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May 7, 2012
100 & Single: Buy An Adam Lambert Album, Strike A Tiny Blow For Gay Rights
About a year ago, the movie Bridesmaids opened in the U.S. and was the subject of a rather unusual awareness campaign. Female movie fans, largely independently of the film's producers, compelled women to go see the film in its opening weekend and defy common Hollywood wisdom that non-rom-com movies ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
'The Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund'
About a year ago, the movie Bridesmaids opened in the U.S. and was the subject of a rather unusual awareness campaign. Female movie fans, largely independently of the film's producers, compelled women to go see the film in its opening weekend and defy common Hollywood wisdom that non-rom-com movies ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Madonna vs. Elton And Gaga: This Reminds Me Of Something
Feuds have made Madonna exciting again, from Elton John snarling at her at every swivel to Lady Gaga appropriating Madonna's chord progression -- not to mention her spotlight -- in a "reductive" way. And I've figured out what this all reminds me of!
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January 19, 2012
Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.
Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Madonna Is Sizzling Hot Again!
Madonna has done the impossible. Just by sticking it out, playing the game, and being simultaneously fabulous and appalling, she's made herself buzz-able again. Among her strokes of genius: *The annoying but hugely watched fashion-line promo video with the daughter, which some slow-witted observe ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Elton John's Husband Trashes Madonna For Golden Globe Win And Speech!
Madonna had just won Best Song for cowriting something that pops up in the February release W.E.. Sir Elton (who's British royalty just like Dame Madge herself) hadn't won for "Hello Hello" from the animated movie about lawn gnomes in love.
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December 15, 2011
The Golden Globes Pit Madonna Vs. Gaga (And Elton) Vs. Mary J. Vs. Sinéad Vs. Chris (Cornell)
Sure, the Golden Globes are a big excuse for celebrities to get soused and congratulate each other, but this year's offering of Best Original Song nominees has a neat wrinkle: Lady Gaga and Madonna are facing off against one another, with Gaga up for her weirdly Bee Gees-evoking Elton John co ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Elton John Turned Down Classic Movie Role
"Welcome to a movie about Meat Loaf and Gary Busey," said MC Denis Leary at last night's Tribeca Film Festival opening gala. Before the huge outdoor crowd started suicidally leaping into the water, he corrected, "Kidding. It's about Elton John and Leon Russell." Whew. We were indeed there ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Elton John Is Playing A Free Show Tonight, And You Can Get Tickets Today
Tonight the Tribeca Film Festival kicks off with a free outdoor screening of Cameron Crowe's Elton John/Leon Russell documentary The Union at the North Cove at the World Financial Center, and the movie will be followed by a live performance by the Rocket Man himself. The screening starts at 8 ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
American Idol Elton John Week: Who Knew? Probably A Lot of People! But Not Thia Megia and Her Horrific Zombie Smile!
Michael Becker / FOXJames Durbin makes the piano catch fire for no reason This week is Elton John week on American Idol, and it's the same week Elton John is hosting and playing musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Why so much Elton John all of a goddamned sudden? Did God hear "Rocket Man" on his ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
Live: Tom Waits (And A Punk-Rock Neil Diamond) Dominate The Rock Hall Induction Ceremony
The 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Monday, March 14 Better Than: Whatever was happening at Death by Audio tonight that Bruce Springsteen didn't show up to, for whatever reason. First off, let's tell you what you want to hear: Tom Waits stole the show ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
Gnomeo & Juliet: Garden Variety Charm
The 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Monday, March 14 Better Than: Whatever was happening at Death by Audio tonight that Bruce Springsteen didn't show up to, for whatever reason. First off, let's tell you what you want to hear: Tom Waits stole the show ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
James Taylor at Madison Square Garden, with Carole King, Abigale Haness, Danny Kortchmar
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 18, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 11 Sweet Brother James By Don Heckman The prospect of James Taylor at Madison Square Garden didn't strike me as one of the most enlightened ideas of recent memory. Not, of course, that there was any questi ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Winter Guide: Iron & Wine Hop on Pop
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November 3, 2010
Who is Elton John?
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 26, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 48 Who is Elton John? By Don Heckman Look at it this way. If you could put Mick Jagger's viscera into Reg Dwight's body, give it the pianistic prowess of Jerry Lee Lewis and the voice of Jose Feliciano, ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
'T Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue'
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 26, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 48 Who is Elton John? By Don Heckman Look at it this way. If you could put Mick Jagger's viscera into Reg Dwight's body, give it the pianistic prowess of Jerry Lee Lewis and the voice of Jose Feliciano, ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
Rush Right Over To Rush
Last Friday night brought me back to Rush--no, not the pompous right-winger who had Elton John sing at his fourth traditional wedding. I'm talking about the multi-level club on Sixth Avenue and 16-17th Streets which I've always loved for its youthful energy, pronounced multi-culturalism, and ... More >>
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July 12, 2010
Gay Lounge Is Filled With Possibilities
Vig27, the comfortable gay lounge on East 27th Street, has put me in a promoter's mood.
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June 17, 2010
Eminem Supports Same-Sex Marriage!
Yes, the verbally gay bashing rapper has now surpassed his old duetting partner, Elton John by coming out in favor of gays marrying! Elton, you'll remember, was not only Rush Limbaugh's paid minstrel at the conservative's traditional marriage ceremony, but he said in an interview that he fee ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
PIANO PRIDE
Tickle the ivories all over the city
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June 8, 2010
I Read Sir Elton John's Gay Beads on Olbermann
Did Elton John sell us to the Nazis by singing at Rush Limbaugh's wedding the other night?
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June 7, 2010
Morning Links: Buses to Get Faster, Police Looking for Suspects in Sexual Assault in Central Park, Rush Limbaugh Marries Again
A rendering of the new lanes.• Starting in October, New York City buses will get express lanes on 1st and 2nd Avenues. The Department of Transportation and the MTA hope this will improve bus travel times by 20 percent. New bike lanes will also be added to part of the route. • Two New Jer ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Tonight! Beach Fossils, Woods w/ the Joshua Light Show, Phosphorescent, Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now!, These are Powers, Buzzcocks, Das Racist, And Lady Gaga w/ Elton John
Tonight, The Deli's "Best of NYC" festival kicks off with Beach Fossils, the sensitive, disaffectedly distorted surf bums with a mobile drummer. At the Abrons Art Center, the Joshua Light Show splashes lava-lamp gurgling, polka-dotted hallucinogen projections atop Woods, a lo-fi folk act whose psy ... More >>
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May 11, 2010
FEELING GREEN
Elton John and Lady Gaga band together for a good cause
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May 4, 2010
2010 Tonys: Nominations Announced, Big on Idiot Material
The 2010 Tony nominations are out, and the yearly ceremony that becomes more and more designed to persuade people from anywhere but New York City to spend money on theater is soon to follow. The idea behind the Tonys is simply to get Broadway to appeal to the rest of America in a big, fancy ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
American Idol Season 9, Live-Blogging Idol Gives Back & Top 7 Results
Michael Becker / FOX Baby-Hugger Simon Cowell Two hours? Really? Because tonight's annual philanthropic extravaganza adds an extra hour onto the already too long results show (far too much to ask of any live-blogger, in my opinion), I'll be checking in intermittently throughout the night, ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Results of Librarian Sex Survey about as Exciting as Librarians Actually Having Sex
Is that your card catalog or are you just happy to see me?Hold onto your library cards, peeps. Will Manley has released the results of the librarian sex survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run in 1992 -- the one which he got fired over. The results are... less than scintillating. B ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Michael Musto's Top Three Top Ten Lists, Because Why Not?
Is that your card catalog or are you just happy to see me?Hold onto your library cards, peeps. Will Manley has released the results of the librarian sex survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run in 1992 -- the one which he got fired over. The results are... less than scintillating. B ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Are The New Moon Stars Gay?
A breathless call came in from a friend the other day. "I saw Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on TV," she said, panting, "and I realized something: They're gay! They're bearding for each other! They come off completely 'that way'!" Yikes! Could it be true? Two actors in a movie actually ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2009
Alice in Chains
A breathless call came in from a friend the other day. "I saw Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson on TV," she said, panting, "and I realized something: They're gay! They're bearding for each other! They come off completely 'that way'!" Yikes! Could it be true? Two actors in a movie actually ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Happy Party People at Beige
Here are some photos by Alex Geana of me carousing with twinks, muscle bears, and other various slap happy party folk the other night at the long-running weekly Beige bash at B Bar. That's the grand diva Sophia Lamar making the "OK" sign; a male model in the checked blue shirt (duh); and a D ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 28, 2009
Gin Blossoms
Here are some photos by Alex Geana of me carousing with twinks, muscle bears, and other various slap happy party folk the other night at the long-running weekly Beige bash at B Bar. That's the grand diva Sophia Lamar making the "OK" sign; a male model in the checked blue shirt (duh); and a D ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
The Low Point in the David Carradine Coverage
Fighting off the recession with priceless gems. Plus, a few Debbie taunts.
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June 1, 2009
Who Should Play Bridget Jones on Broadway?
Bridget Jones's Diary may be turned into a stage musical, possibly with a score by Elton John, according to the New York Post's Michael Riedel. So assuming this happens, who should play Bridget this time around? Remember all the media fuss about how the screen Bridget, Renee Zellweger, wasn't actua ... More >>
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June 26, 2008
Macho Man the Book: How Gay Can Literature Get?
Bridget Jones's Diary may be turned into a stage musical, possibly with a score by Elton John, according to the New York Post's Michael Riedel. So assuming this happens, who should play Bridget this time around? Remember all the media fuss about how the screen Bridget, Renee Zellweger, wasn't actua ... More >>
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April 9, 2008
Elton John & Hillary Clinton: One Night Only
Bridget Jones's Diary may be turned into a stage musical, possibly with a score by Elton John, according to the New York Post's Michael Riedel. So assuming this happens, who should play Bridget this time around? Remember all the media fuss about how the screen Bridget, Renee Zellweger, wasn't actua ... More >>
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