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Beth Richie on race, gender and the 'prison nation'
- Beth Richie is professor of African American Studies, criminology, law and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of the university's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. One of the most cited scholars on the intersection of race, gender and prisons, Richie also has a long and illustrious history as a feminist activist and was ...
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Lambda Literary Awards finalist readings May 22
- Chicago will host a reading of nine finalists for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards Wed., May 22 at 7 p.m. The event will be at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. The readers will be Anne Laughlin (Runaway), Marty McConnell (wine for a shotgun), Lania Knight (Three Cubic Feet), E.M. Kokie (Personal Effects), RamÃ"n H. Rivera-Servera (Performing Queer ...
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Matthews Mans Up!
- Ross Matthews became an overnight success thanks to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he was coined "Ross the Intern." His standout voice and personality made him instantly memorable on late-night television at home. He joined Celebrity Fit Club and the cast of Chelsea Lately since then along with interviewing many celebrities on the red carpet over the years. ...
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Bookshelf
- Please support independent bookstores by purchasing your books through them. Stores we recommend include Women & Children First, Unabridged Books, The Book Cellar, After Words, the Book Table, 57th Street Books, Quimby's and Powell's. Non-Fiction Thirty-six stories from LGBT and allied business leaders make up the anthology Out & Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office from Out ...
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BOOK REVIEW Stuck in the Middle with You
- By Jennifer Finney Boylan. $24; Crown; 288 pages When you were younger, you wanted nothing to do with parenthood. Life was a party then and having a family was the farthest thing from your mind. Kids changed people and who wants that? Being a parent was something that happened to somebody else. Once upon a time, Jennifer Finney Boylan thought ...
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Project sends LGBT books to schools
- Amelia Roskin-Frazee, who started a GSA at her middle school in Northern California, quickly realized that there were no books about sexual orientation or gender expression at her school, or seemingly anywhere. "So I wanted to do something to change that," she said. In November 2011, Roskin-Frazee launched the Make It Safe Project, which donates books about sexual orientation and ...
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Chef Art Smith promotes latest book, 'Healthy Comfort'
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - At his Chicago restaurant, Table Fifty-Two, chef Art Smith signed copies of his fourth book, Art Smith's Healthy Comfort, on May 11. The book contains some of the recipes Smith created on his journey to health and made for his celebrity clients. Just a few of the items in his book are unfried chicken with roasted Brussels sprouts; vegetable shepherd's ...
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Lambda Literary finalist readings May 22
- Update: To be held at Center on Halsted - Chicago will host a reading of nine finalists for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards Wed., May 22, at 7 p.m. The event will be at the Center on Halsted. The readers will be Anne Laughlin (Runaway), Marty McConnell (wine for a shotgun), Lania Knight (Three Cubic Feet), E.M. Kokie (Personal Effects), Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics), ...
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Dr. Umpierre Herrera to appear at several Chicago venues
- From a press release - Dr. Luzma Umpierre Herrera, a foremost figure within contemporary Puerto Rican literature and culture, will be in Chicago for several events next week. Her most recent work is I'm Still Standing: Treinta años de poesa / Thirty Years of Poetry. This volume serves as a lasting proof of Umpierre's dedication to her life's work in the areas of poetry, immigration ...
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Oz Characters Battle Wicked Witch in Chicago
- BOOKS - The Hackers of Oz, by Tom Mula, Dog Ear Publishing, softcover, 260 pages, $14.99. The scarecrow Scraps, a magical broom, Oscar the raven and a gay young man named Jervé seek the help of 10-year-old Elizabeth to crush the evil power of Lyrissa, who is the contemporary incarnation of the Wicked Witch of the West, in Tom Mula's entertaining ...
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Angela Davis speaks on 'Feminism and Abolition'
- World-renowned scholar, activist and feminist Angela Davis was in Chicago May 4 to deliver the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Annual Public Lecture, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Both institutions are at the University of Chicago, and the event was held at Rockefeller Chapel on the university's campus. Davis' ...
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Windy City Times wins 2 Lisagor journalism awards
- Windy City Times reporters won two Peter Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club May 3 at the Union League Club of Chicago. The Chicago Headline Club is the largest Society of Professional Journalists chapter in the country. Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago Tribune editorial board member Clarence Page and WBBM Newsradio reporter John ...
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Eve Ensler on cancer, trauma and her projects
- Eve Ensler is most famous for her 1996 play, The Vagina Monologues. Since then, the play has become a staple on college campuses and in women's groups and collectives across the world. Ensler speaks at the Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark, on Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. Purchase of her book from Women & Children First Bookstore guarantees a ...
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Chicagoan authors books on grieving
- Victoria Noe, former development director of Chicago House, is a straight ally who understands LGBT and AIDS issues from being in the trenches. She is now working on a series about grieving. The first is Friend and Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends, and the second is Friend and Grief and Anger: When Your Friend Dies and ...
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Eve Ensler in Chicago May 10
- Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, will be in Chicago to read from and sign copies of her new book, In the Body of the World: A Memoir, Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. at Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St. Her books are available from Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N Clark St. Ensler's off-Broadway play Emotional ...
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Lambda Literary Awards finalist reading May 22
- Update: To be held at Center on Halsted - Chicago will host a reading of 9 finalists for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards Wed., May 22 at 7 p.m. The event will be at the Center on Halsted. The readers will be Anne Laughlin (Runaway), Marty McConnell (wine for a shotgun), Lania Knight (Three Cubic Feet), E.M. Kokie (Personal Effects), Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics), ...
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Heroes, fans visit Chicago for C2E2
- Located in West Building at McCormick Place, the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) busted through the brick wall this past weekend with lots to see and do. While there were some celebrities charging for autographs and pictures, such as Burt Ward (of Batman and Robin fame) and Ron Perlman from Hellboy, the real stars were the fans themselves. Dressing ...
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Eve Ensler reads in Chicago May 10
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, will be in Chicago to read from and sign copies of her new book, In the Body of the World: A Memoir, Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. at Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St. Her books are available from Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N Clark St. Ensler's off-Broadway play Emotional ...
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Interior designer shares favorite 'Stuff' with Chicago
- The 16th annual Merchandise Mart International Antique Fair is being held April 26-29 in Chicago. It will bring together more than 100 of the world's most notable antiques dealers and their impressive collections as well as several speakers who are antiques experts, including out interior designer Carey Maloney. Maloney and his husband and business partner Hermes Mallea, who is an ...
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Lambda to honor Burroughs, Irving and Moraga
- From a press release - The Lambda Literary Foundation announces this year's trio of major award recipients: Augusten Burroughs will receive the Foundation's Trustee Award, John Irving will receive the Bridge Builder Award, and CherrÃe Moraga will receive the Pioneer Award. They will be honored, along with dozens of writers chosen from the list of extensive nominees, at the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards ("Lammys") ...
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Queer Lexicon works to build an oral history
- by Tom Wray - QChicago has long been known as a city of stories. That reputation began with writers and commentators like Studs Terkel, but that same kind of oral history has been slow to grab hold in the city's LGBTQIA community—until now. Joseph Varisco has been working on Queer Lexicon, a collection of interviews documenting the oral histories of creative individuals in the ...
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Eve Ensler in Chicago May 10
- From a press release - Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, will be in Chicago to read from and sign copies of her new book, In the Body of the World: A Memoir, Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. at Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St. Her books are available from Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N Clark St. Admission is free with ...
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Authors Skloot, Roach at Chicago Public Library April 29
- From a press release - The Chicago Public Library welcomes acclaimed bestselling science writers Mary Roach and Rebecca Skloot to discuss Roach's new book, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, an unforgettable tour of our insides. The event is Monday, April 29, 6 p.m., at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St., in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium (Lower Level). For more information, please ...
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Innovative coloring book, 'Being Gay is Okay'
- Review by Tracy Baim - This new coloring book from St. Louis-based Really Big Coloring Books is a creative approach to the topic of LGBT rights. It's by a straight company, and you can tell they tried really hard to show the basics of LGBT history and rights. I could quibble about things such as diversity of images (there certainly is some diversity, but our ...
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Author talks about'The Detroit Queer'
- BOOKS - In his self-published novel, The Detroit Queer, 19-year-old author Tegan Joseph explores what it means to be Black, Christian and gay in the United States. The semi-autobiographical work follows Jimmy, a young Black man in Detroit who struggles to overcome homophobia and claim his identity at school, at church and at home. "[Jimmy] comes from a family where reputation is ...
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Peggy Shinner to read from book of essays April 3
- Lifelong Chicagoan Peggy Shinner, an award-winning essayist and fiction writer and the interim director of Roosevelt University's Creative Writing Program, will read from a forthcoming book of essays, Jewish Feet and other Tales of the Body, at 5 p.m., April 3 in Roosevelt's Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave. Shinner, who has been active on LGBT rights and AIDS issues, ...
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Peggy Shinner to read from book of essays April 3
- From a press release - Life-long Chicagoan Peggy Shinner, an award-winning essayist and fiction writer and the interim director of Roosevelt University's Creative Writing Program, will read from a forthcoming book of essays, Jewish Feet and other Tales of the Body, at 5 p.m., April 3 in Roosevelt's Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Shinner, who has been active on LGBT rights and AIDS ...
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Urvashi Vaid at Center on Halsted April 3
- Author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics - CHICAGO: Longtime LGBT-rights advocate Urvashi Vaid will be in Chicago Wed., April 3, for a free event at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted St. She will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics. This is her only public program in Chicago. The event will start at ...
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Places I Remember: My Time with the Beatles
- BOOKS - Best known for his classic contributions to publications such as Time and LIFE, revered photographer Henry Grossman has captured everyone from Oscar-winning actresses Elizabeth Taylor, Meryl Streep and Barbra Streisand, seven presidents including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon to rock 'n' roll legends Jimi Hendrix, Rod Stewart and the Grateful Dead. However, most are unaware of ...
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Looking deeper in photographer Blake Little's 'Company'
- BOOK ANALYSIS Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Blake Little is a well-known Hollywood commercial photographer. His portraits of the rich, powerful and beautiful are often featured in many of the better upscale urban magazines, film marketing and consumer websites. Little's first photo book, Dichotomy (State of Man Publishing/Colt Studio), got lost in a glut of black-and-white naked coffee table books when it was first released back in ...
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SPRING THEATER Actors' Equity out with 100th-anniv. book
- To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Actors' Equity Association, the union produced a book providing an historical review and beautiful photos—Performance of the Century: 100 Years of Actors' Equity Association and the Rise of American Theater, by Robert Simonson (Applause Books). It is about the theater, but also about what was happening outside the doors that impacted its members. ...
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GLAAD honors Cooper at New York awards
- From a press release - Good Morning America's Sam Champion, Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer hosted as GLAAD honored journalist, author and talk show host Anderson Cooper and the best in television, film and journalism March 16 at the 24th GLAAD Media Awards in New York. Madonna, Bernadette Peters, Dan Stevens, Russell Simmons, Milla Jovovich, Jake Shears, Chris Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbadejo were among the ...
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Gay Press, Gay Power: A look at LGBT media history
- BOOKS - You may be reading this article on a mobile device or a tablet, or perhaps you're reading the print version of this article, your newspaper fanned out leisurely before you, a cup of coffee in hand—but no matter how you're viewing this article you're likely aware that LGBT publications are constantly redefining themselves for a new media future. Gay Press, ...
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BOOKS Smorgasbord of Words
- E-books may be the hot trend, but I still get piles of books each month eager to be opened and reviewed. I can't possibly keep up, but what follows are some highlights from the in-box. Please support independent bookstores by purchasing your books through them. Stores we recommend include Women & Children First, Unabridged Books, The Book Cellar, After Words, ...
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D'Emilio receives Triangle award
- John D'Emilio is the 2013 recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s. D'Emilio will be honored Thursday, April 25, as part of the 25th annual Triangle Awards, which honors the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction and poetry published in 2012. The event will ...
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Good reads: Books for couples and families
- Family Pride: What LGBT Families Should Know about Navigating Home, School, and Safety in Their Neighborhoods is a new book by Michael Shelton (Beacon Press). Shelton spoke to families from urban and rural areas to look at how they struggle against homophobia and everyday problems. He looks at how some families live "in the closet' in hostile areas of the ...
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Lambda Literary Award finalists include Chicagoans
- From a news release - Los Angeles, CA - Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles. Books from major mainstream publishers, from academic presses, from both long-established and new LGBT publishers, as well as from emerging publish-on-demand technologies, make up the 687 submissions for the "Lammys." The finalists were selected from a record number ...
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Gay author featured at UChicago alumni event
- About 75 people attended a University of Chicago (UChicago) LGBT alumni network event featuring out gay author and alumnus Dale Carpenter at the Center on Halsted on Feb. 11. An Earl R. Larson professor of civil-rights and civil-liberties law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Carpenter—who graduated from Uchicago in 1992—teaches and writes about constitutional law, the First Amendment, ...
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D'Emilio receives Publishing Triangle Award
- From a news release - The 25th annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2012, will be presented on April 25, 2013, at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School (66 West 12th Street in New York City) at 7 p.m. The ceremony is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. The Publishing ...
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10 Questions for Leslea Newman in conversation with Joan Lipkin
- Leslea Newman shot to fame in 1990 when her children's book, Heather Has Two Mommies, was celebrated in some circles as the first book to show a positive reflection of a child living happily with her two mothers, and banned in other circles who were less than pleased by the existence of the book. In the ensuing years, Newman has ...
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Justin Hernandez writes about abuse that led to sex work
- BOOKS Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Justin Hernandez began penning his now popular blog, "Naked in New York City" in 2010 following his return to his hometown after eight years of living and working in Los Angeles. "When I got back to New York I felt that my spirit and energy were recharged," Hernandez told Windy City Times. "I wanted to chronicle my life as a ...
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Leslea Newman at Women & Children March 12
- Award-winning author Leslea Newman will be in Chicago Tuesday, March 12 at 7 p.m. for a reading and booksigning at Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St. Her new book is October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, for ages 13 and up. On the night of Oct. 6, 1998, gay 21-year-old college student Matthew Shepard was lured ...
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Urvashi Vaid in Chicago April 3
- From a news release - CHICAGO: Longtime LGBT rights advocate Urvashi Vaid will be in Chicago Wed., April 3 for a free event at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted. She will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics. This is her only public program in Chicago. The event will start at ...
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Urvashi Vaid in Chicago April 3
- Author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics - CHICAGO: Longtime LGBT rights advocate Urvashi Vaid will be in Chicago Wed., April 3 for a free event at the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted. She will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics. This is her only public program in Chicago. The event will start at ...
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Gerber/Hart aims for Spring re-opening
- Promising transparency and community-mindedness moving forward, Chicago's LGBT library held its first open meeting Feb. 13 after more than a year of controversy. Approximately 25 people crammed into a small room at the Berger Park field house in Edgewater, with at least 10 spilling over into an adjoining room. Board members and a volunteer tackled questions on everything from the ...
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The Divide Book 1: Uprising
- BOOK REVIEW Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - By Kim Flowers. $13.50; Queerteen Press; 194 pages In the age of "It Gets Better" videos and flourishing gay-straight alliances, Kim Flowers' YA novel, The Divide Book 1: Uprising, paints a bleak picture of the future for the next queer generation. This science-fiction novel takes place after the Second Civil War, when a U.S. political party called the Family Protection ...
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Moved and BeMoved: Sherry Zunker talks dance and fitness
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Transforming complicated dance moves into simple steps and exercise into fun, out choreographer/director Sherry Zunker uses her expert dance background to lead BeMoved Dance Fitness. The dance fitness experience geared for all ages and experience levels features 16 genres; offers its Series One DVD, Bollywood; and has classes taking place at 45 locations across the United States and Canada. Zunker, ...
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Looking at the e-book End of AIDS
- BOOKS - Now available exclusively in e-book form, How AIDS Ends: Fifteen Visionaries Write the Final Chapter on AIDS (which costs 99 cents on Kindle) serves as the light at the end of the tunnel. The e-book was produced in conjunction with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. It was in July 1981 that the New York Times first reported on Kaposi's Sarcoma, ...
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Journalist Geraldo Rivera gives his story
- Extended for the online edition of Windy City Times - Reporter Geraldo Rivera has never been one to take his stories lightly. Rivera was discovered while he was working as a lawyer for the New York Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords and then went on to work for ABC after being spotted by the station's news director. He followed that up by looking inside Al Capone's vault, which ...
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Talking 'History' with Leah Stewart
- BOOKS Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - In her new novel, The History of Us ($19.99; 384 pages), Cincinnati-based author Leah Stewart examines family feuds, love and commitment. After her sister dies in a tragic car accident, Eloise Hempel leaves Harvard behind and returns her childhood home in Cincinatti to raise her two nieces and her nephew. Two decades later, Eloise prepares to sell her mother's century-old ...
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D'Emilio, Freeman book wins book prize
- A book co-edited by prominent University of Illinois at Chicago gender historian John D'Emilio has received an award from the American Historical Association. My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, & Labor History, co-edited by D'Emilio, professor of gender and women's studies and history at UIC, and Stanford University historian Estelle Freeman, is a retrospective on the life and ...
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BENT NIGHTS Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir
- BOOK REVIEW Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - Looking back, it's easy to understand why Cyndi Lauper's breakout album, She's So Unusual (Portrait/CBS Records)—which came out 29 years ago—meant so much to so many different people. The year 1984 was a time when underground favorites (Prince with his Purple Rain soundtrack and Bruce Springsteen with Born in the U.S.A.) and unlikely heroes (Tina Turner with Private Dancer) took ...
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PASSAGES Author Julia Penelope dead at 71
- Julia Penelope, 71, an author, philosopher and linguist, died Jan. 19 in Texas. She was part of a movement of critical thinkers on lesbian and feminist issues. Penelope, who had come out to her family as a young child, was kicked out of two colleges. Her dismissal in 1959 from Florida State University was part of the high-profile lesbian and ...
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LBGT NewTown Writers seek anthology submissions
- Submissions for, Off the Rocks Volume 17, LBGT NewTown Writers annual anthology, are now open! Seeking poetry and prose, artwork, and photography. 3 submissions maximum of 5,000 words or less, PG-13 or lower, single-spaced, in the body of an email. Theme: subtext. Contributors receive one complimentary copy of the anthology. Submit to allisonfradkin@aol.com by March 15, 2013. www.newtownwriters.com. ...
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Gerber/Hart announces open meeting, vows bylaws revisions
- Chicago's LGBT library will hold its first open meeting after more than a year of controversy, the organization has announced. Gerber/Hart Library and Archives President Brad Tucker has confirmed a public meeting on Feb. 13 from 7-9 p.m. at the Berger Park Fieldhouse. It will be the first open forum held by Gerber/Hart since news broke last year that it ...
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Living through recovery: Christopher Kennedy Lawford on addiction
- BOOKS - One might think that being a Kennedy means a life full of leisure and empty of problems. However, one would be wrong. In his newest book—Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction—Christopher Kennedy Lawford (who has been a recovering addict for more than 25 years) brings together the world's top experts in seven of the most prevalent addictions ...
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Cooking in Heels: A Memoir Cookbook
- BOOK REVIEW - By Ceyenne Doroshow, ed. Audacia Ray $18; Red Umbrella. Project; 114 pages From an early age, Ceyenne Doroshow learned that cooking could be a recipe for survival. With Cooking In Heels: A Memoir Cookbook, the transgender caseworker and LGBT program coordinator offers 40 Southern-style favorites that feed the soul as well as the stomach. In Doroshow's childhood home in ...
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Tea Leaves
- BOOK REVIEW Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - by Janet Mason. $15.95; Bella Books; 202 pages Perhaps it's the poet in Janet Mason that makes her writing so poignant and true. This is not a book of poems, but a memoir recounting the shared and individual memories of and about her mother and her grandmother—and Mason's memories of them. Much of it touches on the struggles these women ...
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Astray
- BOOK REVIEW Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - by Emma Donoghue $25.99; Little, Brown and Company; 275 pages The lady in the picture was wearing the biggest scowl you'd ever seen. The photo was taken long ago and it made you wonder what happened that day to make her so snarly. Was there a death, lost crops, an accident or bad weather, or did the photographer make her ...
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BOOK REVIEW Rebellion in Ulster
- By Angela Koenig, $13 (e-book, $11); Blue Feather Books; 152 pages Chicago writer Angela Koenig's debut novel is a wonderful work of historical fiction, centered on a Boston lesbian who gets caught up in the IRA (Irish Republican Army) of the 1980s. There's plenty of passion and politics in this thriller, giving you an insider's view of the Irish-English debate ...
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BOOK REVIEW No Turning Back
- By Kim Flowers, $14.50; Queerteen Press; 228 pages A gripping story that pulls no punches for young teens and preteens who might be considering running away, No Turning Back is also an eye-opener for adults who know young runaways or teens contemplating striking out on their own. While freedom from whatever lies behind is a strong incentive to run away, ...
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BOOK REVIEW Intimate Life of a Surrogate Partner
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - An Intimate Life: Sex, Love and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner, by Cheryl Cohen Greene , $15.95; Soft Skull Press; 224 pages For forty years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, a professional whose techniques give "hands on" a more suggestive meaning. Her new memoir, An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey as a ...
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Emancipation Proclamation commemorated with limited-edition stamp
- From a news release - WASHINGTON— With this 2013 stamp, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on Jan. 1, 1863. To commemorate this milestone, the Postal Service introduced a limited-edition Forever Stamp today at The National Archives in Washington, D.C., which houses the historic document. The Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp goes on sale tomorrow ...
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BOOK REVIEW Off the Rocks, Volume 16
- BOOK REVIEW - Edited by Allison Fradkin, NewTown Writers. $12.50; iUniverse; 167 pages A potpourri of poems, prose and essays, Off the Rocks, Volume 16, addresses the questions of identity—"How do you identify, do you ident-defy, what are your identities, do you identi-tease?"—as editor Fradkin states on the back cover. NewTown Writers Chicago accepted submissions from 31 LGBT writers and advocates from ...
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BOOKS: Best of 2012
- Extended for the online edition of Windy City Times - Drivel, dreck and what the heck. That kind of sums up the books that were released in 2012. There were some good things, some downright awful things, and some things that, well, they weren't bad but they weren't the best books you've ever read, either. And then there were the gems. I read just more than 270 books this year, ...
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Hearty Boys hope new book raises the 'Bar'
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - The Hearty Boys (Steve McDonagh and Dan Smith) have been known as entrepreneurs and culinary masters for many years, but their popularity really exploded when they won the first season of Food Network Star. Since then, they have done everything from catering events for President Obama to opening the Lakeview restaurant Hearty. They are now out with a new book, ...
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New book examines history of gay press
- Chicago—As LGBT individuals became more visible in the 1950s and 1960s, the mainstream media perpetuated the attitude that they were mentally ill and morally depraved queers, freaks, degenerates, perverts, misfits and even threats to national security. In many cities, the police raided gay bars, harassing and arresting patrons. Community-based gay newsletters and newspapers emerged to counteract the distorted view of ...
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Lifting the Spiritual Self-Esteem of the LGBT Community
- BOOK REVIEW Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - By Khepra Ka-Re Amente Anu. $19.95; iUniverse; 231 pages This book does not address the concerns of the LGBT community, as the giant letters "LGBT" on the cover suggest. According to the back-cover blurb, Anu has written the book "… for all people … who are disgusted with the judgmental and discriminatory way that religions project and impose their beliefs ...
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BOOK REVIEW NewsLady
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times. by Derrick Johnson II - By Carole Simpson, $18.95; AuthorHouse; 314 pages When I started reading Carole Simpson's book I did not know what to expect. I assume that it would be a collection of her experiences and misadventures in the world of journalism. I am glad to say that I found much more. In her book, NewsLady, Simpson details her odyssey as an AfricanAmerican ...
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BOOK REVIEW A Song for Matthew Shepard
- Special to the online edition of Windy City Times by Joan Lipkin - Leslea Newman shot to fame in 1990 when her children's book, Heather Has Two Mommies, was celebrated in some circles as the first book to show a reflection of same-sex parents and their chidren, and banned in others. In the ensuing years, she has written or edited more than 60 books, including The Boy Who Cried Fabulous, The Best Cat ...
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New book looks at history of gay press, role in LGBT progress
- From a news release - Chicago, Illinois - As gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals became more visible in the 1950s and 1960s, the mainstream media perpetuated the attitude that they were mentally ill and morally depraved queers, freaks, degenerates, perverts, misfits, and even threats to national security. In many cities, the police raided gay bars, harassing and arresting patrons. Community-based gay newsletters and ...
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Diversity thrives within Chicago zine institution
- BOOKS Special to the online edition of Windy City Times - By Matthew C. Clark According to local lore, when founder Steven Svymbersky first opened Quimby's in 1991 he was always intending for it to be the oddball, eccentric books, comics and zine store it is today. "I really want to carry every cool-bizarre-strange-dope-queer-surreal-weird publication ever written and published and in time Quimby's will. Because I know you're out there and ...
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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
- WINDY CITY TIMES' 2012 week one of two - Dress you up Out local designer Borris Powell (www.borrispowell.com; various price points) has been earning raves for years—including when Valentino said that Powell's "Black Swan" dress for the 2011 Oscars was "very nice." Men and women can feel like celebrities in Powell's items, which range from signature bags to custom shirts to sleek dresses. S'well-done The eco-friendly S'well bottles (www.swellbottle.com; ...
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Little Victories
- BOOK REVIEW - by Timothy David Rey. $12; NewTown. Writers Press; 78 pages This slim volume is an introduction to the talents of a Chicago-based writer/performer. There are 11 poems and four performance pieces. The poems range from the personal to commentary on the human condition. The performance pieces, according to Rey, provided the opportunity to express themes and observations "… in ...
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Zubro on his latest, 'Another Dead Republican'
- BOOKS - By Sally Parsons The 13th in a series of mysteries featuring the capable sleuth Tom and his hubby, Scott, Another Dead Republican ($16.98; MLR Press) comes with a warning. As readers of Mark Zubro's books know, he loves to poke fun at Republicans—and his newest book is no exception. Set in fictional Harrison County, Wis., this mystery plays off an ...
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