So many of us are just marking time or even laying low throughout the pandemic, but not veteran Hollywood photographer Michael Childers. Hot on the heels of the very successful Exhibit of his latest work at Melissa Morgan Gallery in Palm Springs: he participated in another Show that opened just last month. In EMERGENCE … Continue reading
Queer filmmaker Todd Stephens is on a mission. Over the past two decades, he has single-handedly done his level best to show that his hometown Sandusky, Ohio is a great place for members of the LGBTQ community to live. In 1998 he persuaded Lea DeLaria to join the cast of Edge of Seventeen a sweet … Continue reading
New Yorkers can finally get to taste the real Italian food that we Miamians have been raving about for a few years now. The people at the prestigious James Beard Foundation had the very good sense to invite Chef Giancarlo Cacciatori (known from childhood as Wendy) and his soon-to-be bride Valentina who own and run VIA … Continue reading
Gurinder Chadha’s well intended but rather stilted epic period drama about how the British badly managed their withdrawal from India exactly 70 years ago, lands in movie theaters at a time when the UK is now making rather a mess at leaving Europe too. In telling the tale of how Britain ended up splitting India … Continue reading
This was the first serious approach to homosexuality the cinema had ever made. Made in Britain in 1961 where, as in the US, being gay was still a crime, the movie was actually banned from American theaters simply because it used the word ‘homosexual’. The story is of a handsome young man called ‘Boy’ Barrett who … Continue reading