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Baranski’s Timing

Baranski’s Timing

BY DAVID NOH | I  have been enslaved by the comic talent of Christine Baranski ever since seeing her in John Guare’s brilliant classic “The House of Blue Leaves.” As the endearingly coarse, deliriously deluded Bunny Flingus, she had a moment when she fantasized about her loser composer lover, Artie, winning an Oscar, and she said, “And [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Mayor’s Race Gets More Complicated, But Advantage is Still Quin

BY NATHAN RILEY | Chris Quinn remains the frontrunner in the race for mayor, but she is not likely to be win the Democratic nomination flat out in the September 10 primary election. The City Council speaker’s leg up among her party’s field has been narrowing, but she had enjoyed such a large lead that this [...]

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Mothers’ Day and the Queer Kitchen

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | One of the few times I’ve been back to Kentucky in the last zillion years, my mother offered to make lunch if I came over. The menu turned out to be frozen pizza and brownies made from a mix, and for that I was truly grateful. The woman’s a rotten cook. Mostly [...]

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A Disappearing World’s Splendor and Ugliness

A Disappearing World’s Splendor and Ugliness

BY STEVE ERICKSON | Why has Wang Bing, one of the most important Chinese directors of his generation, received so little attention in the US? Anthology Film Archives has played all three of his documentaries, but even they haven’t been able to show his sole narrative film, “The Ditch” — though not for lack of trying. [...]

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Wagner All Over

Wagner All Over

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | Richard Wagner’s bicentennial, celebrated by the Met with Francois Girard’s splendid new “Parsifal” and Robert Lepage’s misconceived “Ring” — an achievement as empty as Otto Schenk’s kitschy realism, and less popular — also spurred ambitions elsewhere. Strasbourg’s Opéra du Rhin, on April 2, mounted a new “Tannhäuser,” Keith Warner’s ambitious, often visually striking, [...]

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First Male Athlete from Big Four US Professional Sports Comes Out

First Male Athlete from Big Four US Professional Sports Comes Out

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” So begins Jason Collins’ cover story in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated, in which he became the first player in the four major North American male professional leagues –– the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, Major League Baseball, [...]

April 29, 201311 CommentsRead More

Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

BY BRIAN McCORMICK | Like the annual migration of the monarch butterflies or the gray whales, the similarly spectacular and mighty Stephen Petronio Company returns to the Joyce Theater to give birth to a new creation. The new dance, “Like Lazarus Did (LLD 4.30),” is inspired by the mythology of resurrection and ideas about transcendence, elevation, and regeneration. The [...]

April 26, 2013No CommentRead More

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate –– with the Judiciary Committee holding hearings and more than 50 binational same-sex families descending on Capitol Hill this week for visits with 150 members of Congress –– advocates for couples in which one member is not an American citizen [...]

April 26, 201312 CommentsRead More

New York Introduces Bill Curbing Orientation Conversion Targeting Youth

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | Legislation introduced in Albany on April 26 to ban licensed therapists from engaging in practices aimed at altering the sexual orientation of minors would, if enacted, follow on a California law passed last year but currently on hold because of court challenges. When Gay City News last reported on this issue, gay [...]

April 26, 2013No CommentRead More

New NFL Efforts Aimed at Curbing Sexual Orientation Discrimination

Coming on the heels of accusations by draft prospects that they were asked their sexual orientation at the NFL’s Scouting Combine earlier this year, the league offered assurances that it will reinforce its existing policies barring discrimination based on sexual orientation. The April 24 announcement came in the wake of discussions between NFL officials and [...]

April 26, 2013No CommentRead More

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