The Gay Curmudgeon

Memory is a terrible thing. I’ve lived in New York for so long, I can’t walk down a single street without some memory sending me into a n...

Since my Joe Tippett/Billy Magnuson post was so popular 1 , I’m going to take a page out of my friend Kenneth Walsh’s 2 book. I was watchi...

Jake Shears overcame tremendous obstacles to become a rock star. That is both inspiring and depressing. It makes me think that the only p...

I did it. I waited until the last weekend, but I did it. I saw Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! Since she’s leaving the show tomorrow, thi...

As Donald Trump (I will never call him “President”) prepares to sign the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the...

  Lately, I’ve been wondering why I have no interest in the music that’s being made today. Is it because most of today’s music is being ...

On the subject of “great artists are not always great human beings,” I went to see the documentary Shadowman about the artist Richard H...