2024-09-25
A look at Wild Is the Wind, the film and its theme song.
2024-05-27
Reminiscences regarding reissues by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.
2024-05-04
Looking at Joe Hill by way of reporter Adam Klasfeld.
2023-11-14
Here I parse the meaning of the lengthy first line of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
2023-10-13
Reflections on Elijah the prophet and the slain Elijah McClain.
2023-09-30
Tribute to dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez.
2023-09-16
Marking the thirtieth anniversary of the recording of Officium by Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble.
2023-07-06
My reflection on David Byrne's Theater of the Mind, which I saw six months ago.
2022-12-22
Poetry and song on the Nativity at the solstice.
2022-12-12
Disambiguation of the symbol of serpent and staff.
2022-11-27
The demise of a pet, a marriage, a neighborhood.
2022-08-25
Some thoughts on the wiggly world of DOJ redactions.
2022-08-07
"When will we ever learn?"
2022-07-30
Two years ago today I began a virtual dialog with acclaimed visual artist Jim Morphesis in which I queried him about the themes in his work and responded in kind.
2022-07-27
Mitchell at the Newport Folk Festival.
2022-07-13
The Chicks meet J-Six!
2022-05-31
A brief look at the Honeycombs, briefly at the Top of the Pops.
2022-05-02
Reflections on two related exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum and beyond.
2022-04-25
The Big Picture rounds out the Bachelors Anonymous catalog.
2022-04-12
Forgotten Christmas songs from the 1980s.
2022-03-22
Interior location: public toilet.
2022-03-14
Colorado has done a lousy job of transitioning nursing home residents to the community. I know.
2021-12-30
Thoughts about the cross-class relationships of E. M. Forster, Edward Carpenter, and John Addington Symonds.
2021-10-14
Years ago I was told by my parents that I had a Wobbly in my lineage on my father’s side. I asked them to write down what they remembered about him but never followed up. Until recently.
2021-09-15
I wrote my first original post on this blog three years ago about composer Frederic Rzewski’s statement of solidarity with the Attica uprising, which took place fifty years ago this week.
2021-09-12
I offer these emails from the fifth anniversary of 9/11 as a snapshot in time with which to compare the present discourse.
2021-08-30
Recollections about Billy Idol and white dub.
2021-08-15
Saturday night, the Fall of Kabul, the Choppers of Cong, the mendacity of “Why didn’t we see this coming?” All I can think about is a poem I heard by chance on KPFK 17 or 18 years ago.
2021-08-06
Last time I said I planned to toot the horn of a new songwriter, but I will toot my own as well.
2021-07-29
Before I start tooting the horn of current songwriters—and shortly I will profile Dan Wriggins and his band Friendship—let me toot my own.
2021-05-31
This fifth in a series of portraits of Rudy Perez is akin to the third: an anatomy of a performance and collaboration: The Dance-Crazy Kid from New Jersey Meets Hofmannsthal.
2021-05-12
I’m tired of hearing about gun violence in the United States.
2021-04-18
I’m not a fan of royalty by any means. But being interested in design I was struck by Elizabeth II’s face mask during the funeral of her consort Philip.
2021-03-15
It was awful. Jasmin Cigarroa never came down from her apartment last week when a friend texted her for a planned night out.
2021-01-25
A rant about the over- and ill-use of the popular song (“Amazing Grace” and “Hallelujah”).
2021-01-15
In talking with Rudy Perez about his career’s performances over the last nine months, I noticed how many took place in art spaces. Of course, by the time I met Rudy in 1980, performances—dance and otherwise—were often hosted by galleries—large and small, for-profit and non. What follows are reminiscences of such productions during the years before I left Los Angeles for Denver in 2005, including bits from our conversations earlier this month.
2020-12-07
Speculations about the physical appearance of Jesus.
2020-11-15
Most of our readers will know why I haven’t posted here for two months. In preparing for Portrait of Rudy Perez 2: Remain in Light in June, my musical partner Rob Berg and I dusted off music we hadn’t visited in decades.
2020-09-13
Reminiscing about salsa picante.
2020-08-26
The death machine and our zombification.
2020-08-23
An extension of Part 2 of my interview with dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez. It’s an anatomy of the performance that first brought Rudy and me and my fellows together.
2020-08-15
Tonight, YouTube, with its funky algorithm, shot me Future Islands’ “Thrill.” The promo is pandemo-solo, the sound synthy, the topic topical, but it might not be what you think.
2020-08-08
Yesterday my brother Richard remarked in our weekly transpacific Skype chat, that the cell phone camera has changed everything, from unmasked undistanced kids walking down a hallway in Georgia (I hadn’t yet seen it; he’s on Bangkok time) to gals getting their nails done getting zip-tied on the blacktop near my neighborhood.
2020-08-06
“The parishioners at my parents’ churches always ranted and raved and claimed that California was the place where all the queers and fruits were located,” Foshee is quoted, ”so I figured that’s the place for me!”
2020-07-19
My brother’s gemology webinar last month caused me to reflect on my time as a “gemstone journalist,” which I haven't really written about in this venue. See what you think.
2020-07-11
This fourth edition of Everybody Dance Now involves travel in space and time.
2020-06-15
After many years of resistance and organizing, the name of Andrea’s and my Denver neighborhood finally will be abandoned.
2020-06-11
This is a second conversation with dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez.
2020-06-03
That time Boulder was shut down by demonstrators.
2020-05-27
A year without a boss!
2020-05-20
Last year, in Everybody Dance Now 1, I reminisced about studying with dancer-choreographer Rudy Perez in the early 1980s. Nearly four decades later Rudy agreed to let me interview him.
2020-05-15
Little Richard died Saturday. Journalist Craig Lee met both him and Pete Shelley. Compare and contrast.
2020-05-08
COVID-19 has brought health care’s racist underbelly to the fore. I knew it first-hand, from within the beast’s belly.
2020-04-29
Now that I’ve got your attention…
2020-04-27
It’s been a year since the last edition of Everybody Dance Now. Today we look at some movement-and-music videos as well as several music promos that feature choreography and companies.
2020-04-11
Part 2 of my recollections about Oliver Haskell and his Summerhill Day School in California.
2020-04-09
A look into the lives of Jimmie and Penelope Spheeris.
2020-04-06
There were varied responses to an earlier pandemic.
2020-02-21
Discussion of John Addington Symonds, Walt Whitman, the Rossettis, and rakehells via Naomi Wolf.
2020-02-02
Part 1 of my recollections about Oliver Haskell and his Summerhill Day School in California.
2020-01-02
In a comment to my post The Stranger Alongside Me in September our friend Milania remarked on my being a rescuer. In reply my husband David Hughes said, “I guess you could say she rescued me forty-four years ago this month! We’ll have to have Andrea tell that tale some day.” Milania urged me to do so “sooner rather than later.”
2019-12-02
The second and likely last listen to musics that employ faith-based speech.
2019-11-14
Thoughts on the passing of my old friend Joseph Shuldiner.
2019-11-09
Part 3 of thoughts on a crucial event in Andrea's childhood.
2019-10-28
Part 2 of my thoughts on a crucial event in my childhood.
2019-10-09
Part 1 of my thoughts on a crucial event in my childhood.
2019-09-27
A listen to musics that employ faith-based speech.
2019-09-13
My brush with Ted Bundy?
2019-09-09
An anecdotal fluoride–infection recollection.
2019-09-03
The Charlottesville–Denver connection.
2019-08-02
My look at gay historian John Lauritsen, Stonewall (contemporary) reportage, and the Q-word.
2019-07-14
Workplace organizing.
2019-07-02
Just as Blacks migrated north, gays migrated metropolitan. I look at short films dealing with those left behind.
2019-06-26
A first look at the embrace of nuclear by environmentalists and climate scientists.
2019-06-17
In the face of climate chaos, the moneyed scramble for security while others organize mutual aid.
2019-06-14
—with apologies to Marlon Brando
2019-06-08
This post involves a period of U.S. history that's been dubbed The Lavender Scare. A new documentary film by that name opened yesterday in New York and Los Angeles. Alas, I'm in Denver…
2019-06-06
Looking for clues as to Morrissey’s embrace of For Britain.
2019-05-25
What’s with Morrissey?
2019-05-19
A listen to the music of Scott Stapleton.
2019-05-06
The Royal Family and the Poor, Guru Maharaj Ji, and anti-Gang of Four.
2019-04-19
Open-air churches.
2019-04-13
Yet another language on the verge of extinction.
2019-04-01
Dance and anti-dance.
2019-03-19
Comparing texts by Karl Marx and Eno-collaborator Rick Holland.
2019-03-16
Reactions to reading Jim Dooley’s history of GO4.
2019-03-03
Musings upon seeing GO4 for the third time.
2019-02-26
Making connections between the works of several poets.
2019-01-28
An initial meandering musing on dance: casual, staged, amateur, professional, choreographed, spontaneous, celebratory, liberatory.
2019-01-12
Yes, this involves Leopold and Loeb and their victim …
2019-01-05
A listen and look at the music and politics of Jon Appleton.
2019-01-02
Danish actor Lasse Steen and a national socialist resort.
2018-12-22
Clutch Cargo meets the masters.
2018-12-09
The film, the play, and the music it inspired.
2018-11-18
Charles Bonnet syndrome and the clarity of hallucination.
2018-11-17
Marching to the beat of a Gestetner.
2018-10-25
Rap music, Los Angeles, 1981.
2018-09-27
Recollection and reflection of a remarkable musical work, and my work experience around it.
2018-01-04
Three articles on early gay rights efforts in Los Angeles: “Harry Hay Meets His Match,” “Blown Cover: The Arrest of Dale Jennings,” and “Queer Questionnaire and Coates Column.”
2017-07-11
A profile of the man who almost singlehandedly organized what we now know as the Mattachine Society in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2017-06-01
A review of the book by Martin Aston.
2017-05-29
I edited and commented on this extensive interview of LGBTQ activist, publisher, and eroticist Hal Call.
2017-03-31
In looking at the lives of members of the early Mattachine, perhaps the most enigmatic was Paul Benard, one of the eight men pictured in the famous “Christmas tree” photograph.
2016-08-28
Examining the FBI investigation of the Mattachine Society and ONE magazine. And the identity of a snitch.
2014-09-15
Two profiles of Maxey; one regarding his activism, the other regarding his ecclesial significance.
2014-05-16
A personal, feminist, and aesthetic critique of the style and substance of British rocker Bryan Ferry and his band Roxy Music written for an audience of colored gemstone aficionados.
2014-02-10
I edited and commented on this extensive interview of LGBT[he hated Q] archivist Jim Kepner.
2009-06-15
A profile of Chuck Rowland, a founding member of the Mattachine Society and founder of Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles.
2008-10-26
A profile of Bob Hull, a founding member of the Mattachine Society.
2008-10-19
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