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Q: I have recently become a grandmother. My daughter and son-in-law just had a baby girl three and a half months ago. She is a darling little girl. I love her to pieces. My daughter [...]
Q: I have recently become a grandmother. My daughter and son-in-law just had a baby girl three and a half months ago. She is a darling little girl. I love her to pieces. My daughter [...]
By Camper English Filling my bag with fresh fruits, veggies and herbs at the farmer's market or produce aisle of the grocery store, smelling the winter citrus and autumn spices, and planning out the menu [...]
Fabulous Ferndale is known for having a wide array of unique eateries in its downtown setting, and at 11 a.m. Oct. 10 ticket holders to the Grub Crawl will take a culinary tour of Ferndale, [...]
By Romeo San Vicente Barry Manilow Photo: RCA Music Group Manilow takes Stipe and Hanks to the Copacabana The fallout from "Mamma Mia!" continues, and this time Michael Stipe, Tom Hanks and Barry Manilow [...]
Could glitzy red-carpet appearances like Drew Barrymore's become everyday events here in Michigan? With large tax incentives and a growing community of film-industry professionals, it seems to be a possibility. But that comes with increasing [...]
Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig in 'Whip It!' Photos: Fox Searchlight Pictures There was hugging and gushing. Big smiles. Kudos for Drew Barrymore's black-dyed hair tips. Only a pair of traveling pants [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury is in harmony with Mars and Eris with Chiron, but both pairs are lined up against each other to create trouble. Apparently brilliant insights can turn out to be [...]
Mika, 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much' Pop's gayest big post-pubescent boy - still probing childish innocence with songs like "We Are Golden," a slyly-written bubble of fun, kid choir included - wants you to [...]
Across 1 Dealing with actors' parts 8 Rude lookers 15 Blanche Wiesen Cook subject 16 Mogadishu's country 17 With 18-Across, gay anthem from "The Wizard of Oz" 18 See 17-Across 19 When repeated, a "Funny [...]
By Dan Woog Here's a colorful story. University of Hawaii at Manoa football coach Greg McMackin used the word "faggot" not once, not twice, but three times in a recent press conference. The occasion was [...]
By Martin F. Kohn Wayne David Parker and Tom Whalen in 'Escanaba' at The Purple Rose Theatre. Photo: Danna Segrest Everyone else these days is going hybrid, so why not Jeff Daniels? His new [...]
By Jenn McKee Joel Mitchell and Stephen Blackwell are featured in 'Lonely Planet.' Photo: Breathe Art Theatre Project One of the two characters in Steven Dietz's "Lonely Planet," now playing at Breathe Art Theatre [...]
By D. A. Blackburn Friday night, as the Chicago White Sox dealt the Detroit Tigers a heartbreaking 2-0 loss, the University of Detroit Mercy Theatre Company opened a fresh production, steeped in the superstitions of [...]
FERNDALE - Go Comedy! Improv Theater is set to premiere two shows Oct. 8: "Super Action News" and "Shim & D'rothy." The new line-up replaces "Travel Earth Time Shares," "Douche Douche Bhang Bhang," "Silent" and [...]
by Andrew Collins Few places in the world can claim the sheer quantity of gay-friendly accommodations that Palm Springs does - you'll find resorts, most of them clothing-optional and male-oriented, set throughout town. In recent [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Twenty people staged a protest outside a "gay conversion" conference in suburban Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 19. They carried signs reading "Hands off queer kids" and "You can't straighten [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs A new law that took effect in England and Wales on Sept. 1 allows a lesbian couple who conceive a child together to be named as the parents on [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs The House of Representatives in Indonesia's Aceh province has enacted a new Islamic criminal code that punishes homosexuality with up to 100 lashes, Amnesty International reported Sept. 17. The [...]
by Rex Wockner Swedish Ambassador Krister Bringéus held a 'mini-pride' at his suburban Belgrade residence Sept. 20 when the gay pride parade was canceled after Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic met with pride organizers and told [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Briefs Some U.S. gay couples who get married in Canada and then later want to divorce find themselves in a pickle, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported Sept. 25. Forty-two U.S. [...]
by BTL Staff They say you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. You can, however, make a lovely dress out of a pig's intestine. Seeing is believing. Four of these delicate, [...]
by Jessica Carreras Ron Elkus Ron Elkus is the co-owner of The Shirt Box, a clothing store in Farmington Hills. The openly-gay Huntington Woods resident hopes to help men in need of good clothes [...]
DETROIT - The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan has received $100,000 from the Arcus Foundation to establish a permanent endowment to support projects and organizations that serve LGBT people of color in southeast Michigan. The [...]
By Caitlin M. Foyt ANN ARBOR - Indonesia has quite a gay past. There are ancient murals in temples across the country depicting homosexuals and transgendered people, it's been historically documented that gay relationships outside [...]
by Jessica Carreras Monique Goch wants to get one thing straight: You don't have to wear pants-paired business attire to come to a Suits and the City mixer. You just have to be willing to [...]
The first thing Evan Wolfson tells reporters is to stop calling the movement "gay marriage." "That makes it sound like something different or something new. Marriage isn't new. We have marriage in this country and [...]
by Bob Roehr HIV vaccine research got a much-needed dose of encouraging news on Sept. 24 when results of a study conducted in Thailand were released. The study in more than 16,000 volunteers showed that [...]
by Rex Wockner Maine voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to veto a law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor that legalized same-sex marriage. The law has not yet taken effect pending [...]
by Rex Wockner Courage Campaign Chair Rick Jacobs, right, and consultant Steve Hildebrand. Photo by Karen Ocamb A ballot initiative asking voters to repeal Proposition 8 in 2010 was filed with the state of [...]
by Bob Roehr The Ryan White CARE Act, which funds a large portion of HIV programs in the United States, did not expire on Sept. 30 but was extended for another 30 days as part [...]
Sunday, Sept. 27 is National Day of Action for Marriage Equality - and Maine needs help. Currently, Question 1 is up on the ballot for the November election in Maine, and enough "yes" votes could [...]
Hate can take many shapes. Though hate crimes legislation only applies to acts that are actual crimes, bias-motivated incidents happen all the time and go unreported, their committers suffering no penalty. A noose hanging from [...]
Barber Watch out homos, because the religious right is going to take the gloves off and punch you in your icky gay face. What would Jesus do? He would cage match the sin out [...]
In spite of negative publicity and candid pix in La No-No del Inquirer, the worldwide Vatican super market tabloid, Sr. Serena Scatterpin begins a book-signing tour on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day. The redoubtable [...]
compiled by Howard Israel "We are so used to seeing the ubiquitous gay guy/straight female relationships, often reduced to the stereotype of a mutual love of shoes and overpriced pink cocktails. The idea of a [...]
By Dana Rudolph My spouse and I took our 6-year-old son camping in Maine right before the school year began. I have been camping there since I was two, myself. Maine doesn't exactly feel like [...]
By Justin Ocean Mariah Carey's latest album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," finds the R&B super-songstress back in the driverÕs seat of the heart with a collection of laid back slow-jams, power ballads (what else?) [...]
By Justin Ocean Mariah Carey releases "Memoirs." Mariah Carey's latest album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," finds the R&B super-songstress back in the driver's seat of the heart with a collection of laid back [...]
USA Today has called it "one of the best shows ever to air on TV." And you could win its fifth season DVD set, out today and including 24 episodes over three discs. Winner of [...]
DETROIT - Grammy-nominated Meshell Ndegeocello strums into town to perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Music Hall in Detroit. Ndegeocello, acclaimed out singer/songwriter, is adept in playing multiple instruments. The songstress, a Washington, [...]