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Sautéed Shishito Peppers
SPOONING is a new biweekly column at PhillyGayCalendar featuring recipes for the home cook and food enthusiast. This installment features the sweet, smokey, and masculine-scented shishito pepper, sautéed and served warm!
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The Gay French Riviera: It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This!
The ‘Tres Gay’ Cote ‘Azur should be seen and experienced at least once by everyone, especially those of us with our extraordinary sense of what is truly enchanting.
The Fate of Giovanni’s Room
Many reacted strongly to the news that the owners of Giovanni’s Room would be selling both the business and its physical storefront. Although there is the possibility that a new owner could purchase the business and continue operating the establishment as a gay bookstore, the chances are unlikely.
Philanthropic Stealth Bombers, or Those Annoying People on the Sidewalk with Clipboards
You’re walking to the Gayborhood when BAM! You’re surrounded by perky undergrads with clipboards, trying to get you to donate money to an organization. Is it me, or are these fundraisers not only annoying but ethically corrupt?
Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost: A Review of Tangle Movement Arts’ Break/Drift/Resist
Pina Bausch, the well-known choreographer and subject of the recent documentary film Pina, once said of her dancers, I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them. I couldn’t help but be reminded of Bausch’s style as I watched the open rehearsal for Tangle Movement Arts’ production of Break/Drift/Resist, which plays as part of the 2013 Philly Fringe Arts festival.
CUT THE CRAP–Three Things You Can Do To Make a Clean Sweep During the Fall Transition
If your life is feeling like an episode of Hoarders, this fall may be the perfect time to try some of these strategies.
Tangle Movement Arts to Present All-Female Queer Aerial Acrobatic Show During FringeArts Festival
The premiere work will feature a seven-women cast that will navigate a forest of aerial equipment, chase each other across the stage, and explore how groups adapt, transform, and absorb shock.
Gay Curacao
Fly in, check in and vacation like a couple on this Very Special Island! ‘A little piece of northern Europe in the southern Caribbean’.
The Vagina Monologues With a Penis For Good Measure: A Review of THE NEW CENTURY by Paul Rudnick
The absolutely absurd play The New Century, written by Paul Rudnick, is, for the most part, unquestionably self-aware of just how campy and ridiculous it is. However, right along with the camp is a heartfelt pulse of what it means to be human, what it means to be gay, and how these elements collide.
Fame is the Worst Drug Known to Man: A Review of SOMEONE BROUGHT ME By Daniel Talbott
Someone Brought Me is the type of work that reminds us why we go to the theater: to be moved, to be transported, to be reminded that, no matter how unrealistic the world on the stage may be, there is a part of us that relates to the story.