With apologies to Ron Oliver, it’s never a Hallmark movie Christmas. In his world, there’s conflict built into every script, but the story always resolves and the ending is tied …
Activism Charities Entertainment Gay Pride LGBTQ TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Dec 29, 2025
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It’s not lost on many that the dichotomy of Pottersville and Bedford Falls in “It’s a Wonderful Life” is an allegory for the ages. Especially the age we are living …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Dec 8, 2025
Imagine the traffic nightmare that a Paul McCartney concert or a Firebirds game would have generated for downtown Palm Springs. Or imagine driving toward Indian Canyons hiking trails and instead …
Activism Charities Entertainment Food Bank Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Theatre Things to DoGay Desert Guide Weekend: Dec 5-7, 2025
The Plaza Theatre opened this week, bringing back our jewel—twinkling stars on the ceiling and all — with LGBTQ+ representation not lost on us: Cynthia Erivo’s opening night; Lily Tomlin, …
Activism Charities Entertainment Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business Sponsors TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Dec 1, 2025
What’s new is old again. “New” is the Trump administration bent on erasing the history and pain of the AIDS epidemic that plagued us in the 80s. It’s “old” because …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide : Week of Oct 27, 2025
Read a good book lately? That anachronistic term was something that we used to ask as common conversation-starter before the internet turned us into scrolling zombies. This weekend, book reading …
Activism Charities Events Gay Pride LGBTQ TheatreGay Desert Guide Weekend: Oct 17-19, 2025
There are those that toot their own horn and try to make an impression on our community. They’re usually flash-in-the-pans, and some of us who have seen this movie before …
Activism Charities Entertainment Gay Pride LGBTQ Local Business TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Oct 13, 2025
This has been a year of retrospection for me. I’ve been looking back at my 50+ year career in radio and journalism that started at my hometown radio station and …
Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQ TheatreGay Desert Guide: Week of Sep 29, 2025
Prides under attack! That’s what happened recently as Pride in Abilene Texas persevered after threats of violence from a right winger Joshua Cook. Meanwhile in Durham, NC over the weekend, …
Activism Charities Entertainment Events Gay Pride LGBTQGay Desert Guide Weekend: Sep 19-21, 2025
In the halcyon days of Radio, I held my third class FCC license which I first received in 1972. I was just a young punk who wanted to run the …