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Melissa Etheridge talks life after ex, getting remarried and upcoming album

Melissa Etheridge talks life after ex, getting remarried and upcoming album

By Chris Azzopardi Come to her window, but Melissa Etheridge won’t be around. Why? Because she’s everywhere else – on tour through the summer and in the studio laying down tracks for her first album since [...]

Jack Black on playing a maybe-gay character – and Shirley MacLaine’s pedicure

Jack Black on playing a maybe-gay character – and Shirley MacLaine’s pedicure

Is this Jack Black’s first gay role? As a small-town Texan teddy bear who goes off the deep end, it might be. But, because the real-life man he’s playing isn’t out, we may never truly know. [...]

Jason Mraz won’t give up: Pop star talks supporting LGBT community and his ‘open’ sexuality

Jason Mraz won’t give up: Pop star talks supporting LGBT community and his ‘open’ sexuality

How cool is Jason Mraz? For one, his unwavering fight for equal rights led him to shoot a Human Rights Campaign video recently; he’s also waiting to wed until everyone can and, not long ago, united [...]

Explosions in the Sky gave Boulder Theater audience sonic reverb, symphonic melodies

Explosions in the Sky gave Boulder Theater audience sonic reverb, symphonic melodies

The April 5 show at the Boulder Theater was no exception. Tlast night's show at the Boulder Theater was no exception. The audience was pinned to the floor by these rock mini-symphonies, being pushed and pulled [...]

‘Glee’ guest star, Broadway icon Idina Menzel on queer crushes, green dreams

‘Glee’ guest star, Broadway icon Idina Menzel on queer crushes, green dreams

By Chris Azzopardi Idina Menzel doesn’t do anything halfway – even when she’s deciding on her gay faves. “It’s so silly,” says the homo-hearted theater queen, surfing Google for “hot gay male celebrities.” Her assistant even [...]

Denver musician Coles Whalen <br /> defies genre

Denver musician Coles Whalen
defies genre

Each new tune from Denver’s local Coles Whalen and band is a new experience – transitioning smoothly through upbeat country to intimate soulful acoustics. Whalen’s voice soars powerfully and effortlessly through a crowded concert hall, her [...]

British songstress Rumer embraces classic vibe and talks being an outsider

British songstress Rumer embraces classic vibe and talks being an outsider

By Chris Azzopardi – Rumer is used to standing out. Her grade-school years were spent in clothes other girls weren’t wearing, and now, as the U.K. crossover hits America, her life hasn’t changed all that much: [...]

Mary J. Blige shows the gays some real love

Mary J. Blige shows the gays some real love

By Chris Azzopardi You could say this is Mary J. Blige’s second life. Her first, candidly chronicled on her confessions-of-a-wreck album My Life, was an early glimpse into one of the biggest singing superstars in the [...]

Overcoming all odds for the love of music

Overcoming all odds for the love of music

By Josiah M. Hesse Being a crippled, lesbian rapper is hard. But not in the way you think. “I could bank off that fact and just be … not that good,” said Kalyn Heffernan, the pint-sized [...]

The three best bleeding albums of 2011

The three best bleeding albums of 2011

The phrase “Bleed Like Me” can sometimes make people cringe. Yet we all bleed – both physically and emotionally. And magnificently, it can act as the very thing that connects us as human beings. Throughout my [...]