Tues | Jan 1 Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2008 is as great and enlightened and peaceful as 2007 . . . wait . . .  Anyway, I changed my usual routine for ringing in the New Year—equal parts Gatorade and crème de menthe—and instead chaperoned my son’s first boy/girl shindig, or, as he proudly [...]

What you got here is our annual—if by “annual” you mean first—celebration of the annual—if you mean the “24th”—Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival. And by “celebration” we don’t mean that everything listed on these pages is good, or even very welcoming of gays, lesbians, and transgender individuals—looking at you, Mr. and Mrs. Long Beach Police. [...]