Chris Azzopardi
The Monkey Man
Guitar over his shoulder, Ryan Mintz saunters up to the adorned beverage counter at AJ's Cafe and orders a soy latte. He makes a special request: A mug. Saving a Styrofoam cup was a conscious go-green decision, as was his one-mile walk to the [...]
A Crazy Coaster
We have a love-hate relationship, me and technology. Right now, I'd marry it. Had it not been for Apple's iSight, the three front-ladies of BETTY, a two-decade-old estrogen rock(ish) band, would've had trouble connecting with Between The Lines [...]
Black, white and gay
DETROIT – As a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Sam Wagstaff left a mark on the late-20th century contemporary scene – and on the queer movement. Pre-"Will & Grace," being out was as risky as a subprime mortgage, but Wagstaff, who [...]
Pretty! Queer!
Lines between metrosexual and gay are blurrier than my eyes sans glasses, leaving us queers to wonder who sticks what in this never-ending sexuality guessing-game. So, thanks, Panic at the Disco for further confusing the heck out of us by making [...]
It's a Man's World on 'American Idol'
Dolly Parton. Mariah Carey. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Can season seven of "American Idol" be any gayer? Heck yes! By scooting a pretty-sure queer (top-10'er David Hernandez stripped! At a gay club!) and enlisting mentors whose homo legions easily [...]
Mary J: The Lost Interview
Back in January, Mary J. Blige strolled into the GM Design Center looking a little out of place. After all, this was Warren – not Hollywood. With her hands tucked into her jeans, she was cutely clad in a ski jacket, a beret, Louis Vuitton boots and [...]
Shelter': Cool, dude
For all the saliva-producing hunks, it'd be easier than Paris Hilton to call surfer-dude story "Shelter" just another gay movie. But think of the here! movie, which premieres on April 18, as the Lifetime equal of "Brokeback Mountain," and, aside [...]
Spell Breaker
Ellis gets loopy when she's cooped up in her 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan – or the "Green Machine," as she calls it. And the Minneapolis-based folkie is about to take the nearing-200,000-miles vehicle on tour, stopping in Ann Arbor at 8 p.m. April 16 at [...]
Sandra Bernhard: Forever Naked
Sandra Bernhard's erstwhile mid-century modern pad in Flint – now, she says, a "funky" and "depressing" abode – isn't what it used to be. Nor is Michigan. And the Queen of Candid, in typical Bernhard style, is quick to say so. "It's just gone to [...]