Susan Boyle’s graceful, prepossessing rendition of the Rolling Stones’ Wild Horses just hit the airwaves. Here, I’ve matched it up with a 1930’s photo of a man who, in my mind, won’t leave his lover, despite everything. Click to listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I watched you suffer a dull aching pain […]
Categories: imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, horseback, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Susan Boyle, vintage photo, Wild Horses
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- September 14, 2009 – 12:33 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Alan Cumming closed an eight-night run in London’s West End last night. I Bought a Blue Car Today, his one-man show of songs and anecdotes, is nothing less than sublime. From the minute the curtain rises and he breaks instantly into an exhilarating version of Shine that rivals Cyndi Lauper’s original, he’s hooked you. Cumming […]
Categories: gay,music,review,stage,theatre
Tagged: Alan Cumming, cabaret, Cyndi Lauper, Dolly parton, gay, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Highline Ballroom, I Bought A Blue Car Today, John Cameron Mitchell, Lance Horne, London, Mika, New York, West End, X-Men
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- September 7, 2009 – 1:55 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
People around here don’t generally fancy men like me. They have a hard time understanding my attire, and I suppose it’s usual for folks not to know what to make of someone male who prefers a wardrobe normally assigned to the fairer sex. I always saw myself as fairer. I still do. When I was […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: crossdressing, gay, imagined history, vintage male affection, wax cylinder
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- August 18, 2009 – 10:53 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Click to Play: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] There was only ever one reason I agreed to go out with Lillian, which was so that I could go out with Christopher. On double dates, you see. A cruel thing to do to her, yes, but Chris stopped “us”– him and I being together, […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: gay, vintage male affection
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- August 17, 2009 – 3:27 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
A gem from the San Francisco cabaret scene will make its London debut next week as part of the Hot August Fringe Festival hosted by the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The Party’s Just Beginning is a musical revue looking at the LGBT community — our ups, our downs, our highs, our lows, all told with heart […]
Categories: cabaret,event,gay,music
Tagged: cabaret, gay, GLBT, Harvey Milk, Hot August Fringe, LGBT, musical, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The Party's Just Beginning, things i love
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- August 12, 2009 – 1:55 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Barbra Streisand is treating 100 lucky fans to free tickets in a sweepstakes drawing to attend an intimate live performance at the Village Vanguard in New York on Saturday, September 26. The one-night-only show is a kick-off for the release of Streisand’s new album of jazz standards and classics, Love Is The Answer. The Village […]
Categories: music
Tagged: Barbra Streisand, Diana Krall, Love Is the Answer, things i love, Village Vanguard
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- August 7, 2009 – 5:16 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Whitney Houston will release I Look To You on August 31, her first studio album in seven years. Can the absent diva who launched a thousand “crack is whack” jokes win our hearts again? It remains to be seen. Even if our hearts are willing, it takes more than just showing up to claim a […]
Categories: music,video
Tagged: I Look To You, Michael Jackson, things i love, Whitney Houston
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- August 5, 2009 – 8:40 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
A master composer of our time will celebrate his 78th birthday this week. He is a man who has been nominated for five Tony awards, won two, and was just presented with a special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater last month. One Broadway song he wrote was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1964 […]
Categories: cabaret,for the life of me,music,stage,theatre
Tagged: Hello Dolly!, Henley Fringe Festival, Jerry Herman, La Cage Aux Folles, Leanne Masterton, Mame
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- July 8, 2009 – 11:15 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Apple’s iTunes is getting its gay on right now with a virtual pride parade in honor of Gay Pride Month. A rainbow-flag banner is featured prominently on the front page of iTunes on both the U.S. and Canada versions of the service. Users who click on the banner are served up a curated collection of […]
Categories: book,gay,music,tech,video
Tagged: Apple, gay pride, iphone, ipod, itouch, iTunes
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- June 14, 2009 – 3:40 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
‘June Is Bustin’ Out All Over’ from the film version of ‘Carousel’ (1956) Directed by Henry King Music by Richard Rodgers Book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones Based on Ferenc Molnár’s play ‘Liliom’ (1909)
Categories: choreography,film,music,video
Tagged: Carousel, Ferenc Molnár, Gordon MacRae, Henry King, Liliom, Rogers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, things i love
- Published:
- June 9, 2009 – 1:11 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
