Arts & Entertainment

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“Youth in Revolt: The Adventures of Nick Twisp” Opens at The Raven in Windsor

  The hilarious, take-no-prisoners play about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager’s pining love for an intelligent girl- Released in 2009 as a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Jean Smart, Ray Liotta, Fred Willard, Mary Kay Place, Portia Doubleday and Justin Long- is about six months in the life of the world’s most dangerous teenager, Nick Twisp. California’s most precocious diarist, his ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transform from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open […]

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Emmy Nominations 2015 Spotlight ‘Game Of Thrones,’ ‘Mad Men’ And ‘Better Call Saul’

On Thursday, Cat Deeley and Uzo Aduba had the honor of announcing the nominees for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards live from the SilverScreen Theater in the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. And the nominees are… Outstanding Drama Series “Better Call Saul” “Game of Thrones” “Downton Abbey” “Homeland” “House of Cards” “Mad Men” “Orange is the New Black”  Outstanding Comedy Series “Louie” “Modern Family” “Parks and Recreation” “Silicon Valley” “Transparent” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” “Veep” Outstanding Lead Actor Drama Series Kyle Chandler, “Bloodline” Jeff Daniels, “Newsroom” Jon Hamm, “Mad Men” Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul” Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan” Kevin […]

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“Tapas” Tours Sonoma County with it’s Exciting New Short Plays

Pegasus Theater Company is taking Tapas, its 9th Annual New Short Play Festival, on the road. We’ll be serving up 11 performances of 7 tasty short plays by Northern California playwrights in 4 different towns over the course of 5 weekends. Jim Maresca and Rusty Thompson in Surveillance by Scott Kersnar Photograph by Noel Yates Sounds confusing? Here’s the roadmap to the places where Tapas will be presented, including the dates and times of the performances: June 12 & 13, at 8 pm, and June 14 at 2 pm, at the Jenner Community Center, 10398 Highway 1, Jenner. (Behind the […]

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New Millennium Writings Announces “Love Wins” Essay Competition

To celebrate the recent SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality, New Millennium Writings (NMW), an award-winning literary journal founded in 1996, is hosting a special “Love Wins” essay competition. NMW will call for essays asking people what the recent SCOTUS decision means to them and their community. The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in the NMW anthology and on their website. The contest will run from July 8th to August 31st. Over the past 20 years, New Millennium Writings has published more than 1,500 new and emerging writers and awarded over $200,000. In this competition, NMW will partner with two nonprofit organizations, Lambda Literary and Free2Luv®. NMW will donate $1,000 to each organization […]

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A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile” Wowed Audiences at Frameline

Sandra Bagaria a French Canadian Jewish girl from Montreal went online looking for love.  She thinks she has struck gold when she hooks up with a Syrian/American lesbian called Amina who is currently living in Damascus. Very quickly their emails to each other get hot and steamy as they exchange intimate naked photographs and engage in cyber-sex. Their connection is also very much on an emotional level and deepens significantly over the coming months. Amina confides that she is not just ‘out and proud’, but that her father is totally supportive of her sexuality, something of a rarity in the […]

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“Lord Montagu” Tells the Story of Britain’s Gayest Scandal

  This real-life story of Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, a quintessential member of the English aristocracy, is a remarkable tale of how he survived one of the most notorious sex scandals of the 20th Century that resulted in a prison term, and then regained his position in society totally forgiven.  It’s the stuff that Hollywood melodramas thrive on but back in the 1950’s when this occurred, the Studios would not have been brave enough or even ever have wanted to make a movie about ‘the love that dare not speak its name.’ Lord Montagu inherited his […]

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Holly Woodlawn, Warhol’s Great Superstar, Is In Very Bad Shape In L.A.

  Even if you haven’t seen Holly Woodlawn’s memorable work in seminal queer films such as Trash (legendary director George Cukor touted her work as worthy of an Oscar nomination) and Women in Revolt, you likely know her reputation from the immortal Lou Reed anthem “Walk on the Wild Side.” The late rock star singled out the pioneering trans entertainer, now 68 and forever linked to iconic pop artist Andy Warhol as one of his great self-proclaimed superstars, in the opening verse: Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her […]

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“Oriented” Portrays What Life if Like for Gay Arabs Living in Tel Aviv

Brit filmmaker Jake Witzenfeld’s impressive and heartwarming documentary thankfully settles down after a somewhat uneven start to become an intriguing snapshot of what life is like for gay Arabs living in a trendy suburb of Tel Aviv today.  He follows three extremely engaging best friends in their early twenties for 18 months through 2013 – 2014 when tensions between Gaza and Israel flared up yet again. There is Khader who appears to have ‘independent means’ as he comes from what seems to be like a prominent Muslim ‘mafia’ family, and he lives with David his Jewish boyfriend who is a […]

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A Gay Thirty-something Relationship Hits the Rocks in “Like You Mean It”

Thirty-something-year-old gay couple Mark and Jonah’s relationship is already looking shaky when they go out with their best friends to celebrate Mark’s latest birthday.  The evening doesn’t quite turn as planned when the friends announce that for the next three months leading up to their wedding they are allowing each other licence to have final flings.  The fact that this surprise announcement doesn’t faze Mark at all really concerns Jonah who, worried that Mark who is already slipping away from  him, may even want a similar arrangement. The men have reached a point when there is no affection, very infrequent sex, and […]

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What Happens When One of the Bros is “The Fourth Man Out”

  Adam fixes cars for a living and most nights he hangs out with his blue-collar buddies playing cards, watching sports, getting drunk and incessantly talking about hooking with big breasted girls like most 20 something-year-old single men do.  He’s very happy with all of that, except for the last part, as Adam has a secret that he thinks it is time he shared with his mates.  He’s gay. When he finally does manage to blurt it out his three buddies are stunned and confused. Especially his best friend Chris as the two of them have practically been having a […]

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