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Articles in the November 2009 Edition

Settling In

Immediately after completing my last publisher’s column and getting the October edition to press and online, we concentrated on completing our move to...

INTERVIEW - Jann Arden is Free!

New Management, New Album, and More

Sitting down with Jann Arden is like visiting with a long time friend. When I walked into the trendy downtown bar that was arranged for this interview...

INTERVIEW - Hello Dolly!

One-on-One with the Queen of Country Music

In preparing for my interview with the one and only Dolly Parton, I was certain of two things. The first, that her southern charm would win me over within...

Out of Town

Brussels, Belgium

As the headquarters of NATO and the European Union, Brussels ranks among the most international and sophisticated cities in the world. Though founded in...

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Needs to be Dumped

The American military apparatus is one of the few amongst Western nations that continues to deny that lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals can and do play...

Adult Film Review

Stag Fight, Going Under

“Stag Fight” by Stag Homme Studios, Courtesy of Priape Cast: Dennis De Nello, Damien Crosse*, Manuel Lopez, Alain Lamas, Francesco D’Macho*, Pedro Andreas*...

Q Scopes

“Sex is not a competitive sport, Aries!”

While Mercury and the Sun line up in Scorpio, they are aspecting Uranus, Neptune and Eris, stimulating new inspirations on how to innovate and compete...

Deep Inside Hollywood

Madonna makes another movie and Peter Paige in a Panic

Madonna makes another movie. Guy assists. Madonna is going to direct again. What, you say you didn’t know she’d already directed one feature film? Well...

Cocktail Chatter

All About Absinthe

Despite sampling nearly every brand of absinthe available for sale in the United States, I have yet to see any green fairies outside of the LGBT contingent...

Sexing and Sizing Up

Edmonton’s Exposure Festival

Playwright Neil Labute wrote, “Go back to the theatre, audience members everywhere, and get your hands dirty. Sit closer than you usually do. Smell the...

Self-Definition Without Injury

As communities rise from the margins, they undergo a process of introspection, microscopic self-examination and self-definition. It’s a process of healing...

Letters

Dear Editor, The Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association would like to congratulate GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine for their 6th year anniversary. Rob...

Queeries

Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are

How do I come out at work (and keep my job)? Q: I’ve worked at a fairly conservative firm for years and have always brought opposite-sex “dates” to parties...

The OutField

Rounding third, heading home

Straight readers say that it takes them about 80 pages before realizing that the two high school players at the heart of Rounding Third are attracted to...

Tegan and Sara

From Second Cup to International Headliner

On Tuesday October 27, 2009, born and raised Calgarian lesbian band Tegan and Sara released their sixth album titled Sainthood. We spoke with Tegan to...

The Cat Empire

Australia’s hardest working band, The Cat Empire, is hitting Alberta this month touring behind its Live On Earth album. Famous for the dynamic intensity...

Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show

What Happens in Fort Mac, Stays in Fort Mac

What do you get when you allow a queer theatre artist to live in Fort McMurray for 3 weeks “researching, interviewing, and living life in that 21st Century...

Profile Updated: HIV Status Unknown?

Merry … Midwinter?

Tori Amos talks about her new seasonal CD

It’s so like the religiously ambiguous Tori Amos to elude all the churchy mumbo-jumbo and trace popularized carols back to their non-worship roots. She...

Life Starts Now

Three Days Grace, New Album, New Tour

I can still remember back in 2004 when I saw a young upstart band, running on the success of their first single (I Hate) Everything About You opening for...

Music Review

La Roux, Carmen Reece, Electrik Red, Vanessa Williams

“Bulletproof” by La Roux Music is a funny thing – oftentimes it’s not about using the latest, state of the art technology, but rather how you use what’s...

Sorting out our Sordid Lives

A Chat with Del Shores

Del Shores is an activist, screenwriter, playwright and really fun guy. Having been involved with shows like Queer As Folk and Dharma and Greg, he is also...

Welcome to the Jungle

How literary icon Rita Mae Brown learned about life from animals

Situated on a quiet, rural area of central Virginia, on a sprawling 1,000-acre farm, is Rita Mae Brown – and 70 foxhounds, 19 hunting bassets and 40 horses...

Survey Says…

Calgary Outlink Tells Us What We Want

How well do we really know our own community? In a reputed, somewhat fractured community, it can be hard to know what all of us want. In this time of...

Alberta’s Got Talent

Lethbridge’s Tara-Jean Popowitch Crowned Dancing Queen

There must be something in the water here in Alberta. Theo Tams is Canadian Idol, Miles Faber and Allie Bertram were close runners up in the first season...

The Many Sides of Buck Angel

Buck Angel is many things. For some, he is hardcore porn’s “real man with a pussy.” To others he is a speaker who may have opened up their eyes to something...

Online Articles this Month

Speed The Plow

Having established themselves with blockbusters like Cocktails, Urinetown, The Full Monty and Evil Dead: The Musical, Calgary's Ground Zero Theatre/Hit...

One Enchanted Evening

Rejuvenated Jann Arden Wows Hometown Fans

In our recent interview with Jann Arden she spoke a lot about change - change in management, change in band, change in herself. This change was evident...

illScarlett Ready for the Road

Missisauga Rockers to Play Calgary & Edmonton

illScarlett is one of the hardest working Canadian bands on the scene. Their intense live shows have a blend of reggae and pop that has gained them fans...

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