Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed the State of Michigan after a plan to kidnap her and other Michigan government officials was thwarted by state and federal law enforcement agencies. She started by saying thank you to law enforcement and FBI agents who participated in stopping this [...]
Mel B will tell you what she wants, what she really, really wants: to get back to being Scary Spice again. Not that the pop star, known as the Spice Girls' wild child, ever got [...]
Photo by Robyn von Swank There's nothing too taboo for Sarah Silverman. Not AIDS, not poop. And in her 20-year career - which began in 1993 with a spot on "Saturday Night Live," and [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The Hawaii House gave final approval Friday evening to a marriage equality bill, putting Hawaii on track to become the 16th state plus the District of Columbia to allow [...]
BTL Staff LANSING -- As U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) continues to struggle with the fallout of his admission to plagarizing other's work, a Michigan state senator is now facing similar allegations. Sen. Roger Kahn [...]
Patty Griffin will headline the Ann Arbor Folk Festivals second night, Feb. 1. The annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival, a fundraiser for The Ark, returns to Hill Auditorium for two dynamic and different nights [...]
By Emell Derra Adolphus So a pop singer, a jock, two thespians, a couple dancers, a fitness trainer, an ex-porn star and a radiology technologist walk into a bar. It's not a joke. It's "Men [...]
Celine Dion, 'Loved Me Back to Life' To have the glass-shattering lung power that Celine Dion has built an empire of love songs on in the last 20-some years hardly matters anymore. Shock value, personal [...]
Across 1 Alec of "Desperate Housewives" 5 Some Barneys locations 10 Dog-eared 14 Plunk down 15 "Dirty Dancing" director Ardolino 16 Bulb lighter 17 Head light? 18 A queen, for example 19 "___! Went the [...]
By Carolyn Hayes Jeff Baron's distinctly self-contained "Visiting Mr. Green" tells a curious story of one relationship by showing its two characters together - and only together. Yet in the production currently at Matrix Theatre [...]
In 1990, Frank Colasonti, Jr. told his bosses that he expected to keep his job and not be treated any differently than he had before. He also wanted the ability to be open about his [...]
A rumor posted on Twitter. A barrage of insulting text messages. A fake Facebook profile in your child's name. Embarrassing pictures posted without permission. Nasty emails that can reach your kid at any hour of [...]
Birmingham filmmaker Amy Weber is sharing the one project she said is the most important in her life, The Bully Chronicles. The 100 percent Michigan-made film is being celebrated at the Uptown Film Festival Nov. [...]
A new coalition of nine Michigan AIDS organizations received a $25,000 grant from a national AIDS foundation to develop a strategic plan to collaborate more closely. Contributing factors such as economic stresses, changes in funding [...]
FERNDALE -Cross The Line is currently recruiting youth between the ages of 13 and 20 to become peer educators for the 2014 Cross The Line Peer Outreach Team. Now in its fourth year, Cross The [...]
WEST BLOOMFIELD - Author Joel Derfner will discuss his recently published book, Lawfully Wedded Husband, How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family during the 62nd Annual Jewish Book Fair at the Jewish Community [...]
ANN ARBOR - Sacred Song, a multi-ethnic choral group, presents the Seventeenth Annual Evening of Sacred Song, an evening of singing and instrumental music. Since 1995, the group's annual December concert has affirmed the values [...]
DETROIT - KICK, the agency for LGBT African Americans, is hosting the second annual Health & Wellness Expo from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Nov. 16 at KICK - The Center in Detroit, 48 Burroughs [...]
As we move forward in our collective quest for equality we are struck by the absurdity of the opposition's arguments. Whether it is the Catholic Bishops letter against Employment Non-Discrimination Act or the rabid right [...]
Photo: Flickr user Pavel Kazachkov Creep Of The Week As you probably already know, Russia is not exactly a paradise for LGBT people. Even talking about being gay is a crime there because it [...]
Parting Glances I received an e-mail from a conservative group calling itself Balaam's Ass of America (after the OT story of the fabled talking mule), asking for a five-buck, tax-deductible contribution "on behalf of gender [...]
Photo by Chris Azzopardi All you pop stars out there, go home. You've been served by Pink, who raised the bar for arena spectacles during her second show this year at the Palace of [...]
