By Sharon Gittleman When Belle Epoque beauty Liane de Pougy made her confession to a priest just before her marriage to a Romanian prince in 1914, it took much less time than the average Parisian [...]

Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units, by Danny Kaplan. Harrington Park Press, 278 pages, $19.95 paper. Unlike several of this publisher's recent military-themed titles, which are [...]

Dave Chappelle is Blackzilla will be at the Michigan Theatre on April 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the Michigan Union Ticket Office. Melissa Ferrick will be at The Ark on April [...]

Plowshares stages world premiere that explores violence and other social ills I felt bad last Friday evening for the cast of the Plowshares Theatre Company's production of "In Walks Mem'ry" at the Paul Robeson Theatre [...]

STRATFORD, Ontario - The Stratford Festival of Canada will explore the diverse and fascinating influence of classical Greek theatre in its 2003 season, Artistic Director Richard Monette announced recently. "These are wonderful, ancient tales told, [...]

ROYAL OAK/ANN ARBOR - Many people, as they grow older, may feel that their lives are not quite what they need - that their ability to express themselves and their true feelings are constrained by [...]

By Gregg Shapiro Using an ever-shifting split screen, extreme close-ups, and a very scary and threatening disembodied voice on the other end of a pay phone, director Joel Schumacher creates a taut and claustrophobic film, [...]

South Pacific The Tony Award-winning musical about a young army nurse and an older French plantation owner who fall in love during World War II. Presented at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, Dearborn, [...]

Move over Christina Crawford. Stand back Bette Davis Hyman. There's a new, bewildered celebrity offspring on the block and her name is Varla Jean Merman. OK, so she's really not the daughter of Ethel Merman. [...]

neemejarvi_baton_hr.jpg: DSO Music Director Neeme Jarvi will preside over an Inaugural Gala concert when "The Max" opens this October. smokey_hr.jpg: Detroit legend Smokey Robinson will perform with the DSO Strings in "Motown at the Max" [...]

ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan Gay and Lesbian Alumni Society will present a beer-tasting evening to benefit the Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality on Wednesday, April 9 at the Arbor Brewing Company. C.A.R.E. [...]

The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company's Guest Artist Series continues this weekend with the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit's innovative production of "HeartBEAT." Loosely based on a play by Aristophanes, "HeartBEAT" intertwines the vibrant languages of [...]

Judy received her Masters' Degree in fine art photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1983. Since then, she has taught fine-art photography at numerous colleges, including the University of Michigan. She has received two [...]

DETROIT - Wayne State University's Departments of Theatre and English are collaborating to stage the Third Annual Louise Heck-Rabi Scholarship Award Competition in Dramatic Writing. The competition is open to both graduate and undergraduate students [...]

By Romeo San Vicente Halle's role gives her paws Oscar winner Halle Berry is taking on the role of the hottest supervillain in tight black leather. No, she's not starring in "Leona Helmsley's Excellent S/M [...]

Thursday Friction with Tom Newman at The Works Latino Night comes to the R&R Saloon with $1 cover. Cadillac Squares Square Dancing and Bit T.W.A.T. Karaoke at Diamond Jim's Saloon. Spiral hosts the weekly party-not- [...]

Dreamcatcher In this adaptation of Stephen King's latest novel, four friends (Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, and Damian Lewis) meet for their annual hunting trip. They share a psychic bond forged when, as children, [...]

Here's a letter from a reader wanting to give advice to a writer in a past column who signed her letter, "Needing To Be Me": This is in response to "Needing To Be Me." She [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter Marlon Riggs was born February 3, 1957 in Ft. Worth, Texas. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and received his Masters degree from the University of California-Berkeley, where he became [...]

By Jill Dearman ARIES (March 21 to April 20): The Sun and Mercury transit your sign in early April and bring you wit and wisdom in spades. Try out some new lines on a Scorpio. [...]

By Jill Dearman ARIES (March 21 to April 20): April is a good time for you to start fresh on some projects, since the new moon in your sign, on the first of the month, [...]

By Leslie Robinson A student at the University of Wisconsin-Superior has made an intriguing suggestion regarding us gay folks. In a letter to the school newspaper, which she signed a "Proud Native American," Kathleen Espersen [...]

By Sharon Gittleman OAK PARK - Some people remember their school days with a blend of nostalgia and warmth. When Katie Werner thinks back to her middle school years, she recalls her straight classmates' vicious [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter DETROIT - There are many ways to fight AIDS. Like building a playground. This summer, in northwest Detroit, an Americorps youth team dedicated to support work for people with AIDS will [...]

By Kelly Peters EAST LANSING - An MSU resident hall assistant director has resigned her job after a four-month battle to gain the right to live with her partner. But she says she will continue [...]

ComedyFest comes our way DEARBORN - The 7th Annual Michigan Lesbian & Gay ComedyFest comes to Dearborn, Saturday, April 12, with shows at 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Last year both shows sold out, with [...]

By Kelly Peters DETROIT - After waiting for almost a year, Ruth Ellis Center has been approved for a $1 million federal grant to fund a transitional living residence for disowned lgbt teens. The grant, [...]

By Brent Dorian Carpenter DETROIT - The Urban Caring Institute (UCI) is a relatively small fish in the big HIV-outreach pond full of better-known acronym organizations. Its president, founder and CEO, Jonsea Nelson, is undaunted [...]

By Liz Highleyman Just as the struggle surrounding discrimination against LGBT people in the military has long been a major issue within the gay movement, queers have also been active in peace and antiwar movements [...]

By Rex Wockner All news is war news now. Resistance is futile. I contacted numerous gay leaders, gay politicians and gay VIPs for their perspective. A few agreed to be quoted. Elizabeth Birch, executive director [...]

One step closer to legal marriage TRENTON, N.J. - Three motions by right-wing activists to become defendants in a historic lawsuit to achieve marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples were rejected Monday by the [...]

Ann Arbor Symphony Joins Temple Beth Emeth for "Stained Glass Series" ANN ARBOR - The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra will team with Cantor Annie Rose and the Temple Beth Emeth Adult Choir to present the [...]

By Bob Roehr WASHINGTON D.C. - The room seemed strangely void of tension, the give-and-take of arguments almost flat, as if the decision already had been reached, when Lawrence v. Texas came before the U.S. [...]