Homemade ‘Smoked’ Salmon
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 [...]
Aisha’s Got Your Back
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, [...]
Don’t worry, Cancer!
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 [...]
Hear Me Out: No Doubt Returns With Vintage Sound
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 [...]
Tops and Bottoms Down Under
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 [...]
Performance Network Does Right By Tennessee Williams Classic
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 [...]
Testing, Testing: ‘None Of The Above’ Is The Right Answer
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 [...]
Humor Is In The Blood At City Theatre
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 [...]
‘Spitfire Grill’ Serves Up Something Special
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 [...]
A Haunting We Will Go! Meadow Brook Presents Taut Thriller
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 [...]
Kuhnke Could Be First Lesbian Judge Elected in Michigan
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 [...]
Transformations: Transgender Man Works to Change Media, Perceptions
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 [...]
New HIV Program Tests Couples Together
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 [...]
Sexual Liberation, De-Criminalization Focus of Conference
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 [...]
Flash Mob Brings Attention to Hunger Strike
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 [...]
Michigan Pride Makes Big Move to August
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 [...]
Hungry4Equality: Week 9
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 [...]
New LGBT Support Group In Grand Rapids
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. [...]
Former NFL player Wade Davis to attend Equality Michigan State Celebration
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 [...]
Affirmations and Equality Michigan to Co-Host Town Hall
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 [...]
Jerome Horwitz, Detroit Researcher Who Discovered AZT in 1964, dies at 93
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 [...]
Citizenship Checkbox Ordered Off the November Ballot Application
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. [...]
Joseph Farah
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 [...]
Gay History Month #2
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 [...]
Celebrities: Coming Out So You Don’t Have To!
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 [...]
Throw The Bums Out
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 [...]
Five reasons to stay awake Nov. 6
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 [...]
Town Hall, Election Training Event Saturday
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 [...]
Regina Spektor: What I Saw From The Not-So Cheap Seats
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: [...]