booty-licious mini challenge that produced 3 winners, Willem, Chad Michaels, and Phi Phi. The three ‘leaders’ picked their team which left poor Madame LaQueer being picked… Read more…
February 7, 2012 | by Chris Azzopardi
Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur Her songs have generally been outside herself, but Kathleen Edwards isn’t writing about other people anymore. She’s writing about herself. Voyageur is the Canadian alt-folkie’s most personal work, a 10-song musical catharsis after the tumultuous end of… Read more…