The Gay Curmudgeon

 I was late to the Obamacare debate. I just got an email on January 8th saying that I was no longer eligible for Medicaid (yes, Med...

 Between the recent killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, the resulting tension between Mayor DeBla...

 First off, let me just say how affirming it was to sit in a movie theater with my fellow New Yorkers to watch The Interview...

 The last few Sundays, I’ve been having a love-hate relationship with Showtime. I love Homeland . I hate The Affair . I’ve...

“White riot  —  I wanna riot White riot  —  a riot of my own.” —The Clash When I looked at the front page of today’s New York ...

I recently started reading Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America , Linda Tirado’s book about her experience with poverty. Whil...

 I had high hopes for Birdman , coming as it does with a well-known director (Alejandro Iñárritu, of 21 Grams and Babel ), a first...