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[title of show]

Jeff — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:45:22 +0000

[title of show] started performances in its Broadway home last night and we went to the matinée today. It is brilliant! The show is about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. Huh? Yes, the musical chronicles its own creation (I know, sounds like a Star Trek space/time continuum problem). A few years [...]

Fat Hoochie Prom Queen by Nico Medina

Jeff — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:59:12 +0000

If nothing else this book should get best title of the year. Fat Hoochie Prom Queen is not only fun to say, it looks good on the cover too. Luckily this second novel from Nico Medina features a good story to go with its title. The story is cut from the Ugly Betty style of [...]

Playing with the Big Boys

Jeff — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:14:40 +0000

With the holiday there’s not much hockey this weekend. I skated the Thursday night NYCGHA clinic session, which was a blast because we did a small ice game (one of my favorite drills to do) I just got back from this morning’s Ronnie’s Ice session and that well exceeded my expectations for holiday ice. So what [...]

So You Think You Can Dance: Kherington & Twitch Do Contemporary

Jeff — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:37:40 +0000

On the whole, this week’s So You Think You Can Dance was an unexpected clunker. I wasn’t thrilled by most of the performances. However, there was one stunning dance worth posting. Mia Michaels choreographed Kherington and Twitch in a contemporary number featuring “Dreaming with a Broken Heart” by John Mayer. Check out [...]

Wanted

Jeff — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:35:48 +0000

Let me start by saying that Wanted has one of the most ridiculous plots that I’ve seen in quite sometime. A bunch of super assassins, part of a organization called “The Fraternity,” strive to make the world a better place by taking orders from a loom that’s controlled by fate. Yes, you read that right… [...]

Friday Geek Out: James Joyce’s The Dead

Jeff — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:04 +0000

I have a special fondness for some of the darker, serious, subtle, more intense musicals that were dominating Broadway when we first moved the NYC. Some shows in this category include The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Ragtime and this week’s Geek Out choice James Joyce’s The Dead. The Dead ran on Broadway from December 1999 to [...]

When I Knew

Jeff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:12:35 +0000

Last night we watched the HBO documentary When I Knew, which features an array of people telling the stories of the first time they realized they were gay. Some of the stories are amusing, like the man who was obsessed with the man on the Doan’s Pills box. Some are what you might call “regular” [...]

Hello, I’m a PC that wants to be a Mac

Jeff — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:05:09 +0000

This Mac commercial sums up my experience with Vista (except I don’t have a yoga studio or messed up billing). I bought a new Dell laptop last September and it came installed with Vista. I wasn’t happy about that, but there was no option to allow me to get it installed with XP. I figured since [...]

A Catered Affair

Jeff — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:08:12 +0000

We finally saw A Catered Affair this afternoon. It’s been on our list of shows to see since it opened in April and it advanced to the top of the list a couple weeks ago when it was announced that it would close at the end of July. The show never quite caught on at [...]

Ordinals Loose But Put Up Great Fight, Wizards Sink

Jeff — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:45:42 +0000

The Ordinals have two arch nemesises (yes, I know, that’s not exactly a real word) in our division: the Canucks and the Hornets. They are friendly rivalries, but we try our absolute best every time we play these two teams to get our first wins against them. We’ve come close in our recent meetings with [...]

Waterfalls & Flipping for Flip

Jeff — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:31:15 +0000

We went over to the South Street Seaport today to grab lunch, hit tkts so we could see A Catered Affair tomorrow afternoon and to check out the new New York City Waterfalls that were installed this week. We saw three of the four waterfalls: Brooklyn Bridge, Pier 35 and the Brooklyn Piers (we couldn’t [...]

Blast From The Past

Jeff — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:45:06 +0000

Brian posted a great piece from the Onion News Network… It took me back in time I worked for a video store for around three years while I was in college. It loved that job… and it was certainly a simpler time. I didn’t work for a Blockbuster… and was happily already out of the video [...]

So You Think You Can Dance: Mark & Chelsea Hip Hop

Jeff — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:48:14 +0000

I haven’t been a fan the hip hop routines on So You Think You Can Dance. It’s usually the choreography rather than the performance that fails for me. This week it all changed. Mark & Chelsea got a hip hop routine (which was later clarified as a lyrical hip hop routine) and it was amazing. [...]

Friday Geek Out: Pride

Jeff — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:30:53 +0000

This weekend New York City closes out 2008 Pride Week with the March down 5th Avenue into the Village. The 2008 theme–”Live Love Be”–is quite appropriate in this year where California has taken a huge step forward with same-sex marriage. And, honestly, what more could you ask out of life than to be able to [...]

Blind Fall by Christoper Rice

Jeff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:34:15 +0000

Why? Why is this book so uneven? I’ve been a big fan of Christopher Rice’s since he published A Density of Souls back in 2001. His style is typically a thriller with just a tinge of supernatural. There’s no supernatural or even a solid thriller in Rice’s latest, Blind Fall. There is a murder mystery. There is [...]

Four-Oh

Jeff — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:05:23 +0000

Today I turned 40. You know, it’s one of those big birthdays because it has the 0 on the end. It doesn’t feel like I’ve been around that long, but there you go. I spent lunch today in Bryant Park. It was a perfect weather day: 80 degrees, very low humidity, nice breeze. For some reason, [...]

So You Think You Can Dance

Jeff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:30:07 +0000

Yes, we’ve started watching another dance show. I’m not a fan of the So You Think You Can Dance judges, except for the head judge who doesn’t get on my nerves. We tend to record and fast forward though the program just watching the dances, rehearsal footage and the elimination stuff. We can do the [...]

Chelesa Challenge Update: Purple Rain Gets Silver

Jeff — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:04:23 +0000

Purple Rain wrapped up the Chelsea Challenge this morning with a second place win in the tourney after being shut out 5-0 by the Royal Tenenbaums. We gave it our all, but they were simply better. In the end, we were trying to just get a point on the scoreboard because after how well we’d [...]

Judy 1922-1969

Will — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:37:00 +0000

It was on this day in 1969 that Judy Garland passed away. Judy worship among thoes of the homosexual persuasion has become politically complicated over last few years, but her impact will always be felt among the gays and anyone else who appreciates her raw and astonishing talent.

Ordinals Take Moose in OT

Jeff — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:15:07 +0000

The Ordinals had a solid game against the Moose last night, winning 2-1 in an overtime shootout. We played short, only 10 people but we kept up our energy and played a good game. The one goal against was a lucky one for the Moose… there was a pile up in front of the net [...]

Chelesa Challenge Update: Purple Rain Into Semis

Jeff — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:54:44 +0000

Purple Rain dominated games two and three in the Chelsea Challenge. In game two we faced Red Dawn and collected 7 of the 8 available points in the game (I don’t remember the score). For game three against the Yellow Submarines we played a shutout (score of 5-0) and collected another 7 points. By the [...]

A Hockey Debut

Jeff — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:33:14 +0000

This time last year I blogged about meeting Josh K from Josh and Josh Are Rich and Famous (check out “Blogging World meets Real World“) since he was a volunteer at Chelsea Challenge registration. Over the past year he and I have stayed in touch as he’s been working towards making his hockey debut this summer. [...]

Chelesa Challenge Update: Purple Rain Solid in Game 1

Jeff — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:36:27 +0000

Purple Rain came out strong in its first game in the Cheslea Challenge, winning with a score of 3-0 against the Green Miles. We captured 7 of the available 8 points for the game (each period is a mini-game so there are 8 points available for the game, 2 in each period and 2 for [...]

Friday Geek Out: The Art of Steve Walker

Jeff — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:30:52 +0000

I discovered the Art of Steve Walker a few years ago because his work graced the cover of novels by Michael Thomas Ford. From the very first one I was struck by the composition of the paintings and the at-ease portrayal of men in them. These are all men comfortable in their own skin, comfortable [...]

[title of show] Ticketganza

Jeff — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:32:22 +0000

We’ve been following the [title of show] quest to get into a Broadway theatre for a couple months now via the [title of show] show that airs on YouTube (You can catch all the episodes on the new [tos] website, they are soooo funny). The show celebrated their Broadway arrival this afternoon as the Lyceum Theatre [...]

About Header #11

Jeff — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:45:31 +0000

Header #11 was shot on Friday, November 9, 2007 at M&Ms World in Times Square (Broadway & 48th Street) . The entire photo is below.

Weddings Begin in California

Jeff — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:01:49 +0000

Towleroad has some of the first pictures and video from California’s first same-sex marriages, which happenend yesterday at 5:01pm pacific time. Congratulations to everyone who is taking advantage of this new legal right!

Suddenly Everyone Bursts into Song

Jeff — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:45:11 +0000

glumbert - Food Court Musical I would love to see this happen in person sometime. The world needs more singing and dancing, don’t you think? [via Soliloqueer]

Only Want 2 See U In the Purple Rain

Jeff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:45:40 +0000

Chelsea Challenge 2008 is this coming weekend! It’s hard to believe this is my seventh challenge. This year I am captaining Purple Rain in the developmental division. The team is a good mix of people I’ve played with, people I’ve played against and a couple people I just don’t know. We’ve got a goalie I know [...]

Sci-Fi Channel is Mean

Jeff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:36:19 +0000

After the stunning revelations in Friday night’s mid-season finale of Battlestar Galactica we now have to wait until early 2009 to see how the series ends? That’s just plain mean.

Chris & Don: A Love Story

Jeff — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:08:07 +0000

Chris & Don: A Love Story chronicles the 30 year relationship between writer Christopher Isherwood (who wrote Goodbye to Berlin, which became the musical Cabret) and artist Don Bachardy. The two met and fell in love in the early 50s and stayed together until Isherwood passed away in January 1986. The image above is Don [...]

John Waters on the 1

Jeff and Will — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:41:33 +0000

We headed uptown on the 1 train this afternoon to catch a movie. We got off the train at 14th Street and exited the station at 13th Street. Who came up from the platform on the opposite staircase from us? John Waters! How cool is that!?! We shared the staircase up to the sidewalk together and he went [...]

The First Rule of Fight Club

Jeff — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:33:55 +0000

Apparently this is a rule that Will over at Soliloqueer chose to ignore. Last Monday morning I’m sitting at work and an IM from him pops up. We exchanged good mornings and then he dropped the bomb that he had a black eye. Well, Will just isn’t the type of person to end up with a [...]

2008 Tony Predicitions

Jeff — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:08:10 +0000

It’s been a great Broadway season. We’ve saw more shows this season than in the past couple because there was so much great stuff to see. Tonight’s Tony Awards should be very exciting to watch. Yes, there are production numbers from the eight nominated musicals: Passing Strange, In the Heights, Xanadu, Cry-Baby, Grease, Gypsy, South Pacific [...]

Ordinals Take Knights in OT

Jeff — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:24:56 +0000

The Ordinals had a successful night against the Knights, taking them 6-5 in overtime. We needed the win because it gets us back to a winning record (4-3). Best of all it was a classic OT win. With 1:10 to go, we pulled Peter out of the net and then with about 35 seconds to [...]

Hockey The Musical! Makes New York Times

Jeff — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:48:56 +0000

It’s great to see a project keep advancing… Hockey The Musical!, which I’ve written about several times before (just click on the tag above to find the other entries) was featured in today’s New York Times with an article about the show’s trip to Toronto to be in the Fringe Festival. You can check out [...]

Friday Geek Out: Falsettos

Jeff — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:30:53 +0000

Falsettos, written by William Finn and James Lapine, hit Broadway in the Spring of 1992. Falsettos is composed of two one-act shows that had previously run off-Broadway—March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. The show covers two years, 1979 in the first act and 1981 in the second, in the lives of a group of friends: [...]

I’m Voting Republican

Will — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:18:47 +0000

Into the Nightlife

Will — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:17:15 +0000

As if there wern’t already enough reasons to love Cyndi Lauper, her new cd is crazy smokin’ hot and puts recent efforts by Madonna and Kylie to shame (sorry, but it’s true).

Hockey Central Debuts

Jeff — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:10:35 +0000

Since the new site was finished a couple weeks ago, I’ve been looking for a way to aggregate the hockey stuff into a home of it’s own. As many of you know, before the move to WordPress there were separate blogs for the general posts and hockey-related posts. Several readers say they like the integration, [...]

Ordinals Hang Tough with Canucks

Jeff — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:56:46 +0000

The Canucks and the Hornets provide the Ordinals with the toughest competition in our division. We’re pretty evenly matched with the other five teams in the division–we win some, we loose some . The Canucks and Hornets force us to become a better team. We’ve never beaten either of these teams and we push ourselves [...]

Air Quiality Action Days

Jeff — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:20:54 +0000

Sounds like some kind of sale, right? Sadly it’s not. Today is the first day of what is forecasted to be a four-day heatwave. Ick! (A heatwave is officially defined as three days or more with temperatures over 90 degrees). Today it hits 91 and tomorrow through Tuesday it’s headed for 95. With the humidity factored [...]

Reality Check

Jeff — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:14:40 +0000

A couple of reality shows we’ve been watching wrapped up in the past couple weeks and they are worth commenting on. Step it Up & Dance: I loved this show from the beginning. This show was so much better the Dance Wars. The cross section of dancers they brought in were great and it peeled down [...]

More Hockey Hotness

Jeff — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:43:59 +0000

As if the hot goalie earlier this week wasn’t enough, there are more hot hockey players on the horizon. This is actor Dillon Casey, star of the new SoapNet drama MVP, which premieres on June 19. The show wants to be a Footballers Wives sort of show that focuses on “The Secret Lives of Hockey [...]

Friday Geek Out: Dolly Parton’s “Traveling Thru”

Jeff — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:30:08 +0000

It’s June and that means it’s LGBT Pride Month. This month’s Geek Outs will have some sort of gay theme to them in honor of Pride Month. I’m starting off with Dolly Parton’s Oscar-nominated “Traveling Thru” from the film Transamerica. The film was about a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual (played by Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman) who takes an [...]

Stanley Cup 2008: Red Wings Bring It Home

Jeff — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:18:13 +0000

Fantastic game tonight. Pittsburgh gave Detroit a run for their money, but Detroit brought it home with a 3-2 game. It’s been a thrilling run for the Cup this season. I can’t believe how lucky I was to have my two favorite teams in the finals and for my hometown team to take the cup! I’m [...]

80s Flashback: Journey

Jeff — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:13:32 +0000

The mid-80s came roaring back for me yesterday as Journey released a new album. One that finally sounds like the Journey I have always loved. I found out about the release of Revelation on CBS Sunday Morning this past weekend. In the summer music feature, John Blackstone told the story of Journey’s discovery of a new [...]

Stanley Cup 2008: Soooo close!

Jeff — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:18:50 +0000

The Stanley Cup was out of its case being polished and then the Pittsburgh Penguins struck back! Around 5 minutes to go in the third the Detroit Red Wings pulled ahead in game 5. Then with 35 seconds to go, the Penguins got one past goalie Chris Osgood to tie up the game. Two and a half [...]

Brian Kent - My new Obsession

Will — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:36:21 +0000

One of my latest obsessions (besides Ninja Warrior of course. Best. Show. Ever.) is singer Brian Kent. His new CD is filled with great dance tracks which makes it perfect for cardio at the gym. There’s even a fun cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”. His “Breathe Life” is at the top of my playlist [...]

Goalie Hotness

Jeff — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:30:15 +0000

Okay, I don’t often do random hot guy posts. In fact, this might be my first. By this goalie, Serg Shebalin, is ridiculously hot. I found him in Will’s Exercise for Men magazine as part of the “Training for Hockey” article. Not only is there exceptional eye candy with the article, but I learned a [...]

Sex and the City

Jeff — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:38:03 +0000

May Movie Mania wrapped up this afternoon with Sex and the City (yes, I know it’s June 1… but the movie did open in May we just couldn’t get there until today). This movie was pure bliss. I was a major fan of the series. I loved every minute of the series and the movie caps [...]

Ordinals Beat Blizzard 4-3, Helmet Destroyed

Jeff — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:36:48 +0000

The Ordinals are back to a winning record thanks to us beating Blizzard 4-3 last night. It was a fun, fast moving game, as it always is with the Blizzard. Luckily the Ordinals stepped up to the challenge. Overall the team looked good last night, especially on offense. Unfortunately the Blizzard goalie is quite awesome [...]

Lambda Literary Awards

Jeff — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:51:10 +0000

It’s nice to know that I’m reading award winning books. The Lambda Literary Awards were annouced this week and a few books that I’ve read over the past year made the winner’s list. Best LGBT Children’s/Young Adult: Hero by Perry Moore Best Bisexual: Split Screen by Brent Hartinger Best Men’s Romance: Changing Tides by Michael Thomas Ford Also, Ann [...]

Friday Geek Out: All That Jazz

Jeff — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:30:12 +0000

Bob Fosse made a movie all about himself with 1979’s All That Jazz. Roy Scheider played director/choreographer/writer Joe Gideon. The parallels to Fosse’s live are unmistakable. Fosse had a heart attack while working on his 1973 film Lenny, which is portrayed here. The stage show Fosse worked on in the same time frame was Chicago, [...]

Good Job, Macy’s!

Jeff — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:20:54 +0000

Reading Towleroad during lunch, I came across this ad that Macy’s ran in the L.A. Times today. It made me warm and fuzzy to see a huge retailer like Macy’s step up with this kind of ad (you can click on it to see a larger version that is a bit easier to read). From what I’ve [...]

Big Bucks Required to See Harry Potter Blind Horses

Jeff — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Tickets for this fall’s staging of Equus starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths (he plays Harry’s uncle in the films) went on sale recently. I’m stunned at the top ticket price of $116.50. Even the cost to sit in the top/back of theatre is $61.50. I realize this is a limited run (September through [...]

Red Wings: 2 down, 2 to go

Jeff — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:01:05 +0000

I had no idea the Red Wings/Penguins series would be such a blow out. The Penguins are down by two games, which I did expect because stats show the Red Wings usually win at home. What’s surprsing is that both games were shutouts: 4-0 on Saturday and 3-0 tonight. The series moves to Pittsburgh on Wednesday and Saturday [...]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Jeff — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:30:52 +0000

A thrilling afternoon at the movies as May Movie Mania continued with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I admit, even with cool trailers and some decent advance buzz, I was leery of this movie. Neither George Lucas or Steven Spielberg have the best track records for summer movies over the past [...]

Holiday Weekend Hockey

Jeff — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:21:35 +0000

The Detroit Red Wings opened the Stanley Cup Championships at home last night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was a great game as the Red Wings took the series lead 1-0 with a 4-0 victory. It should’ve been 5-0, but the Red Wings had one goal disallowed because of supposed goalie interference. It was a [...]

Blood Trail by Tanya Huff

Jeff — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:53:13 +0000

Back in February I read Blood Prince, the first of Tanya Huff’s Blood Books series featuring private investigator Vicki Nelson and her vampire partner Henry Fitzroy. I liked that book a lot. Well, I just finished the second book, Blood Trail, and I like that one even more. This time out Henry asks Vicki to help [...]

Friday Geek Out: Miracle

Jeff — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:30:13 +0000

With the finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs starting up tomorrow and my two favorite teams battling it out for the championship title, this week is the perfect time to roll out my favorite hockey film of all time, Miracle. The movie, released by Disney in 2004, looks at the 1980 USA Olympic Hockey Team, [...]

A brief ode to Morgan Fairchild

Will — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:01:36 +0000

Could there possibly be anyone more fierce than Morgan Fairchild? I just watched The Seduction (1982) which made me think of Paper Dolls, her super glitzy short-lived soap from the same era. I taped all the episodes when they aired on SoapNet a few years ago. It has to be one of the most guilty of [...]