Decibelle, the new pun-infused name for the Festival Formerly Known As Estrojam, has a hot Saturday night going on with headliner Lady Tigra and opener Jasper James. Along with FKA’s DJ Reaganomix, the Empty Bottle will be emitting some heat onto the street. Jasper James is a funktified queer that had the upbeat song on the Shortbus Soundtrack. A myspace update is due sometime soon, keep track of all of Jasper’s goings on over there, listen to what’s in store for Saturday here:
Don’t miss openly gay actor/activist Chad Allen’s debut on SoapNet’s prime time drama, General Hospital: Night Shift this week! Chad will play a potential love interest for queer Dr. Kyle Julian. Mr. Allen is scheduled to appear for at least 3 episodes.
–Colossus Matos
Watch out Luke and Noah, there’s another queer couple hitting daytime! All My Children is bringing back Eden Reigel to reclaim her role as daytime’s first lesbian diva, Bianca Montgomery. If that wasn’t enough AMC has lured daytime fan favorite Tamara Braun (ex-Carly from General Hospital, ex-Ava from Days of our Lives) to play Bianca’s girlfriend!!!! The dish is that Bianca returns from her sabbatical in France, with new girlfriend Reese joining her a few weeks later! Now in the past AMC never shied away from showcasing Bianca with her girlfriends (hugging, kissing, in bed), so more of the same should be expected. Lets hope As the World Turns steps up their game (Luke and Noah have kissed like twice u swear!!!!) now that their gaytime throne has been challenged!
–Colossus Matos
Threat Level: An Evening of Queer Shorts, a bi-monthly screening of queer short films, will host the Chicago premiere of Oscar-nominated “La Corona” (The Crown). Directed by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega, the film is up for Best Documentary Short at the 80th Annual Academy Awards®, and also won an honorable mention from the Shorts Jury at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. La Corona tells the story of a beauty pageant held inside a Columbian women’s prison. (In Spanish with English subtitles.)
The evening’s program, “In Between Bread and Butter”, is curated by television editor (and former Chicagoan) Stacy Goldate (“Cities of the Underworld,” “The Mole”). The program features short films and videos by queer directors working full-time in the television and film industry.
Elegant Mr. Gallery
1355 N. Milwaukee 3rd Floor
September 22, 2008
Doors open at 7:30pm, Screening at 8:00pm
Also Featuring:
- The Jizz Party (of “Girls Will Be Girls”) Directed by Richard Day
- The Perfect Ones (starring Nao Bustamante) Directed by Matt Johnstone
Threat Level is co-curated by Chicago queer filmmakers Sam Feder, Jules Rosskam, Madsen Minax and Simon Strikeback. Proceeds from Threat Level go towards the current film projects of these artists.
Image by Jill Greenberg at manipulator.org
A new site has just gone live that can really help you cut through the shit for the upcoming debates. The tool lets you find out more about which issues are important to you, learn where each candidate stands on those issues, then decide who best represents your interests. Then, and this may be the coolest part, once each debate happens, the tool will pull video snippets for you (from that debate) based on which issues you’re most interested in. So you can watch the whole debate, but, also, if for example “Iraq” were your key issue, any time Obama or McCain mention it, your tool will populate with video snippets of their mention of it, so you can review exactly what they said about it, to again decide who is best addressing your concerns.
Head over to mydebates.org and inform yourself.
Debate Schedule:
September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (Tickets)
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (Tickets)
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Tickets)
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (Tickets)
The twinkiest queer hip hoppers, Sgt. Sass, are having a remix contest for their song “I’ll take Your Man.” Done in conjunction with Palms Out Sounds and Finger on the Pulse, the winner will be featured on both of those highly popular blogs. You gotta hurry, though, as the deadlines is September 24th. Then, if you live in NYC, you can checl out there show on the 26th, see above poster.
Download the vocals here. Send your remix to palmsout((@))gmail.com
While this podcast stuff is a LOT more work, we are enjoying being out-and-about way more than sitting in a booth. This week, Erik talks to the cutest transman about going to Camp Trans and what he learned. Listen about why it’s not okay to say “lame” as a negative adjective! Also, Ruth and I sit around her coffee shop and talk about being young and in a band, and why we hate Jason Steele, the “Boy on Boystown” from the Red Eye. Also, Erik checks out hot guys. This post also features the song “Family Tree” from the upcoming TV on the Radio album, Dear Science, out on September 23rd.
Download Here:
TPR #6
Pop Montreal 2008, with appearances by Hot Chip and Baby Dee is looking like another reason to move North of the border. One the of the nights, will be a screening of “Cruisin’ 57,” a pre-condom gay pornographic movie. You can read more about the movie, including NSFW stills at bijouworld.com, but the real news is that Owen Pallett, of Final Fantasy, Beirut and the Arcade Fire is gathering friends to perform a live score for it, and it’s all going down at Cinéma L’Amour. Sounds French, artsy and hot. Check out the schedule here.
*Sorry I Had A Perez Moment
Reported via the Reader’s Crickets, there are more than a few hip hop blogs talking about the song “Georgie Porgie,” the original version of what is now known as Tribe Called Quest’s “Show Business” from the record Low End Theory (1991). My favoritely titled blog, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold This Sac, says “For real, they are pretty much gay bashing all over this one (pause, no homo).”
Needless to say, if this had been released, Tribe might not be known as “Without question the most intelligent, artistic rap group during the 1990s…” from (allmusic.com).
If you want to listen, here it is:
Georgie Porgie
About Face Theatre remains the hottest, most important avenue for queer theatre in Chicago.
“In 1968, while stationed in Vietnam, Lt. Robert Mac (Taylor’s father) placed an ad asking “young ladies” to write him. Thousands replied. Renowned playwright/actor/songwriter/director/visual artist/pastiche performer/activist Taylor Mac juxtaposes his father’s conservative army life with his own as a drag/pastiche artist in New York in this provocative performance.”
The show runs Friday, September 26 through Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7:30pm at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted. See aboutfacetheatre.com for tickets!
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