Spangle Magazine
Where the LGBT community checks in before coming, er, going out in Cleveland

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Founded:
June 20, 2008
 
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 Tim Miller is pissed — and characteristically blunt.The 50-year-old queer performance artist, who brings his latest work, Lay of the Land, to Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival next week, voted for Obama in the last election...
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Spangler Roger Zender is back for his monthly dose of the best concerts in town and in the region.Hasn’t June turned out to be a great month in Cleveland (be it weather, events or hot show)? July is looking to be just as spectacular, punctuated by the following great shows...
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 From the editor's blog ...It’s the 40th anniversary of Stonewall this month. But did you know there’s another June milestone at hand...
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 If you’re going to put one of the country’s best collections of art in storage for a few years while you renovate and expand, you better create something pretty compelling when you reopen...
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 Before Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken made you want to trade in your fins for a man, fall for a beast and go soaring on a rascal’s magic carpet, they created a lil’ musical called Little Shop of Horrors...
Michael
Michael
Little Shop is the only musical I've ever really TRULY loved. So take some of my punches away but I stand by this.
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 From the editor's blog ...Cleve Jones is having a year.The longtime activist, previously best known as the creator of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, came back into the public eye as a historical consultant for the well-received film Milk...
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 Do all of your household goods come from Target? Clothes via H&M;? Objets d’art from Crate and Barrel?Then you probably have no idea where any of them come from. (Guatemala, perhaps? Vietnam...
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  The gray skies, fog and lingering showers did not bode well for Cleveland Pride-goers Saturday. With year-old memories of the deluge that knocked out Pride 2008 not faded, the mood among vendors and volunteers was muttered repeatedly throughout the morning: “Remember that storm last year...
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 “Why do people hate gay people?” asks Mike Rogers of BlogActive.com in the new film Outrage...
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  Big news!On our one-year anniversary, your Spanglers are super excited to make this announcement: We’ve been selected as a project of the Civic Innovation Lab.The Lab, started in 2003 with funding from the Cleveland Foundation, supports projects that aim to make an impact on the Greater...
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 Clay Aiken is gay.What, does that information not make your jaw drop...
Patrick
Patrick
no maybe the late ray charles could not have known, really he is on fire ,might want to not walk by fire stations.LOL
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 The longest day of your life — at least for 2009 — arrives this weekend. Time to celebrate. Time to stand still?Saturday is the summer solstice (non-bookworms, pay attention: in Latin “sol” means sun, and “sistere” to cause to stand still)...
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DITA VON BITCH.I could stop writing here. I mean does it get more camp, more fun and more gay than that?Well, actually yes. Try Skank Williams Sr. or Molotov Hot-tail or Magic Lee Malicious...
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 For decades, if it’s a Sunday between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the only destination you needed to keep in mind was the Leather Stallion patio...
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 With the arrival of June comes Pride Month...
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 If Andy Warhol were still alive and lived in Cleveland, his base of operations would most likely be Tremont's Asterisk Gallery. His favorite watering hole would be the Velvet Tango Room — at least the private VIP part...
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 Our newest Spangler, Roger Zender, is back with his second installment of The Zender Agenda...
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 The spectacular blue skies and bright sun shining down offered a feeling of life, not death...
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 Last week, Spangle brought you the first part of its conversation with PuNane', a group of four women working to celebrate African American lesbian culture in Cleveland...
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 Cleveland’s monthly G2H2 (Gay Guys Happy Hour) is proof that if you build it, they will come. In this case, “they” refers to hundreds of queer people who descend upon a different hipster drinking hole the third Friday of each month to see and be seen...
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 Part two of Spangle's interview with PuNane' is coming up later this week. But as this is Memorial Day and the sun is shining amid a spectacular clear blue sky, we know practically no one is checking out the Web today. So rather than our usual Monday Spangle update, check out this fantastic...
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 PuNane’. It’s the name of Cleveland’s four-year-old organization celebrating African American lesbian culture. Go ahead, say it out loud: poo-na-nee.Laughing yet? If not, go ask any frat boy in your life...
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 Subprime crisis. Predatory lending. Adjustable-rate mortgages.This is the stuff of CNBC’s greatest hits...
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 At some point, fashion in the new millennium stopped being about the “names” — iconic designers who influenced our daily apparel with a flick of their sketch pencils. Instead, reality set in...
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 We don't cover TV here, mostly because it doesn't get you out of the house, and that's entirely the point of Spangle.And while we'll be out watching Rhys Miller this Tuesday, our DVR will be whirring at home, recording our most-anticipated new show of the decade.On a dreary, chilly Cleveland...
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 Let’s make this review really simple: If you’re the kind of musical-theater aficionado who’s ever uttered the phrase, “You know, the only composer worth bothering with is Stephen Sondheim,” Evil Dead: The Musical is not for you.If, however, you’ve ever been scared/overjoyed with...
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 Let’s face it: Activism comes in many forms. Maybe you volunteer for a phone bank for your favorite politician. Maybe you go door-to-door seeking signatures for the latest ballot initiative...
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 Last week, Spangler John Farina wrote about the reasons he and his partner, Adam Tully, were registering their relationship with the city of Cleveland.Thursday was the first day of the domestic partnership registry, so we sent a camera along with Tully to capture the activities.He transmitted a...
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 A small Tremont storefront was the setting for my first Rhys Miller experience. It was fall 2001, and I was a new employee of the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland...
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 As gay and lesbian folks all over the northeastern part of our country are making big wedding plans, their brethren here in Cleveland are, well, settling for a list...
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 It confers no rights, makes no change in legal status and is certainly not same-sex marriage — yet when Cleveland City Council passed a domestic partner registry in December, you’d have thought Perez Hilton hired Somali pirates to hold Miss California hostage with swine flu in order to force...
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 It's an indisputable fact: Cleveland is a music town. Sure, we live in the (somewhat disputed) birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll...