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Written by Maria Miranda
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:21 |
 In January, Spangler Maria Miranda became a producer through her new performance art collective, Whisper to a Scream. Later this spring, she’s mounting a new production that she’s intending as a performance and advocacy event.
And women of Northeast Ohio, your participation is needed. Read on.
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Sometimes you love her. Sometimes you hate her. You call for her when everything goes wrong, and sometimes you blame her for everything that has gone wrong. She cured scrapes with kisses, and she gave you enough issues to send you to therapy.
Moms rock.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:18 |
Call it Winter Pride. The Cleveland International Film Festival is among the queerest events in Northeast Ohio outside of that Saturday in June. (Only that tiny — sure, tiny — leather weekend in April and any Gay Games precursor party rival it.)
But when you go, it’s not just about the 10% Cinema series. Turns out, LGBT folk don’t just go for the queer movies — we go for quality in any genre.
So in the final part of our sit-down with Artistic Director Bill Guentzler, we get his choices for non-LGBT movies. (Check out Parts One and Two here.)
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Friday, 05 March 2010 00:10 |
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In film, you’ve got your common genres: comedy, drama, thriller, horror.
And then there’s the gay genre, which far too often features features that are not comedic, dramatic or thrilling (but sadly are horrific).
Yet sometimes, one comes along that rises above its gay-genre ghetto and is good. Not gay-movie good, just good.
And so the Cleveland International Film Festival each year programs its 10% Cinema, featuring movies with LGBT themes. Probably because year after year, we eat them up and sell them out like crazy.
We sat down with Film Fest Artistic Director Bill Guentzler last week (Part One is here); read on for his 10% take.
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Written by Roger Zender
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Monday, 01 March 2010 15:20 |
Spangler Roger Zender is back for his monthly dose of the best concerts in town and around the region.
This might be one of the best months for live shows since I started this column. Picking only two "Featured Events" was quite the challenge, but I can't think of a better challenge to have. Okay, maybe I can.
You'll notice a healthy dose of "Road Trip" shows this month. It'll be a good thing that the snow soon will be completely gone and you'll have some easy travelling to these destinations (fingers crossed).
But if for some reason you're forced to stay close to home, you have plenty of shows to choose from around here.
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Written by Brian Patrick Thornton
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Monday, 08 March 2010 00:17 |
Regardless of your view on our youth-chasing culture, Northeast Ohio theatergoers can’t ignore the crackling energy brought to Cleveland Play House shows that feature its master’s program young acting corps.
Such is the case with its new production of Jane Austen’s Emma, which includes among its cast the entire 2010 graduating class of its graduate program.
The story, as Austen lovers (and fans of the loose, modern adaptation Clueless) well know, Emma is the tale of an unmarried, somewhat spoiled wealthy woman whose high opinion of herself and her talents leads her to meddle in her friends’ love lives, usually to their (and her) detriment. It’s an early feminist tale, with Emma encouraging women to choose men with more to offer than just their looks — or in Emma’s case, not to choose a man at all.
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Written by Tim Marshall
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:56 |
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For an institution that attracts so many queer folk (based almost entirely on its selection of quality musical theater), PlayhouseSquare each year puts on a massive benefit that is generally perceived to have a non-queer vibe: the Jump Back Ball.
In all honesty, no Spangler had ever attended. (The phrase “heteronormativity … with ice-sculpture centerpieces!” may or may not have been bandied about the office.)
But the good folks at PlayhouseSquare extended an invite to its 19th edition on Saturday, where a black-tie and ball-gown crowd promised to pack the lobbies and stages of our local theater district for this year’s theme, Celebrate: Carnivale, bringing the best of Rio, Venice and New Orleans to Northeast Ohio for a colorful night lasting into the next day.
Never ones to shy away from an unfamiliar situation, we sent in intrepid Spangler Tim Marshall. And he not only survived, but seemed to have enough good times to file this report.
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Written by Brian Patrick Thornton
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Friday, 26 February 2010 00:00 |
In so many ways, the past year has zipped by at a speed too fast to measure. Yet it seems as if the last edition of the Cleveland International Film Festival was eons ago.
But here we are, finally; opening night is less than a month away (March 18), and tickets go on sale today (for members) and March 5 (for everyone else).
It’s time you got planning; seeing all the films that catch your fancy can be a complicated puzzle to solve.
Earlier this week, we sat down at West 25th Street’s Bar Cento for Spangle’s annual conversation with Artistic Director Bill Guentzler. Today, the first part of our preview with him of Northeast Ohio’s (arguably) best cultural event.
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