Still wrecked after all these years
There's good news and bad news for fans of TraniWreck and Wreckage, the deliciously demented performance art cabarets that have livened up Boston's drag scene for the last three years. Truth Serum Productions has lost its residency at The Milky Way, and with no home base the future of Wreckage, beyond the next two scheduled shows, is up in the air. The good news is that Aliza Shapiro, the brains and sweat behind Truth Serum (and behind Wreckage's velour-smooth MC, Heywood Wakefield,) isn't going anywhere.
'If you are hungry, we will feed you'
Thirty-two years ago, Diane Sidorowicz was a young woman searching for signs of lesbian life beyond the local bar scene. With few resources for gay people available in 1975, she devoured the pages of Gay Community News, a Boston-based weekly.
Panopoly
In his world premiere Panoply, presented by 11:11 Theater Company at Boston Playwrights Theater through Dec. 8 (www.1111theatre.com,) local writer Brian Tuttle schools us on the wicked, wicked, ways of the world.
Patrick picks two LGBT advocates for domestic violence council
Gov. Deval Patrick last month appointed two LGBT domestic violence advocates, Curt Rogers, executive director of the Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project, and Sabrina Santiago, chair of the GLBT Domestic Violence Coalition, to the Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.
Back to Bacharach
I think I have Euro-envy. If Michael Ball, a British musical theater performer with a rich but earnestly straight-up delivery, were American I'd say he was dangerously close to Michael Bolton territory.
Love Is Wicked
Brick and Lace isn't an '80s TV show about female cops, nor is it the new code for butch/femme. (Femme/slightly less femme, maybe.) This fresh duo is a pair of sisters from Jamaica who bring a reggae sensibility to dance music.
Sound Soldier
"I like to live in a cartoon," whispers Sweetnam in a sultry squeak on the aptly named track "Cartoon." We know, Skye, we know. True, we missed your hit debut album, Noises from the Basement, released in 2004 when you were still a teenager. But silly song titles like "Music Is My Boyfriend" and "Babydoll Gone Wrong" made us suspect you hadn't put your teens behind you, and the perky pop goodness of Sound Soldier confirmed our suspicions.
Man sues Jordan's Furniture
Stephen Perry, a Taunton resident and a former routing coordinator and customer service representative for Jordan's Furniture who worked at the company for more than three years, filed a complaint in October against his former employer with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) alleging that he was fired last month due to anti-gay bias on the part of his department supervisor.
AIDS exhibit finds new life on the web
"Above + Beyond: Our Community Responds to HIV/AIDS," The History Project's acclaimed exhibit documenting the LGBT community's response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the Boston area, has been retooled for the web. Its official launch will coincide with World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
Somerville mayor, state rep investigating police response to alleged gay bashing
As <italic>Bay Windows</italic> went to press Nov. 28, Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone and state Rep. Carl Sciortino of Medford were scheduled to meet with the victims of an alleged gay-bashing who are claiming that Somerville Police did not take their complaints about the alleged assault seriously.
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