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Rocketman Will Make Elton John Look ‘Quite Ugly at Times’, Says Taron Egerton

Upcoming biopic Rocketman will make Elton John look “quite ugly at times,” the film’s star Taron Egerton revealed today. Egerton—who portrays Elton John in Rocketman—said the film begins with the pop-star going into rehab “in a real bad way” to get help for addiction. He said that it will depict the pop star as “broken and damaged” and praised Elton John for allowing them to show him at his “most vulnerable.” “I think it’s right at the heart of what makes Rocketman quite special,” Egerton said. He continued: “It’s also a story about someone who was not well becoming well.” Rocketman star Taron Egerton says there is […]

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Book Review: “The Stranger from the Sea”

At a time when European playwrights extolled the virtues of propriety and traditional family life, Henrik Ibsen sought to penetrate them. “If we look beneath the façade,” he asked in such plays as An Enemy of the People and A Doll’s House, “would 19th-century Europe like what it finds?” Paul Binding’s reimaging of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea is a worthwhile choice. The narrator of The Stranger from the Sea inhabits a setting that, like those in Ibsen’s plays, suppresses its truths through propriety and etiquette. Having relocated to the seaside town of Dengate to work at a newspaper, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges feels unsettled by a refrain: “Would you say that you are cheerful?” This ethos guidesthe lives of Dengate’s townspeople, including Martin’s over-dramatic landlady and […]

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‘Birds of the Borderlands’: Jordan Bryon’s Look at Gender and Sexual Identity in the Middle East

When the camera starts rolling on Birds of the Borderlands it is initially hard to work out if Australian genderqueer filmmaker /activist JORDAN BRYON is foolhardy or brave or equally part of both.  Bryon who prefers to use they, them, their pronouns on a whim took it upon themself to up and move to the country they had been named after. Their planned three month stay in Amman stretched to 18 months,  and they actually spent the next 5 years flitting all over the Middle East getting immersed in the lives of several LGBTQ people who’s sexuality was creating them major problems. […]

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“The Sound of Music” Occidental Choir Fundraiser at Rialto Cinemas April 6

Thursday April 4 @ 6:30 pm. One night only! Enjoy a family-friendly musical night out with the classic movie ‘The Sound of Music’  on the big screen at Rialto Cinemas (rialto cinemas.com)! Audience participation encouraged, all ages costume contest, prizes and fun! Proceeds benefit Occidental Community Choir’s New Risers Campaign. Come and sing along with us! Adults $15, Children $10. OccidentalChoir.org.

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Heartwood Crossing Live at Occidental Center for the Arts

Saturday March 23 @ 7 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts welcomes Heartwood Crossing, a Sonoma County-based band known for smart songwriting, moving vocals and rocking instrumentation that just won’t quit. Featuring seasoned performers Dave Monterey and Tim Sheehan, singer-songwriter Emily Lois, Daniel Magee on bass and Dan Ransford on percussion, this home grown band is sure to bring a good time to Occidental ! $15 Adv/$18 at door. Fine Refreshments. Art Gallery open. Wheelchair accessible. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465

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Papi Chulo :Matt Bomer Stars in John Butler’s Latest LGBT Drama

The openly gay Irish writer/director JOHN BUTLER follows his charming award-winning coming out tale HANDSOME DEVILwith an intriguing movie set in Los Angeles.  It’s the story of a good-looking local TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) who we first meet when he is having an on screen meltdown on live TV.  His very understanding producers hustle him off and insist he takes a long earned break which he reluctantly agrees to do. Back home in one of those spectacular only-in-Hollywood homes with a view to die for two landscapers are waiting for him to take away the large potted tree that sits in the […]

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‘The Fruit Machine’: A Doc Canada’s Past Persecution of the LGBT Community

For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the  US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay.  Particularly on those who had chosen to serve the Government or Country in any way.   It was Trudeau’s Prime Minister father  PIERRE who, following the UK’s lead in 1969, finally dicrimanlised homsoexuality paving the way for the ending of the witch hunt of gays and lesbians. SARAH FODEY’S compelling and rather […]

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Mister Rogers Was Bisexual and People Are Overjoyed

People are ecstatic about finding out that Fred Rogers, the star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, was bisexual. According to a biography of Rogers which came out last year, the children’s TV presenter told his openly gay friend Dr William Hirsch that if sexuality was a spectrum, “well, you know, I must be smack in the middle.” “Because I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive.” The book, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, also notes that in 1975, Rogers told The New York Times: “I’m not John Wayne, so consequently, for some people I’m not the model […]

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The Black Brothers Band! Occidental Center for the Arts

Friday, March 16 , 2019 @ 8 pm. The Black Brothers Band! Occidental Center for the Arts welcomes back the charismatic scions of Ireland’s famous singing Black Family- Michael and Shay Black- and their fine band, featuring famed pianist Eamonn Flynn (‘The Commitments’) with dynamic accordion player Felim Egan. Don’t miss The Black Brothers Band at OCA’s acoustically excellent venue! Their joy in performing, their love of a good story, and their charm and wit plus Irish humor make every day seem like St. Patrick’s Day! $24 Adv/$28 Door. Beer, wine and pub grub for sale. Wheelchair Accessible. Art Gallery open. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris […]

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Book Review: ‘Oranges’ By Gary Eldon Peter

A debut collection of linked short stories about love, loss, and intimacy, Oranges is a gentle look at what it means to come of age and grow older as a gay man in the Midwest. The slim collection of nine tales sketches the life of Michael Dolin, a civil lawyer who grew up closeted in Mason City, Iowa, before finding self-respect in Minneapolis as an adult. In spare prose, author Gary Eldon Peter portrays Michael’s lifelong journey toward inner peace with care and compassion. The first story, “Blankets,” opens the collection with the protagonist at his most vulnerable. A recent college graduate, Michael struggles […]

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