California Dreamers Mark Abramson Lethe Press $18.00 Number six of Abramson’s Beach Reading Mystery series takes us into the layers and depths of protagonist Tim Snow’s psychic powers. He’s used them before, but now they’re being amped [...]
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A Word In Edgewise: Cherchez la Femme?
May 17, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
I’ve mentioned before that the political climate in the US is taking on an aura of woo-woo speculative fiction, a sort of Orwellian 1984-cum-The Handmaid’s Tale ambience. I had that feeling learning that Georgia State Representative Bobby [...]
Ben Riggs to be TCGMC Artistic Director
May 16, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
The Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus (TCGMC) has announced the appointment of Ben Riggs as the organization’s fifth Artistic Director beginning August 1. Coming to the Cities as the Artistic Director of the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus (DGMC) [...]
Question One Raises Many at MOA Screenings
May 14, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
“How important it is to tell a good story–that guides my work,” states director Joe Fox. “The heart of any good story is to get to the heart and soul of the person.” Fox, who [...]
A Word in Edgewise: Pronouncements from the Pale Blue Dot
May 3, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
People are always pronouncing that they know God’s intentions, and know them directly from the source, since He also gave them His one True religion. They know firsthand that God prohibits same-sex marriage and know for a [...]
A Word in Edgewise: Race, Ethnicity, and the Status Quo
April 19, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
Columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. recently made some telling remarks on the subject of race in relation to the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager who was shot to death February 26 in Sanford, Florida, by neighborhood [...]
Books: The Healing, Riding Fury Home: A Memoir, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
April 19, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
The Healing Jonathan Odell Doubleday $26 Healing’s double threads bind an 1858 Mississippi slave plantation to the arrival in 1933 of a mute child on the doorstep of Gran Gran, an ancient woman still living on that [...]
Tim Reardon Named Director of Open Arms of Minnesota
April 19, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
Open Arms of Minnesota has announced the appointment of Tim Reardon as their new executive director, to become effective April 30. Tim Meyer, Open Arms board president, said, “We are thrilled to bring Tim Reardon on board as [...]
A Word in Edgewise: Is It Something In The Water?
April 5, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
Have men declared open season on women? Has a misogynist John Cleese defected to the Republican Party? Are permits required, or is it a right-wing vectored virus? Rush Limbaugh has received enough ink. But legions are springing [...]
A Word in Edgewise: A Defense of Marriage
March 22, 2012 by E.B. Boatner
In June 2008, I attended the First (and the Last) Annual Celebration of Marriage in Palm Springs. It was impossible to remain dry-eyed as couples just-paired to partners of decades were able to legally marry in California. [...]
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