Chris Azzopardi
The Quin Q&A
Tegan and Sara made a lot of noise last year – first on the most amped-up album of their crossover career and then indirectly via a juvenile dis song about the tune-making twins. From a stop on the Quin sisters' current tour to support "Sainthood" [...]
Singled Out
No joke: Jamie Pierce used to be a ballet dancer. Then he stumbled on his funny self, scoring a Top-10 spot at the Underground Comedy Festival's "Emerging Comics" competition at the Laugh Factory. For the 14th annual Michigan Lesbian and Gay [...]
Small talk with Little Boots
Walk a mile in Victoria Hesketh's Little Boots and you'll realize why every man over the rainbow hearts her. She's cute, fun and sounds like the second coming of Kylie. After posting a series of covers on YouTube, the gays' latest love is busting [...]
Hear Me Out: Little Boots gives us her 'Hands,' k.d. lang quenches a constant craving on best-of
Little Boots, 'Hands' Good pop doesn't work too hard. So luckily, few beads of sweat trickle from the electro shimmer of Victoria "Little Boots" Hesketh's much-anticipated stateside landing. Odds are, however, that you already knew the darling [...]
Out from the Poundstone Age
Never one for the computer, Paula Poundstone finally caved because people wouldn't stop gushing about the "stupid" thing. Now the longtime comedian's tweeting and friending in between writing another book, promoting her first live comedy album [...]
It's Not Just You
Talk about pressure. When Nicholas Downs nabbed the role of the charming, gay hopeless romantic in "Is It Just Me?," the director told him, half-jokingly, "I don't want to freak you out, but just so you know, the movie sort of rests on your [...]
Hear Me Out: Sade soothes on first album in a decade, not much love for 'Valentine's Day'
Sade, 'Soldier of Love' Sade doesn't come around very often, so to think she'd completely finagle her first album in a decade around the edgy martial beat of its namesake single was wishful thinking. The song's that good – twisting the band's [...]
Hollywood's Hot Mess
Ke$ha's so crazy she pees in wine bottles and pukes in closets. Because of that frat-boy behavior, she's just as easy to love as she is to hate. But try denying the power of her bratty brand of bust-a-move pop, so manipulated that it's almost [...]
Our Dirty Own
You think you've seen it all, and then you see Scooby-Doo masturbating. But, hey, we go to the Dirty Show to be shocked. And from Feb. 12-20 at Bert's Warehouse Theater in Detroit, you can expect to be, with naughty art that you've probably never [...]
Country queen Martina McBride hearts the homos
A mainstream country star coming out in support of the LGBT community is almost unheard of. But down-home diva Martina McBride, who performs with Trace Adkins at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Palace of Auburn Hills, followed queer-loving contemporaries [...]
Rick Castro: A Dirty Debut
"I saw street hustling as the last American frontier. A young man with no means could come to Hollywood and sell the only thing he had: his body. Keep in mind this was then; I have no interest in photographing hustlers now. The scene is over." "The [...]
Easy' Does It
If everyone thought like Girlyman, we could all live together in the fanciful cartoon world they're basking in on the cover of their fourth album. For this outing, last year's "Everything's Easy," the folk-pop, gender-bending trio – now, with a [...]