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James Reed’s THE BOB SPREAD is why we are watching the Winter Olympics
Photographer James Reed is the real reason that we have been glued to watching the Winter Olympics, particularly the bobsled racing. It is an expensive sport and so to raise the $70000 to get the U.S. Team to Beijing so Reed had the idea of creating a calendar of the entire squad nearly naked.…
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Alexander McQueen : storm chasing
Months after its stormy Spring/Summer 2022 show, Alexander McQueen has released a powerful short film celebrating the collection – and the London skyline that inspired it. McQueen creative director Sarah Burton had been inspired by storm chasers – a niche community of people who seek out severe weather, just for the thrill of it. She…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WILDHOOD a beautiful ‘two-spirit’ coming of age story
Wildhood is a beautiful queer coming of age story set within Canada’s first nation Mi’kmaq people, a community over 14,000 years old, based in rural Nova Scotia. The road movie introduces us to Link, (Phillip Lewitski), a Two-Spirit, half Mi’kmaq teenager, and his younger half-brother Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony). The term Two-Spirit loosely refers to…
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Radha Blank’s highly entertaining ‘The Forty-Year-Old- Version’ reviewed by Queerguru’s Janet Prolman
“The Forty-Year-Old- Version“ is a highly entertaining film written, directed by, and starring Radha Blank. The title, a play on words (remember “The 40-Year-Old-Virgin?”), signals that despite its heavy subtext of the sexism, racism, and ageism in the theater world, the tone and delivery are not without humor and a bit of spoofing, The…
