The only place you’ll find a sea monkey girlfriend, kosher dog toys and a giant, green glitter mermaid. The 2010 Georgia Voice gift guide.
Each year, the holiday season in Atlanta seems to grow longer and longer. The first week of November, for instance, saw the debut of “White Christmas,” the kind of production normally reserved for December. The long season, however, means there’s no shortage of holiday fare in local theaters, from the familiar to the edgy.
Of course, no holiday season would be complete without Horizon’s annual “The Santaland Diaries,” based on gay writer David Sedaris’ “Holidays on Ice.” This is the 12th year for the show, which stars Harold Leaver as the often grumpy, openly gay Crumpet, forced to serve as a department store elf one holiday season. Back is sidekick Enoch King, the usual doses of snideness and “plenty of fresh jokes and references,” promises Leaver.
“The Holiday Ice Spectacular” will feature laughs as well as skating. It stars a cast of 16, including some recognizable skating names. Among the cast is openly gay skater Michael Stack, who promises fun for all kinds of audiences, gay and straight.
Music has rescued Dave Koz’s spirit during some of the most difficult times in his life, and the acclaimed saxophonist hopes his latest album, “Hello Tomorrow,” can be an uplifting “survival guide” during these somewhat bleak times.
“Everybody seems to be going through these massive changes, and these are very unfamiliar times, where life looks very different than you thought it was going to be looking,” Koz tells the GA Voice. “How do you get through it? How do you come out on the other side and embrace all these challenges? Music has an ability to touch people on a level that can help at times like this.”
Koz will also stimulate holiday cheer when he kicks-off his “Dave Koz & Friends: A Smooth Jazz Christmas” tour with a Nov. 27 show at the Cobb Energy Centre. Now in its thirteenth year, the Christmas tour started as a lifesaver for Koz, “a nice Jewish boy.”
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The Queer Justice League of Atlanta has planned a Black Friday rally at one of the city’s busiest shopping districts to push for equality on the local, state and national levels.
The QJL will meet Friday, Nov. 26, at the intersection of Peachtree Street and Lenox Road in Buckhead. The intersection is near Lenox Mall and Phipps Plaza.
The rally, titled “All I Want For Christmas Is Equal Rights,” is scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Fun, games and a little hotness are abound tonight as gay Atlanta celebrates Halloween weekend
The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus has released its schedule for its 30th anniversary season. Among this year’s planned performances are a Christmas / Holiday concert, an opera-inspired concert as well as a Broadway-themed concert.
Ladies at Play dance party tops off July 4th weekend
Charis Books & More, Atlanta’s lesbian-owned feminist bookstore, is celebrating the July 4th weekend
A long weekend is always packed with parties in LGBT Atlanta
“We’ll have a better idea at the end of this week, and next week, of what we are looking at”