Chris Azzopardi
Hear Me Out: Best Beats of 2009
My best affairs of 2009 have been with women. Now, of course, this means aural relations with pop powerhouses, dance-floor fiends and sweet-ass singer-songwriters. Relentlessly, they've penetrated my hearing holes, becoming more than casual [...]
It's 'Complicated' - but any good?
Two words are all it takes to turn Meryl Streep's straight-laced spinster divorcee into a saucy sexpot. "Let go," her shrink's broad advice, apparently equates to this: smoke pot, embrace your naked out-of-whack body, and flaunt it in front of your [...]
This New Year's, live out loud
LOL: You thought it only meant laugh out loud, didn't you? Replace laugh with living, and say hi to Saudia and Michelle Major, business/life partners who run LGBT party promoter Living Out Loud, LLC. Do just that on New Year's Eve, as the ladies [...]
Hear Me Out: Adam Lambert's debut doesn't suck, Lady Gaga parts her poker face
Adam Lambert Adam Lambert, 'For Your Entertainment' Judging the guylinered gay based solely on his sexually superfluous shot at being, uh, "spontaneously artistic" during the American Music Awards wouldn't be fair. He needed none of the pseudo [...]
Queer 'Year'
Performance artist Krystine at Motor City Pride. Three-hundred and 65 photos, and the only one Wayne State Press – the publisher of John Sobczak's "A Motor City Year," a snapshot look-see into Detroit life – had quibbles over was the Motor City [...]
Norah Jones' pretty (boring) latest, Pink joins the circus
Hear Me Out Norah Jones, "The Fall" Norah Jones is a big tease. All that talk about a rock remodel, an added oomph to her dozy ditties that might fend off the Red Bull? With thin layers of guitar licks and less of a piano push, it's here. But [...]
The dark side (the other one)
The gays get a lot of love-hate in Lisa Lampanelli's memoir, "Chocolate, Please": "If it wasn't for gay guys, us fat chicks would have no friends." For a while there, Lisa Lampanelli – acidic-tongued comedienne extraordinaire – seemed ostensibly [...]
Straight Guy, Gay World
DJ Dave Aude talks about mixing for the music industry's top dogs Dave Audé might be the gayest non-gay person you don't know. But you've probably heard his work – mixes of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" and The Pussycat Dolls' "When I Grow Up," both part [...]
Bruno': fab or drab on DVD?
"Bruno," the fussed-over Sacha Baron Cohen film, goes where no man has before … like into the ass of Milli Vanilli's spirit. The film, available on DVD tomorrow, will disgust and disturb even the dirtiest minds with its superfluous sex and pokes at [...]
Hear Me Out: Feel 'Glee'-ful with new soundtrack, 'Twilight' music doesn't suck
'Glee: The Music, Volume 1' Skittles encourage you to taste the rainbow, but have you heard it? You can with songs from the gay-tastic Fox musical romp "Glee" – a safe, legal and cheaper alternative to ecstasy. Television's Velveeta charmer has [...]
Eating Out' sequel leaves you hungry
A bunch of beefy saliva-making men – served buffet-style – sounds good. But when it involves the two innuendo-laced words "Eating Out"? Not so much. And so here we have it (even though it's hard to imagine who'd want it): "Eating Out 3: All You Can [...]