Chris Azzopardi
BTL chats with Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver had an icky alien burst out of her chest, so a chilly Royal Oak afternoon is nothing. Several days after our phone interview, where Weaver was shooting in the setting for the Griffith family home, she wrapped herself in a hoodie and [...]
Friends Forever
Sinking into a comfy couch situated against the back wall of the Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn's lounge, Chantal Chamandy can't decide: White wine or juice? When the waitress saunters toward the long-locked Canadian, she's still indecisive. Finally, she [...]
Michigan goes Hollywood
Like something out of Hollywood, Sigourney Weaver scoots out of the prop tent to join a parade procession every time an ear-piercing horn roars. Except this isn't Tinseltown; this is Royal Oak – or, rather, 1984 San Francisco, the setting for the [...]
Pimp your pooch
Our pooches deserve pampering. After all, we spend our days filing, typing, serving, cleaning – and they so charmingly snooze, and eat, and play, and snooze some more. OK, so they're pretty damn lazy, but they also make super-duper BFFs – and [...]
True Colors Tour: The Most 'Color'-ful Moments
The crowd's clothes were like a box of Crayola crayons when the second annual five-hour True Colors Tour stopped on June 11 at DTE Energy Music Theatre – but vibrancy wasn't just colored on a T-shirt. Host Carson Kressley was "smitten with the [...]
Lifetime film continues shooting in metro Detroit
Since late May, the cast and crew of Lifetime's "Prayers for Bobby" has made metro Detroit its shooting site for the movie adaptation of out journalist Leroy Aarons' classic gay tale – and now they want you. And your cut-off shorts. "We are looking [...]
Best Kathy Quips
Has Kathy Griffin missed her gays as much as we've missed her? If previews for the fourth season of "My Life on the D-List," which launches nearly a year after the third, are any sign, yep, she certainly has. The hour-long premier, airing at 9 p.m. [...]
Mess'-y Zohan
When you get hair made "silky-smooth" by Zohan, you get a little more than you paid for. Well, actually, you get a lot more, including one big bush and a bang. Too bad the latest Adam Sandler vehicle, "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," doesn't promise [...]
Michigan's Makeover
Chris Carter and John Simpson can't really guarantee they'll convince the Michigan Court of Appeals to give same-sex couple benefits. But when they come to Saugatuck to shoot the upcoming season of their reality show, some lonesome heart will find [...]
Aunt Cyndi
Cyndi Lauper doesn't want to scare you. So, when she bebops into Michigan for the True Colors Tour sequel, those bright-and-blinding '80s get-ups – what she calls her "own personal museum pieces" – aren't escaping from her New York attic. The [...]
You Oughta Know
Rachael Sage's brief stint with a married man sounds like a blueprint for a bad country song – or a pissy Alanis rock rant. But, nope, the angelic-voiced pianist, whose latest self-produced album drops June 10, employs a fast-paced fusion of [...]
{ITAL Over} the Rainbow
Eric Himan doesn't need to show pride by looking like the Color Wheel. His music speaks for itself: "I was not raised the way you were," he fiercely spouts on his latest album, "and, yes, I'm glad." On "Resonate," his sixth studio album, the [...]