Chris Azzopardi
Have no 'Doubt,' the film is holy-crap good
Translating a play into a motion picture is much like being an unprotected-sex-seeking whore: It's risky business. "Doubt" knows. After premiering off-Broadway in 2004 – and winning lady-loving Cherry Jones, who played Sister Aloysius, a Tony Award [...]
Home-related reads
1. "Super Natural Home: Improve Your Health, Home, and Planet – One Room at a Time," Beth Greer, Rodale Books, $15.95 Not anxious enough? Beth Greer's make-good book exacerbates the worry wart in all of us by making note of things to tiptoe around [...]
Hear Me Out
Indigo Girls, 'Poseidon and the Bitter Bug' Even with some solid solo projects, there's still nothing quite like Emily Saliers and Amy Ray: The Lesbian Yin-Yang. Those rich harmonies? Hard to live without. They're in full-force on their major label [...]
I Love You, 'Man'
Even straight guys need a man, as Peter Klaven (the loveable Paul Rudd), who needs groomsmen to stand up in his wedding, finds out in the hilariously homo-ish "I Love You, Man." The concept – guy-meeting-guy for platonic good times – is all a tad [...]
Saving the earth one song at a time
There was a lot of carpooling involved in the making of Lansing duo Nervous but Excited's seventh release. During the year it took to write and record "anchors: {the green album}," which drops April 7, Kate Peterson and Sarah Cleaver kept tabs on [...]
Bringing the LOLs
Ian Harvie Age: I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours. Location: Los Angeles. Other jobs: Pumping gas, care attendant for people with disabilities and Web developer. Have you tried bringing sexy back? Back? I'd had to have had it in order to [...]
Hear Me Out
Lily Allen, 'It's Not Me, It's You' We could use more Lily Allens in the world. That is, ballsy smarty-pants who say whatever flies off their tongues (especially when it's about narrow minds), a non-issue for this British starlet who became known [...]
Love-hate with Lisa Lampanelli
We've had Lisa Lampanelli to ourselves a couple of times already. So we decided to share, letting our readers do the dirty work for us. She wasn't happy about that. "I hate my fans," the insult comic grunts. "Fuck them all. You are, to me, nothing. [...]
Model behavior
J.E. Bright was already a fan of gave-fave "America's Next Top Model" when he was hired to write a book based on the reality show. It took him about five months to put the heavily illustrated how-to-look-beautiful manual together (which comes out [...]
Got 'Milk'?
DVD 411 'Milk' "Milk" isn't just a movie. When it was released, during the discouraging passage of California's Prop. 8, it became an unassuming statement to right-wing bigots. But because the biopic about Harvey Milk, the gunned-down gay [...]
Hair and there
A pair of scissors wrapped in swirls of hair is inked on Dwight Thomas' right arm. It's the tattoo he got on the same day he signed the lease for Thomas Blondi Salon, the 27-year-old's first hairdo-styling abode. Unhappy with his job at a strip-mall [...]
Queers like country, too
Liking country music, as a gay, is about as wrong as wearing socks with sandals. Or so we've been taught, constantly told we can only like divas whose voices can crack glass or beats that are repetitive as an argyle sweater. But if Pink said, [...]