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Watch This: The Midnight Island of Childhood Dreams
As a kid I read a lot of stories about survival and kids building homes. My favorites were the Jack London books about wolves, Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, The Boxcar Children Series, and the Berenstain Bears book about the clubhouse (before Berenstain Bears acquired their current conservative Christian bent.)
Ru-minations: She’s Herstory
Buckle that sequined seatbelt, girl, because this roller coaster is a doozy. Just 3 episodes in and we’ve already got some crazy ups and down! This week’s episode started off as usual with the queens discussing last week’s elimination
Alexandria Henderson is Working
A mainstay on the South End, actress/singer/dancer Alexandria Henderson has set her sights on Seattle and Eastside companies recently. Having seen her work, I’d say she has the chops to become the next big musical talent to watch for. Henderson was featured ensemble...
Hi-Chews and Halsey Blues: Bumbershoot 2016
Well folks, I did it. I spent the weekend in the tween-filled, EDM-saturated alternate universe known as Bumbershoot and I’ve lived to tell the tale. Ok, so I’m being dramatic. It was mostly really fun and only ever got uncomfortable or depressing when I watched fourteen-year-olds doing drugs or something.
Watch This: The Queen of My Castle
I have always had an odd relationship with domesticity, which is probably why until about a month ago I had never cohabited with a girlfriend.
Ru-minations: Get Snatched or Go Home
Everyone take a step forward if you’re ready for All-Stars Season 2! Not so fast, Adore Delano. I must be mistaken. You see, I thought we came here for RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars. Not Toddlers and Tiaras, where little piggies wee-wee-wee all the way home. We’ll get to that.
Songs For a New World Showcases a Strong Cast at Second Story
The Second Story Rep production of Songs For a New World really bit into each of their songs with strong vocals and assured acting.
Totally Unofficial Queer Guide to Bumbershoot 2016
Bumbershoot 2016 is overwhelming. Music, comedy, panels, food, pop-up shops, the list goes on. So here’s a handy-dandy guide to some of this weekend’s highlights.
Pushing Cosplay Past the Color Barrier
Costume play, or cosplay as it’s most commonly known, is a worldwide phenomenon with dedicated fans who spent countless hours and sums of money to recreate the looks of their favorite characters. There are entire conventions dedicated to it, and those fan conventions that aren’t still fill up with costumed homages to characters both well-known and obscure.
Matt Bomer and the New Hollywood Trend: Transface
In the grand Hollywood tradition of “brave” white actors taking on “daring” roles as people of color (we’re looking at you Natalie Wood and Mickey Rooney) comes a new phenomenon: transface. The latest example of this shameless practice of having a cisgender man play the role of a trans woman is gay actor Matt Bomer.
Ad Council Debuts Game for Good Campaign at PAX
The Ad Council announced today that it is collaborating with leading gaming companies and top gaming influencers to launch Game for Good. The effort aims to harness the power of games and the gaming community to drive awareness, engagement and impact on the critical social issues addressed by Ad Council campaigns.
Pride Lives: Suicide Prevention from a Queer Perspective
Many people have had friends who have died before their time, in some of those cases people tragically taking their own lives. Seattleite Judd Shapiro decided to do something about it, forming a local nonprofit organization called Pride Lives, dedicated to suicide prevention in the LGBTQ community.
Ru-minations: Bigwigs and Bombshells
All Stars Season 2 has only just begun, and already it’s shaping up to pull Drag Race out of the Season 7 swamp that mired it last year. This very well could be the best season yet!
Critical Condition: One Thousand Laughs from One Man, Two Guvnors
When does something familiar, peculiar, gaudy, and bawdy not come from the score of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum? When it’s One Man, Two Guvnors, British playwright Richard Bean’s delicious riff on Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte classic The Servant of Two Masters.
Punk Saturday
Punk’s vitality lies primarily in its imperfection. In the unrefined fuzziness of a bedroom recording or the brutal sloppiness of a drunken live set, you can hear growth, change, disorder–in short, the sound of being alive. Punk widens the cracks in music’s surface enough for us to see the organ of humanity churning beneath.