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ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LGBT NIGHT You’ve never heard (or seen) anything like this on the Atlanta Symphony Hall stage! Organist Cameron Carpenter, a dashing, übertalented young organist. Included in ticket price is an exclusive after party with drinks and tapas. Thursday, Jan. 29 • 8 p.m. Woodruff Arts Center (1280 Peachtree Street NE) • www.aso.org
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How can David readers help you achieve those goals? Readers can help by going to the webpages for these organizations and learning about them. So many folks are guilty of seeing ads and invitations for parties/ fundraisers for local organizations, but not knowing WHAT the organization does or WHERE their donation is going to in terms of programming. Pass that information on, like the organizations Facebook page so you can get updates, check with your employer about gift match, and if you really want to do something immediate and simple, have turn your next gathering/house party into a fundraiser.
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Lynn Barfield DAVID HAS A NEW WAY OF HONORING THOSE WHO DO SO MUCH FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST RECIPIENT OF THIS AWARD IS WELL KNOW GAL ABOUT TOWN, LYNN BARFIELD. GETTING TO KNOW HER IS EASY, AND WE’LL GET YOU STARTED.
How did you get started on your philanthropic path?
What do you do for employment?
I would love to see more support, both financially and volunteer oriented, for For the Kid. If a business wants to do a fundraiser, if an individual wants to volunteer, or a corporation has grants to give for youth causes, we want and need you! It would be great to have I would love to see FTK have an educational program for teachers, but that cost money, and would require the right volunteers. Same for AID Atlanta, who has done so much to expand its services and Lost and Found Youth, who is serving a population that is now in the forefront of much needed servicing and understanding.
What do you love most about Atlanta’s gay community? My favorite thing about Atlanta’s gay community is that its PROUD 365 days a year, 24/7. I like to think it’s a Southern thing. There is such a strength and pride that you don’t feel in a lot of cities. Some places are gay and because of history or population think that is enough. But Atlanta puts it out there, and recognizes the strides in culture and business. There’s a lot of work to be done on the segregation in community, and I mean the racism, sexism and classism that some people try to deny exist, but c’mon folks!
I started on my philanthropic path at an early age, with my family. And we were taught simply that what you give back in life, you get back. When you start young, a powerful message like that sticks with you. I wish more emphasis was placed on doing good to our young people. And for me personally, doing What would you name the autobisomething good for someone else satis- ography of your life? fies my soul, it makes me feel like I am apart of something bigger on this earth. My autobiography would be titled Tales How long have you lived in Atlanta? from a Barstool. What would you like to see in the future for your charities? I have lived in Atlanta all my life
I work in accounting at McKelvey and Russell, LLC What charities are you involved in right now? My charity heart is in For the Kid in All of Us! I am a board member and love it! We produce Backpack in the Park and the ever-famous Toy Party. We serve as a resource organization by partnering agencies that serve underprivileged and needy children. I also support AID Atlanta and the mission of Lost and Found Youth is amazing. 18 | 1.28.15
Watch each month as David Atlanta Magazine unveils a new hero. These community members have shown Atlanta what they do to enhance the city in which we live. If you have a suggestion for a recipient of the David Hero Award please email jonathan@davidatlanta.com.
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KATHY IN ALL By Chris Azzopardi
COMEDIAN OPENS UP ON JOAN’S DEATH, HOSTING FASHION POLICE AND EMOJIS FROM CHER
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athy Griffin isn’t kidding when she says, “If I can get serious for one second…” Putting aside her usual biting assault against all things celebrity, the comedian gets candid about her dear friend and idol Joan Rivers in our latest interview: Griffin’s frequent death-related conversations with the late comedy legend, “literally” getting Joan’s permission to supersede her on Fashion Police, and how Joan taught Kathy “not to give a fuck.” David Atlanta: Hi Kathy, how are ya? Kathy Griffin: Umm, this isn’t gonna go out to any, uh, gay people, right, Chris? Because, you know, you give those people an inch, they’ll take a mile. DA: Are you talking about penis size?
KG: I’m talking about, when are we gonna end it with the letters and the numbers, Chris! LGBTQIA-2-3-4-5! Dammit! I’ve got a GLAAD Vanguard Award and an HRC Award and I still can’t keep up. DA: I’m gay myself and I can’t keep up. KG: (Laughs) Which letter or number are you? DA: Just the G for now. KG: Look, Chris, you’ve gotta up your game. You’ve gotta stick in at least – can’t you be a Q? How hard is it to be a “questioning”? DA: For you, Kathy, I could be a Q. And I could be a number. 22 | 1.28.15
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this job (on Fashion Police) – like, duh – but I mean everything from the beginning: what she did for women in comedy in such a male-dominated field, and for the LGBT community, and being down with the gays long before Stonewall, before it was cool. Anyway, it’s such an honor for me to sit DA: It’s really confusing you straight in that chair. people, I know. DA: Because Joan obviously was KG: (Laughs) Keep it simple for the breed- such an immense influence on you, ers! We are simple people, dammit! do you see your lives and careers aligning in any ways? DA: So, Kathy, congratulations on Fashion Police! KG: I see our careers aligning in every way except stylistically. Joan was the master KG: Thank you! I am so-o-o-o excited! I of the one-liners and the zingers; I am a lot mean, obviously I have the biggest shoes more improvisational and conversational. in the world to fill. But the fact that Joan Don’t think that I’m really gonna be doing and I were such good pals – and, in fact, Joan’s style of comedy, because one of discussed the show many, many times the reasons we got along so well is that – it’s just, for me, if I can get serious for we were never competitors in any way. one second, actually meaningful. And I First of all, she was a fucking living legknow it’s a silly show – we’re gonna make end, an icon, and I’m just me. But in addifun of silly celebrities and pictures – but tion to that, we had a deep understanding Joan was such a good pal to me, but also – and this is very inside baseball – that an unrecognized pioneer in many ways. stylistically, she was in her lane and I’m in my lane, and that’s what’s gonna happen I have to say, I really am getting a lot of on Fashion Police. I’m gonna do what I do. I gratification out of the fact that I believe am off the cuff and take-no-prisoners, and posthumously she’s finally getting the re- in that way we shared a philosophy, but spect that she so earned and so deserved, stylistically we’re actually quite different. and that’s kind of a mission that I’ve assigned to myself. No one has assigned it As far as our careers aligning, yeah, of to me, but it’s just important to me that course. I mean, the struggles. And one her legacy is protected and honored, be- of the reasons I loved her so was, I’ve cause it’s a legit legacy. never seen anyone in my career have to fight so hard on their own. And this is no I mean, she was wild and outrageous, and disrespect to my representatives, etc., I get it – with the sequin jackets and the but one thing I always admired about feather boas and the saying crazy things Joan and that we share is, I never had a to TMZ – but just as a female comedian, Lorne Michaels, I never had a studio head I mean, talk about a feminist, talk about take me by the hand and say, “Here, I’m a groundbreaker. I would never have this gonna set up an environment for you.” career without her, and I don’t mean just That’s why my show was called My Life
on the D-List, and that’s why my talk show – I had a blast, but it was canceled after two years. It’s been a struggle for me, and that’s just my road. So when I look at Joan, I look at someone that struggled and it really paid off, and it paid off in so many ways. What I learned from her is something that is just my story as well, and it’s not everybody’s story, but it’s – you’ve got to have your tentacles everywhere. What was so great about Joan was the QVC line and the reality show with Melissa (Rivers) and Fashion Police and touring. We would often talk about how that’s just the way it is for us; it’s not just gonna be the one job where then we have summers off and we flip houses and we have our gifted children that go to school with other celebrity children. We’re just workhorses. So, that’s the way I roll, and that’s the only thing I know. I’ve come to actually really love it. DA: You’ve said that Joan, before she died, passed the Fashion Police torch onto you. How so? What was the context of that conversation? KG: Besides the fact that she literally said it to me at dinner one time? I mean, we used to talk about death all the time, which is very common for comedians. It might sound macabre, but we talked about everything under the sun, and we would joke about everything, and nothing was ever off-limits and nothing was ever off the table. She did, in fact, make all these jokes (about), “If anything happened to me…” She would say, “If Jennifer Lawrence ever kills me, you should take over Fashion Police,” and I would say, “If Demi Lovato ever kills me, you can take over my one-nighter at such-and-such center.” Stuff like that. We discussed a davidatlanta.com | 23
wide array of things, but certainly the so funny about that is, and I actually talk thing we discussed probably more than about it in one of my specials, it’s called anything was, I would say, “Who was a “gay mission.” your Joan Rivers?” When I started out on Suddenly Susan She would say, “Look, for a long time I would turn to Brooke Shields and say, Phyllis Diller and I were linked, but the “You know all these people who can truth is, Phyllis was kind of the only girl give me an outfit for a day!” I was on in certain clubs.” She said, “Phyllis was the worst dressed list and then stylist a little older, so she paved the way for Robert Verdi came into my life and he me and, of course, there’s Moms Mabley said, “That’s it. I’m making this a gay and Totie Fields.” And, for me, that per- mission. I just think, because of who son was Joan. So when I say I lost my you are – a wacky comedian – you person, that’s really what I mean. As need to be out there in labels. I don’t much as I’m a fan of all the comedy girls think you’re Eva Longoria where you and I am a comedy girl fan, I am not a can be putting designers on the map. competitor. You’re someone that needs to be out there in Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Everybody has a different story, so, for Herrera, Michael Kors and Dolce & some reason, Joan is the one that I con- Gabbana. If you look at my red carpet nected with the most, (especially) as stuff over the last couple of years, far as, “What are you in trouble for this that’s all I’m in. So, it’s been an evoweek?!” and always laughing through it lution for me, and it’s been a learning and never really feeling like it was like process that I love. I’m gonna bring the real trouble. We used to say, “Are you hammer down no matter how amazing in real trouble or ‘Hollywood trouble’?” these designers are. And it was always Hollywood trouble. Through her example, and whether or not DA: You wouldn’t be Kathy Griffin it’s to my detriment, I really did learn not if you didn’t. to give a fuck. KG: They’re actually identifying it now DA: Regarding the skepticism of as a comedy show. They didn’t hire me your role as host of Fashion Police to really be a fashionista. I love fash– how do you respond to the nay- ion, but they hired me to really be the sayers who doubt you know any- funny one and be the brutally honest thing about fashion? one, and also brutally kind whenever it warrants. Just like my act, I never KG: First of all, I would say that I really know what I’m gonna say. did have a fashion evolution, and what’s 24 | 1.28.15
DA: Being that I’m a gay man, I’m naturally concerned about Cher, one of your BFFs. How is she doing healthwise? Is she better? KG: She is! She just texted me last night and she hit me right back and she’s feeling better. It’s funny, I reached out for the same reason you did: I was like, “I’m a gay man and I need to know,” and she was like (in Cher voice), “I’m feelin’ a lot betta.” She texted me back in seconds. If she’s able to text me back within five seconds, I’m thinkin’ that’s a good sign. And of course she stuck in some emojis, which I think is an even better sign. DA: Which emoji did she send? KG: She did two lips – kisses. DA: Good. I’d be concerned if she did “happy poop.” KG: (Laughs) Six of one and half dozen of the other – they’re both good emojis from Cher. DA: Lastly, Kathy, if you could turn back time…? KG: I would have slept with Anderson Cooper for the one week he was heterosexual during his 21st birthday. I tried everything in the book, trust me, and it just wouldn’t happen. I tried everything short of the Cosby. For the full interview check out davidatlanta.com.
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music VANCE JOY Taylor Swift basically turned Ed Sheeran into a zillion teenage girls’ dream come true when she brought him alongside her for her record-breaking Red Tour. Tapped for Swift’s upcoming The 1989 World Tour, we can only imagine the wet dreams Vance Joy is having for his already bloomed career. Swift herself, as well as fellow 2015 artists to watch MisterWives have covered the Michelle Pfeiffer, name checking, shaking single “Riptide,” so if you don’t already know this singing and songwriting sexy Aussie, get ready.
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Eight Artists to Watch
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GET READY FOR SOME GREAT NEW ALBUMS TO JAM OUT TO IN 2015. HERE ARE EIGHT ARTISTS WITH NEW MUSIC TO LOOK FOR THIS YEAR.
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ihanna is posting snippets of new music on Instagram. Demos from Madonna’s highly anticipated album are leaking left and right. Kelly Clarkson has promised a single in the first part of the year. And, yeah, that Adele record, possibly titled 25 . . . it’s coming. Plus, there’s new music from Fergie and Gwen Stefani (although we might argue both have released underwhelming and dated sounding singles). Simply put, there’s plenty to look forward to in the 2015 world of music and other than Madonna’s ramped up #RebelHeart release, we just don’t know when.
In the meantime, we’re hitting the gym hard in January – New Year’s Resolutions and all – and need something new in our earbuds. If you’re looking for something to pound your iPod in 2015 (have you seen Vance Joy), check out these eight artists that we’re looking forward to hearing more from in 2015. No matter your genre (or your type) when these artists come out on top in 2015, you’ll be able to say, ‘you knew them when.’ 26 | 1.28.15
If 2014 was the year you discovered Charli XCX, go back and get her first album True Romance, and then check out Ryn Weaver. First single “Octahate” is a basket of catchy bounce and she’s already gotten the seal of approval from writer-producer-rapper Benny Blanco (Jessie J, Britney Spears, Kesha, Maroon 5) as well as Jessie Ware, Passion Pit and Paramore’s Hayley Williams. What else do we know about the twenty-something? Not much, but she is working with Charli XCX on a super-secret project. Let’s hope it’s her debut album.
SEINABO SEY Sweden continues to export artists that we fall madly in love with. Less saccharine than Abba and Ace of Base but more moody than Robyn, Seinabo Sey has already notched a number one Billboard dance track with the Kygo remix of her single “Younger.” While awaiting her 2015 debut, check out her five-track EP featuring second single “Hard Time,” the cinematic “Pistols at Dawn” and the gliding “You.”
MIKKY EKKO You might not recognize his name, but Nashvillebased Ekko earned a Grammy nomination for his feature vocals and songwriting on the smash Rihanna single, “Stay.” After releasing several EPs – including 2013’s Tracks – the singersongwriter is prepping his full-length debut Time, out on January 20. If the promotional singles “Mourning Doves” and title track “Time” are any indication, Ekko is shooting straight for the heartstrings and is going to cut every single one of them.
MARINA & THE DIAMONDS If you’re tired of today’s pop music, add Marina & the Diamonds to your gym playlist – you’ll thank us later. While the Welsh performer released an uneven debut in 2010, she followed it up with the infectious Electra Heart in 2012. The album marked an electronic shift in her music and included the dance-pop single “Radioactive.” The album will melt any winter worries but keeps you warm for months before she releases her third album.
FENCES Led by vocalist and guitarist Christopher Mansfield, Fences’ 2010 debut was produced by Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara. Mansfield returned in 2012 but this time with a co-write on the hugely successful Macklemore & Ryan Lewis album The Heist. Now, with new buddies Macklemore& Ryan Lewis in tow on lead single “Arrows,” Mansfield is back with a follow-up record Lesser Oceans, out on January 13.
MISTERWIVES If female-led, synth-based indie pop is your thing, dial into MisterWives for 2015. If you haven’t already discovered the band’s 2014 six-track EP Reflections, make sure you check it out before their March 25 Atlanta show at The Loft. And while we eagerly await their 2015 release, let them tide you over with their Spotify Sessions that includes a killer cover of Vance Joy’s “Riptide.”
BEBE REXHA After appearing on Cash Cash’s 2013 hit “Take Me Home” and releasing the cleverlytitled “I Can’t Stop Drinking About You,” Bebe Rexha is prepping a 2015 release that’s bound to put your ass on the dance floor while simultaneously ripping your heart out. To tide you over, you can check out two sides of Rexha with the just released “Gone” and “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy.” 28 | 1.28.15
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JaZelle The Comeback Queen Winner of Dragnificent Cycle 3
FOUR YEARS AGO, JAZELLE THOUGHT IT WAS TIME. SO AWAY WENT THE WIGS, THE VEGASSTYLE COSTUMES. AWAY WENT ENOUGH FEATHERS AND MAKE-UP TO FILL A SMALL STORAGE SHED. AT THE TIME, PATRICK THOUGHT THAT WAS ALL BEHIND HIM, UNTIL HIS BOYFRIEND BECAME ONE OF THE CATALYSTS TO BRING JAZELLE BACK OUT OF THE CLOSET TO COMPETE IN JUNGLE’S DRAGNIFICENT CYCLE 3. What made you decide to quit JaZelle? After five years of doing drag I sort of felt emasculated. So I kinda wanted to stop, so that people would stop putting me in a box. So I went to the gym and worked out and lived that gym-life for a little while. After suppressing that creativity for a while I wanted to come back out. I’m at my happiest when I’m able to create a beautiful costume and showcase it for people to see. What did your boyfriend say to convince you to start again? We knew that it might affect our relationship a little bit so we kind of had a discussion about it before we started. Adam kind of gave me the bravery to bring my creativity back to the stage. He was such a catalyst to be who I am, and for that [JaZelle] to be OK. Jazelle backstage at the finale of Dragnificent Cycle 3.
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What’s next for JaZelle? I’m just taking it day by day and enjoying the experience. Describe JaZelle’s style of drag. It’s Vegas and very over-the-top, lots of extravagant large costuming. I would like to expand on that and do more illusion…more edgier looks. I don’t want to be pigeonholed as doing just one type of drag. People know me for the extravagant Vegas style, but I’m definitely interested in exploring other looks right now. Any thoughts about entering RuPaul’s Drag Race? You know after just completing Dragnificent, that is the furthest thing from my mind. I just want to give it a go and see how much I enjoy doing drag again before I do something like that. Even if you don’t do well on that show, you are exposed to so much criticism and nonsense in my opinion. I will say though that RuPaul’s Drag Race has certainly gotten people into drag again, and for that I’m definitely thankful. Best part about re-entering drag? For me it’s the ability to be creative again. Having an idea, and being able to make it come alive on stage. I also love the comradery backstage. Sometimes the best show is actually behind the scenes, rather than what’s on the stage. I love performing. I love making people smile. I don’t think there’s any better feeling. Worst part about re-entering drag? Um…having to shave all the time. I hate that. I like having a beard. I just hate shaving. It’s uncomfortable, but the trade off is worth it.
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Dear Dom, I like to be hip and trendy. You’ll always find me wearing the most fashionable clothes and hairstlyles. Can you help me impress my pals at the clubs and let me in on the latest drink craze? Sophistication To Impress Finicky Friends Eased relations between the United States and Cuba will bring a flood of imports from that island nation, STIFF. What is the country’s best known product besides cigars and rafting refugees? Why, rum, of course. Expect a tsunami of the spirit to flow to our shores. Bartender Juan Borracho shakes up this inventive twist on the vodka-based Kamikaze. “Mojitos and Cubra Libres are so yesterday,” he says. “This new cocktail is cool and muy caliente.”
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Here’s a rummy yummy from the land of Castro: The CommieKaze. In a cocktail shaker full of ice combine 1 oz. Cuban White Rum, 1 oz. Triple Sec Liqueur, and 1 oz. Rose’s Lime Juice. Shake well, do not stir. Strain into a chilled glass. Makes one serving. Salud! Dear Dom, I’m only 30-years old and just found my first gray hairs. OMG, this is way too young to start looking old. What am I going to do? Concerned About Pigment CAP, before you reach for the Grecian Formula, consider embracing your gray. In fact, the dignified look of silver hair seems to increasing in popularity. Think about gay TV personalities Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen; or mainstream celebs like George Clooney, Eric Dane, and Taylor Hicks.
I recently caught a sexually transmitted disease. At least it wasn’t HIV. But, I feel so ashamed and filthy. Among his predominantly gay male clientele, New York psychotherapist Brian Lathrop sees a growing trend amongst men in What should I do? their thirties and forties that’s markedly different from just a decade ago. “They’re not treating it like a symptom of aging,” Forgot About Important Lessons Lathrop told Advocate magazine. “Instead, they’re making it Sex is cleaner with a packaged wiener. That’s a lesson best re- work for them. It’s not hyper-masculine but truly masculine.” membered the next time you’re doing the dirty, FAIL. Personally, I prefer to think of my graying hair as a trophy; the However, if you do contract an STD, the emotions can be im- merit badge of a life well lived. Try accepting the change, CAP. If mobilizing. “Shame comes to you as a feeling so deep and is you do, you might just find that gray is the new black. incapable of your getting a grasp on it that it seems there is nothing you can do,” says psychologist Robert Caldwell. He recommends replacing shame with mature guilt. “Guilt has often received bad press, and well it should--if and only if, you Dom are talking about neurotic guilt--guilt that self-flagellates and Advice columnist Dominic has been there and done that changes nothing. If you are talking about mature guilt, then guilt with most everything. He gives a new low to all levels of is one of the great inventions of nature. For mature guilt lets you depravity. He’s heard every question and every answer. know what is unacceptable and offers you the opportunity to do Give him a try, email DearDom@davidatlanta.com. something about it.” In the future, keep this in mind: Got no protection? Don’t use your erection! 56 | 1.28.15
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 – Dec. 20): An old friend you haven’t seen for a while could suddenly reappear, and you might view this person in a different light as a potential business partner, source of inspiration, or even a romantic possibility.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 – Jan. 19): You’re a service-oriented person by nature, and this week the opportunity to spend time serving those in need could well present itself. This could be in a professional capacity or helping someone close who’s having troubles of some kind.
LEO (Jul. 23 – Aug. 22): Group activities in your neighborhood could lead to positive changes in your community. You will enjoy exchanging ideas and information with others, and could come away from these activities feeling exhilarated.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18): If you’ve been hoping for a lucky break, this is the week it might come, especially if it involves love and romance. Whatever breaks come your way are likely to move you emotionally. You won’t be the same.
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