Rooftop Reviews: "The Cruel City" by T.J. English

"The Cruel City" by T.J. English

When I was around 11 years old, my family took a trip down South from New York City. We went as far as North Carolina, which is where I know today. At the time, while passing through Lumberton, I had my first upclose look at the final vestiges of the Jim Crow era, which had only come to an end with the transit of the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

Savage Music Tour Dates: Google Chrome Promoted with Dan Savage's .

You`ve almost certainly seen a picture from the It Gets Better project, and if you haven`t, you`ve probably seen a burlesque of one of the videos and not yet completed it. It`s a serial of videos spread on YouTube started by one created by Dan Savage, a colleague who had a hard sentence in high school, getting harassed and bullied because he was gay. His substance was, and yet is now, that "it gets better.

Google Chrome Promoted with Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project .

You`ve almost certainly seen a picture from the It Gets Better project, and if you haven`t, you`ve likely seen a burlesque of one of the videos and not yet completed it. It`s a serial of videos spread on YouTube started by one created by Dan Savage, a colleague who had a hard time in high school, getting harassed and bullied because he was gay. His substance was, and yet is now, that "it gets better.

Oh No They Didn't! - McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Met article.

About 5 p.m. on Monday, the exhibitionistic artist and brewing heiress Daphne Guinness spent around 5 minutes getting dressed in the windows at Barneys in progress of the big Costume Institute Gala. Ms. Guinness was a supporter of Alexander McQueen, the late designer to whom the show at the Met is devoted this year.

Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty' At Metropolitan Museum Of Art .

NEW YORK - Dark vs. light. Past vs. future. Masculine vs. feminine. The extremes straddled by fashion designer Alexander McQueen in his work, inspiration and, seemingly, in his life, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in a new museum exhibit called "Savage Beauty."

The work of contrasts in the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute shows McQueen, the artist and intellectual, as he was famous during his career - and even after his suicide at age 40 in February of 2010.

Bronze Age Babies: Oh, Heck No! Savage Sub-Mariner #67

Oh, Heck No!Savage Sub-Mariner #67

Sub-Mariner #67 (November 1973)
"Seawinds of Change!"
Steve Gerber-Don Heck/Frank Bolle

Doug:Look at that beautiful John Romita cover, will you?Man.I guess I've mentioned that a pair of days ago I won a Bronze Age lot on eBay, and have been picking out of it since it arrived.

Savage Music Tour Dates: Gay Chicago News: Munar, Savage put AIDS .

Gay Chicago News: Munar, Savage put AIDS focus on bullying

bullied as children have poorer health outcomes than gay people who grew up in more supportive environments - higher substance abuse rates, higher HIV acquisition rates, higher numbers of sexual encounters."

Raising public awareness about the dangers of intimidation is why AFC is bringing writer and activist Dan Savage back to Chicago to keynote the AFC Spring Luncheon May 2.