Like most Americans my age, I grew up watching HBO and Cinemax in the 1980s. Those late-night movies depicting teens either getting fucked or slashed certainly skewed my thoughts on what high school would be like: lockers outside, gay bashing, and students who looked like they were 30. One thing I could also be sure […]
Will Gardner
Posted inQueer
It’s a Gay-Off!
A (Very) Scientific Experiment Answers the Question: Who Is the Most Gayest?
2008 Official Pride Guide
Posted inBooks
Thumpin’ It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today’s
by Jacques Berlinerblau (Westminster John Knox Press)
What would Jesus debate? In a recent interview, author Jacques Berlinerblau discusses Jesus Christ’s emergence as a political candidate (as seen on the website jesusin2008.com): “When you ask people, ‘Would you want Jesus to be your president?’ people would almost always answer yes, but different people have different Jesuses. It’s when Jesus enters the public […]
Posted inNews
Calling Dr. Laura
My “Conversation” with the AM Radio Morality Maven
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is one of the last people I would invite into my home. I’m exasperated by her disdain for premarital sex, premarital cohabitation, same-sex adoption, and single parenting (to name only a few). That said, I couldn’t wait to speak to her. In radio for over 30 years, Dr. Laura (who has a […]
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The Swing Voter of Staten Island
by Arthur Nersesian (Akashic)
Arthur Nersesian uses New York City not only for a mailing address, but as a perennial setting for his stories. His previous novels—from 1997’s terrific debut The Fuck-Up to 2004’s Unlubricated—take place in a recognizable-yet-unfamiliar New York. While the settings may be Nersesian’s own private Lower East Side and Tribeca, there are still enough points […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Cinderella
The theme of the Portland Opera’s 2007-2008 season is “Great Women of the Stage.” Indeed, this year’s operas include the greats—Carmen, Rodelinda, Aida, and… Cinderella? I will admit some Cinderella-related skepticism at first, but, considering Gioachino Rossini (The Barber of Seville) penned this opera, and that Rossini’s version differs slightly from the fairy tale, I […]
Posted inMusic
B-Positive
Beyoncé’s B’Day and Booty
So, you think I’m a sellout pussy for going to the Beyoncé show this weekend? Whatever. On Saturday, while your bitch is trouncing you at Lord of the Rings pinball at the Triple Nickel, the inconceivably gorgeous Beyoncé Knowles will be belting out “I’m a be like a waffle cone that’s drippin’ down to the […]
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Thom Pain (based on nothing)
Our Shoes are Red/The Performance Lab at PSU’s Lincoln Hall
When I saw Will Eno’s The Flu Season on stage two years ago, I was less impressed with the performance than the script—a clever, furtively informal piece whose threadbare plot was about much more than it seemed. Unfamiliar with Eno’s other work, I expected something similar from Thom Pain (based on nothing)—a plotless play that […]