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Grenell resigns Romney post, citing ‘personal issues’
By Lisa Keen Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's openly gay advisor on foreign policy resigned Tuesday, just two weeks after the campaign announced his role. According to the Washington Post, which broke the story, Richard [...]
Dating Diet: Love to Love You Baby
By Anthony Paull I'm over Facebook even though I'm that pathetic person who needs to check his page once, twice, or 10 times a day. I guess one could say I have a love/hate relationship [...]
Dancing in the D
By Bridgette M. Redman Dance can take people on many unexpected journeys, whether on the stages of the world in performance or the more personal journey of self-discovery. Jeff Rebudal has done both, and as [...]
Q Scopes: Be very careful, Aquarius!
By Jack Fertig The Sun conjoins Jupiter in Taurus offering a bright spot in the economy, both global and your own. Venus is in close aspect boosting that optimism, but Eris is also in aspect [...]
Hear Me Out: Carrie Underwood’s dramatic career-best. Plus: Rufus Wainwright goes pop
Carrie Underwood, 'Blown Away' Whatever happened to Jesus taking the wheel? The drama that Carrie Underwood stirs on two songs that launch the mature evolution as heard on her best-album-to-date could use a little divine [...]
Kopaid in Full
Across 1 Amount of AZT, e.g. 5 "Sands ___ Jima" 10 Where pool players put their balls 14 Out partner 15 Mapplethorpe models, often 16 Woods of "Legally Blonde" 17 Teammate that Dave Kopay dated [...]
‘M. Butterfly’ layers on levels of self-delusion
By Bridgette M. Redman WEST BLOOMFIELD - When a fantasy is strong enough, our minds can convince us of just about anything. In "M. Butterfly," a play opening this week at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre [...]
Morals, morals, who’s got the morals?
According to the Oxford American Dictionary, an altruist is one who has an "unselfish concern for the needs and well-being of other people." In Nicky Silver's razor-sharp satire "The Altruists," a passionate band of idealistic, [...]
‘Avenue Q’ is risque fun, ‘fur’ sure!
By John Quinn A subversive little musical called "Avenue Q" made a big splash when it moved onto Broadway in 2003, winning three Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Original Book. It [...]
‘Blue Man Group’ invades Detroit: ‘Am I blue?’ Not anymore!
By John Quinn Strolling down the aisle of the Fisher Theatre you are confronted with a stage-filling screen -suitably blue - bearing a quote from the International Diplomacy Handbook. "Ultimately, the best way to forge [...]
What A Do can handle the truth
By Bridgette M. Redman Ever since Shakespeare first penned the directive to "first kill all the lawyers," those of the legal profession have often gotten a bad rap on stage and screen. They are perceived [...]
JET’s ‘M. Butterfly’ takes wing, but could use more heat
By Jenn McKee The inherent challenge of David Bowie's hit song "China Girl" - which plays when the lights go up on the Jewish Ensemble Theatre's production of "M. Butterfly" - is that it offends [...]
Royal Oak is in bloom for Mother’s Day
Spring is in the air and Royal Oak citizens will soon celebrate the changing season - not to mention Mother's Day - in front of City Hall and the public library with the 19th Annual [...]
Stray remark sprouts musical valentine
By Bridgette M. Redman THREE OAKS - Sometimes an off-handed comment or a chance Facebook meeting can be the seed and fertilizer that leads to the blooming of a full-on garden. Such, at least, has [...]
Out of Town: Upstate N.Y.
The recent legalization of same-sex marriage in New York has given a number of classic romantic vacation spots throughout the state's northern and western regions. Of particular note are the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes, [...]
Cash mob steps in to offer hope
"Gary kept telling me this would never happen to me. We've seen what our friends have gone through. Gary was constantly saying his family would never do [...]
Counseling changes lives at Ruth Ellis
A 14 year old kid from Detroit got busted for stealing. The judge put him on probation and he got caught stealing again. So what? Another bad kid, doing bad things, going through the system, [...]
Why aren’t all crimes hate crimes?
When a transgender woman was murdered last year after assisting Madison Heights police with a drug bust, some wondered why the killer was not charged with a hate crime, though her body had been badly [...]
LGBT teen suicide to be focus of Farmington ‘conversation’
FARMINGTON - In response to an alarming increase in Oakland County teen suicides, the Farmington Area Suicide Prevention Task Force is hosting a community conversation on suicide prevention in LGBT youth May 23. The event [...]
Jeff Erno talks
OXFORD - Eight years ago, depression hit Jeff Erno. A seven-year relationship had ended suddenly. His mother had passed away after years of caring for her. And the northern Michigan grocery store chain where he [...]
Veep Biden OK with gay marriage
By Lisa Keen WASHINGTON D.C. - Responding earnestly to a question, Vice President Joe Biden has hoisted personal and legal support for same-sex marriages back into the presidential campaign. Biden told a nationally televised news [...]
Creep of the Week: Sean Harris
Sean Harris Pop quiz time: Your son, barely out of diapers, starts acting a little, well, "girly." What do you do? If you answered, "Punch him in the face" you just might be North Carolina [...]
Heard on Facebook: NBC orders a gay family comedy from Ryan Murphy. The plot: heartwarming comedy about a blended family of a gay couple and the woman who becomes a surrogate to help them have children. What do you think?
I shudder at the thought to see what this show is going to be like. Try as they might, TV just doesn't get "gay" right. I guess the problem is, in reality, most gay people [...]
Parting Glances: Pages past tense #9
At 19, I went to my first gay bar - the Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. I used borrowed ID, was escorted authoritatively by two regulars, Speedy and Draino. [...]
S/he Said: Richard Grenell’s resignation
Compiled by Howard Israel "If you came to earth from another planet as the proverbial 'visitor from Mars' and tried to figure out what most religions all seem agree on and care about most you'd [...]
Thinking Out Loud: My American Journey
By Abby Dees I'm several days into a five-week bike ride up the Mississippi, from New Orleans up to its source in Minnesota. I'm taking a slow journey through the very middle of Middle America, [...]
Adam Lambert Q&A: On His Surprise Sex Toy, ‘Redundant’ Media & ‘Horrifying’ Jail Time
Remember the fuss Adam Lambert caused when he tongued his keyboardist in front of the world? Of course you do. The controversial kiss drew both homophobic outbursts and so-what shrugs, and it's an American Music [...]