Chris Azzopardi
Mister 'Manners'
For years, Steven Petrow's been answering your questions about gay and lesbian life – everything from social-media etiquette to surviving the holidays. Now, he's answering ours. The nationally syndicated writer, known for his "Queeries" column [...]
Erika Jayne: 'Gay People are a Good Time'
Erika Jayne's never performed in Michigan before, so naturally when she does – at 6:30 p.m. June 5 at Hart Plaza (Main Stage) for Pride – the dance-pop vixen will make her Detroit-area debut in front of a bunch of gays. Recently, Jayne gave us a [...]
Kerli: Love Warrior
Kerli doesn't like to talk about gay people. She prefers seeing everyone as simply human beings, where there is no straight or gay, no black or white. "It really divides humans," the 24-year-old singer says. "I feel very weird saying, 'Oh, they're [...]
Pierre Fitch
Porn got Pierre Fitch's career rolling, but he didn't stop there – the Canadian cutie's been DJing for nearly three years. "I've always had a passion for music," he told us recently. And his sonic enthusiasm will make its way to the Detroit area on [...]
Hear Me Out: Not feeling the 'Love?' on Jennifer Lopez's new album
Jennifer Lopez, 'Love?' On her first album in four years, J.Lo isn't waiting for tonight – it's already here. There's debaucherous drinking and dancing on the hyper-slamming first single "On the Floor," leaning on the European dance craze with a [...]
Brent Everett's big surprise
Good thing a picture is worth a thousand words. We barely got that many out of Brent Everett during a recent chat with the porn star, who punctuated every statement with a giddy schoolgirl laugh and seemed to know better ways to work his mouth. And [...]
Hear Me Out: Brandi Carlile's best live CD features symphony
Brandi Carlile, 'Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony' No wonder Brandi Carlile's always releasing live music – her big, bellowy voice is best heard outside the studio, in all its rawness. This time it's with the Seattle Symphony, which [...]
Stevie Nicks talks gays, 'Glee' controversy and losing weight... with her own music?
Ten years have passed since Stevie Nicks released her last solo album, but she's still the same gay-loved goddess of earthy rock she built her legend on. The new release, "In Your Dreams," is exactly how the gypsy queen left us – with that uniform [...]
DVD Lowdown: 'Rabbit Hole,' 'Black Swan' and 'Phillip Morris'
'Rabbit Hole': Death drama done right For his third film, John Cameron Mitchell pulls back from the flamboyancy and sexiness marking his directing repertoire, which includes "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus," for this guileless meditation [...]
Hear Me Out: k.d. lang sings it loud - and lovely.
k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang, 'Sing it Loud' On "Sing it Loud," k.d. lang's first album in 20 years with a core band, she does just that – blasting through the big-sounding shell of opener "I Confess" with that creamy croon of hers. It's like [...]
Just Jessie
"Who You Are" is the title of Jessie J's debut album, but it's also what everyone's been wondering about the English artist herself. Outside of the short black bob and that ear-wormy, gender-bending single "Do It Like a Dude," everyone has [...]
DVD Lowdown: 'Black Swan' and 'Phillip Morris'
'Black Swan': Killing me softly The who-danced-what hoopla surrounding the berserk ballerina movie Natalie Portman won a Best Actress Oscar for is inconsequential to how fantastically she plays a self-destructive dancer. Whether the actress did [...]