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'Queers in History' Best Left on the Shelf |
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Written by Tom Kayser
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Monday, 30 November 2009 00:59 |
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Spangle often gets requests from authors to review new books. If, on occasion, those tomes have Cleveland or LGBT connections, we’ve decided to give them a once-over.
When the author of a new encyclopedia thanks Wikipedia in his acknowledgments, part of me wants to throw myself off a cliff — and the rest of me wants to take him with me over the edge.
Note to Keith Stern, author of the new Queers in History — and every student ages 5 to 95: Wikipedia is not a source for true scholarship. Period. And even if you’re just using it to fact-check, don’t mention it in your acknowledgments. If you do, your credibility is toast.
It’s one of several faults that make Queers an average read.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 November 2009 21:04 |
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Shake Off Your Sunday Morning Hangover For This |
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:01 |
Dinner and a movie: It’s the old reliable, a safe (some might said played-out) way to spend some time with a friend or your sweetie.
But brunch and a movie? Now that’s a new, kinda queer take on the old standard we can get behind.
Cleveland Cinemas, operator of the Gordon Square Arts District’s new theater, the Capitol, is launching its new Sunday Classics Brunch and Movie Series this very Sunday, Feb. 21.
Once a month, you get a classic — starting with An American in Paris — followed by a meal at one of Detroit Shoreway’s hotspots (first up is Luxe, where many a Spangler has been known dine-n-drink). And you get it all for $25 (plus hooch and gratuity).
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:27 |
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Gearing Up for the Film Fest Homestretch |
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Written by Martha Pontoni
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Saturday, 27 March 2010 11:26 |
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 Saturday morning thoughts from the last weekend of the 34th annual Cleveland International Film festival …
An update to yesterday’s rant: After more thought, I realize that the character in Eyes Wide Open did not kill himself because he was gay. He actually was okay with that part, even refusing to send his young lover away. He killed himself because his community sent the young man away. “I am alive when he is here” is how he described the young man to his rabbi. So since his love was banished he had no reason to live, except of course for his wife and three kids.
I still think we see too many movies where suicide is the answer for LGBT people. The answer for most of us is refusing to let others define our lives as wrong, standing up for who we are, and continuing to take responsibility for our choices. There is hope after coming out; I just wish we saw it portrayed more often.
I know in some places, it can get you banished, physically and mentally harmed, and even killed. It is not easy for anyone, but it must be done, if only for yourself.
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Spangle Wants You at 'City of Borders' This Weekend |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 09:16 |
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Today’s the day — 5 p.m. tonight marks the first showing of City of Borders, the excellent documentary at the Cleveland International Film Festival that’s being sponsored by Spangle and the fun boys at G2H2.
It also shows this Sunday at 7:40 p.m. (that night, it’s literally the last movie of the film fest, which means after the screening, you can join a huge crowd for the free closing-night party around the Tower City fountain).
Click here to read our interview with the fabulous Boody Qur’an, who’s one of the movie’s main subjects. And our review of the documentary is here (hint: we think it’s pretty awesome).
At this point, you can only get tickets to either screening at Tower City Cinema. It’s likely to be a packed house, but best bets for a prime seat are for tonight’s showing — so skip out of work a few minutes early and join us!
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Last Updated on Friday, 26 March 2010 18:08 |
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Summer Solstice Blows Our Minds, Again |
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Written by Tim Marshall
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Monday, 21 June 2010 00:29 |
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Big happenings this past weekend in Northeast Ohio. Stay tuned for Clifton Arts and Music Fest and North Coast Men's Chorus photos later in the week.
It’s difficult to top an event that was hailed as one of the the best of all time, but the Cleveland Museum of Art did precisely that with Saturday’s Summer Solstice Party.
Taking last year’s format of an all-night musical fête that honored new galleries and cranking up the heat several thousand notches, the museum drew a sold-out crowd of more than 5,000 scenesters to usher in a new era for some of the institution’s most important works.
From the first cocktail shaking to the main stage’s last beats thumping nearly nine hours later, Solstice once again proved there ain’t no party like a CMA party, because a CMA party just don’t stop.
Check out photos from the event here, and read Spangler Tim Marshall’s minute-by-minute masterpiece of Twitterific journaling after the jump.
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Last Updated on Monday, 21 June 2010 22:27 |
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