Frank’s daughter has definitely made a stamp for herself in the music world.  Even though the little lady is 71 years old this year, her music kicks the shit out of a lot of current pop “standards.”  ”Bang Bang” got devilish new life in “Kill Bill,” “Sugar Town” got a reboot with Zooey Deschanel’s infuriating [...]

Of all of Johnnie Walker’s Scotch Whiskeys, Red is the cheapest, and considered to be the least fine of the batch.  I am starting today’s “Drink On” with Red because I quite enjoy a glass of Red.  It’s fiery, it burns and when I drink Black, I feel like it’s a semi-special occasion. However, that’s [...]

“Out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as whiskey.” “Out of character for him to be murdered, too.” This was how romantic murder once was in the movies.  The dialogue from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” was spoken between Brandon (John Dahl) and Phillip (Farley Granger), two prep school friends who have just killed [...]

An English gay man has Super Glued a tiny hat to his head for a party.  Upon learning it was stuck for good, he ended up at the hospital. YES! And no. To the beautiful man and his beautiful boyfriend, you’re not helping. I don’t want to leap to any wild conclusions, but these Super [...]

Last month, there was reported a harrowing story of Peter and Laurent, Belgian husbands living in the South of France, who were reunited with their surrogate son Samuel after being separated from him for 2 1/2 years because the Belgium embassy would not issue the young boy a passport.  Samuel’s surrogate gave birth in the [...]

On the evening of May 12, 1956, in the Hollywood Hills, movie star Montgomery Clift was bleeding to death inside his car. Only 8 months previous, James Dean was beheaded in his car.  When Monty heard the news of his contemporary’s death, he was on a cruise ship with torch singer Libby Holman, who later [...]

There are many secret perks to being a gay man, being of an orientation that exists (more yesterday than today) outside cultural norms.  Great communities in metropolitan cities, independence, and you get to create relationships out of your own design (gone are the pre-conceived notions that THIS IS WHAT YOUR WEDDING MUST LOOK LIKE, that [...]

Downtown L.A. has a treasure chest of vibrantly creative ways to be yummy.  Take the German sausage restaurant “Wurstkuche,” a warehouse in a shabby part of Downtown (Psst– there’s no non-shabby part of Downtown).   But that’s the point, isn’t it?  Have one of these smash hits in Hollywood and say hello to a way-too-trendy [...]

The daylight is longer, and unless you have an iPhone or a stupid work computer, your clocks are all caught up with Daylight Savings Time.  Yes, it is a bitch the day it happens.  All that confusion, plus you lose an hour.  But I welcome it!  It’s all about the electrical Spring/early Summer moment when [...]

Hollywood stars don’t melt down like they used to.  Sheen has nothing on Frank Sinatra. But then again, a lot of guys don’t have anything on Frank Sinatra.  There is a pervasive mist in the air whenever Sinatra’s name comes up in straight male company.  There’s a myth, and more importantly, there’s an envy.  Because [...]

The Gay-Haters have really broken the goofy meter again! Months ago, Apple received a whole unwanted hulabaloo when they approved the app “The Manhattan Declaration,” which consisted of little more than a question “Do you believe marriage should be kept between a man and a woman?”  If you answered yes, the Manhattan Declaration would ask [...]

Eva Braun, a.k.a. Hitler’s Girlfriend, donned blackface and drag in this recently released 1937 photograph.  Racism, on top of xenophobia?  Or is this a much more fascinating tribute to the 1927 Al Jolson movie “The Jazz Singer,” which was about, among other things, maintaining Jewish tradition.  Hmmmm. Hey, History…hey.

Belgium’s in Los Angeles at Beverly Blvd & Curson, across the street from the Grove Mall.  If there’s one thing LA excels at in the food department, it’s in cheeky experimentation and hidden gems. That’s right, it’s “Just Waffles!” (jazz hands) at Shaky Alibi coffee bar & wafflerie.  Marcus and I spent Presidents’ Day Monday [...]

If humans have animal counterparts, the French must be kitty cats.  Chain-smoking, hyper-intelligent, self-posessed and unmoved by the world, these human-cats are actually so sensitive, so deeply wounded by the day-to-day motion of the ocean that they pile on eccentricities to stronghold their cool exteriors. Writer/director/actor/costumer/man-cat Xavier Dolan must be intimately aware of this, if [...]

You open up the mailbox, and there’s that sickening red ink of the state department staring you in the face.  You’ve been called for Jury Duty.  It’s a hassle, it’s haggling with work, it’s mandatory. If you’re gay, not anymore! Model/History-Buff/Reality-Show-Performer/Sexy-Jew Jonathan D. Lovitz, not to be confused with Comedian/TV-Star/Not-As-Sexy-Jew Jon Lovitz, made quite a [...]