Elf Ball Thursday December 4, 7-11pm BRICK, Blue Star Arts Complex, 108 Blue Star Tickets: $125 Over the past eight years, the Artist Foundation has mastered the art of giving directly to artists, awarding more than $500,000 in grants to San Antonio creatives. This December, the Artist Foundation tackles a new gift: holiday magic. Naughty…
Arts & Culture
In defense of a second season for ‘Looking’
The second season of Looking premieres January 11, 2015. HBO’s Looking is worth a second look, particularly if you’ve heard the buzz about last year’s terrible first episodes—the epitome of Bad Gay Art. Roughly modeled on such socio-sexual buddy series as Sex and the City and Entourage, Andrew Haigh and Michael Lannan’s project puts an…
Bianchi shops Niche Boutique
It was the night of November 13, 2012. The weather was colder than a frozen TV dinner in an igloo on top of a mountain, and the wind was whipping around like Beyonce’s ass at the VMAs. But I had to brave the harsh 60-degree San Antonio conditions to attend the grand opening for Niche…
On the Chartreuse Couch: Bill Goodman
Gene: Bill, thank you for joining me on our lovely gay-friendly Chartreuse Couch. There are several topics that I want to inquire about. Mainly your specialty, estate-planning, wills and marriage. Where do we start with this? It is all quite complicated. Bill: Well, same-sex marriage is certainly the hottest topic. Who knew it would all move along so fast? For years I’ve…
Manhunt
Photos by Bryan Rindfuss Grooming by Angelina Mata Models: Murray Van Eman, Jeremiah Birmingham, Justin Nichols Justin Nichols, attorney Favorite game: Deer Favorite dish: “No question it is my grandmother’s fried backstrap” Nichols learned to hunt with his grandmother, the person he’s “closest to in the world,” when he was just 6 or 7.…
Jotos del Barrio: Shapeshifting toward consciousness
The idea of mestizaje has long permeated the pages of the queer Xicano literary canon. We exist in many places at once, all of our identities speaking to each other in symphony. We should not have to defend the multifaceted elements of our existence–instead, we should celebrate the parts of ourselves that make us different,…
