Entertainment
Dionne Warwick :: the pop diva speaks...
Friday Feb 5, 2010
Dionne Warwick rarely performs in the United States these days, which makes her upcoming concert in San Francisco’s Castro Theatre all that more special. In anticipation of the event EDGE’s BeBe Sweetbriar spoke with the music legend about he future of pop and hip-hop music, what she thinks of her own music, and her activism in the gay community.
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Miss’d America :: January 31, 2010
As with awards’ telecasts, beauty pageants can be a long slog through stage patter, swimsuit malfunctions, broken heels, and fire baton twirling-and yet, if an audience is lucky, there is sometimes one talent number that galvanizes the crowd into a spontaneous eruption of wild cheers and fanatical applause. Such was the case on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as Miss’d America pageant contestant Michelle Dupree took the stage and delivered a knock-em-dead, eleven o’clock number channeling the spirits of Ethel, Ella, Judy, and Josephine that had the audience immediately on its feet with near-universal consensus of the night’s most electrifying performance and ultimate winner.
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Dreamgirls
By Robert Nesti
The state-of-the-art touring production of Dreamgirls delivers a knock-out punch. Not to be missed.
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In The Light And On This Evening
By Doug Rule
’I don’t want to be ignored, oh god!’’ Tom Smith cries at one point on Editors’ new In This Light And On This Evening. With an album like this, Smith has no need to worry.
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Glam Gender
By Doug Rule | Feb 6
Glamour and charm burst from each page of Glam Gender, a collection of portraits of San Francisco drag queens and other performers like you’ve never seen before.
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IN NEW YORK CITY
Eyes Wide Open
By Benjamin Solomon | Feb 9
Tormented Jews are hot right now in cinema. If the Coen brothers’ recent A Serious Man explored the chaotic events of a Midwestern Jew’s life (what do they all mean-if anything?), Israeli film Eyes Wide Open (Peccadillo Pictures) could almost be seen as its companion piece, A Righteous Man, or perhaps a fiction version of Sandy Dubowski’s groundbreaking doc Trembling Before G-d.
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Gay PDAs :: Not Ready for Prime Time
By Scott Stiffler | Feb 8
Americans chowed down and watched the Super Bowl yesterday. For many it wasn’t the game they were as interested as the commercials that punctuated it. From the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales to a controversial pro-life spot, these ads will not doubt generate a lot of water cooler conversation. One that huge television audience didn’t see was for ManCrunch.com, a male dating service, due to the fact it showed two men kissing. CBS didn’t consider it rose to the standard the network established for general consumption. EDGE’s Scott Stiffler looks at why the sight of two men in intimate contact remains not ready for prime time.
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Taylor Swift-lash hits new heights
By Mark Russo | Feb 8
Where has all the love gone for Taylor Swift? The Taylor Swift-lash has hit new heights, exploding in the blogosphere--fueled by a her label’s delusional response insisting she is "the voice of a generation" and the American Idol boast that she’s the only singer capable of producing high notes.
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