Friday, October 5, 2012
a theme at HuffPo? First it's gay body fascism, now here's a bit about the great Christina Hendricks enduring some stupid questioning that highlights mainstream media's preoccupation with bo…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:30PM yet another article about the tyranny of gay culture's obsession with body image. Here's a quote-- Why do we do this to ourselves? I can't help but think it has something to do with t…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:59PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Jesse Green has a conversation with Albee on Vulture.com that is equal parts frank and elusive, which seems about right for the subject. The master offers a handful of unremarkable how-tos a…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:08PMThursday, September 27, 2012
I saw the ACT-UP documentary on Monday night. I've seen plenty of AIDS crisis documentaries over the years, and the only other one I can think of that approaches How to Survive a Plague in t…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:49AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
I joked on Facebook that Sunnylands was so beautiful it almost made me change parties. They just opened for tours in March, so JW and I braved the 110-degree Palm Springs heat to see a tour.…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 07:29PMAfter years of visits to the high desert, I finally got to the Noah Purifoy Joshua Tree Outdoor Museum on Friday and took some pictures. Purifoy, a black artist interested in large assemblag…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:00AMFriday, September 21, 2012
starting today! Going for a friend's wedding, and am fitting in Sunnylands as well. Maybe Noah Purifoy on top of it all! Pictures to (hopefully) follow.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:37PMThursday, September 20, 2012
The Children very much when I saw the Boston Court production. He wrote a sweet article for HowlRound about the experience, finding that the value of playwriting isn't in the money, but the …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:41PMI haven't done one of these in a while, so here goes. Ol' Kev finally got around to seeing this year's indie gay darling, so we put on our little Blaine and Antoine hats to discuss. z…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:07PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
in part to weather the September heat. Luckily the new Sundance Cinemas has a nice lobby and I can get there early and camp out with a cup of coffee and my journal before heading in. I saw t…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:49AMMonday, September 10, 2012
and drink some moonshine out of a Mason jar after seeing Lawless last night. I enjoyed it, particularly the hillbilly extras in various scenes; it has some great old southern ladies in it.Th…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:42PMSaturday, September 8, 2012
Youtube bender yesterday. It began with a tweet about Dirty Projectors new video, Hi Custodian, a long-form video featuring the songs from their incredible new album, Swing Lo Magellan. Davi…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:09PMThursday, September 6, 2012
I wish I'd kept a count of the number of times he said "y'all" and "fixin to" in his DNC speech last night. The "I'm just an ol' country boy from Arkansas" line made me laugh out loud.
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:24AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
I've seen two of more controversial movies of the summer in just the past few days. Had complicated reactions to both. They share an investigation of class and social order that I suddenly w…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:29AMThursday, August 23, 2012
writing about Searching For Sugar Man, which was one of the better film experiences I've had this summer.I have to say, one of the film's pleasures to me was being surprised by it, by not kn…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:31PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
I love that the Arkansas Times has been covering the Miss Gay Arkansas America pageant and its new queen, Veronica DuVall.Pic by Marcus RachardNext stop Miss Gay America!
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:42PMI've been remiss in not posting about the sexual harassment controversy at Oxford American, which was hot enough news to make it to the NYTimes, the Atlantic, the New York Observer, and New …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:53PMI indulged in a little cable news TV yesterday, switching back and forth between CNN and MSNBC. I settled on MSNBC and got a little mesmerized by what appeared to be a multi-show effort to l…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:39AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Hey, today is apparently blog update / maintenance day. I've reorganized my links to the left here and added a few new people, notably my friend Dawn McCoy's darling blog Beauty Frosting, an…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:20PMother places in the world, this is exciting.Uganda’s LGBT community was able to conduct a weekend of gay pride events despite police arrests and harassment.The historic LGBT pride was a se…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:22PMlast night at the Homo-Centric reading at Stories Books in Echo Park. Queer literary guru Hank Henderson reminded us in closing how fortunate we are to be able to gather and read our work th…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:25PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
is my favorite part of Bring It On: The Musical. Gregory Haney kills it playing the the first high school transgender character on Broadway. Or at least he did in L.A. when I saw it at The A…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:09PMI'm doing my second Homo-Centric this Thursday in Echo Park. The plan is to read a short play in its entirety, doing all three characters. I just have to finish the play and rehearse it so I…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:27AMon Saturday and ended up having a fun conversation with some people about their favorite rock documentaries. A lot of titles came up, and one guy said, "I really hate Pearl Jam but that docu…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:19AMFriday, August 10, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
And here's my list of local premieres I hope to see. Who's into going with me? Ernessa? Andrew? Lemme know.Seeing Red tonight at the Taper, and I'm excited for many reasons, not the least of…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 02:45PMJust thought I'd do a couple of posts about some show's I'm going to try to get to around town. Anyone want to join me? Henry? Tira? Eddie? Excited to see Hearts Like Fists by blogger/interv…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:30PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
is getting a reading today in Topanga. I've wanted to be involved in Botanicum Seedlings for some time now so I'm excited to get an opportunity with this play. But first, brunch at The Inn o…
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