Long Beach Symphony 2019–2020 Concert Season: Highlights include Violins of Hope, Lucia Micarelli, and more
Long Beach Symphony, under the direction of Maestro Eckart Preu, is pleased to announce its 2019–2020 Concert Series comprising six Classical concerts and five POPS! concerts beginning September 28, 2019 and ending May 30, 2020. The season culminates with a Family Concert, free for children under the age of 18, on May 31, 2020. Most […]
Cheyenne Jackson: The Life of a Family Man
FROM AMERICAN HORROR STORY TO DISNEY’S LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD by joel martens What can I say? We have a fascination with Mr. Cheyenne Jackson. He’s a handsome, talented, gay man who is super-funny and plays sexy, dark characters who have a tendency to live on the wild side. On American Horror Story’s fifth season, […]
A World of Pride Right Around The Corner
The ‘L’ Effect by Morgan M. Hurley Pride season is here… and this one is special. It is the 50th anniversary of the night members of our community said, “I’ve had enough” of police brutality and rioted in the streets outside the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village. Ever since that uprising five decades […]
La Cage Aux Folles: Celebrating Divas and Legends at Long Beach Playhouse
by tom andrew – The mega musical La Cage Aux Folles has been performed all over the world and has been revived three times on Broadway. Winner of numerous Tony Awards, the show is taking its turn on the Long Beach Playhouse stage, running now through Saturday, August 3. The thing most people think of […]
Melissa Etheridge – It’s The Journey, Not The Destination
by tim parks – Someone who embodies San Diego Pride’s pioneer spirit is Melissa Etheridge. In 1993, she very publicly flung open her closet door at the Triangle Ball, a gay celebration of President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration. So, it’s no surprise the name she chose for her breakthrough album, released in the same year, […]
Bill Hardt Presents: Three Parties, Three Great Talents
DJ Aron, Beth Sacks & Zoë Badwi by joel martens San Diego Pride is upon us and the choice of parties and entertainment is truly endless. The “must do” parties are always the originals that have stood the test of time and Bill Hardt’s world-famous trifecta are the ones not to miss: Circuit Daze, Zoo […]
San Diego Pride 2019: A Legacy Of Liberation – Celebrating Our Pioneer Spirit
by tim parks ~ When you say the word “pride,” more than likely it applies to one’s self and the individual connotations surrounding it. Imagine for a moment if you will, there was no such thing as Pride, with none of the hard-fought rights we’ve won as a community. None of which would have been […]
Cynthia Erivo – What Makes a Voice Legendary?
by joel martens Best known to U.S. audiences for her performance as Celie in the 2015 Broadway musical revival of The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo took New York by storm, winning the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical as well as the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Her journey […]
SHUT UP! IT’S GREYSON CHANCE
PORTRAITS OF A YOUNG MAN ~ by joel martens ~ The world is as different as it can be, but when you get down to it, what makes us all human and connected, really has not. We are emotional beings who love, feel pain, have successes and suffer losses, eventualities that have forever driven writers […]
Exploring Queer Futures at Out Loud: A Cultural Evolution
by cutter slagle – We’re almost halfway through 2019, and if you’re not currently living loud and proud, the time to start is now! More so though, it’s not just time to live proud… but to live out loud! Recently, The Rage Monthly had the opportunity to chat with David Russo, the founder of Out […]