‘The Orville’: When Representation Is Well-Intended but Problematic
Mainstream entertainment doesn’t always get us right, but Hollywood deserves credit for trying.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/9/29/orville-when-representation-well-intended-problematic
Liverpool’s Got Talent
* RICHARD M (6.5+ MILLION VIEWS) posted a photo:
Liverpool Media Academy (LMA) Choir.
Entertaining the 2017 Liverpool Pride crowds, from the William Brown St outdoor stage.
And guess what? They were great!
www.lma.ac.uk/
School librarian snubs Melania Trump: ‘We don’t want your free books’
“I can think of no better gift for children than books; it was a wonderful gesture, if one that could have been better thought out.”
NEW MUSIC: Glen Hansard, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Hurts, Camille
This week in New Music: Grammy-nominated Glen Hansard is back with his third solo album, Yusuf/Cat Stevens is still quite franky amazing after 50 years, Hurts are still causing pain and just listen to Camille (above).
Glen Hansard – “Time Will Be the Healer”
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has announced the follow-up to 2015’s Grammy nominated album Didn’t He Ramble.
Album number three Two Shores will be released in January 2018.
Hansard is pretty much a legend on the Irish live circuit, first coming to attention in “The Commitments,” followed by a two-decade career with The Frames, one of the best live bands you’ll ever see.
His international profile was raised with the Oscar winning soundtrack for “Once” and that formula hasn’t changed much. If anything, Hansard has pared down the sound further. Didn’t He Ramble was pretty much on man and a guitar. On Two Shores, Hansard is completely in charge, producing for the first time.
Have a listen to “Time Will Be a Healer” below.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens – The Laughing Apple
Fifty years after the release of his debut album, Yusuf/Cat Stevens has surprised probably everyone but himself with one of the best albums of the year so far.
With reinterpretations of some of his earliest work alongside some new material and older songs never before released somehow there is a cohesiveness.
Granted that whole sounds like it could have been released any time in the last half century. That’s because Stevens is a legend and like Joni Mitchell his music remains pertinent and contemporary but forever timeless.
Pretty good then.
Hurts – Desire
It seems like decades since English synty pop duo Hurts emerged as the next-big-thing with their debut album Happiness in 2010.
All bright and shiny and young, they were expected to be huge. They were Pet Shop Boys meets Erasure meets Depeche Mode meets Take That but for some reason they were just not….magnificent.
It’s hard to say what was missing. What ever happened to Sophie and Peter Johnson? Somehow it just didn’t gel.
On their latest album Desire it appears that Adam Anderson and singer Theo Hutchcraft have decided to throw everything at it in an attempt to finally break through.
Sadly they probably won’t. There are songs on Desire that could be Take That-level classics. There’s “Ready to Go” and “People Like Us” which aim for Coldplay stadium heights but are…just lacking.
That’s been the problem all along – a lot of style, not that much substance.
Camille – “Seeds”
If like me you’re waiting impatiently for the next Christine and the Queens album, you might like to take a look at fellow French singer Camille.
She appeared last week on the 25th anniversary show of the BBC’s Later With Jools Holland.
I’m just going to leave this here and throw in Christine on Jools as a bonus.
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GLAAD statement on the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price
NEW YORK – Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD – the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, released the following statement this evening after President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price following numerous reports of Price using close to $1 million dollars of taxpayer money to pay for the more than two dozen private and chartered jet trips across the world.
“After decades of targeting marginalized communities for his own profit, karma finally caught up with Tom Price. It’s a relief that an anti-LGBTQ activist like Price was removed from the Trump Administration’s highest ranks, but LGBTQ Americans must remain vigilant and prepare for the next nomination – as they could bring the same discriminatory agenda as the rest of the president’s picks.”
Read more about Tom Price’s anti-LGBTQ record below and find other profiles on anti-LGBTQ activists inside the Trump Administration through GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Secretary of Health and Human Service Tom Price’s Anti-LGBTQ Record
During Service
Prior to Service
www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-statement-resignation-health-and-human-services-secretary-tom-price
Can’t Sue Movement or Hashtag, Judge Rules in Black Lives Matter Case
A federal judge dismissed a suit that a police officer brought against Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, seeking to hold them liable for the officer’s injuries at a protest.
www.advocate.com/race/2017/9/29/cant-sue-movement-or-hashtag-judge-rules-black-lives-matter-case
WATCH: The Warwick Rowers bare all for 2018 calendar
They’re back, and nuder than ever.
Lorde and Phil Collins, Huntington, Jennifer Hudson, Betsy DeVos, 50 Cent, Macklemore, Drones, Bermuda: HOT LINKS
SAME LOVE. Macklemore marriage equality anthem surges up Australian charters after calls to ban it from homophobes. “As a former NRL player married for the past 12 years to my wife and with five children, I demand that the NRL reconsider its political position and remove LGBTIQ politics out of the awesome sport of Rugby League”, Mr Wall said in the online petition, which has gathered more than 12,000 signatures as of Thursday evening. The movement was quickly endorsed by former prime minister Tony Abbott, who tweeted: “Footy fans shouldn’t be subjected to a politicised grand final. Sport is sport!”
50 CENT. Trump offered me $500,000 to join his presidential campaign.
NO DRONES. FAA bans drones from flying near national landmarks: “At the request of U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) § 99.7 – “Special Security Instructions” – to address concerns about unauthorized drone operations over 10 Department of the Interior (DOI) sites, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore.”
BERMUDA. Health Minister represents opponents of gay marriage in bid to overturn marriage equality ruling as government is ordered to pay legal bill of the gay couple who won the right to marry.
CALIFORNIA. North Hills man convicted of first degree murder for stabbing wife and shooting gay son.
DOJ. We want info on ‘anti-administration activists’. ‘The Department of Justice has identified three people they call “anti-administration activists,” and have served search warrants on Facebook demanding those users’ private account information — and thousands of others who interacted with those users. Facebook has not disclosed whether it plans to, or already has, complied with the warrants.
ARIZONA. Democrat Kirsten Sinema launches Senate bid. “Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is running for Senate against Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, setting up a marquee race between a former progressive-turned-centrist Democrat and one of President Donald Trump’s harshest Republican critics.
BETSY DEVOS. Harvard students stood with fists raised, banners during Education Secretary’s speech.
WATCH: Protesters at Harvard University interrupt speech by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. t.co/HCKPkAKiSp
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) September 28, 2017
ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES. Flyer handed out by UKIP activists sparks outrage: ‘The homophobic flyer, titled ‘Homosexuality – the real alternative’, suggests gay people are living a self-styled “alternative lifestyle” which the Nazi leader could also have been claiming to do.’
JENNIFER HUDSON. This is why I threw my shoe at drag queen and worship leader Scott Weaver on The Voice.
SCOTLAND. Gay couple has first-ever church wedding in UK: “History has been made after the UK’s first same-sex church wedding took place in Edinburgh. Peter Matthews and Alistair Dinnie were married at St John’s Church, run by the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC). Church authorities voted to amend canon law in June, allowing same-sex couples to be married in church during the General Synod in Edinburgh.”
TRAILER OF THE DAY. Coming Out.
COVER OF THE DAY. Lorde sings Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight”.
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Huntington “Love is Love”.
FRIDAY FLASH. Kele Chiakalu.
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Ricky Martin Calls for Puerto Rico Aid on ‘Ellen’
The star is pushing to help the island he calls home.
www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2017/9/29/ricky-martin-calls-puerto-rico-aid-ellen
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