@#%&*! Smilers
It figures that Aimee Mann, evidenced by the title of her new album, has got a private phrase for people who smile too much. Listening to her music, which tends to get tagged with adjectives like melancholy and bittersweet and fucking depressing, you get the sense that Mann has an inflexible plan for rationing smiles.
The comeback
Cathy Worthley has a new album, a new concept, and a new gender
You Belong to Me
It's a familiar scenario: boy meets boy. Boy schtups boy. Boy leaves before breakfast. Other boy gets obsessive, stalks boy, moves into his apartment building to spy on him.
The Man You Had in Mind
This sweet and well-meaning documentary looks at five male couples at various stages of their relationships. Guess what? Gay people fall in love and have relationships, just like straight people!
Protagonist
Artsy documentarian Jessica Wu explores the roots of obsession in this fascinating portrait of four men. Wu's subjects have all been driven to extremes in their lives: one is an "ex-gay" man who's become an evangelical preacher, one is a bank robber, one is a former terrorist, and one, Wu's own husband, is so devoted to martial arts that he endures the tutelage of an oddly sadistic instructor.
Lesbians gone wild!
The camera flits through a tightly packed nightclub as a narrator's voiceover tells us that we're in the "the hottest lesbian club in the country" and that in her circle of friends "there's always drama!"
All politics is local
If you thought the election excitement was over for Massachusetts after February's presidential primary, think again. While the John McCain-Barack Obama swing state smackdown will dominate prime time TV, there's no shortage of exciting state legislative races where political junkies can get their fix closer to home.
Footsteps to follow in
Even before she set off from the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell to participate in the 23rd annual AIDS Walk Boston on June 1, Bette Byrnes had already completed a long journey. As she has since moving away from Boston in 2002, Byrnes boarded a plane from her home in Clearwater, Florida, to participate in this year's walk.
From Bike Week to Dyke Week
Last month Provincetown welcomed its new police chief, Jeff Jaran, who came to the gay resort town after 20 years of law enforcement service in various communities in New Hampshire. Jaran joins the department on the cusp of tourist season, one year after a summer in which a pair of high-profile incidents prompted some in the LGBT community to question the department's effectiveness.
Here comes the (lesbian) judge
Cambridge lawyer Maureen Monks has been appointed to the Middlesex Probate and Family Court. Monks sought the nomination through the Governor's Council, which voted in favor of her nomination at its May 28 meeting.
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