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Naked on the set! Finale: Wherein my life becomes a surreal blend of "Hedwig" and "All About Eve."; By Paul Festa Apr 4, 2003
Naked on the set! Part 5: Some post-audition debauchery leads our frustrated hero to take matters into his own hands. (OK, there were a couple of other people in the bed.); By Paul Festa Mar 26, 2003
Naked on the set! Part 4: Archive fever: It all boiled down to that courting query that my generation and adjacent ones will go to our erotic graves asking: "Hot or not?"; By Paul Festa Mar 20, 2003
Naked on the set! Part 3: Wherein I learn that it's not a good idea to teach your mother how to Google and that good chamber music is like doing it onstage.
Read Part 1 and Part 2; By Paul Festa Mar 18, 2003
Naked on the set! Part 2: I meet the director and struggle with my biggest question: Will he make me a star? Or will my audition expose me as a fraud?; By Paul Festa Mar 14, 2003
Naked on the set!: As I prepare to audition for the new X-rated film project by "Hedwig" creator John Cameron Mitchell, I'm left to wonder: Will he think I have the whole package? Part 1 in a series.; By Paul Festa Mar 13, 2003
"Mussolini," by R.J.B. Bosworth: He fought duels, seduced women, crashed planes, allied with Hitler, lost a war and ran Italy into the ground, but at heart Il Duce considered himself an artist.; By Paul Festa Jul 9, 2002
"Indira" by Katherine Frank: Indira Gandhi led the most populous democracy in the world, but finally, ruthless and paranoid, she couldn't resist the temptation of tyranny.; By Paul Festa Mar 26, 2002
Executioner's song: The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty.; By Paul Festa Dec 4, 2001
Dead man singing: "Dead Man Walking," the opera version, opens in San Francisco. Is it a misguided abuse of the genre -- or a radical reworking of operatic stagecraft?; By Paul Festa Oct 11, 2000
As long as he doesn't sound gay: The mayoral candidate who articulated a growing angst in San Francisco may have been hurt at the polls because of the voice he said it in.; By Paul Festa Dec 16, 1999
Flaming man: Queer erotics has its place in the sun at Burning Man's utopia. How fitting that the sun got too hot.; By Paul Festa Sep 16, 1999
Does a good conductor have anything to say after 10 years?: While Boston Symphony patriots bemoaned the loss of 25-year conductor Seiji Ozawa, members of his orchestra said that it's been a long time coming.; By Paul Festa Jun 28, 1999
Mommie Dearest in drag: Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her child abuse, detailed in her memoir 'Mommie Dearest,' is one big campy joke?; By Paul Festa Jul 1, 1998
Sharps and Flats: John Dowland: By Paul Festa Jan 27, 1998
Paul Paray: Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.; By Paul Festa Oct 22, 1997
Classical music: R.I.P.?: By Sarah Vowell Jun 27, 1997
Die Vvgel: Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.; By Paul Festa Apr 21, 1997
Ute Lemper: Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.; By Paul Festa Mar 21, 1997
3 Russian Fairy Tales: Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.; By Paul Festa Feb 10, 1997
Stravinsky: Sharps and flats is a daily music review.; By Paul Festa Dec 23, 1996
Salon: Sharps and Flats: By Paul Festa Dec 2, 1996

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