All posts by Doug Rule
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The New Gay Way
Laura Varlas wasn't expecting the outpouring of responses to her blog post last April about lesbian business attire, what she dubbed ''lez casual.'' ''It was...
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Soundwaves
YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naïve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...
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Jazz Singer
Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...
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Soundwaves
BURNING UP HER BIRTHDAY CAKE... How many times in one year can gay bars celebrate Madonna? In fairness, it's not every year the Sticky and...
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Faraway Lands
''I'm from a land called secret Estonia, nobody knows where it's at,'' Kerli Koiv raps repeatedly on ''Creepshow,'' a blistering track off her new debut...
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New Classic
''I feel like there's a lot of ways in which being a composer now is almost more weird than being gay,'' says Nico...
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Upstairs Haven
Annie's Upstairs If it's been a few months since you've been upstairs at Annie's Paramount Steakhouse, you're in for a surprise. ''What was once a...
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Soundwaves
Ultra Nate LIKE A ROBOT AT YOUR COMMAND... Ultra Naté topped the Billboard Club Play Chart last summer with her fantastic cover of the Pointer...
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Folk Iconography
''That was the first time I had actually seen it,'' Janis Ian says about NBC's rebroadcast of her 1975 performance on Saturday Night Live. NBC...
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Mann Power
Aimee Mann writes wistfully about faded glory on her latest album. ''It must be hard seeing the same old crowd just pass you by on...
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Dancing on the Fringe
Choreographer Daniel Phoenix Singh wanted to pay respect to what he's seen at Chaos, Zanzibar and Town. ''Just take some ideas you see in a...
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Soundwaves
ABBA MAMMA MIA, HERE THEY GO AGAIN... Forget The Dark Knight. Oh sure, it's raking it in at the box office, on track to break...
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Design Star
It all started in the clubs for designer Andrew Christian. ''I was involved in the underground club scene when I was a teenager,'' says Christian,...
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Slacker Sensibilities
''I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?'' Singing one of pop music's most unusual and least forgettable lyrical refrains, Beck Hansen emerged...
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Goddamned Great
''He's got the world on his back and watch him take it -- on all fours,'' Jay Brannan sings on his song ''On All Fours.''...
