The new Star Wars: The Last Jedi movie has apparently woken up more than just the Force. I am an active member of several “nerd-culture” forums on Facebook, much to…
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“Are you going home for the holidays?” Many people see this as an innocuous bit of chit-chat at this time of year. Sadly, for some of us this question can…
Hi, my name is Anne, I’m a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, and for the record, I don’t hate Christmas. That said, every year I begin experiencing Christmas fatigue…
Few stories are as beloved and familiar to audiences as Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. When a theater company tackles a show so well known, a question it always asks itself…
In the last year or so I have experienced a severe upswing of mansplaining in the arts community. First, there was the guy in the Sondheim group who told me…
As the holiday season approaches, many of you may be feeling an impending gloom just on the edge of your vision. A flicker, a shadow, just outside of your field…
How to know you have transcended to next level gaydom. I woke up at 5:30 am to not one, not two, not three notifications that Kevin Spacey had come out,…
If you’re anything like me, I’m going to have to ask you to stop that because in that case you basically are me and we can’t have that. I am…
by Daniel Johanson On Sunday Night in Las Vegas, a gunman opened fire on a country music concert murdering over 50 people, the largest mass shooting committed by a single…
by Dennis Kalup Everyone is angry. Angry at Hillary Clinton for publishing a book. Angry that Donald Trump is the president. Angry that Bernie Sanders didn’t do enough. Angry that…
by Daniel Johanson Hillary Clinton just released her tell-all memoir of the 2016 election What Happened this week, and I’m writing to say that I am so glad for her…
We’re facing a weird dichotomy in the state of hatred. It is at one moment all consuming, overwhelming, constant, and at another unfocused, destructive, and superficial. Where critics of the…