Posts
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is pending in a number of states, designed to ban or censor drag performances. Elizabeth Howard talks with the iconic performer Jasmine Rice LeBeija about the challenges facing drag performers.
Read More
Four reviews of films about existence — past and present — for the marginalized in Scandinavia.
Read More
It’s good to hear the Basie band stretch. But it’s even better to hear them exult the blues with their own time-honored style leading the way.
Read More
This week’s poem: Jillian Boger’s “7 Ways of Making Love (after Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments)”
Read More
I’m happy to add the brujas of “A Tall Dark Magic” to my own personal spell book featuring the names of the witches I love.
Read More
The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame and the Panopticon Gallery host very different shows featuring rock icons.
Read More
Janelle Monáe’s an impressive singer and capable rapper but she is indeed phenomenal as a performer, showing keen attention to the craft.
Read More
Refusing to bow to conventional expectations of aging is just one more outlaw accomplishment that is part of Willie Nelson’s incredible legacy.
Read More
Reviews of three dark films that probe the crisis of authority, immigration, and feminism in Europe
Read More
Arts Commentary: Chile’s 9/11 — the Undying and the Undead
Two Chilean artists look at the death of democracy and the aftermath of the 1973 coup.
Read More