Chris Azzopardi
Gorefest or borefest?
Gay or straight, horror fans can agree on a couple of things. We like seeing severed heads bounce on the pavement like a basketball. And we never mind seeing zombies make out by munching on each other's stinky, green flesh. Horror geeks, Ghost House [...]
LaBelle rolls out reunion album
Hear Me Out LaBelle, "Back to Now" Even with modern brush strokes, the feisty soulful triad – Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendrix and Sarah Dash – is more back to then versus now, resuscitating the classic funk they were known for in their heyday. The [...]
Bi, 'L Word.' Hi, future.
Leisha Hailey, the sweet-as-sugar actress on "The L Word," can pretty much do it all – act, play guitar, sing, sell breakfast food and be hot. She's also a journalist, albeit on a lesbian soap opera, so what reporter wouldn't have shaky knees and [...]
Kink to the rescue
If a cowboy is hanging with some leather daddies at Exotica 4, it's a triumph in Vena's eyes – and the start to solving larger social issues? "I always thought that if the rest of the society were to adopt some of the atmosphere that we enjoy at [...]
Grand slam
When Kirk Latimer's buddy killed himself with a single bullet, it felt like he had been shot, too. It hurt, and the former Portage, Mich. teacher, who back then was finishing his last year at Henry Ford II High School in Sterling Heights, couldn't [...]
My Ferrick Lady
Sprawled across a roomy bed, Melissa Ferrick is staring at, as she jokingly says, "the suckers at the Hyatt." She's a lucky lady. Ferrick thought she and her band would be boarding at a Sheraton. Turns out they had a reservation at a nearby Westin, [...]
Rufus pleases Royal Oak crowd with moody solo set
At times, during Rufus Wainwright's solo show Oct. 18 in front of an intimate crowd at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, the theatrical-voiced charmer made Tori Amos look like Mary Poppins. Stripped of musical-flourishes that stamp the crooner's catalog, [...]
A (Porn) Star is Born
Like a coin, RJ Danvers has two sides. He's the type of guy who'd bend over backwards for his grandmother, picking her up and driving her to the Apple Store, like he plans to do after our interview. And on the flipside, he'd do the same – just not [...]
Five questions with Kate
What will you do if Sarah Palin gets into office? First of all, quit introducing that possibility into the world. I intend to stay in my beloved old country and try to make her life a living hell. How hot is Sarah Palin? Hot enough to ignite mobs [...]
The Wright Stuff
Rufus Wainwright likes it huge. Sound, that is. But when he makes a return visit locally at 8 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, the crooner will go for the simplistic: Just him, the piano – and, well, his charming sense of humor. From [...]
Confessions of our community
Have you had sex in a church? Are you gay, but hate rainbows? Have you accomplished something you never thought you would – like using a double-ended dildo? Three folks can say "yes," and they're telling us through a postcard they sent to [...]
Don't get on! Get off. Get out.
Like Clay Aiken, some people – and some things – don't need to come outta the closet. "Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild" should've been locked in there. As someone who was so over the first film's recipe – throw "American Pie" in blender, mix with [...]