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Home & Yard Blvd. Section
These days, terms like “carbon footprint” are as fashionable as a pair of Mezlan Chets. But to Dan Miller, Vice President of Wenzel Heating and Air Conditioning, such jargon is increasingly part of his daily work. Specifically, the word “green” is becoming as common as mercury and mufflers—and such green isn’t […]
On The Runway Section
Hot picks from MOA® Trend Specialist Sara Rogers
“Green” is the new black this season, and anything organic and all-natural tops the list of must-haves. With eco-friendly products showing up everywhere from the grocery store to your favorite boutique, it’s getting easier than ever to help Mother Earth – and now you can […]
Dear Ms. Behavior:
I hooked up with Tina last summer, when I was drinking a lot, still hurting from my last relationship, and just looking for recreational sex. We started out having great sex (everywhere!), and both continued hooking up with others.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve stopped drinking, and I’m trying to “cultivate self-esteem,” […]
Across
1 Hairspray list
5 Ab Fab network
8 Whitman’s dooryard bloomers
14 Bars for gay chefs?
15 Org. that will get you a map to Provincetown
16 Lacking family values
17 Porn actor Sulik
18 Tattoo’s place, perhaps
19 With 20-Across, Disney animated classic
20 See 19-Across
23 One who goes after your honey
24 Commemorations at Beth Chayim Chadashim
25 Roseanne, once and again
26 Warwick’s ___ […]
The biggest cock. The most ripped abs. The prettiest face. Sometimes the whole gay world seems fixated on physical fabulousness. But not everyone is in pursuit of the Impossible Dream. Says one man who’d easily qualify as “very good-looking” himself, “Give me an average guy every time.”
Sure, many men want a boy just like the […]
On February 24 (deo volente), the 80th Oscars, or Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards, takes place at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, televised live by ABC. Simultaneously, Minneapolis’s Chambers Hotel will be alight with myriad big screens, bringing the proceedings to VIP guests celebrating Oscar Night® Minnesota 2008. The […]
National & International News
National News
Disgraced Pastor Cuts Ties with Old Church
Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, has ended his official relationship with the megachurch he founded. He was fired from New Life in November 2006, after he admitted to “sexual immorality” when allegations surfaced that he visited a gay male […]
Though she did not self-identify publicly as lesbian or bisexual, photographer Ruth Bernhard—renowned for her abstract still lifes and female nudes—had enduring romantic relationships with both women and men over the course of her lifetime.
Bernhard was born near Berlin in 1905. Her parents divorced when she was 2, and her mother left for the United […]
I always have known that we same-sex couples are happier than our opposite-sex counterparts. Maybe it has something to do with our living up to that “gay” moniker. Maybe it’s because we join together with such a strong bond that as couples, we can weather the possibility of our family, friends, and neighbors rejecting us. […]
When we think of the Jim Crow laws enacted in the South after the Civil War and Reconstruction, “colored only” toilets, water fountains, and seating at the back of the bus may come to mind. All dreadful strictures, but the deeper methods of oppression underlying those examples were systematized viciously.
Gary Clark Jr.
John Sayles’s new film, […]
Distortion
The Magnetic Fields
Well, the title certainly is truth in advertising. Stephin Merritt goes all The Jesus and Mary Chain here, but like those legendary ’80s feedback mavens, this album has no shortage of songs beneath all the fuzz. You have to understand that I adored the early The Jesus and Mary Chain (their music from […]
Warming the North-land, The Flame—the third GLBT bar in Superior, Wisconsin—opened January 7 on Tower Avenue, the city’s “Main Street,” just south of the library. Alvin Berg and Vince Nelson, co-owners of the new establishment, are life partners of 22 years. Both are well-known in the local community.
The Flame co-owners Alvin Berg (left) and Vince […]
Kath and Kim Try Out an American Accent
Translating a hit show from another country can be tricky. For every hit like Queer as Folk or Ugly Betty is a Coupling or a failed Absolutely Fabulous pilot that no one ever sees. But the hit Australian comedy Kath & Kim (a sort of down-market Ab Fab), […]
Guy Baldwin, Michael Thorn, and Patrick Califia will be featured speakers at Leather Leadership Conference (LLC) XII, April 11-13, in San Francisco.
April. San Francisco. Leather. Any questions? Why would you not be there?
If you plan to go, register soon—prices go up after February 29.
Now in its 12th year, LLC is one of the leather/BDSM/fetish community’s […]
I always have loved Minneapolis, which is why, after only a couple short years of living in Downtown St. Paul, I returned to the other side of the river. I especially love South Minneapolis, which has a warm spot in my heart from my having lived in the teeniest, tiniest of Uptown apartments in those […]
How does one produce a theme-party based on an awards show that might not happen because of the union strike? Well, you create your own reality—welcome to my world. Since I was 12, I have celebrated the Academy Awards, one way or another.
A Lerma Oscar bash. Photo by Chad A. Olson
As a young boy, I […]
As recently as the mid-1990s, relatively few visitors spent time in Chelsea, the neighborhood on Manhattan’s west side between Midtown and Greenwich Village. Today, however, Chelsea abounds with gay bars, cool restaurants, diverting shops, avant-garde galleries, and an increasing number of hotels. It’s become arguably the city’s hottest destination for gay visitors, and a wonderful […]
The Kind of Girl I Am
by Julia Watts. Spinsters Ink
346 pages
$14.95 paper
Watts brings fresh zest to a timeworn plot about an ambitious girl, born into gritty poverty, who draws on plucky intelligence and blazing beauty to escape her wretched family. Her climb to the top—and the terrible tumble that follows—is built on the willing backs […]
The January 28 Time Magazine devoted its cover and feature stories to the “science of romance” in a number of essays, one of which was John Cloud’s “Are Gay Relationships Different?” His relationship with his partner Michael, Cloud reported, lasted seven-and-a-half years, and ended through “no one’s fault.” (Cloud offers the interesting statistic from the […]
To avid fans of Bravo TV’s Project Runway, Jack Mackenroth is the one who got away. For non-Project Runway fans, he is the really hot guy on the cover of this magazine. But there’s a lot more to this 38-year-old fashion designer from Washington State than meets the eye, though we won’t hold it against […]
It sometimes can be difficult to justify a night on the town. But on the morning of March 9, you’ll be able to look in the mirror, and say, “My partying helped fight AIDS.”
If you’re wondering how, the answer is one word: DIVA. On the evening of March 8, DIVA MN’s annual fashion show is […]
The onset of Minnesota’s coldest weeks can mean only one thing—the 2008 legislative session is right around the corner. As representatives and senators emerge from their respective corners of the state, Project 515’s legislative plan is well under way.
But first, what is Project 515? We are a newly formed advocacy group with the focused goal […]
Ann DeGroot. Photo by Sophia HantzesAnn DeGroot Leaves OutFront Minnesota
Ann DeGroot, Executive Director of OutFront Minnesota since 1987, has resigned, citing personal reasons. Her last day was February 8. She was one of the founders of the organization, formerly called the Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council.
In a letter on an OutFront Minnesota E-News, DeGroot […]
Lyn Lake Chiropractic
Lyn Lake Chiropractic on Lyndale Avenue in Minneapolis offers a broad range of services: chiropractic care, massage therapy, and rehabilitation, especially for sports and automobile accident injuries. It is endorsed by the Twin Cities Marathon as an official chiropractor.
The office has two certified practitioners: Dr. Kevin Schreifels has been at Lyn Lake for […]
Many realtors find their passion for the industry later in life—not so for Brad Palecek of Edina Realty, who says, “It’s really something I wanted to do my entire life! I wanted to do it in high school, and decided I better go to college and get my degree. I did that, and then started […]
Wolfgang, Rodolfo, Paulo, Jeff—as teenagers, they all played Ping-Pong™. They were good. But they grew up, went to college, got jobs, came to terms with being gay, and had no time to smash a little white ball across a small green table. Eventually, though, they realized that life is more than going to work and […]
On The Runway Section
“I’ve never considered myself in the fashion scene. I simply love graphics,” Paul Jacober states. Miami Beach Cool may be known through the styles of its hottest new designer. Jacober, a man who claims he’s still trying to figure out the fashion world, has created some of the sexiest new T-shirts hitting […]
Before—long before—the Guthrie, there was theater in this town. In fact, that’s a major reason Sir Tyrone Guthrie gave for locating his American presence here. Twin Cities theater buffs were so passionate about the art form that they didn’t wait for Actors Equity pros to get their act together. They organized community theaters, and put […]
Feb. 15-28 The Sun glides into psychic Pisces this period. Let’s promise to add a little intuition to our best-laid plans. Go with your gut, and taste the best that life has to offer. No, even better…!
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 20)
Rams are in the pink this period, as the Sun enters Pisces. Not only can you […]
College freshmen continued their decade-long upward trend of support for gay marriage in fall 2007, according to a mammoth annual survey of more than 270,000 freshmen at 356 colleges and universities just released by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
One year earlier, in fall 2006, 61.2 percent of […]
My bank and I never really had the honeymoon period that I’d enjoyed with other institutions, which more readily overlooked my lapses in honor and solvency to be in business with a problematic flake. I had made a number of sincere attempts to get the bank on my good side—even resorting to stamping “insufficient funds” […]
A few years ago, my friends and I invented a party game. The rules are as follows:
• Pick any actress who starred in a 1970 or 1980 sitcom and at least one Lifetime movie. She will be your persona.
• Then, select an actress from the same time period you’d like to be your girlfriend.
The game […]
“It’s a great way to bring together the communities,” Jillian says. Ashley agrees: “This is a community within a community.” She’s not referring to the physical place, which happens to be an Olive Garden in Bloomington, but the eight people having dinner together.
What’s the group? I’ll give you a hint. They are fighting for the […]
Hey Girl!
Through Feb. 17
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave., Mpls.
(612) 375-7600
www.walkerart.org
Hey Girl! Photo by Steirischerbst/ManningerMy Fair Lady
Through Mar. 2
Orpheum Theatre
910 Hennepin Ave., Mpls.
(612) 673-0404
www.HennepinTheatreDistrict.org
Two major transatlantic sensations are playing Minneapolis.
For years, feminist author Nor Hall (The Moon and the Virgin, SHE Captains) has urged Walker Art Center to host Romeo Castelluci, the controversial Italian theater artist […]