Chris Azzopardi
Michigan: Possible
Campers passing a silver, vintage trailer dressed in tacky decorations – those pink flamingos are really something – can't help but stare. Situated among other RVs, this one is ueber-special: It's the loaned home to Chris Carter and John Simpson, [...]
Dolly Parton = Big Blast
Dolly Parton sashayed onto DTE Energy Music Theatre's stage squeezed into a blue-silver sequined gown – but she didn't need it. She sparkled louder than any shiny dress, like this one, which made her busty chest look like two disco balls. And on her [...]
A queer 'affair'?
Chris Wallace likes meat. Just not that kind. He, his other The White Tie Affair bandmates and their entourage are making a pit-stop at an A&W in Oregon ("No tax, baby!" he hoots), and Wallace, the cute pop-punk quintet's Energizer Bunny/lead [...]
Long 'time' coming
Just a hunch, but Matthew Marsh's upcoming gig at the Magic Bag in Ferndale won't be anything like his last – performing for a feisty and out-of-it bunch of geriatric nursing-home residents. While visiting his granny at an assisted living home in [...]
Can you Handler?
Chelsea Handler Book signing 5 p.m. Aug. 9 2800 S. Rochester Road Barnes & Noble, Rochester Hills 8 p.m. Aug. 9 Meadowbrook Amphitheatre, Rochester Hills http://www.palacenet.com You probably don't want to bring Chelsea Handler home to mom. [...]
Melissa brings down the 'House'
When Melissa Etheridge tells you that love can cure cancer, like she did during her "Revival Tour" on Aug. 3 to a packed Detroit Opera House, how can you argue with her? She's lived it. And even if she's wrong, music could very well do the job. It [...]
Life in plastic - it's fantastic
Dolly Parton 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston http://www.dollyparton.com Drag queens like to pretend they're Dolly Parton. And who can blame them? But it's Parton herself who plays up the glitzy, bright-pink, plastic (see cover) [...]
Thank you for being a friend
It almost seems too predictable to say I came out to my mom while "The Golden Girls" played on her bedroom television. But I sure did. And how fitting it was, considering the long-running show that was a night ritual between her and I during its [...]
Melissa Rocks!
7. SHE'S GOT A MUTE MAN And wouldn't we all dig one of those? Except hers – the Oscar for Best Song ("I Need to Wake Up" from Al Gore's docu-pic "An Inconvenient Truth") – is missing dangly bits. And that kind of sucks. Unless you're like Melissa. [...]
Coldplay - Gay?
Hear Me Out Coldplay, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" "Wanna know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay." Sure, we can't possibly ignore legions of swooning female fans and "straight" guy listeners, but that zinger from "40-Year-Old [...]
Ur So ... What?
Madonna was onto something when she publicly gushed – twice! – over pop's new "it" girl, Katy Perry, who had some words for the Michigan-spawned mama: "I would just tell her how cool it is … to have a mom – for especially like someone like her [...]
Where She Stands
Missy Higgins doesn't miss the kangaroos much. Ever since leaving homeland Australia for the United States to make her name more well-known here, the openly-bisexual silky-voiced musician could care less about seeing those high-jumping pouched [...]