Chris Azzopardi
Viva Forever?
Steven Wooder can't say he'll be there. Which means no zig-a-zig-ahhh-ing for the 43-year-old Mount Clemens man when the Spice Girls drown Detroit in girl power during their reunion tour. Well, unless he puts his mom on the market. "(I) told my [...]
Bedroom Beats
You know what sucks? Doin' it to the same ol' sex songs ("Sexual Healing"! "Justify My Love"!). Need a less-archaic foreplay-to-finish compilation to spice up the crib with that longtime lover or "friend" – or the person you're about to find online? [...]
Confessions of a Wannabe Superstar (With a Huge Penis)
Can't imagine there's a gay guy who sneers at shopping? Really. They exist. Stephen Guarino is living proof. The cast member of Logo's "The Big Gay Sketch Show," which returns for a second season on Feb. 5, cringes at the thought of going to a mall. [...]
Fat Girls' has big heart
Young writer-director scores with underdog story. Even without hefty humor. Been bullied? Then you'll feel Rodney. He's the guy who's always getting ragged on. And the one whose married-to-God mother (Deborah Theaker) is making it a bitch for him [...]
Catchin' up with Chris
Chris Pureka is an old friend. Or at least, after three interviews with the queer folkie, it seems so. Over the phone, we're very shoot-the-shit, talking about randomness – the sucky weather and how she still digs tempeh ruebens – and new (more [...]
Full of grace
A child's death is inconceivable. But Mary Griffith didn't have to imagine it; she lived it. When her son, Bobby, leaned backward off a bridge into oncoming traffic, taking his life at just 20, the fervent churchgoer's perfect world tumbled [...]
Gossip Girl
Perez Hilton's balls could very well be bigger than the mess Bush left for Obama. To hype his literary, er, trashy book debut, "Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up with the Hiltons," the self-proclaimed Queen of All Media recently [...]
Best beats of '07
Hear Me Out I have a headache. You see, from the umpteen CDs my ears have digested this year, I could only pick 10 that were super-duper sonic successes. T-E-N. That's like selecting the top-10 best meals you ate this year (which would be easier if [...]
Confession: Patty Griffin, I heart you
Never have I been so into a long-distance relationship. Or – not counting pre-pubescent obsession with Mariah Carey – a woman, really. Her sometimes-gentle, sometimes-gruff voice. Her ability to suck me into her dreary realm of fetal-position [...]
Funny farm
Something shocking happened near the end of our gabfest with Paula Poundstone: Her phone rang. Wow – right? Had you heard the ringtone, you would've thought so. You see, the quick-witted comedian, who's performing on Jan. 12 at the Brighton Center [...]
High hopes
Where's Amy Winehouse when you need her? That's what comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer's wondering as she stares at a pile of Christmas gifts, trying to figure out what the heck she'll do with them. She then focuses on the bathroom odds-and-ends [...]
Mary J. Blige works it on 'Growing Pains'
Could it be: Mary J. Blige, happy at last? Anyone who spun her Grammy-winning album "The Breakthrough" knows the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul dropped her drama – kinda – for some much-needed happiness. She found it in a man. That still doesn't mean the [...]