Oct
28th
Joe Oppedisano's Knockout!
By NhamoKnockout! takes you inside the ring with Joe Oppedisano, as he photographs every high impact sexually charged move of perfectly sculpted MMA fighters, street fighters, and the toughest athletes. Ex... Knockout! takes you inside the ring with Joe Oppedisano, as he photographs every high impact sexually charged move of perfectly sculpted MMA fighters, street fighters, and the toughest athletes. Expect Oppedisano to bring Testosterone, his best-selling homoerotic photobook, to life with interviews, super erotic situations, and extended wrestling scenes. Oppedisano's gritty style only begins to describe Knockout! This hyper masculine film also features fresh tracks from up and coming artists like Logo TV's NewNowNext favorite Cazwell and was shot by Tony Sellaris at the world famous Gleason's Gym in New York.
Oct
28th
Joe Oppedisano's Knockout!
By Nhamo
Knockout! takes you inside the ring with Joe Oppedisano,
as he photographs every high impact sexually charged move of
perfectly sculpted MMA fighters, street fighters, and the toughest
athletes. Expect Oppedisano to bring Testosterone, his best-selling
homoerotic photobook, to life with interviews, super erotic
situations, and extended wrestling scenes. Oppedisano's gritty
style only begins to describe Knockout! This hyper masculine film
also features fresh tracks from up and coming artists like Logo
TV's NewNowNext favorite Cazwell and was shot by Tony Sellaris at
the world famous Gleason's Gym in New York.
Oct
28th
Michael Jackson's This Is It
By Nhamo
Michael Jacksons THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and
music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the
performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out
concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in
Londons O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June,
2009, the film is drawn from more than one hundred hours of
behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of
his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and
private look at the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, and
genius as he creates and perfects his final show.
Oct
26th
ESPN and the Nebraska porn wrestlers
By NhamoThe gay porn angle was the secondary focus on ESPN “Outside The Lines” look at the dismissal of Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan from the University of Nebraska wrestling team after they posed naked on Fratmen.tv. (Complete video segment below).
It wasn’t as if ESPN was trying to downplay any gay angle, but there really isn’t much of one beyond the type of website the two posed for; both say they are straight and neither feels the need to apologize for showing their wares to a paying audience. We’ll never know if they would have been treated differently had they done porn for a straight site.
ESPN’s focus was on whether Nebraska used a double standard for booting the two wrestlers, when compared to how other athletes at the school have been treated. At one point, Nebraska Athletic Director (and former football coach) Tom Osborne said that had Donahoe and Jordan not had past infractions, their porn appearances might not have led to their dismissal.
I find that hard to believe. This is the same Tom Osborne who kept football stars Lawrence Phillips and Christian Peter on his team when they had done far worse than masturbate on a porn site. Online reporting by ESPN’s Paula Lavigne found that 14 of the 44 Nebraska wrestlers the past few years have faced criminal charges. One wrestler even smashed a beer bottle over another’s head, causing a serious injury and a lawsuit, yet both stayed on the team. Incidentally, this happened at the wedding reception of head coach Mark Manning.
ESPN also documented poker parties that were held at the home of a Nebraska assistant coach. Donahoe and Jordan both said these were high-stakes games (Jordan says he once lost $700 on one hand), but the assistant said the money involved was small. Last week, in anticipation of the ESPN report, the university said an internal review of the wrestling program, including the poker parties, uncovered no NCAA violations.
ESPN makes clear that this is not a model wrestling program, but neither Donahoe nor Jordan were model athletes. Donahoe had been arrested for hosting a loud party and for carrying alcohol in an open container. His former girlfriend also called 911 following two fights she and Donahoe had. Jordan has been convicted twice for misdemeanor assault.
Donahoe was also briefly suspended from the team for selling an Ipod he got at a tournament, in violation of NCAA rules. Donahoe comes across as either a flake or someone in the early stages of Alzheimer’s when on-air he denies accusations about the wrestling program he made to ESPN only weeks before:
“I said that? I must have been on drugs or something. I don’t remember that. I must have been doing some kind of drugs.”
Both wrestlers are non-apologetic about posing for Fratmen, for which each was paid an estimated $2,000 plus expenses. They used fake names (Donahoe was “Nash,” Jordan was “Cal”) and were discovered by gay Nebraskans who frequented the site and recognized them (Donahoe sports a huge “N” tattoo on his thigh, visible on the Fratmen shots).
I loved Jordan’s comment that far from doing something wrong, what he did “put smiles on peoples’ faces,” the most indisputable thing I heard on the show. He said in an accompanying online clip (see below) that his friends and his older brother “just laughed about it.” Donahoe told about the supportive e-mails he received from the gay community via Facebook and My Space after the story first broke last August. Perhaps surprising was the result of an online ESPN poll (admittedly unscientific) that found 60% of respondents saying it was wrong to have kicked the wrestlers off the team for posing naked.
The double standard at work was even evident in what happened to both wrestlers after their dismissal. Nebraska initially gave Donahoe a list of only three wrestling programs he could transfer to without first having to sit out the 2008-2009 season. They relented, he said, after he threatened to expose shenanigans within the program. Whether it was that or the fact that he had won a 2007 national title for Nebraska and had been Manning’s favorite, Donahoe was ultimately allowed to transfer to Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. The school is a wrestling powerhouse and Donahoe finished the regular season unbeaten before losing in the finals of the national tournament at 125 pounds.
Jordan fared worse. Nebraska would not allow him to transfer to a Division I school, without sitting out a year of wrestling. He chose to attend Purdue in the Big Ten, which is Division I, and hopes to make the school’s team next season. Jordan was the only person on the show who came across sympathetically. He says he regrets having posed for Fratmen, not because he did anything wrong but because his life was thrown in turmoil because of it.
Neither Nebraska, its wrestling program, Donahoe nor Jordan came across with their reputations intact. The only clear winner was Fratmen. They got tons of publicity any business would kill for, worth far more than the $4,000 they shelled out for the services of Nash and Cal.
I would love to hear what others thought of the segment and the issues it raised.
Oct
26th
SPORTS STAR COMES OUT
By Nhamo
Dónal Óg Cusack, famous goalkeeper of the Cork hurling
team, has come out and told the world that he is gay. He's left it
quite a long time, he's 32, but he's done it at last. It's causing
a media storm in catholic conservative Ireland.
It's a bit of a mystery that 1 in 10 men are supposed to be gay and that there aren't any out gay famous footballers. Like goalie David James said in the Guardian back in April, "It'll still take some sort of new age hero to be the first to come out, but I just hope, for football's sake, that it happens soon." Hear, hear.
Oct
26th
Michael Buble: Cry Me A River
By Nhamo
Having mentored the contestants all week - it's now his turn
to perform, with Cry Me A River!
Oct
25th
Creed - Rain
By Nhamo
Creed - Rain (Video) EMI Germany (P) 2009
The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by Wind-Up
Records, LLC under exclusive licence to EMI Music Germany GmbH
& Co. KG
Oct
25th
Gately's partner doesn't want 'a penny'
By Nhamo
Stephen
Gately's partner Andrew Cowles has said he does not want to inherit
the millions he is entitled to following the Boyzone star's death
and wants the money to go to family and charities instead.Mr Cowles, 32, an internet entrepreneur, has told lawyers to divide the £10 million fortune amongst Stephen's loved ones and several good causes.
He told The Mirror: "I don’t want a penny. I was never with Stephen for his money and don’t need it now."
The couple who met in 2003, tied the know in a civil ceremony in 2006.
A large amount of the money will go to Stephen's mother Margaret, father Martin, sister Michelle and brothers Mark, Alan and Tony.
Mr Cowles will continue to live in the couple's north London home but will sell the apartment they shared in Majorca where Stephen died two weeks ago.
Boyzone's manager Louis Walsh, who was left "completely broken" by Stephen's death, will return to his judging role on The X Factor this weekend after a two-week absence.
Westlife are expected to perform their comeback single on the results show.
Oct
25th
Performances @ Cochrane Theatre
By NhamoPerformances @ Cochrane Theatre
Thurs 19 Nov 09 / 7.30 pm / £12 / £8 concs. Book online here / Box Office 020 7269 1606
The Short And Girlie
ShowPerformer: Ali Adolph
Duration: 20 mins
Description:Four women play a series of fast-paced hilarious "Who's Line is it Anyway?" games using audience suggestions. With different games and audiences each night, every show is unique. Compère: Ali Adolph.
About the performer: Short And Girlie Theatre
Company was born in London in 1999, after founding member Ali
Adolph searched for a gay-girl theatre company to no avail.
Subsequently, Ali started to run all-female drama workshops,
full-length plays and festivals of short plays by new female
writers. In 2004 the company created comedy impro show OFF THE
CUFF in collaboration with RCM Productions. - "we love to
death!" DIVA MAGAZINE
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Eating SecretPerformer: Caroline Smith
Duration: 15 mins
Description:Mertle, a 1950s housewife invites you to share an eating secret and have a cake and explore our attitudes to food, body and performance.
About the performer: Caroline Smith is a
writer and performance artist. She has performed widely
including at National Review of Live Art, Whitstable Biennale
Satellite, Arts Depot and most recently at the Tate Modern. She
currently lectures on Performance Writing at the University of
Greenwich - "Deliciously dark" The Guardian.
GFest 08 artist
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The Sailor
PrincessPerformer: Ingo Andersson
Duration: 15 mins
Description:A story about growing up in a non-traditional family, dreams and queer discoveries.
About the performer: Ingo has been performer
who mostly created performance spaces and events via Wotever
World in London, UK and Europe. She also writes and is involved
in creative filmmaking.
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Katja von KasselPerformer: Katja von Kassel
Duration: 15 mins
Description:'Electro Weimar Cabaret' is the easiest way to describe the music of Katja von Kassel. She sings in both German and English.
About the performer: Born in the village where
the Brothers Grimm first narrated their fairytales, Katja wrote
her first song aged 9, for her brother's birthday ... After
wining a singing contest on TV she moved to London, where she
met co-writer and producer Alex Gray. They discovered a shared
love for 'Bladerunner', 'Kraftwerk' and Rainer Werner
Fassbinder's work.
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Me My MiPerformer: Holestar
Duration: 10 mins
Description: performance chronicling the true story of an uneducated and ambitious tomboy who became Holestar, the 'Tranny with a Fanny'.
About the performer: An artist, performer and
DJ, Holestar has appeared in art spaces, clubs and events
extensively through Europe, New York and the UK. She has
performed & exhibited at various events - from Vienna's
Life Ball to Kashpoint, the V&A Museum and ICA to
Glastonbury and Lovebox Festivals. Having previously worked
with sex, gender and modern celebrity, Holestar's current work
explores personal biography, experience and opinion through
film, installation and performance. - "Endearing cabaret
doyenne" i-D Magazine
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Harriet SmithPerformer: Harriet Smith
Duration: 10 mins
Description: Acoustic guitar and female vocals. Lyrically motivated by travel, finding one's self and experiencing life.
About the performer: Harriet Smith played
drums and piano for a few years. She has performed in rock,
jazz and broadway groups, and is now concentrating on a solo
performance singing and playing guitar.
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Parental GuidancePerformer: Jet Moon & Josephine Wilson
Duration: 20 mins
Description: A slap-stick that reworks the trash horror movie genre. Tales of growing up to be the kind of person your parents warned you about. An epic queer horror rampage!
About the performer: Jet Moon is an artist and
activist, writing, performing and producing shows throughout
Europe. She is a founder member of Queer Beograd collective.
Josephine Wilson is a performer, academic and writer. She
recently premiered her latest solo-show, 'Sex Education' and is
touring in The Genderqueer Playhouse, which she also programmes
and directs. She is completing her Ph.D. in Gender Studies and
is a published author. - " The show has still left me glowing."
Gay Times
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Performances @ Cochrane Theatre
Fri 20 Nov 09 / 7.30 pm / £12 / £8 concs. Book online here / Box Office 020 7269 1606
Weightless AgainPerformer: Ashley Smith
Duration: 15 mins
Description: A 17-year-old gay teenager jumped from a car park after being encouraged to do so by a taunting crowd. The piece is based on what it is like to jump in to the oblivion.
About the performer: For the last two years
Ashley has worked as a solo performer, with an emphasis on
audience participation. He quit working as a lecturer at the
University of Derby to go full time with his performance
theatre - Comfortism. - "A disturbing mixture of comedy,
absurdity, social, political and historical comment." South
Wales Evening Post.
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Three zeroPerformer: Marcus Reeves
Duration: 25 mins
Description: A solo performance that weaves together songs, poetry and video, in a montage of material from the last ten years of Marcus Reeves' writing and performance career. A further development from his GFest 08 show.
About the performer: Writer and performer
Marcus studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design
before moving into music and theatre. As a singer-songwriter
and cabaret artist, he has performed across London venues. In
2007, Marcus won The Peggy Ramsay Foundation award. -'a new Tim
Rice' - Elaine Paige -'a man of enormous imagination' - Sister
Wendy Beckett
GFest 07, GFest 08 artist
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GRIP [HOLD] and REVELATIONS �
BONUS TRACK 2009Performer: Owen G Parry
Duration: 24 mins
Description: Grip [Hold] is an exploration of queerness that revels in the pleasures of the lavish aesthetic. From a tongue in the wall to a boy whose legs never reach the ground, stories and non-stories explode onto the stage in uncompromising ways.
About the performer: Owen G Parry is an artist
and researcher based in London. He has presented and exhibited
work at live art and contemporary performance venues and
festivals both nationally and internationally. He is currently
an AHRC award recipient undertaking PhD research in Visual
Cultures at Goldsmith University.
GFest 07 artist
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Sexual Acts of
ContritionPerformer: Tonny A.
Duration: 20 mins
Description: A Performance breaking into experimental dance and moving poetry.
About the performer: Tonny A is a French
performance maker and writer who is currently living in East
London. Over the past 5 years, Tonny's artistic personae has
varied from curator to theatre director to performance artist.
He curated Experimental Cabarets, Live Poetry nights and
Variety shows and conceived many solo Burlesque and
Contemporary Poetry performances, which were presented in
various Club nights and Festivals.
GFest 08 artist
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00:00 - 00:01Performer: Mavin Khoo
Duration: 20 mins
Description: Based on notions of ambiguity that stand to be represented through the 'swan'; the movement work is loosely based on the tragic love story of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (a section based on the 2nd Act).
About the performer: An internationally
established dancer and choreographer Mavin Khoo, was born in
Malaysia where he began his dance studies, training in India,
Britain and the USA. He studied Bharata Natyam in India and
Ballet in London and Contemporary Dance in New York and London.
As a Bharata Natyam soloist, Mavin has toured around the world,
dancing in Britain, USA, France, Spain, India, Malaysia,
Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. His own company, mavinkhooDance
was founded in 2003. Khoo is currently pursuing a MA in
Choreography at Middlesex University as British Council
scholar. - "choreography at once formally disciplined and
brutally explicit" The guardian - "genius" The Dancing Times,
UK
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Poetry TeasePerformer: Ernesto Sarezale
Duration: 10 mins
Description: Poetry Tease combines storytelling, performance art and burlesque.
About the performer: Ernesto Sarezale is a
London-based Basque poet and performer. Active for several
years on London's poetry and cabaret scenes, Ernesto has been
billed at many spoken word events. Ernesto has presented his
work at ICA, Corsica Studios, Camden People's Theatre, Drill
Hall, Whitechapel Gallery and Goldsmiths. Ernesto's poems have
appeared in various magazines.- "a pioneer of nude 'poetry
tease'" BIZARRE Burlesque
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iNiT - I'm a
partyPerformer: iNiT
Duration: 20 mins
Description: iNiT plays sultry dance floor sounds with an electro edge. Cabaret, electronica, rock and Middle Eastern influences fuse into a smokey eyed kaleidoscope.
About the performer: iNiT was formed in 2006
by Guy Harries and M. Both had been working on experimental
projects for years - together and separately. iNiT are: Guy
Harries (voice, flute), M (guitar, electronics, percussion),
Ruth Goller (bass). They have performed widely UK and Europe
& recorded for several radio stations.
GFest 08 artist
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We Apologise For any
InconveniencePerformer: Zorras
Duration: 20 mins
Description: A Poetry-music-fusion weirdness that is deeply queer.
About the performer: Sandra Alland and Y.
Josephine formed Zorras in 2007, after seeing each other
perform at Edinburgh's Who's Your Dandy. They quickly became
known for their unique blend of poetry, music and projected
images. Sandra Alland is a Scottish-Canadian writer, multimedia
artist, performer and activist and presented her work across
Canada, the US, Mexico, Bermuda, the UK and Spain. Y. Josephine
is a singer, percussionist and composer. She has performed,
composed and recorded throughout Venezuela, Aruba, Spain and
the UK. - "Alland's words are at once both drolly funny and
sweetly strange...Y. Josephine's vocals and percussion really
shine and embody the set" - Lock Up Your Daughters
Magazine.
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Love in the
MetropolisPerformer: Denis Fernando
Duration: 10 mins
Description: A piece of music that evokes the idea of being young and in love with, and in, big cities like London which have championed diversity, difference and acceptance.
About the performer: Denis plays contemporary
semi classical piano and runs a band Red Cable named after the
battle for Cable Street in the 1930s East London. Denis
graduated at Goldsmiths College in London, was the National
Black Students Officer on the executive of the National Union
of Students, and now also works as a campaigner.
GFest 08 artist
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When I First Met You I Thought
I Had GastroenteritisPerformer: Rachel Mars
Duration: 15 mins
Description: Using memories, questions and a list of toilets visited in New York, Rachel charts what it feels like to have your first attack of queer love.
About the performer: Rachel Mars is a
performer and writer. Her shows have been performed at various
London venues. Rachel has directed and produced a series of
shows for Apples & Snakes. She is part female creative
group The Knish Collective and Jewish art anarchists
Jewdas.
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Rosie WilbyPerformer: Rosie Wilby
Duration: 20 mins
Description: stand up comedy from 3 solo Edinburgh shows.
About the performer: When singer songwriter
Rosie Wilby turned to stand up comedy, immediate success in the
prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny' competition kick
started a whole new career strand for her. Appearances in the
Funny Women 2006, Funny Bones 2006 and Leicester Mercury
Comedian of the Year 2007 followed. Rosie regularly performs on
the LGBT circuit and at festivals including Pride, Homotopia
and Glasgay. Recently she performed in Sydney as part of the
Mardi Gras festival. Rosie presents Behind The Mic on Resonance
FM and was Radio 5 Live's comedy tennis correspondent at
Wimbledon 2008. - "talented performer with a winning
self-deprecating personality" Evening Standard
GFest 08 artist
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SHUSH!Performer: Va Lee, (VG Lee)
Duration: 15 mins
Description: Shush is about friendship, illustrating the very different dynamics that exist outside ones of deep emotional involvement.
About the performer: A published novelist V G Lee has also written poetry reviews for Diva magazine and write a quarterly column for Velvet Magazine, also essays in the Stonewall anthology, The Way We Are Now, and '50 gay & lesbian books everybody must read.' She lives and works in Hastings on the South Coast. She has performed widely in major LGBT and mainstream arts festivals.- "V.G. Lee has succeeded in creating an amusing, dramatic lesbian romance" The Big Issue
Oct
24th
PANDORUM
By NhamoFrom the producers of the Resident Evil film franchise comes Pandorum, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone -- and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined. Tags: Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid, Action, Horror, Movie Trailer, Resident Evil, Overture Films, Science Fiction, Space
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