Archive for October 29th, 2011 Issue
Their motto is “Forged in fire, from the ashes we rise,” and Mel Dixon, Mecca Kerr, Samantha Mercer and Diana Nutter are bound and determined to make a positive impact.
When the calendar turns to fall months, temperatures drop and local football teams come to mind. With the approach of the cooler weather, many of us also begin to yearn for the warmth of comfort foods like hearty soups and stews or freshly baked pies, but these traditional favorites need not be boring and unhealthy. A modern take on comfort foods uses what is fresh and available during the season, but also explores new ingredients and stretches your imagination to look at old ingredients or recipes in new ways.
The fall brings beautiful new scents and sounds with crisp air, vibrant colors of leaves gently falling to the ground, crackling wood popping on campfires and the sweet smell of apples hovering in the kitchen.
Choreography Brian Brooks will bring his latest dance creation, “Motor,” to North Carolina State University for a special one-night performance on Thursday, Nov. 17.
In the 1980s, one would have been hard-pressed to find objective or positive news coverage of LGBT people in mainstream media. Newspapers, TV stations, magazines and other outlets primarily remained agents of oppression, often painting LGBT people as sick or depraved — especially so during the early years of the AIDS Crisis. The 21st Century offers new and exciting changes, including QNotes’ new partnership with The Charlotte Observer’s Charlotte News Alliance.
Letters to the editor and comments from goqnotes.com.
Is it too early to start thinking about the winter holidays? When do you plan on embarking on your first gift-shopping excursion?
My view of the Occupy Wall Street protest is that it’s an unfocused jumble, but, at least, somebody’s doing something. At last. What began with a few dozen demonstrators on Wall Street has grown into a national conniption over corporate greed and government collusion.
Frank Kameny and Paula Ettelbrick, both prominent figures for decades in the LGBT rights movement, passed away earlier this month. Kameny, 86, died at his Washington D.C.-area home on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day, of natural causes. Ettelbrick, 56, passed away from cancer four days earlier in New York City.
The LGBT Community Center of Charlotte, 820 Hamilton St., Suite B11, has announced a host of activities to satisfy the palette for the “family” in the Queen City.
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance, 1047 W. Northwest Blvd., will hold a fundraiser for the Adam Foundation on Nov. 19, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and on Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m.
The Durham County Library, 300 N. Roxboro St., along with Bull City LGBT community members, are on the prowl for historical items for the library’s archives.
While it would’ve been helpful at times to have an operating instruction manual in raising children, it simply did not come with the arrival of my children. I hunted for it in all kinds of places, but never did find it. And, while my parents often seemed to raise my brother and I effortlessly at times, I now know that most parents do what we do as parents with our children from the seat of our pants. In performing arts terms, parenting is all about the art of improvisation, day in and day out.
Well, hi kiddies! Happy Fall — heavy pageant time! Can’t wait. Our photo this time is of Alana Steele of Indianapolis, the reigning All-American Goddess who’ll be in Charlotte in December for the NC prelim.
November not only entices us with a range of colorful Sagittarian planets, it also provides a spark of inspiration as these planets trine Uranus in Aries and Mars in Leo. A whirlwind of fire signs is stoked! Take your personal gust and let it stir the air and carry you aloft to new places. Maybe someplace warm and wild?
A reader from Raleigh inquires: “I’ve been reading about your ‘liberal’ advise on extra marital affairs with men already in relationships! Don’t you think advocating extra marital affairs is despicable and mindless, especially for an internationally syndicated advise columnist?”
