• Jake Makes It Easy (Cooking……and maybe more?)

    Jake Makes It Easy (Cooking……and maybe more?)

    ;   Let’s start by setting the record straight: I rarely step into our kitchen to cook.  It’s not that I don’t like eating, it’s just that I don’t like to have to accompany the journey food must undertake to land on my plate.  So I got quite excited when an email from A +…

  • Dirty Willy Designer Underwear : pee stained and ready to go

    Dirty Willy Designer Underwear : pee stained and ready to go

    Over the past decade, the New York-based fashion designer  WILLY CHAVARRIA  has created and cultivated a clothing brand (and a reputation) that sells his vision of peace, unity, and tolerance.  It’s helped him develop a hugely successful career and collect two consecutive CFDA American Menswear Designer of the Year awards and win him celebrity friends…

  • Joel   Hernandez : The Man Behind The Mask(s)

    Joel Hernandez : The Man Behind The Mask(s)

      I don’t  think we have seen or even thought about papier-mache since we left school many (many ) years ago, unlike queer Mexican artist  Joel Hernandez, who is just one of the contemporary craftspeople using papier-mâché in new and provocative ways. Hernandez now lives in SF, but en route there, he lived in Texas…

  • CinePride Film Festival  : a new 4 day queer film fest debuts in L.A.

    CinePride Film Festival : a new 4 day queer film fest debuts in L.A.

      Since OUTFEST  imploded a couple of years ago, Los Angeles has been without its own queer Film Festival, bit that is about to change. A brand new event, CinePride Film Festival is will make its debut this September  11th -14th.  The Organizers promise that the 4 day event will be a transformative celebration of…