January 28, 2009
Once again, the CFP Best in Community Awards, the Pressies, offered both new surprises about our community and familiar reminders of the people, places and events that we know and love. This year your write-in votes, both online and from mail polling, were the sole factors determining the outcomes. The results that follow offer a great portrait of Chicago’s GLBT community and those people and businesses that have done a terrific job in reaching out to us. A comprehensive list of the winners, as well as those deserving honorable mention, follows... Full Story / Comment
Best Community Organization: Center on Halsted
It’s been about a year and a half since the massive three-story Center on Halsted, located in the heart of Boystown, opened the doors to the GLBT community. Since then, about 1,500 people (and 2,000 on peak days) come to the Center each day for a wide variety of events: computer classes, support groups, the open gym, art exhibits—the list goes on. But as much as the community center currently offers, it plans to do much more in 2009 and beyond... Full Story / Comment
Here’s a list of all the winners of 2008 Pressies. Results were close in many categories; when they have been especially close, we have listed an “Honorable Mention... Full Story / Comment
Freestyle
Just Jackie: an interview with Jackie Hoffman
Jackie Hoffman is a comedic cousin of Sandra Bernhard, Gilbert Gottfried and Sarah Silverman, with a touch of Kathy Griffin and Margaret Cho. As bawdy as predecessors Rusty Warren and Belle Barth, Hoffman is easily one of the funniest women alive. She’s also a terrific singer and a marvelous actress... Full Story / Comment
Freeview: movie reviews, calendar & DVDiva
Limited runs: Block Cinema in the Pick-Laudati Auditorium at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, on Northwestern’s Evanston campus, presents a screening the Beatles flick “A Hard Day’s Night,” at 8 p.m. on Jan. 28. Call (847) 491-4000. “Poison,” the feature film debut by gay filmmaker Todd Haynes, is being screened at... Full Story / Comment
CFP's weekly live performance listings... Full Story / Comment
This winter has already delivered an abundance of snow and ridiculously cold, killer temperatures to many parts of the country. So how does one stay warm, fit and sane during these wicked frigid winter months? Invite your friends and neighbors over, put these CDs on and dance to your hearts’ content... Full Story / Comment
Jeff Stevenson, 46, teaches a variety of art-related classes at Governor’s State University and at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights—drawing, painting, art history and art appreciation. In his own work, he ranges widely, producing paintings, drawings, collages and mixed media pieces. Two of his collages were included in a recent group show at the Center on Halsted... Full Story / Comment
Travel and Leisure Riding the rails…
On their way to their big day in D.C., Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe and Jill Biden took a ride on the rails, following the same route that Abe Lincoln rode 150 years ago. The whistle stop tour took the first couple and the second couple from Philadelphia through Delaware and Maryland to Washington, D.C... Full Story / Comment
CFP reviews 'Not Enough Air', 'How I Became An Interesting Person' & 'The Wild Duck'... Full Story / Comment
Despite what both folks in Washington and supposedly expert economists are saying, it’s a recession, folks. You don’t need a fancy degree to figure out the economy’s in the toilet. Like most folks, I’m pinching every dollar so close that George Washington’s got more black and blue marks than an S&M queen... Full Story / Comment
News
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Center on Halsted, 3656 N. Halsted, will host a three-woman art show, “Hear Me Roar: Three Perspectives.” The exhibit will feature the works of three female painters: Carol James, Jordan Kost and Jill Sut... Full Story / Comment
Join the Impact Chicago: from Facebook to face-to-face
Join the Impact Chicago, the first official city chapter of the national grassroots GLBT group that emerged after the passage of Prop 8, met with the larger community in person for the first time on Saturday... Full Story / Comment
Harris reintroduces marriage bill
Openly gay State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chciago) reintroduced same-sex marriage legislation at the start of the new legislative session... Full Story / Comment
Sex scandal divides Portland and its gay community
PORTLAND, Ore.—A confession by Portland’s first openly gay mayor that he lied about having sex with a teenager is dividing this famously progressive city, as well as its gay community... Full Story / Comment
HONOLULU (AP) _ A majority of state House members support legislation that would legalize civil unions between same-sex couples. Thirty-two of 51 House members support a bill by House Majority Leader Blake Oshiro (D-Aiea-Halawa) that would allow partners who obtain a license to enter into a civil union. They would have the same rights... Full Story / Comment
Editorial
This past week, the bizarre controversies surrounding Gov. Rod Blagojevich took an increasingly surreal turn as the governor, rather than sitting in on the impeachment proceedings against him, hit the talk show circuit... Full Story / Comment
Martin Delaney was one of the pioneers of AIDS activism. While not HIV-positive himself, Delaney dedicated much of his life to shaping our nation’s public policy on HIV/AIDS legislation and worked on the local level to promote education and a greater understanding of HIV/AIDS issues. He worked with the drive and hope to one day find a cure for... Full Story / Comment
Opinion
Secret Political Contributions?
The latest political struggle in California is over whether the names of contributors to the campaign to bar gay marriage should be publicly disclosed. Current California law, approved by the voters in 1974, mandates that all... Full Story / Comment
Female desire is complicated. Lesbians know this. We know it because of “lesbian bed death”—that pervasive phenomenon that makes long-term couples sink into acting like roommates instead of lovers... Full Story / Comment
Freetime
Mor(m)ons From Outer Space: Nightmare Before Ramadan
Baywatch” actress, blonde chick with big hooters,and now animal rights activist Pamela Anderson, has appealed to the authorities in Mumbai, India, not to put down stray dogs but have them neutered instead. “It is well established that killing stray dogs is not a permanent solution to controlling... Full Story / Comment
back in the day: moments in chicago’s glbt history
1990: Staged Encounters presents the Chicago premiere of “As Is” by William M. Hoffman at the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Ave... Full Story / Comment
CFP reviews 'The Intern' & 'Strange Places, Strange Things'... Full Story / Comment
