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Arts + Culture
We love a Broadway show
A roundup of this season’s original cast recordings: ‘A Gentleman’s Guide,’ ‘Madison County,’ ‘If/Then,’ ‘Beautiful’ ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor The Tony Awards are over, and the nominees and winners in the musical category will be forever rememb…
Arts + Entertainment
Queer Careers
For Bradley Sutton, a vocation in the funeral business wasn’t a job — it was a calling To commemorate Pride Month, we’re kicking off a new series to highlight those in the LGBT community with interesting-yet-offbeat vocations — the kind guaranteed to break…
Arts + Entertainment
Butch vs. Femme
Nissan Leaf versus Dodge Ram 1500 EcoDiesel: What a green ride says about you CASEY WILLIAMS | Auto Reviewer [email protected] At opposite ends of the eco-drive range are electric cars — like the best-selling Nissan Leaf — and fuel-sipping diesel pickups —…
Arts + Entertainment
Refs are (gay) people, too
Just as the World Cup gets underway, we look at the culture of soccer from the point of view of closeted officials DAN WOOG | Contributing Sports Writer [email protected] As a young referee, Ryan Powell heard a coach yell at a youth soccer player: “…
Arts + Culture
Stage to screen
Movies go B’way with ‘The Nance’ and ‘Jersey Boys’ — with mixed results ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor The structure of Jersey Boys — the hit Broadway musical about the career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, now adapted for the screen — res…
Arts + Culture
Divine redux
Reminiscences on ‘A View from a Broad’ You never forget, nor should you want to, your first life-altering experience with the Divine Miss M. Bette Midler first hit it big in the early 1970s with her swing-influenced pop hits, then got serious cred as an act…
Arts + Entertainment
Big Manny on campus
Out DJ Manny Lehman headlines this weekend’s Big Long and Proud dance party in Arlington SCOTT HUFFMAN | Contributing Writer [email protected] Don’t let Manny Lehman’s cool exterior fool you. This humble DJ, producer and remixer — or, as he puts it…
Arts + Culture
My semi Precious
Chatting with Justin Tranter, Semi Precious Weapons’ ambisexual frontman SCOTT HUFFMAN | Contributing Writer [email protected] Many people enjoy celebrating birthdays with a party. But for Justin Tranter — the gender-bending rocker and frontman o…
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Good golly, Miss Dolly!
Dolly Parton on her boobs, drag queens and her diva legend When Dolly Parton calls you, greeting you by name with her unmistakable Tennessee twang, it’s a good idea to immediately establish that the lady on the line is the actual legend herself. “Am I talki…
Arts + Entertainment
Best Bets 06-20-14
Friday 06.20 Saturday 06.21 Sunday 06.22 Chorale closes season with diva-licious concert The Turtle Creek Chorale’s last concert of the season — and the lost one for departing artistic director Trey Jacobs — is a diva-licious evening honoring some of the fi…
Arts + Culture
Crossword Puzzle • 06-20-14
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Arts + Culture
Who owns Gay Pride?
Can one company own “NYC Pride”? Don’t we all kind of own it, as the Stonewall Riots were in New York and spawn the modern gay rights movement?
Courtesy of Dallas Voice — Dallas’s LGBTQ+ weekly since 1984.