Stocks rise amid mixed economic data
Stocks extended their gains Thursday with a modest advance as investors weighed fresh economic data, including a sharp drop in new home sales, for clues to whether more interest rate cuts are in the offing.
Liz Stahler on her CD "Stitches in My Sleeve"
Just two years after graduating college, folk/roots musician Liz Stahler has released her second CD, toured the country, won a songwriting contest and had her songs heard on national television.
Queer Eye's Ted Allen on cooking for the BeanTown Jazz Festival
Most people attending the BeanTown Jazz Festival in the South End this weekend will point at Ted Allen and think, "That's the guy from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." But the foodies among us will say, "He's from Iron Chef and Top Chef."
Greg Walloch on "Sxip's Hour of Charm"
In its final week in Harvard Square, Sxip's Hour of Charm - a sort of new vaudeville show that stars a rotating cast of alternative performers, from musicians to aerialists to performance artists - will feature New York City's Greg Walloch, a comedian and storyteller.
Cast and Creative Team on "The Bubble"
A romance doesn't get much more explosive than the one depicted in The Bubble, director Eytan Fox's (Walk on Water, Yossi & Jagger) new film about a gay affair between an Israeli and a Palestinian in modern day Tel Aviv.
LGBT Political Strides in New England
What a difference two years can make. Back in 2005, Jass Stewart placed a distant second to James Harrington in a four-way preliminary election to replace retiring Brockton Mayor John Yunits. In 2007, however, Stewart has incumbent Mayor Harrington on the ropes: The man who aims to become Brockton's first African American and first openly gay mayor came within 108 votes of topping the ticket in the three-way Sept. 18 preliminary, taking 43 percent of the vote to Harrington's 44 percent.
Andrew Beierle on his second novel: First Person Plural
"My twin brother Porter and I have been inseparable since birth. That's not merely an observation. It's a diagnosis. We are conjoined twins ... we live cheek by jowl in what most people would consider one body ... within our single rib cage are three lungs, two gall bladders, two stomachs and two hearts. An important distinction: two very different hearts."
LGBT Spiritual Refuge, The Metropolitan Community Church, celebrates 35 years
During his Sept. 16 sermon the Rev. Michael Cooper, pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) of Boston, put a new spin on the parable in the Gospel of Luke about a shepherd who leaves his flock behind to venture into the wilderness and find one lost sheep.
Sxip Shirey on "Sxip's Hour of Charm"
You could run out of hyphens trying to describe entertainer Sxip Shirey, a composer-impressario-storyteller-etc. The New York-based musician defies categorization, but there's one word that fits him like a glove: enthusiastic.
Southie condom company has gays covered
It's no secret that gay and bisexual men make up a sizable segment of the condom-buying population; since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, condoms have been the premiere tool, so to speak, in the gay and bi male's safer sex arsenal.
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