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Pre-Stonewall, A Struggle for Dignity
August 18, 2009
Woodstock isn’t the only anniversary being celebrated this year; the summer of 1969 was also marked by the Stonewall Riots, an event seen by many as the birth of gay liberation. That uprising ignores years of work by a lot of brave forward-thinking folk whose activism, while discreet, embodied the age-old frustrations of men…
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We are stardust, we are golden
August 11, 2009
Time flies, I thought, as my partner and I wandered the main drag on a recent, all-too-brief trip to Woodstock. The media heralds the 40th anniversary of the event that besieged Yasgur’s farm and a generation’s doobie-fueled conscience, but little of its genuine spirit (what I imagine that to be) lives in the new land…
Continue readingBroadway Gypsies, Through a Glass Darkly
August 1, 2009
Published Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Fall 2009 “I think we’re all pretty interesting, and that all of you are pretty interesting.” Michael Bennett Young Mickey DiFiglia’s spirit permeates Every Little Step, the captivating, can’t-look-away documentary directed by James Stern and Adam Del Deo; at one point a black-and-white still reveals this teenager in mid-leap under…
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Heinz Edelmann, Graphic Ilustrator 1934-2009
July 23, 2009
Famous for his design of the Beatles’ 1968 Yellow Submarine, but also this, the cover and design for the first German edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. End of an era, RIP.
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Michael, Farrah, Joni: Love is touching souls
June 30, 2009
When the dust settles from the week that was—the news tributes, the restoration of EBay and Amazon catalogs, the pending autopsy—one question might surface: where were you when you heard the news? I’d just walked into Casanis, a Lower East Side bistro, for dinner with J; after I placed my wine order he told me…
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