Charles Alexander
Parting Glances NGLTF: What's past is prologue!
This week's National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 20th Annual Conference takes place in the landmark Renaissance Center. 2000-plus participants from all over the United States are attending (and, one suspects, getting gaily and navigationally lost [...]
The mystery of LeRoy Foster: African American artist
African American artist Julie Mehretu was talking to a gathering of high school students in one of the several galleries of Detroit Institute of Art devoted to her gigantic "City Sitings" canvases. (It was during the opening week media preview.) As [...]
Parting Glances: Sister's emails exposed!
NOTE: These e-mails from the rather ample laptop of Sr. Serena Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of Mary, were suddenly subpoenaed (God only knows why) by the 69th District Court, Farmers Market Jurisdiction, Michigan. As a columnist accidentally privy [...]
Parting Glances: The BVM strikes again
I had a tarot reading last Sunday by a psychic friend of Sr. Serena Scatterpin. "She's a marvel and a looker," was Sister's intro. "If just a tad off her ever-lovin' spiritual rocker." Glad that the holidays are over – and finding myself forty [...]
Dreams are made of this . . .
Art at Affirmations Patrick Burton describes his three art pieces on display at the Affirmations Center Art Gallery through the end of this month as "little day dreams". That may be so for Patrick, performance artist and (beautiful dreamer) [...]
Parting Glances: E-mails sent (1/02/08)
JAN: As you have on several recent occasions expressed a curious, rather untoward interest in my weight, I went out and purchased a double-A battery operated, glass-step-on scale to weigh myself, hoping to put your troubled mind (and mine) to rest [...]
Parting Glances: The hump on the hill
Oddly enough, I'm getting e-mails from Ex-Gays, all claiming they read my ramblings (and selected BTL personal ads) "just for old times sake." I've tallied six: a grief therapist, a pit bull groomer, a U of M herpetologist, a singing waiter in need [...]
But your are, Blanche!
Parting Glances I spent a quiet New Year's Eve holding hands with Sr. Serena Scatterpin, Renegade Sisters of Mary. As many of my PG readers of all true, red-blooded American faiths know, January 1st is her birthday. (Others: Lorenzo de Medici, [...]
Parting Glances: O Little Town of Bedlam
1. And so it came to pass in a land many sizes too large for its tunic that three not-so-wise men got wind of a waning star in the east that it would be deemed most expedient to see before its untimely extinction. 2. Said the first not-so-wise man [...]
Parting Glances: Good question, PP!
Padre Pio, the notorious Italian monk, is back in the news. He was canonized on June 16, 2002. (How could you forget?) For 50 years his body was said to bear the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, a phenomenon known to the faithful (and incredulous) as [...]
Parting Glances: Brokeback Won Ton, anyone?
Brokeback Mountain, the groundbreaking movie of same-sex sheepherder corrallin', stile jumpin', romancin' in the Montana wilderness, as of last month scored a hefty box office total take of $83,825,853. Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, [...]
How's it hangin' DIA?
Parting Glances I received an e-mail invite for a gathering of artists during the 32-hour, free-to-the-public opening of the new, $158 million handsomely renovated Detroit Institute of Arts. 9:30 p.m. Black Friday after Thanksgiving in the Kresge [...]