Del Shores Shows Queer Folk in Fagalicious Texas by Barry David Horwitz “Sordid Lives” has been a movie, but now it’s live, onstage at NCTC, and you want to be there for the fun and for the revenge on all those families who never understood the value of their sons or daughters. In “Sordid…
Robin Lynn Rodriguez Shows What Yuppies Really Want by Barry David Horwitz It doesn’t take much to trash the Yuppie Gentrifiers, near Maxwell Park, Oakland—or in S.F., or anywhere else, either. But it’s such a pleasure to indulge in Yuppie-baiting. I, for one, enjoy it a lot—and we all try to ignore our part…
Alan Bennett’s Short Story Brings Humor to Senior Sex Saga by Barry David Horwitz Alan Bennett’s story “Smut,” from the hand of a master of form, fiction, and fact, carries us through subtleties, secrets, and sleight of hand, as we watch Mrs. Jane Donaldson grow right out of her smiling sweet self into a…
Garry Graves Goes Subterranean, Seeking Strange Fungus by Barry David Horwitz What is Gary Graves’ “Edward King” really about? What does the voluble Edward King (the vital John Patrick Moore) tell us about having a job, a wife, a mortgage, and a kid away at school in today’s America? Well, the news is not…