Tea with the Dames (also released under the title Nothing Like a Dame) is a 2018 documentary featuring Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith, as they chat about their lives and acting careers. It’s under 90 minutes … Continue reading Tea with the Dames Night Thread (10/3)

“Living on the Moon” is a standout track from Arkansas singer-songwriter Adam Faucett’s fifth album, It Took the Shape of a Bird. Faucett’s music has been described by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as “part folk, part blues, part elemental rock stomp, … Continue reading Living on the Moon Night Thread (1/9/24)

Love & Friendship, director Whit Stillman’s sparkling adaptation of the novel Lady Susan by Jane Austen, is a terrific film, with instantly quotable dialogue and a superb cast led by Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny. Tom Bennett, as the lovably … Continue reading Love & Friendship Night Thread (12/08)

The ballad “I Know Him So Well” was originally performed by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson for the concept album/musical Chess. The song has an iconically campy video featuring the two singers distant from each other in a variety of … Continue reading I Know Him So Well Night Thread (09/25)

Born in 1874 as the youngest of twelve siblings, 19th-century French composer, conductor and singer Reynaldo Hahn spent most of his life in Paris. He made his public debut at a recital at the age of six and began studying … Continue reading The Reynaldo Hahn Night Thread (08/28)

Born in 1951 in New York City, American puppeteer Richard Hunt was best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock. Hunt, who was openly gay, had been doing weather reports at a radio … Continue reading The Night Thread of Muppeteer Richard Hunt (08/27)

Born in 1940 in Nashville, Jackie Shane is widely regarded as a pioneering trans artist in the genres of soul and R&B. While Shane started out performing locally in the United States, her career flourished after moving to Canada in … Continue reading The Jackie Shane Night Thread (08/22)

Born in Philadelphia in 1938, American actor, singer, and performer Jim Bailey became famous in the late 1960s and 1970s for his impersonations of major female stars of the day, such as Judy Garland, Phyllis Diller, Barbra Streisand, and Peggy … Continue reading The Jim Bailey Night Thread (08/18)

Tandi Iman Dupree’s “Holding Out for a Hero” talent number at the 2001/2002 Miss Gay Black America pageant remains truly iconic and pure Drag Excellence. Legend has it the heel of one of her shoes broke and she did the … Continue reading The Night Thread of Tandi Iman Dupree’s Iconic Entrance (08/16)