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the party’s just beginning, and you’re invited 1

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

Published:: August 12, 2009 – 1:55 pm
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

an intimate evening with barbra streisand 1

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

Published:: August 7, 2009 – 5:16 pm
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

whitney houston: new album, michael jackson fill-in, and her biggest threat 0

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

Published:: August 5, 2009 – 8:40 am
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

live storytelling by loose women, tragic men, heroes, faeries and other everyday people 0

“Instead of going to Planned Parenthood, we went to brunch.” Long before the world revolved around the language of zeros and ones, cable television, Trip Advisor and Twitter, the tradition of storytelling was a primary means of human communication. Storytelling is how mankind records history, passes on knowledge and entertains others. From oral storytelling to […]

Categories: performance,video,word

Tagged: And I Am Not Lying, Jeff Simmermon, Mattesn Perry, Scheherazade, storytelling, Susan Duncan, The Moth, things i love

Published:: July 29, 2009 – 6:00 am
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

web site story 1

What do Broadway and the Internet have in common? Nothing. One of them is a geographic location where lots of theatrical shows occur, the other is a network of computers. Metaphorically, though, they still don’t have anything in common. That doesn’t make this Internet-themed musical any less entertaining. hat tip: Matthew Weissman

Categories: video

Tagged: musical theater, social media, things i love, Web Site Story, West Side Story

Published:: July 4, 2009 – 1:03 am
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

it takes two men to tango 0

Although some will wish that the two men dancing the tango together in these two videos were a couple, in fact they are brothers. Natives of Argentina, Enrique and Guillermo de Faz, known together as Los Hermanos Macana, perform their two-man shows all around the world. Their amazing footwork, esprit and versatility on the floor […]

Categories: video

Tagged: Enrique de Faz, Guillermo de Faz, Los Hermanos Macana, tango, things i love

Published:: June 26, 2009 – 5:20 pm
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

images from queer history create portrait of harvey milk 0

MILK, a ‘photomosaic’ of Harvey Milk, will be unveiled today in San Francisco. Artist Robert Silvers used 2300 hundred photos from the GLBT Historical Society to recreate photographer Dan Nicoletta’s iconic photo of Milk, the San Francisco city supervisor and gay activist who was assassinated in 1978. Prints of MILK are for sale through Scott […]

Categories: event,gay,photography,queer

Tagged: Dan Nicoletta, GLBT Historical Society, Harvey Milk, Robert Silvers, San Francisco LGBT Community Center, Scott Richards Contemporary Art, things i love

Published:: June 23, 2009 – 4:27 pm
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

june is bustin’ out all over 0

‘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

évasion 26

‘Je crois qu’il profita, pour son évasion, d’une migration d’oiseaux sauvages.’ Text: Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Photo: Cole Rise

Categories: book,photography,word

Tagged: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, cole rise, Le Petit Prince, things i love

Published:: May 27, 2009 – 7:56 pm
Author:: By Kenneth Hill

go-go flashcube 0

it’s this way, man: drop in a film, get yourself a flashcube, pop it on. take one! take two! take three! take four flash pictures (!) without changing bulbs. in color of course. tv commercial for Kodak Instamatic, 1965-66

Categories: advertising,photography,video

Tagged: 1960s, camera, dancing, kodak, things i love, tv commercial

Published:: May 18, 2009 – 3:26 pm
Author:: By Kenneth Hill