Powered by Max Banner Ads February 1, 2010 Honorary Lesbian Across 1 Bit of salt, for Stephen Pyles 5 Tomb-raiding role of 55-Across 10 Place for pansies 14 Chocolate sandwich 15 Like pinker meat 16 Revolting 17 Frequent award for Ellen DeGeneres 18 Statesman Stevenson 19 Lid problem 20 Start of a quote from an “honorary lesbian” 23 TV trigram 25 Land of the cut (abbr.) 26 Some... 

Book Marks by Richard Labonte February 8, 2010 Just Kids, by Patti Smith. Ecco Press, 280 pages, $27 hardcover. Though the likes of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg wander through the musty Chelsea Hotel hallways – where the juiciest bits are set – of this polished gem of a remembrance, they’re merely bit players, albeit colorful. The real stars, memorialized in their pre-fame days, are then-waiflike... 

Book Marks by Richard Labonte January 25, 2010 The Others, by Seba Al-Herz. Seven Stories Press, 328 pages, $17.95 paper. Queer readers are likely to be drawn first to this novel’s Sapphic content, as a young Shi’a woman attending a girl’s college in Saudi Arabia becomes physically and emotionally entangled with other women. The nameless character’s flirtations alternate between exhilarating... 

Hear Me Out V.V. Brown, Vampire Weekend By Chris Azzopardi February 8, 2010 V.V. Brown, Travelling Like the Light On her self-declared “doo-wop indie” debut, the British cutie-pie sounds exactly like the thrift-store clothes she wears – all bright and very vintage. But for all the sugar-laced exuberance the Northampton-born singer-songwriter exudes, she’s actually kind of sad. She’s... 

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Deep Inside Hollywood By Romeo San Vicente February 8, 2010 Margaret Cho, Queen of the Palace Polymorphously perverse comedian Margaret Cho has been battling on the front lines for the right of same-sex couples to marry, but she hasn’t turned her back entirely on hetero unions. She’s co-starring in the Korean-American rom-com Wedding Palace, about a 29-year-old ad exec (Brian Tee) who has to get... 

Deep Inside Hollywood February 1, 2010 By Romeo San Vicente KERRY AND KRISTIN SITTIN’ IN A TREE… In the ongoing development saga of the slow-to-boil Dusty Springfield movie, the original question seems to have been definitively answered – and after a protracted period of “she is” and then “oh wait, no she isn’t,” the starring role has gone (finally!) to Romeo’s favorite Pushing Daisies...