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Shortbus - review

Shortbus

(4 stars)27 Nov 2006

GRAPHIC ROMANCE Part love letter to New York and part exploration of the birth, sustenance and death of intimate relationships, Shortbus is replete with graphic, unsimulated scenes of all combinations: men, women, men and women, threesomes, group…

Mika

Nice'n'Sleazy, Glasgow, Fri 17 Nov 6

(4 stars)22 Nov 2006

POP First mentioned in the same places as fellow quirk-pop doyens Lily Allen and The Pipettes, it’s unlikely that the Beirut-born, London-raised Mika will be playing many more venues as intimate as Sleazy’s. As he played here, he was also making his…

Books for Christmas

21 Nov 2006

Hitlist Butt Book Jop van Bennekom It’s five years since the pink pamphlet Butt first came out of Amsterdam. Defining a literate, visceral, edgy aesthetic - eschewing the waxed, gym-buffed and airbrushed models of glossy mainstream gay mags - it…

Shortbus - interview

Real sex in the city

21 Nov 2006

New York City rom-com Shortbus is John Cameron Mitchell’s (writer, director and star of the stage musical and subsequent Sundance Film Festival favourite Hedwig and the Angry Inch) new film. It might sound a rather conventional follow-up to his riotous…

A Right Royal Rumpus

Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Thu 23 Nov

11 Nov 2006

CHARITY CLUB NIGHT Even those who can’t stand her music might have felt a twinge of concern when it was announced that Kylie Minogue had breast cancer, and it’s heartening to hear she’s in remission, out and about, and getting back to normal. Yet…

An Audience with Adrienne

Performer Adrian Howells catches up with his close (some say inseparable) friend, confidante and paragon of domesticity, Adrienne.

26 Oct 2006

Adrian It strikes me that you’ve spent most of your life trying to be somebody you’re not. You’re now 44 and I would have thought that you’d resolved your sense of identity, but it’s clearly not the case. Why do you think this is?

Gaydar

News and events

26 Oct 2006

A new Scottish Executive initiative combating bullying in schools will involve LGBT Youth Scotland, the Edinburgh-based charity that works with young gay people. The Better Futures programme will be run in partnership with the Scottish Association for…

Martha @ Tramway/What Tammy Needs to Know

Tramway / CCA, Glasgow, both runs ended

(3 stars)26 Oct 2006

DANCE & THEATRE Glasgay’s live strand begins with two meditations on the nature of performance: one a more direct essay, and the other reflected through the prism of an homage to a great figure in contemporary dance. Each is warm and appealing, yet…

Bent Double

10 Oct 2006

Zoe Lyons won the Funny Women competition in 2004, and with residencies in Brighton and London, she’s much in demand. After gaining a degree in psychology she turned to acting, and now finds herself in the even less serious business of comedy. Bent…

Diane Torr: Donald Does Dusty

Drag king and performer Diane Torr explains why sh

10 Oct 2006

My brother, growing up in Mastrick on the outskirts of Aberdeen in the late 1950s and early 1960s, aware of his sexuality but with no representation of gay identity in the neighbourhood, focused on Dusty Springfield. It was Dusty and him on the queer…

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