D'Anne Witkowski
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Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled Melissa Etheridge (Island) Seventeen years after her first self-titled album, Melissa Etheridge has her first greatest hits collection. It's fitting that the record opens with a cover of Tom Petty's "Refugee" [...]
Reel Pride film fest begins Oct. 21
ROYAL OAK – With a new fall date and a line up that looks to be the festival's best ever, Triangle Foundation's Reel Pride Michigan's GLBT Film Fest is the place to be as the cooler October weather sets in. Reel Pride is Michigan's largest LGBT film [...]
Modern maven
He's designed housewares for Target. He has his own line of chairs and ottomans for La-Z-Boy. He's provided dorm decorating tips in Seventeen Magazine. He just had his own five-part special on HGTV. He's cute as a button, and he's handy with tools [...]
Spend a madcap summer on 'Côte d'Azur'
If hearing someone describe a film as "madcap" and "very French" makes you clutch your Adam Sandler DVD collection tight to your chest, you may want to vacation somewhere other than "C√¥te d'Azur" (also known as "Crustacés et coquillages"). This [...]
Creep of the Week: The Pentagon
The Pentagon Last week it was the Vatican, this week it's the Pentagon. I'm on a roll taking on mega-big institutions. I'm keeping an eye out for black helicopters piloted by Cardinal Maida outside of my office window. But I have to take the [...]
Fall into queer music
DETROIT – October will be a queer music fan's dream come true when some of the hottest LGBT acts head to Detroit and Ann Arbor. Here's a run down of shows you won't want to miss. Bob Mould Kick off the month with gay punk rock icon Bob Mould on [...]
Lily Tomlin comes to EMU Oct. 1
YPSILANTI – Award-winning comedian and actress Lily Tomlin will grace the stage at Pease Auditorium at Eastern Michigan University for a performance of "classic" Tomlin on Saturday, Oct. 1. For a minimum $100 donation to EMU's Stonewall Scholarship [...]
Praise Fellowship moves location due to fire
MADISON HEIGHTS – Praise Fellowship Christian Church will not be meeting in their usual Madison Heights storefront due to a fire that broke out in an adjacent storefront last week. Praise Fellowship's Rev. Rick Green told BTL that although his [...]
Creep of the Week: The Vatican
The Vatican The evangelical Christians and the Catholic Church may disagree on some pretty big things, but there's one thing they all agree on: When all else fails, blame the gays! Such is the thinking behind the terrible child sexual abuse scandal [...]
Granholm to LGBT community: keep fighting for equality
DEARBORN – The Eleventh Annual Triangle Foundation Dinner Event boasted a long list of big names in Michigan politics in attendance including senators, representatives, school board members and members of the Detroit City Council. Topping the list [...]
Slash and burn: Fire Island meets Freddy in 'HellBent'
Don't you hate it when a psycho in a Satan mask hacks up everyone at your Halloween party? That's more or less the premise of "HellBent," which touts itself as the first gay slasher flick. The film follows a group of handsome West Hollywood gay boys [...]
AIDS Walk Michigan to donate portion of proceeds to Katrina fund
DETROIT – AIDS Walk Michigan announced Sept. 8 that they will donate a portion of their profit from this year's walks to the Katrina HIV/AIDS Emergency Fund at the National AIDS Fund. The decision was made by the Walk's board members via an email [...]