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By Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter This week's column is about how a single great hors d'oeuvre can elevate an easy dinner party into something truly special. The most common mistake hosts make is trying too [...]
By Ed Sikov Cocktail Chatter This week's column is about how a single great hors d'oeuvre can elevate an easy dinner party into something truly special. The most common mistake hosts make is trying too [...]
By Andrea Poteet Whether she's dishing with the ladies on the daytime chat show "The Talk," lending her voice to sarcastic superspy Lana Kane on the FX animated series "Archer" or musing about video games, [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Venus in Virgo and Mercury in Scorpio are in a long sextile now aspecting Pluto and Uranus, bringing shrewd insight to social and political problems. Pay close attention to the [...]
No Doubt, 'Push and Shove' No Doubt's femme-fronter Gwen Stefani longs for the past on a track from the band's new album, "Push and Shove," when she sings, "Do you remember how it was?" Though [...]
Across 1 Elton John wears them 6 Bringing up the rear 10 Suck (in) 14 Deck opening 15 Northern capital 16 Cocksure Aesop character 17 Colette's "The ___ One" 18 Minimal tide 19 Club for [...]
By Martin F. Kohn The first time I saw "The Glass Menagerie" I was 20 years old and it was a play about a smart, wisecracking young man and his mother who was too much [...]
By John Quinn Election season is upon us, and in the deluge of campaigning, I sometimes wish the ballots offered a circle labeled "none of the above." But Jenny Lyn Bader's play "None of the [...]
By Carolyn Hayes October is the time for tricks and treats, and both are currently alive and well - or, rather, undead and hilarious - at Detroit's City Theatre. Once again, The Ringwald Theatre and [...]
By Judith Cookis Rubens Small, backwoods towns can be intimidating to newcomers. Struggling (fictional) Gilead, Wis., in Farmers Alley Theatre's "The Spitfire Grill," is no exception. But young parolee Percy Talbot is set on Gilead [...]
By John Quinn Back when I was 11 or so, I rashly chose to read Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting of Hill House." What a read! I was totally unprepared for the sophisticated interplay of [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols ANN ARBOR - Finding a politician who campaigns on a platform of helping the working man, justice and public service is easy. Finding one who actually believes in those things and [...]
By ANDREA POTEET Lance Hicks used to get mad when schoolyard bullies would argue with him about his race. "I used to carry around family photos to show them because I would get really upset [...]
DETROIT - AIDS Partnership Michigan announced Testing Together, a new HIV testing and counseling service for male couples/sexual partners. Testing Together, provides an opportunity for male couples/sexual partners to get tested for HIV together and [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols ANN ARBOR - Living in the cushy Midwestern cocoon of Michigan has a way of making people blind to the struggles of those next door. With last week's Sex and Justice [...]
FERNDALE - With West Nine Mile Road blocked off and lined with vendors for the annual Live Green Fair, it created a perfect opportunity for the organizers of Hungry4Equality to call forth a rainbow-clad group [...]
LANSING - Organizers of Michigan Pride have announced they will be moving the state-wide Pride event from the traditional June date to the end of August. The move is expected to increase attendance for a [...]
Day 64 "Education and awareness is key. When they understand that we aren't out to change their world, that we have no secret agenda to "turn anyone they love gay or whatever", that we simply [...]
By Carol Tanis GRAND RAPIDS - When Diane VanAlstyne's son said he was gay she began looking for a LGBT support group for parents in Grand Rapids and was surprised to learn there wasn't one. [...]
DETROIT - Equality Michigan, the Michigan's LGBT political organization, will host the State Equality Celebration Oct. 27 at the Detroit Club in Downtown Detroit. Attendees will hear from former NFL player and openly gay man [...]
FERNDALE - Affirmations and Equality Michigan will co-host a town hall and voter engagement event Oct. 13 at noon at Affirmations in Ferndale. Speakers from the Michigan Election Coalition and Chris Michalakis , president of [...]
BY Cathy Markes DETROIT - Dr. Jerome P. Horwitz, PhD., the Karmanos Cancer Institute researcher who first found AZT while searching for a cancer fighting agent, died of heart failure in a hospital just outside [...]
DETROIT - In a ruling from the bench, a federal judge issued an injunction Oct. 5 against Secretary of State Ruth Johnson's controversial "citizenship checkbox." The ruling comes after a day of testimony and arguments. [...]
Creep Of The Week A couple of weeks ago I was sitting around trying to think of something cool and hilarious to do and I came up with the idea to write "You are a [...]
Parting Glances Almost 125 years before the birth of Jesus a handsome youth named Antinous was declared a god by the Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrian. Hadrian fell in love with Antinous when the boy [...]
By Abby Dees This morning I awoke to the earth-shaking news that Sam Champion of Good Morning America fame was getting married to his longtime boyfriend, and yes, they look great together. I can hardly [...]
By Amy Hunter Viewpoint Two years ago this November, the American electorate performed a well practiced act of self-immolation. They stayed home from the polls, and even worse, voted against our collective interest by simply [...]
By Lisa Keen Anti-gay activists opposing marriage equality for same-sex couples are counting in fives. They're distributing videotapes to pastors laying out a five-step plan-of-action for each church. They're distributing another video offering five reasons [...]
FERNDALE- Affirmations Community Center and Equality Michigan have spent the last several months mobilizing pro-LGBT communities in southeastern Michigan, fostering civic engagement and building momentum crucial for the upcoming election. On Saturday, Oct. 13 beginning [...]
Don't you just wanna be Regina Spektor's friend and have tea parties and go vintage-clothes shopping with her? Spektor, who performed at The Fillmore in Detroit on Saturday, Oct. 13, has that effect on you: [...]