Chris Azzopardi
Hear Me Out: Melissa Etheridge returns to rockin' roots on 'Fearless Love.' Plus: Erykah Badu gets naked
Melissa Etheridge, 'Fearless Love' Rockin' riffs, soaring runs and that unbreakable soul that even cancer couldn't stop – Melissa Etheridge welcomes back the slamming sound that made her a rock goddess. Tweaked, though, with some modern U2 [...]
Introducing Boy Gourmet
David Custer doesn't claim to be a culinary queen, but he knows the trick to keeping his guests happy. He's had help from local mothers who chipped in their own specialty recipes for the TV anchor-turned-cook's book, "Michigan Moms Make it [...]
Wild Child: A Cherie Currie Q&A
Never did Cherie Currie think her life – the drugs, drama and debauchery – would be part of a movie. She still can't believe it. But as Currie tells us, from a suite at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham last week, how unfathomable it is that Dakota [...]
The film must go on
The same week Barbara Troy got the go-ahead from the state on her short film, she also received some bad news: She had breast cancer. But that didn't stop the Pleasant Ridge resident from shooting "Best Girlfriends," her mini movie that's part of [...]
Legally Lovable
Omigod, you guys: Laura Bell Bundy is, like, totally cool with you. That she'll have a country album out on April 13 in a genre that has often been known for being conservative and not so vocal on queer issues doesn't mean the Kentucky cutie won't [...]
Getting Randy
Randal Turner jokes that the semi-shirtless photos on his Facebook page would be appropriate for our publication – which he keeps wanting to call Between The Sheets in honor of the whore he's portraying in Mozart's "Don Giovanni." The opera singer [...]
Go, Jonsi! Sigur Ros singer's flamboyant solo debut is amazing. Plus: Bitch's bitchin' second CD.
Hear Me Out Jonsi, 'Go' You won't understand much of what Jonsi Birgisson, the gay bandleader of Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros, sings on his solo outing. But here's the gist of it: Life is beautiful. Live it. Feel it. Make out. All that [...]
Classical goes queer
Something's concocting in Cameron Carpenter's outrageous mind regarding the garb he'll wear for his local engagement. It's a hodgepodge of khakis, a fishing vest, a ratty corduroy jacket over a button-down shirt from the '80s, a large pocket [...]
Tret-ing along
Tret Fure's 16-year-old self wouldn't be happy with her. She never made it as big as she imagined herself being as a teenager, but after four decades in the business, her pride stands tall in what she has accomplished: her dense song catalog, [...]
Goldfrapp is 'Head First' in retro-glam, Woodpigeon's third album soars
Hear Me Out Goldfrapp, 'Head First' Remember how desperately you wanted to get your "Supernature"-style groove on during the release of the British duo's 2008 dance-ditching release, "Seventh Tree"? Now you can. Whimsical introspectiveness takes [...]
The (heart)beat goes on
However cheesy, gay or embarrassing the music on your iPod is, it doesn't matter as long as it makes you move. After all, they make earbuds for a reason: So no one else has to hear what's coming out of them. What does, though, is one of the best [...]
Ann Arbor Film Festival: 'The Gayest Ever'
ANN ARBOR – The Ann Arbor Film Festival explores "the new world of independent cinema" at the 48th festival, taking place March 23-29. With 33 film screenings, daily free events, educational opportunities and multiple world premieres, [...]