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BELINDA CARLISLE: STILL GO-GOING AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE FOR GAYDAYS

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There’s been a lot of debate, much of which we’re already covering in this issue. I want to focus on one particular quote from Wan: “If…all that is important to our community is supporting porn and sex clubs… well, I would hope our community has bigger goals and objectives.”

I have a great deal of respect for the work Wan has done as Atlanta’s first openly gay city council member, including his work pushing for same-sex marriage support from the City of Atlanta.

That being said, I have to call Wan out on his statement. We’re a community based in part on sexual diversity and non-normative behavior, so when there’s a movement to get rid of businesses that are supportive of that group, well…surprise. It may actually be an issue to some people.

Again, I’m appreciative of the work Wan has done for gay marriage, but we’re a diverse community, and we need to keep the interests of those who aren’t completely like us in mind. If all that’s important to Wan as far as our community is concerned are issues that assimilate, though… well, I hope our community has broader goals and objectives.

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By Romeo San Vicente Into the Woods casting gets ensemble-ier

have been lost for more than 50 years and only recently published for the very first time thanks to Capote’s former Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods is a big show with editor. The story involves a 17 year-old girl who spends a lot of characters. And the film adaptation of this dark, the summer alone in New York when her parents leave for musical fairy tale (to be directed by Chicago’s Rob Paris; she then falls for a parking attendant (the perfect Marshall), a story full of adult themes of loss, loneliness way to get back at Mom and Dad). And in case you think and courage, well, it needs more and more actors to flesh this is just the whim of a dilettante movie star, you should it out. We’ve already told you about the heavy hitters— also know that Johansson’s been preparing for this moStreep and Depp—taking the first roles as Witch and ment alongside the Capote estate for years now, working Wolf, respectively. And now negotiations roll on for Chris with screenwriter Tristine Skylar on the adaptation and diPine (Star Trek Into Darkness) and Jake Gyllenhaal, soon recting a short film, These Vagabond Shoes, starring Kevin to be cast as the two princes. Meanwhile, you can add Bacon, in the interim. Meanwhile, film history is on her Emily Blunt to those talks, as she looks to be the choice side: nothing she does will be as poorly received as comic to play the wife of the Baker (Jams Corden, One Man, actress Nancy Walker’s first and last film as a director: The Two Guvnors). At this rate this movie’s going to have more Village People’s Can’t Stop the Music. people singing at the same time than Les Misérables , and this is only the beginning. It could, conceivably, Kevin Kline’s downward slide to wind up employing every living actor who can carry one The Last of Robin Hood of Sondheim’s notoriously difficult-to-sing tunes. More details as they unfold…

The legacy of Errol Flynn is a mix of glory and shame.

Film history is kind to him, remembering the star at his Scarlett Johansson steps behind the best as one of Hollywood’s most famous and handsome camera leading men of the 1930s and ’40s in classics like The Adventures of Robin Hood. But his later life—he died at She knows where she’s going, that Scarlett Johansson.

50 of a heart attack—turned dark with career trouble, Knowing that acting career longevity for almost any actress substance abuse and sexual scandals (one biographer not named Meryl Streep is a finite quantity, the Avengers even erroneously reported that he’d been a Nazi). And it’s star is diversifying her career opportunities by stepping this troubled time that informs the new movie from gay into the role of feature film director for the very first time. directing team Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Johansson will helm an adaptation of Truman Capote’s (Quinceañera), The Last of Robin Hood. Kevin Kline will first novel, Summer Crossing, a work that was thought to star as the faded Flynn as he embarks on a Lolita-style 14 // davidatlanta.com

relationship with a 15-year-old girl named Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning), one set up by the girl’s mother (to be played Susan Sarandon). Not the most wholesome of storylines, to be sure, not to mention one that didn’t end well for anyone, but sadly fascinating all the same and in reputable hands thanks to Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler’s Killer Films. The project is currently in production and should be ready to cause feelings of despair at this fall’s film festivals.

people from coast to coast and destroying her career in the process. It’s a film we’re fairly certain isn’t being created with the still-living anti-gay icon’s blessing. But that’s history, isn’t it? You never know how it’s going to judge you when you decide to make it. Go Uma! Jonathan Groff

Casting call: the gay and the anti-gay We reported earlier about the in-development HBO “gay friends” sitcom/dramedy from filmmaker Andrew Haigh (Weekend) and Michael Lannon (assistant director of Interior. Leather Bar. as well as I Want Your Love). Well, now it’s got a series order and a cast: Jonathan Groff (Glee), Murray Bartlett (Guiding Light) and Frankie J. Alvarez (a newcomer whose only prior credit is as “Actor # 6” on Smash) will play a few of the gay San Francisco friends, with more to come as the production gains traction. And in the other corner, Uma Thurman will step into the orange juice-and-religious-intolerance-filled role of Anita Bryant in an upcoming biopic, the one from filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman that chronicles the rise and fall of the former beauty queen, recording artist and O.J. pitchwoman as she stormed through the 1970s as an anti-gay activist, making enemies of queer

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Belinda Carlisle Still Go-Going

Singer talks ‘sexually adventurous’ days, gay son and feelings on doing a pop album

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n the ’80s, Belinda’s Carlisle’s career demonstrated that, for some, heaven really is a place on earth. As the lead singer of the supremely successful girl group The Go-Go’s – they had the beat, the looks and the talent – the now-54-year-old eventually embarked on a solo venture. Four albums and numerous hit singles later, Carlisle’s new ICON collection is a celebration of the singer’s best that also includes her first U.S. pop single in over 15 years, “Sun.” Carlisle chatted recently about not wanting to do another pop album, telling her gay son about her own “sexually adventurous” experiences and the reason she cares about gay rights now more than ever.

Which song of yours has the most significance to you?

I’m at a really good point in my career where I can kind of do what comes from the heart, and that’s the only way I can work now, so it’s whatever really feels right. I can’t make a pop album just because I can. I don’t like to work that way anymore, so we’ll see. I’m sure I’ll do something.

I just don’t know what that will be.

Are you not interested in doing a pop album?

Not really, no. Uh-uh. (Laughs) But maybe. I mean, in the past three months, people have approached me to do a pop album in English, and I have to think about it; it’s a big commitment, not just in the studio but a big commitment in the prep work and also after it’s released.

There’s promoting and touring for it. You can’t just put it out and not tour. It’s a good two years at least, so I don’t know. I’m just gonna wing it and see what happens. If it’s something that I really wanna do, then I’ll do it.

Oh gosh. The first one that comes to mind is “Heaven is a Place on Earth,” only because it was so huge and it really Kathy Valentine recently left The Go-Go’s. I established my career not just in this country but all over can’t not ask what happened there. the world.

Well, it’s kind of sensitive, but I will say that for a band The song you wish you didn’t have to sing ever and a band member to go separate ways after 30-odd again? years, there has to be some pretty significant reasons – and it’s not all for nothing. That’s as far as I can say, Um, yes. There are a few of them. But they’re songs because it’s very sensitive at this time. that people insist on hearing. (Laughs) I don’t like doing “Heaven” in rehearsal. I don’t like doing “We Got the Will you miss her being a part of the group?

Beat” in rehearsal. There are certain songs I get lazy about in rehearsal, but when I do them live, just the reac- Of course I will. She was a really important part of the tion from the audience makes it OK. But yeah, there are beginning. She wasn’t a founding member, but she was some songs you’re like, “Uh, next!” (Laughs) there for (our debut) Beauty and the Beat, and it’s definitely going to be strange without her.

Hardcore fans seem to agree that Runaway Horses is your greatest solo album.

If you could relive any part of the ’80s, what would it be?

I think so, too.

Oh god, I don’t know if I’d want to relive any of the ’80s. I Oh yeah? You agree? think I did the ’80s really well, so I think it’s time for me to move on from that. There’s not really one thing I’d like to I love some of the songs on there. “Summer Rain” makes repeat, to be perfectly honest. the whole album for me. That and “Mad About You” are my two favorite songs of my career. Voila is my other Especially not the clothes, right? favorite, but for different reasons. The production of Runaway Horses just kind of captured a moment.

(Laughs) Definitely not the fashion, that’s for sure.

It’s been six years since your last studio album, Do you still have any of the clothes from that Voila, which was in French. Is the new single, era?

“Sun,” the beginning of a new pop album?

There’s one dress that I have. I used to wear it out up until I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m doing, actually. about 15 years ago. It’s like a square dance dress, but (Laughs) Honestly, I have some amazing opportunities now I would just look like some scary bag lady if I put it that have come my way for some amazing projects, and on, like someone trying to be young and fresh. (Laughs) I might do something in English, I might do something in It’s in my closet, and it’s still really cute, but I don’t think I French, I might do a yoga album – I don’t know. could wear it again. @DavidAtlantaGA // 19

How does being the mother of a gay son You’ve hinted at being sexually adventurous change the way you see your gay fans? Is it like back in the day, while performing with The Goan extended family now?

Go’s. Everyone was in the ’80s.

Actually, it kind of is. You know, I’ve always kind of gotten it, because from the beginning, my friends have been 90 percent gay and lesbian. That’s just the way it’s been for me. So I’d rather have a gay son than a straight son, let me just say that. But now, I look at it differently, because I know that when my son told me, it was like, “What’s life gonna be like for him?” “Is he going to be treated equally wherever he goes?” I think about that for any gay person now, and I never really thought about that before. Now I think about how the world is toward gay people, and although it’s better, we’re still not 100 percent accepting.

Exactly.

If you’ve been around gay people your whole life, what about James coming out shocked you?

I know. It’s just funny, I guess, him and I being from different generations and me being more modest with that.

He does know that I was adventurous in that way and we kind of joke about it. I don’t necessarily want to go into details, because I want to keep my more conventional secrets secret, too.

Well, it shocked me and it didn’t shock me; I had little clues along the way. So I was driving the car and he goes, “I like boys,” and I had to pull the car over. It was like someone socked me in the stomach, although it was totally fine. The first thing I thought about was, “How am I gonna tell your father?” I was fine with it. (James) said something really smart: “My sexuality does not define me.” For a 14-year-old to say that, that’s pretty unbelievable. For me, the hardest part was thinking, “What is the world going to be like for him as a gay person?” I had to go to my therapist because I went through all those stupid things: Was it something I did? Something I said? Things I’m sure any parent kind of goes through, and I knew it wasn’t. This is just the way it is. He was born gay.

I don’t think it’s uncommon for parents to be like, “Was it my fault?” “Did we watch too much Golden Girls?”

It’s normal. And it’s funny – he loved I Love Lucy, he went to Phantom of the Opera and loved Andrew Lloyd Webber.

We laugh about it now. When I look back on it, there are funny little clues, but there are other things that were more telling and very peripheral that I really can’t go into, but still, I thought, “What have I done? Did I indulge him when I went to get his costume at The Disney Store for Sleeping Beauty and Snow White?”

My therapist said that I should have my son tell my husband, but I thought, “No.” Instinctively, it’s something that I need to do, because what if he had bad reaction, even though I knew he wouldn’t, but you never know. When I told him, he was like, “It’s just a phase,” and for a year afterwards they went at it back and forth, but now my husband and I can’t imagine having it any other way.

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I recall reading interviews where you didn’t want to get into details about that time because James reads your interviews. You’ve been so open about most aspects of your life, though, including your drug addiction, so why do you want to shield him from this? I think most gay kids would think it’s cool, and might feel more accepted, if their parent had a same-sex experience.

My son and I butt heads about anybody’s sexuality, and he thinks that everybody who’s gay and in the closet should come out; it’s their responsibility. And I say no. I think if a person doesn’t want to come out, it’s their business. They have their reasons. That’s kind of the way I feel about myself, too. But he knows. We laughed about it the other day. I think everybody does (have those experiences) and nobody likes to talk about it, that’s all.

Screen Queen:

family videos and the “aww” ending) abound. If you hate this, and plenty of critics did, then you also hate puppies. The extras: set interviews, deleted scenes, five minutes of bloopers and a short feature all about Babs. After all, it is her movie.

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Django Unchained

The Guilt Trip Playing down the divadom, Barbra Streisand masticates a mammoth steak and wears mom jeans for her first leading-actress role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces. Babs nags, dotes and hilariously attempts hipness as Joyce Brewster (she’s so “cool” that she has a lesbian Pilates instructor), a brash Jewish mom who’s the tag-along on her grown son’s cross-country trip to hawk his new invention (or so she thinks).

Cue the awkwardness: They (her son, Andy, is played

by Seth Rogen) wind up at a strip joint, they listen to Middlesex in the car and, when they get to the Grand Canyon, they wonder how long they’re required to admire all those … rocks. This tomfoolery is a hoot, sure, but not all of The Guilt Trip —directed by Anne Fletcher (The Proposal )—just wants you to grin and giggle at the uncomfortable shtick of a mom-andson road-trip flick. Moments of tenderness (read: old 22 // davidatlanta.com

It had to be Quentin Tarantino who turned the spaghetti Westerns your dad loved into this, the savage beast of slavery cinema. In his own sideways style, the uninhibited filmmaker hangs racial intolerance on a cross and tributes the cowboy genre with a classic Ol’ West spirit. Tarantino’s wildly entertaining, bloodsoaked satire is his most ambitious work since Pulp Fiction (see: anal raping); it’s a pouring of old-school romance, uproarious comedy and “what goes around comes around,” and casts ex-slave Django (Jamie Foxx) as a badass vigilante—later coined “fastest gun in the South”—shooting up oppressors to get back his lady (Kerry Washington). Foxx doesn’t just slay a bunch of white supremacists; he slays the role.

So do the other Django players: Leonardo DiCaprio as a heinous against-type slave keeper (subtext suggests he’s a little gay), an outrageously game Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, the Oscar winner who plays the silver-tongued German bounty hunter with a biting sharpness. Features on the art production, costume design and a short doc on the stunt horses are it in the special features department.

What’s missing? A Tarantino commentary.

(Lawrence, who won the Oscar for her role) is an emotionally unstable widow with a sex addiction. Dysfunction is everywhere, for everyone. (Robert de Niro, as Pat’s dad, gets the OCD.) Silver Linings uses insanity as a dupe to distract from the inevitability of the happy-ending closing reel. And unless you derive no comic value from seeing people yell feverishly at each other (and then yell some more) and go off the rails every time “My Cherie Amour” plays, the getting-there might be the most fun you’ll ever have experiencing mental illness. The climatic dance scene with Cooper and Lawrence gets two special features: a short glimpse into rehearsals and a how-to for anyone eager to give it a go themselves.

The Impossible Confession: Never before have I sobbed harder during a movie. I’m talking uncontrollable nose-running, stomachsinking, a-dam-that-just-broke-open waterworks.

Suffice it to say, J.A. Bayona’s harrowing disaster film, The Impossible, about the tsunami that devastated Asia in 2004 (Bayona’s replica puts you dead-center), cuts deep. It’s the true story of a family who survived—some barely—while vacationing at a beachside resort when the water swallowed the land. In Bayona’s nail-biter, the most powerful film of last year, that family is played by Naomi Watts (who should have the Oscar) and Ewan McGregor, as Maria and Henry, the parents to three young boys (Tom Holland, as older son Lucas, is remarkable)—all of whom are separated from each other when the tsunami comes crashing in. The Impossible is raw, riveting and tough to watch, a gut-wrenching tear duct-drainer that’s about overcoming the odds and finding hope when all hope seems lost. The commentary features Bayona offering scoop on filming, and it’s boasted by real accounts from the woman Watts plays, Maria Belón. A short clip looks at the incredible feat of using actual water to recreate the tsunami.

Silver Linings Playbook Craziness masks the rom-com formula percolating in Silver Linings Playbook, director David O. Russell’s comic vehicle for Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence’s budding relationship with each other and their respective neuroses. Pat (Cooper) has lost everything except his bipolar disorder and those rage tendencies; Tiffany

This Is 40 What makes a mustache gay? Besides raising that crucial question, Paul Rudd’s movie—because, let’s face it, even with the great Leslie Mann, every movie with Paul Rudd is a Paul Rudd movie—looks at that point in parenthood when the bathroom becomes a dad’s only escape. Rudd and Mann play a couple experiencing the highs and hiccups—and debating Lady Gaga’s artistry—of that dreaded age when the kids get older, money gets tighter and weird bodily things happen where weird bodily things shouldn’t happen (in this case, on Rudd’s rump, offering an enjoyable spread-eagle shot). Judd Apatow directs this oft-hilarious but 30-minutes-toolong observation on the awfulness of middle age. Filled with more features than you could imagine, this is a buy for fans. @DavidAtlantaGA // 23

Funny Girl

A Monster in Paris

To coincide with Barbra Streisand’s silver-screen comeback in The Guilt Trip, Sony Pictures gloriously restores the icon’s very first film: the 1968 classic musical-dramedy Funny Girl. Babs, who won an Oscar for her buoyant role as stage performer Fanny Brice, was the irresistibly charming presence in William Wyler’s film adaptation of the Broadway hit. Looking at the legend in stunning hi-def still calls for the utterance of Babs’ own famous words: “Hello, gorgeous!” Because this 45th anniversary edition lacks extras, it rains on everyone’s parade. All we get are a vintage peek at Barbra shooting the famed scene at the Jersey Central Railroad station and “This Is Streisand,” a minor intro to the then-twentysomething, now-legendary diva.

A monster creeps the streets of Paris in this peculiar cinema delight. He’s fangy, he’s not so attractive … he’s a giant flea? He also wouldn’t hurt a fly—or anything else, for that matter. The cloaked insect is the harmless, misunderstood and musically gifted (no, really: He’s Liberace with six legs) creation “conceived” by two nerds in French director Bibo Bergeron’s big-hearted, little-seen razzle-dazzler. The Parisian animation is delicious, and lounge performer Lucille (voiced by Vanessa Paradis) has a Kylie Minogue stage quality that’s purely magical. If Tim Burton did a version of The Phantom of the Opera, it’d be something like this: weird, wonderful and charming enough to not make a bug about the shortcomings. The biggest gaffe on the 3D Blu-ray, though, is the complete absence of extras.

Bachelorette Imagine Bridesmaids with the meanness of Mean Girls and crackheads, and you kind of have Leslye Headland’s dark comedy Bachelorette. Bride-to-be Becky (Rebel Wilson) gathers her gal pals for her walk down the aisle.

The big day is derailed when the girls—Regan (Kirsten Dunst), Gena (Lizzy Caplan) and Katie (Isla Fisher)—go out on the town and trash Becky’s lily-white gown (blood, semen, whatever comes out of a vagina, you name it) in a hit-or-miss string of crass girls-just-wanna-havefun gags. Bonus: Andrew Rannells strips. Besides an engaging Headland commentary on the film’s blow-job monologue and the story as an allegory, there are brief interviews with the leading actresses and a humorless gag reel.

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or Atlantans who prefer their nights out without the pungent scent of cigarette smoke the morning after, the past few months have created a much wider range of bar options.

Every week, it seems like another bar is announcing that they’ve restricted smoking. The reasons tend to boil down to two common concerns. On the one hand, prohibiting or limiting smoking will, bar owners hope, bring back in customers who choose not to frequent establishments that allow smokers all over.

On the other hand, setting smoking requirements bar-bybar allows each establishment to create their own sets of rules. Atlanta is rare among major American cities in that it doesn’t prohibit smoking in bars. Bar owners have voiced varying opinions on whether or not Atlanta should pass ordinances restricting smoking, but the ever-growing list of venues listed below show that more of them than ever are in favor of limiting smoking.

Before you head out, though, you should not only know which establishments are restricting smoking, but the specifics of each bar’s smoking policy as well.

Mary’s Smoking-restricted on specific nights since April. More specifically, smoking is not allowed indoors on Fridays and Saturdays. Smokers can smoke on the deck or in the parking lot on those nights. Smoking is allowed indoors during the week.

Mixx Currently the gay bar with the longest no-smoking policy in Atlanta, Mixx has been smoke-free since opening in 2009.

My Sister’s Room Smoking-restricted on specific nights since March.

Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday nights see smoking limited to the patio deck and Twilight Lounge / pool room.

The dance floor, stage, and main bar are all smoke-free every night of the week.

Ten Atlanta The restaurant by day/bar by night has been smoke-free since opening in January.

Atlanta Eagle Officially smoke-free inside since late April. Smoking is limited to the patio area of the bar. The top portion of the patio, which is currently uncovered, will be covered soon to accommodate smokers in the event of rain.

Blake’s Smoking-limited since April. The downstairs portion of the bar is smoke-free. The upstairs and patio areas still allow smoking.

Burkhart’s After weeks of trial runs, Burkhart’s is officially smokefree inside as of May 21. Smoking is limited to the back patio area outside of the bar.

Cockpit Smoke-free since opening in 2011. Founder Michael Winfield previously worked at Red Chair, Atlanta’s first smoke-free LGBT bar, back in 2003.

Heretic Smoking-limited since March. The bar’s pub area still allows for smoking, but smoking is prohibited anywhere else indoors.

Jungle Smoking-limited since 2012. The club’s remodel relegated smokers to one wall inside, where a ventilation system sucks up the smoke. Other areas, including the dance floor, don’t allow for smoking. @DavidAtlantaGA // 27

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Rush Lounge 2715 Buford Hwy. NE

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Sister Louisa’s Church 466 Edgewood Ave. SE

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MONDAY

model t Party with Elvis - 9 pm oscar’s Ruby Redd’s After Party - 10 pm BLAKE’S Game Night - Trivia/Family Feud swinging richards 2-4-1 VIP Room 11pm ten atlanta Drag-a-maki w/ Kitty BURKHART’S Blue Monday Karaoke w/ LeClaw 8:30pm Angelica D’Paige 11:30pm tripp’s Free Taco Bar 5pm COCKPIT Big Red Cup All Day, specials xcess ultra lounge Raquell Lord’s EAGLE Music Videos with Scotty Talent Show 10:30pm, Sophia Mcintosh & FELIX’S Free Pool Fab 5 +1 11:30pm, 18+ FRIENDS Manic Mondays DJ opens - 2 pm woof’s Food Special, Trivia 8pm HERETIC Play w/ Eddie 4pm-11pm HIDEAWAY $2.50 Domestic Beer JUNGLE Stars of the Century Show 11pm blake’s Texas Hold’Em Poker 7pm, “Guys MODEL T Monday Night Madness Free & Dolls” with Shawnna Brooks. 11pm Pool - 10pm - 2am BURKHART’S Twisted Thursday w/ OSCAR’S Midtown Martini Club - 4 pm | Phoenix 11:30pm Service Industry Night - 9 pm cockpit Dirty Boy Bingo w/ Ruby Redd swinging richards Hip-Hop Night, eagle Balls Deep Karaoke w/ Mikey Sponsored by Hennessy 6:30pm felix’s Karaoke w/ Brett & Tyler 10pm ten atlanta Poker Night TRIPP’S Monday Nite Madness w/ Tana 9pm friends Where Girls would like Girls meet Girls with Regina Simms 8 pm WOOF’S Texas Hold ‘Em Poker 8pm Gilbert’s Wine tasting 6-10pm heretic 3 Legged Cowboy Night 9pm hideaway Service Industry Night BLAKE’S POP! Karaoke with Sasie Monroe jungle Members Only with Evah and Suzanne Gleeson 11pm Destruction 10pm BURKHART’S Trivia Tuesday Karaoke w/ mIXX Gentlemen Cocktails with Aaron & Angelica D’Paige 11:30pm Matt at 6pm club rush “Tipsy Tuesday” 18 & up model t Party Time with Michael - 9 pm Open until 4am oscar’s The Charlie Brown Show - 10 pm COCKPIT 80s Party 9pm, specials 5-8pm swinging richards 2-4-1 VIP & Entry EAGLE Tuesdays w/ Tony xcess ultra lounge Turnt Up Thursday FELIX’S Smirnoff Martini Night woof’s Food Special, Country Music 7pm FRIENDS Let’s Make A Deal with Ken 6 pm Gilbert’s Industry Night (complementary pizza after 10pm) HERETIC 2-Step Tuesday, dance till 11pm 10th & piedmont Live DJ 10 PM blake’s 5-9pm TGIF, Charlie’s Angels w/ HIDEAWAY Trivia with Wil 9 pm Charlie Brown 11pm JUNGLE Camp with Ruby Redd 8pm BURKHART’S Fab Five w/ Angelica MIXX Piano with David Reeb at 8pm D’Paige 11:30pm MODEL T Wii Tuesday Afternoons 2pm club rush “Got Leche” Free entry until 9pm $2.50 beer / $3.0 well vodka 11pm 18 & up - Open until 4am OSCAR’S Show Tune Tuesday - 8 pm cockpit DJ Diablo Rojo, guest VJ/DJ’s SWINGING RICHARDS 1/2 Price cover eagle DJ Dance Party WOOF’S Industry Day Free Wii 5pm friends Happy Time Friday Kelly & Ken 6 pm heretic No cover B4 11pm hideaway Kick Back Fridays!

BLAKE’S 5-9pm Doug’s party pop hits, jungle The Other Show with Edie CheezCharlie Harding’s Hard Body Party 11 pm burger 9:30pm; Jungle POP 11pm BURKHART’S Humpday Karaoke w/ mixx Ron’s End of the Week Party 4pm | Darlene Majewski 11:30pm Grown & Sexy Dance 10 pm COCKPIT Balls Deep Karaoke 10pm model t Friday Bagels - 10 am | Texas EAGLE Underwear Night with Tony Holdem Poker 8 pm Friends Trivia with “Boom Boom” 8 pm oscar’s Spotlight Karaoke at 9pm Gilbert’s Karaoke 10pm-2am swinging richards T-Shirt Review,$10 heretic No Cover! ten atlanta Music by George Greenlee hideaway 1/2 Price Beer tripp’s Afternoon Delights 4pm jungle Dragamaniacs with Nicole Paige woof’s Atlanta’s Best Social Night 6pm Brooks and Phoenix 10pm

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10th & piedmont Live DJ 10 PM blake’s Open at 1pm, Daring Divas 11pm BURKHART’S Extravaganza w/ Shavonna B. Brooks 11:30pm cockpit DJ Diablo Rojo, guest VJ/DJ’s eagle DJ Dance Party felix’s Karaoke w/ Brett & Tyler 10pm friends Free Pool and Cheap beer with DJ! 2 pm - 6 pm Gilbert’s All you care to eat brunch (cooked to order) 11-4pm heretic Varies: Club Night or 3 Legged Cowboy Night - 10pm hideaway Open at 12:30pm! Saturday Night Party jungle Foreplay with Lily White 9:30pm; Club Night, Various Guest DJ’s mixx Guest DJ’s Dance 10pm model t Texas Holdem Poker - 3 pm | Party with the M&M Boiz - 9 pm oscar’s Spotlight Karaoke at 9pm swinging richards T-Shirt Review $10 ten atlanta Music by George Greenlee tripp’s Afternoon Cookout 3pm xcess ultra lounge 25+ FREE til 12am woof’s Game Day All Day

SUNDAY

10th & piedmont Bellini Brunch 11 AM & T-Dance 4 PM blake’s Open at 1pm - High Energy Music & Video w/ Bill Berdeaux & Daryl Cox BURKHART’S Armorettes Drag Show club rush Hip Hop and R&B - 18 & up Open until 4am cockpit PBR Beer Bust felix’s Bloody Marys & Mimosas friends DJ’s Smirnoff B Mary Bar “A Garden in a Glass” - 12:30 pm Gilbert’s All you care to eat brunch (cooked to order) 11-4pm and Karaoke 6-11:30pm hideaway Atlanta’s Favorite Bloody Mary Bar! 12:30 pm Jungle The Day After with Knomie Moore 12-3pm; Sweet T with Bubba Dee and Wild Cherry Sucret 7pm las margaritas All You Can Eat til 3pm mixx Old School Sunday Dance 7pm model t Sunday Dinner with Ron 3:30 pm oscar’s Sunday Fun-day ten atlanta Music by George Greenlee tripp’s Buffet of Goodness - 3 pm | Karaoke - 7 pm woof’s Bloody Mary bar, PBR special

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Thursday, May 30 • 6 p.m. • Barnes & Noble (1217 Caroline St.) Noted gay author David Sedaris reads from his new book, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. For more information, visit davidsedarisbooks.com.

Yolo Akili Reading

Friday, May 31 • 7 p.m. • Charis Books (1189 Euclid Ave.)

Former Atlanta resident Yolo Akili returns to the city for the book launch party of his newly-released Dear Universe, a collection of inspirational letters written over the span of several years. For more information, visit charisbooksandmore.com.

Sweet & Greasy Sing-a-Long

Saturday, June 1 • 8 p.m. • Charis Books (1189 Euclid Ave.)

It’s a backyard sing-a-long screening of Grease! Proceeds from the event go to benefit Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition.

The screening itself starts at 9 p.m., with a costume contest at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, which includes admission, two drink tickets, popcorn, a treat and a sing-a-long booklet. For more information, visit charisbooksandmore. com.

Georgia Renaissance Festival

Saturday, June 1–Sunday, June 2 • 10:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

Can’t make it to Disney World this year?

Try something a little closer to home. The Georgia Renaissance Festival wraps up its 2013 season this weekend, so if you haven’t made it out to Fairburn yet, don’t miss your last opportunity! For special discounts, visit garenfest.org/promo and enter “david” as your promotional code.

Blogging for LGBT Families Day Monday, June 3

LGBT parenting site Mombian and the Family Equality Council are hosting their eighth annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day. People are encouraged to write on a topic relating to LGBT families on their own blogs (or create a vlog through YouTube) before June 3, then submit their links to Mombian. For more information, visit mombian.com.

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Stonewall Events Following the move of Atlanta Pride to October in 2008, the Atlanta Pride Committee has hosted various events in June surrounding the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. While 2009–2011’s events were held over one week, 2012 saw the series of Stonewall events expand to a full month. That new tradition continues this year. Here’s a look at what’s going on this week for Stonewall Month:

Sylvia Rivera Community Event Saturday, June 1 • 12:30–2 p.m. • Phillip Rush Center (1530 Dekalb Ave.) Sylvia Rivera, a community leader in the aftermath of the Stonewall Riots who focused on trans issues and homeless youth, is honored at this third annual event. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Legal Clinic for Same Sex Couples (Part 1 of 2) Sunday, June 2 • 11 a.m.–4 p.m. • Phillip Rush Center (1530 Dekalb Ave.) The Georgia Benefits Counsel hosts this legal clinic, which is designed to help LGBT couples protect their relationships with legal documents.

The June 2 event is designed for introductory meetings with attorneys, while the follow-up on June 16 involves reviewing documents. If you are interested in attending, please email GBC Secretary David Rutland at david@georgiabenefitscounsel.org.

Dine Out for Pride Monday, June 3 and Wednesday, June 5 • 5–10 p.m. • Various Locations Want to support Atlanta Pride while you’re eating out this week?

Multiple restaurants are donating a portion of their proceeds on certain days to Atlanta Pride. On June 3, mention Dine Out for Pride while dining at any Communitas Hospitality restaurant—Gilbert’s, Hobnob and 10th & Piedmont—and they will donate a percentage of your bill.

This repeats weekly on Monday nights throughout June. Meanwhile, on June 5, Doc Chey’s Noodle House in Grant Park will donate a percentage of all dine-in and carryout sales to Atlanta Pride.

For more information on these events, visit atlantapride.org/events or davidatlanta.com.

IN THEATRES THIS WEEK The director of The Incredible Hulk and the actor who replaced that film’s lead in The Avengers come together…for a completely unrelated film that also features the two wise old men from the Dark Knight trilogy. In spite of the backgrounds just mentioned, Now You See Me is not a superhero film, though it does involve magic and villainy. Jesse Eisenberg leads a team of magicians who rob a white-collar criminal and give the money to audience members, while Mark Ruffalo is the FBI agent determined to stop them before they pull off a bigger heist. The cast also includes Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher and Mélanie Laurent.

ALSO IN THEATRES After Earth: Following their collaboration years ago on The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith reunites on-screen with son Jaden for this apocalyptic tale about teenager Kitai Raige and his legendary father Cypher, who crash on Earth 1,000 years after events forced humanity to leave. What the trailers are underplaying: this film comes from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan, whose recent box office output has been poor at best (The Last Airbender, anyone?).

Frances Ha: Playing exclusively at Regal Tara. Writer/ director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) creates a modern comic fable in Frances Ha, which follows Frances (Greta Gerwig) through her life in New York.

What Maisie Knew: A contemporary version of the Henry James novel, What Maisie Knew follows a little girl’s struggle in the midst of her parents’ tumultuous and bitter custody battle. The cast includes Julianne Moore and True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård. @DavidAtlantaGA // 39

To the Fringes The Atlanta Fringe Festival Explores Alternative Theater

By Dylan Michael

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f you like conservative, typical, “boring� theater, then the Atlanta Fringe Festival is not for you. But if you like weird, edgy, off-the-wall theater, then you have found the perfect event. The second annual Atlanta Fringe Festival, running June 5–9, is the premiere venue for underground/indie theater shows that are looking for exposure or just a chance to express their art.

that there were more voices to be heard than what was already out. For two years, they plugged away, using only Facebook and word of mouth as their advertisement methods, and debuted last year during the second week of May.

The festival has attracted performers from all over the United States, including actors, dancers, comedians and The event was conceived in 2010, when a small group of aerialists. In its inaugural year, the Atlanta Fringe Festival artists got together and decided it was time for a change; received over 40 performance submissions and, like the 44 // davidatlanta.com

original Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Atlanta Fringe Festival is a non-judged event that showcases both professional and experimental theatre from all walks of life. During the Atlanta Fringe, the performances will be available at six venues including Beacon Dance, Core Dance, Mask Center, Horizons School Theatre, Horizons School Gym and Wonderroot.

of how the struggles in life shape us into who we are. A story of HOPE.”

For all you that can’t make it to the event in person, there is another alternative: Radio Fringe. The Atlanta Fringe Festival is the first Fringe to have a radio play component attached to its event. The audio submissions are available to listen on the festival’s website (atlantafringe. org); there is a $2 fee for listeners to gain access to Radio Fringe. The categories for Radio Fringe include “Radio Plays”, “Storytelling” and “Sound Art”. These artists were selected on a first-come-first-serve basis, rather than the lottery.

If you’re still unsure about what you want to see, the Atlanta Fringe has a free preview party! Each show in the lineup gets onstage to catch your eye by performing a three-minute preview. Grab a festival guide and circle your favorites that you just can’t miss!

For the more lighthearted theater, you could choose to see It’s My Penis and I’ll Cry If I Want To, a look into male and female roles in society and the people that don’t conform to those ideas. Or, for the most artistic side of things, Chance and Choice is a show all about you. The Every year, more and more people submit to be a part of audience has the chance to interact with four Charlottethis festival, and it’s literally all up to chance. The Atlanta based dancers, who tell their story through movement Fringe is a non-judged, or non-juried, event, which means and encourage the audience to come up, join them on that the submissions are not chosen by a panel of judges, stage and to help sculpt the story. And for all you techie but rather by chance. The submissions are drawn, lottery nerds, be sure to check out Feel The Power of the Dork style, so you never quite know what kind of lineup Atlanta Side or #Innerology, both set to light the Fringe stage on Fringe is going to come out with next. fire!

So for all you aspiring playwrights, the Atlanta Fringe is your chance to show off what you have. Keep an eye out for the submissions opening (last year it was October to January), and submit, submit, submit! You never know who might be in the audience. And for all you theatergoNow that you know about how the event works, let’s take ers, don’t be afraid to check this event out—you might a look at some of the talent that will be taking the stage. discover the next big thing!

The Atlanta Fringe is full of all kinds of different types of theater, full of different themes and stories, some heart breaking and some uplifting.

In the show And They Said I Wouldn’t Make It…A Story of Hope, produced by NuVisions of Excellence Theatre Company (NuVOE) and Make Me a Match Project, a young man tells his story about being diagnosed with leukemia at the young age of eight.

It is a story of “the highest highs and lowest lows of hospital care, as well as the joy and pain associated with maintaining a family’s spirit of hope while faced with what most doctors believed was certain death. However, this is not a story about death and sorrow, but one of resilience. A celebration @DavidAtlantaGA // 45

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fairyscopes ARIES (March 20 – April 19): Thinking of others rather than only of yourself today could change public perception about you. They may stop using words like ‘selfish’ or ‘egocentric,’ although they might not ever stop calling you ‘queen bitch.’

LIBRA (September 23 – October 22): Flirting with guys is your way of having good, clean fun. But you may be put on the spot today when an aggressive guy presses you to take things farther. He may not take no for an answer so use Plan B. Tell him you have to go to the bathroom and then bolt for the first exit out of there.

TAURUS (April 20 – May 20): Your life might not

SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21): Escalating

seem so dull if you take steps to spice things up today.

It doesn’t have to be anything extreme like taking up rock climbing or bungee jumping. It could be as easy as meeting a new guy and hoping that he’s an astronaut or bullfighter so you can live vicariously through him.

tensions with your partner may have you thinking of throwing in the towel today. That’s an easy if cowardly way out. Face up to your problems by trying to talk it out.

Couple’s therapy may be in order if that doesn’t work. But don’t pack your bags until you’ve exhausted all resources.

GEMINI (May 21- June 20): Your focus may be shifting from your partner to a tempting new stranger.

This is always dangerous yet titillating ground to tread.

But will a brief roll in the hay be worth losing the love and security you have at home? Only you can make that decision, so weigh your options carefully today.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 20): Decision-making may be difficult today thanks to a fuzzy mind. This could be the result of too many after-work cocktails yesterday. Or it could be attributed to staying up all night watching a ‘Designing Women’ marathon. That’s always a lot more entertaining after a couple of drinks.

CANCER (June 21- July 22): Things may not be

CAPRICORN (December 21 – January 19): You’re

going smoothly in a new relationship, but it may be too early to panic. There are always rough patches in the beginning. But keep your eyes open for the warning signs that’ll tell you when to jump ship. Calling you by the name of his ex-lover when in bed could be one of them.

tempted to keep working hard on that project through the weekend, but are you certain all your extra effort is being recognized by those above? Sure, you’ll be in a great position, task-wise, come next week, but you’ll be in an even better position, creativity-wise, if you let your mind rest and play.

LEO (July 23 – August 22): Technical malfunctions

AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 18): Intense

may force you to shop for a new computer today. There may be some urgency in making a purchase, as time is precious. You just started an online relationship with someone calling himself ‘filthygorgeousdaddy’ and you don’t want to lose him to some other cybergeek.

personal issues may weigh heavily on your mind today.

But don’t let that change your personality as you interact with people. Being sullen or moping may not earn you the sympathy you want, while being aggressively angry will only make your problems worse.

VIRGO (August 23 – September 22): A heartto-heart discussion with your partner is sometimes necessary to determine the status of your relationship.

It gives you both a chance to clear the air and to vent frustrations. It will also offer a valuable chance for you to state your deep feelings for him, straight from the heart.

PISCES (February 19 – March 19): A friend who owes you money may tell you today that he can’t pay you back. So come up with imaginative ways for him to settle the debt. Making him your naked manservant is a viable option, although he may have to put on a thong when he goes out to buy your groceries.

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To the “slap the shit” threat guy: you jealous you can’t have an eagle, moose, or the word “Abercrombie” on your chest?

Is it bad to get a hard-on for your doctor?

God help Sandy Springs is just north of 285. Why is it when I tell him if guys in Midtown that I live out here, they look at me he picks like I came all the way from Dalton? me up in a shitty I love car. making Nicki Minaj A wise man once stupid is just told me if you don’t people Lil Kim get lube in your belly who hate directed button, you’re not doing it right. me hate

by Baz me even Luhrmann.

I’m so tired of hearing what you think of me. more.

Grow some balls and say it to my face! Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

How can you say you “deserve” to be named best anything in Atlanta when you’ve only been on the scene for a month?

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To the mister sister who thinks she’s all that for being part of a drag entourage: unless you’re getting paid, you are still and will always be nothing. *This page reflects the bitchiness of the community not David Atlanta or its publisher (although we’re bitchy too!)