Chris Azzopardi
Hip, hip, hooray for 'Hairspray'
'Hairspray' In theaters July 20 A Never been high? Just take a whiff of "Hairspray." From the sunny opening number, where chubby teen Tracy Turnblad sings "Good Morning Baltimore" perched on top of a garbage truck en route to school in her cutesy [...]
Gay 'Matters'
Win a free DVD Don't believe that "Gray Matters" should've stayed in the closet? You can see for yourself. Ten Between The Lines readers can get a copy of the cliched comedy for F-R-E-E. So, even if you've seen the movie like in every other gay [...]
Never again, indeed
The reports that Clive Davis, the big kahuna of Kelly Clarkson's RCA label, didn't dig his "AI" prodigy's raucous disc didn't deter my sentiment for the sweet songbird's third album. At first. Though spiteful first-single "Never Again" is a tuneless [...]
Lucky f*ck
Forget that silly rabbit's foot. And don't even bother with a four-leaf clover. Michael Cunningham doesn't need any of those trinkets to lure him some serendipity. "I'm a lucky fuck," the out author declares. But Cunningham's career – an illustrious [...]
Zoe Lewis: The human yo-yo
Zoe Lewis June 30 Michigan Pride, Lansing http://www.zoelewis.com Bite into a sliced lemon. Breathe into a bag. Swallow some sugar. Hiccup home remedies could have their own Bible. But Zoe Lewis prefers the simple antidote: drinking water upside [...]
Straight up silly
'Hey Paula' Bravo C+ Anyone looking for stupid-slurry-simple Paula Abdul may want to turn to YouTube repeats of her embarrassing drunken days on "Good Day L.A." Or on a Fox affiliate. Or on TiVoed "American Idol" episodes. But, aside from an [...]
Bubbly, blunt & totally anti-Bush
Amber June 23 Menjo's, Detroit (313) 863-3934 http://www.menjosdetroit.com http://www.myspace.com/ambersings Amber's not one to filter herself. Ask her about President Bush, and she'll lash out with a harsh expletive. Ask her if she ever wished for [...]
Craving k.d.
k.d. lang and Lyle Lovett 8 p.m. June 27 Kresge Auditorium, Interlochen 8 p.m. June 28 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor http://www.kdlang.com Jeans are like cars. It's only time to clean them when their blue color doesn't look so blue anymore, and they [...]
Lansing folkie returns home to jam
Barb Barton with Rachel Alexander and Terri Stangl 8 p.m. June 23 Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing 855 Grove St. East Lansing Admission: Suggested donation $8-$20 http://www.barbbarton.com Barb Barton, a Lansing folk music fave [...]
Curl or hurl?
"Curl Girls" knows its audience. And it's not me. Though rippling waves, sand and sun tickle me like some heat-deprived Alaskan, the Logo six-part series, which premieres at 10 p.m. June 18, is like picking up some hunky but brainless dude: Easy on [...]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Queen Cox
Deborah Cox's first go at jazz doesn't fall into the fated karaoke-sounding rut. And with a voice as smooth as a twink and as elastic as a rubberband, the R'n'B crooner couldn't possibly have had any run-ins with reinventing the Queen of Blues Dinah [...]
Positive TV
Rachel Sandler's story will resonate: Girl gets knocked up, guy doesn't use a rubber, girl crumbles when his HIV-positive status leaks. The 17-year-old's frantic first-time spirals into a hellish nightmare that's chronicled on Lifetime's docu-style [...]