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Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment

By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016

By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment

A bomb on its release, this John Travolta-Lily Tomlin camp feminist melodrama can be mined deeply for covert clues about its two stars' sexuality.

Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls, Violent Femmes, Nine Inch Nails) Talks Making Music with Badasses Who Just Happen to be Women

By Brian Viglione | September 6, 2016

By Brian Viglione | September 6, 2016

Brian Viglione (Dresden Dolls, Violent Femmes, Nine Inch Nails) Talks Making Music with Badasses Who Just Happen to be Women

An Internet troll’s snarky comment got Viglione thinking about why he mostly works with women.

Kerthy Fix (Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields) Talks Paul Dugdale’s One Direction: Where We Are — The Concert Film

By Kerthy Fix | October 20, 2014

By Kerthy Fix | October 20, 2014

Kerthy Fix (Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields) Talks Paul Dugdale’s One Direction: Where We Are — The Concert Film

A trip to see the boy band's latest movie prompts discussion of straight queerness, Japanese crossdressers and masturbation as performance art.