Features

Ohio has this reputation of being flat, cornfield-crazy nothingness: the kind of place people drive through... only to get somewhere else. It was always the longest strip of vacant land on the drive down South, where I'd gone a couple of times as a kid. It's where I'd tucker out just in time for a new state. Read More

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Music

Hear Me Out: Carrie Underwood's dramatic career-best. Plus: Rufus Wainwright goes pop

By Chris Azzopardi

Movies

'Dictator' least focused yet

Baron Cohen's shtick gets old in latest film

By Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic

In analyzing Sacha Baron Cohen and the array of offbeat characters he's created, it's clear that it's become a matter of diminishing returns. Read More

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Theater

The tears of a clown at MOT

By Michael H. Margolin

In 1904, Enrico Caruso's recording of "Vesti la giubba," the aria from the conclusion of Act One of Ruggero Leoncavallo's 1892 opera " I Pagliacci," became the first million-selling record in history. Read More

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Horoscopes

Q Scopes: You'll be OK, Taurus!

By Jack Fertig

Comics

A Couple of Guys: I'll Drink to That

Advice

Dating Diet: Love to Love You Baby

By Anthony Paull

I'm over Facebook even though I'm that pathetic person who needs to check his page once, twice, or 10 times a day. I guess one could say I have a lovehate relationship with social media. I want to shoot my load all over it but don't want to stick around to see the ugly afterbirth. Thank god I'm on the pill. It keeps me childfree. Still, my rambunctious friend Gabe insists that I use condoms. Just to be safe. Read More

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Puzzles

First Lesbian

Sports

Texas A&M tackles diversity

By Dan Woog

A school on the list of America's 10 least inclusive colleges for LGBT students would seem an unlikely host for a conference called "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Sport." But that's exactly what took place over two days earlier this month. Read More

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Bookmarks

Book Marks: A Queer and Pleasant Danger, David Hockney, The Biography, Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War

by Richard Labonte

Bars

El Nuevo Mojito

by Ed Sikov

"We're in the port of Old San Juan We have a boat we can sleep on Hundreds of drag queens in full bloom Hundreds of fat men in the steam room!" My singing drives Dan nuts. I don't know why. Just because I can't hit the notes.... But for once I got a laugh. Read More