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When Brutality is an Entitlement

When Brutality is an Entitlement

BY GARY M. KRAMER | The prison drama “K-11” gets its name from the LGBT unit of the Los Angeles county jail — “a sanctuary for broken toys” cracks one character. This is where Raymond Saxx, Jr. (Goran Visnjic), a straight man, finds himself incarcerated after being accused of homicide. Raymond is too drugged up to recall [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Sarah Schulman Uncensored

Sarah Schulman Uncensored

BY DOUG IRELAND | Sarah Schulman’s new book, “Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International,” is a book that some Very Important People don’t want you to read. To their shame, that group ranges from the leadership of New York’s LGBT Community Center, which banned Schulman from reading from her book and answering questions about it, to [...]

March 13, 20134 CommentsRead More

Ed Watts, Soaring

Ed Watts, Soaring

BY DAVID NOH | At an early rehearsal for the new Encores! production of “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane… It’s Superman,” composer Charles Strouse had a huge smile on his face listening to his rarely revived score. Afterwards, he enthused to the leading man, “What a wonderful voice! Where have you been?” That guy would be [...]

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Grand Operas

Grand Operas

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | It was exciting to hear one of Donizetti’s final operas, 1840’s “La Favorite,” in the language and city — though not the theater — for which it was conceived. The elegant Theatre des Champs-Elysees has only graced Paris since 1913. Despite serious flu besetting both female principals — Alice Coote (Leonor) and [...]

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Celebrity Ubiquitous and Unexamined

Celebrity Ubiquitous and Unexamined

BY STEVE ERICKSON | Italian director Matteo Garrone’s “Reality” has a few lessons to impart about reality TV and its impact on Italian culture. Never mind that these were served up with more force a few years ago in the documentary “Videocracy.” Celebrity worship has taken over the social role religion used to play in Western [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Where Modern Pathology Meets Guileless Exorcism

Where Modern Pathology Meets Guileless Exorcism

BY STEVE ERICKSON | Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s “Beyond the Hills” may be the first arthouse nunsploitation film ever made. It combines elements of art cinema (long takes from a stationary camera) with B-movie sensationalism and melodrama. It offers up lesbian nuns, bare breasts, and an exorcism, although it shies away from onscreen sex and violence. [...]

March 6, 2013No CommentRead More

Farmyard Fallacies

Farmyard Fallacies

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In “The Drawer Boy,” an ominous drama about two bachelor farmers whose world is upended by a pesky young visitor, playwright Michael Healey is not content with simply telling a good story. He’s fascinated with the nature of storytelling and the blurred lines between fantasy, reality, memory and madness. And the oddly [...]

March 5, 2013No CommentRead More

Another ‘Authentic, Historic’ Williamsburg

Another ‘Authentic, Historic’ Williamsburg

BY GARY M. KRAMER | Su Friedrich pulled up to the corner of North Ninth and Berry in Williamsburg in her Volvo on a recent cold Saturday morning to discuss her engaging, enraging new documentary, “Gut Renovation.” The film chronicles how a rezoning law forced artists in her Brooklyn neighborhood — including herself and partner Cathy [...]

March 4, 20132 CommentsRead More

Tuned and Toned

Tuned and Toned

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | The four hunky gay 20-somethings fall somewhere between a boy band and a symphony orchestra. Their energetic playing, bows jerking and surfing along the strings of their well-worn instruments, belies the classicism of their craft. And their voices flow effortlessly into the music, singing melodiously over the four-part harmony emitting from two [...]

February 27, 2013No CommentRead More

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I forget sometimes how important art is, what images can do. Last week I got blown away by an exhibit in Chelsea at the Yancey Richardson Gallery. The photographer was Zanele Muholi. Her subjects were African dykes like herself. They stare out from the prints in their best ball caps and [...]

February 27, 20133 CommentsRead More

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