culture
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Mondays in Miami
Whilst the rest of the world may be dealing with the wrath of winter and staying inside and trying to keep warm, this is how we spend Mondays in Miami. Doing Salsa in the sunshine. This afternoon the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting a FREE hour-long Salsa Workshop for all…
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Wish We Were Here : Chateau Engalin
You don’t have to be gay to be fabulous but when you are restoring an exquisite 18th-century residence and ancient bastide set amidst the rolling pastures of Gascony in the South-West of France, it certainly helps. Award-winning London restaurateur Marwan Badran and his partner business entrepreneur Jeremy Grose have spent 10 years bringing this beautiful chateau…
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Keeping love alive by adding another person is fraught with possibilties
Here TV’s LGBTQ drama series FALLING FOR ANGELS has been looking at every aspect of modern-day relationships that it finds in several very distinct neighborhoods of Los Angeles which have a significant gay community. They include Bel Air, Leimert Park, Boyle Heights, Koreatown, Malibu and Silver Lake. The latter one is the setting for Episode 5…
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Fabrio da Motta getting all tied up in knots
The Sao Paulo based Brazilian photographer Fabio da Motta has developed quite an affinity with ‘shibari’ which is an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage. He has taken a series of very powerful images that explore bondage as an integral part of his compositions. His stunning body of work is very inspired by…