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Naked on the set! Finale

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Wherein my life becomes a surreal blend of "Hedwig" and "All About Eve."

Naked on the set! Part 5

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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.)

Naked on the set! Part 4: Archive fever

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

It all boiled down to that courting query that my generation and adjacent ones will go to our erotic graves asking: "Hot or not?"

Naked on the set! Part 3

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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

Naked on the set! Part 2

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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?

Naked on the set!

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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.

"Mussolini," by R.J.B. Bosworth

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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.

"Indira" by Katherine Frank

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Indira Gandhi led the most populous democracy in the world, but finally, ruthless and paranoid, she couldn't resist the temptation of tyranny.

Executioner's song

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty.

Dead man singing

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

"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?

As long as he doesn't sound gay

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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.

Flaming man

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Queer erotics has its place in the sun at Burning Man's utopia. How fitting that the sun got too hot.

Does a good conductor have anything to say after 10 years?

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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.

Mommie Dearest in drag

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

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?

Sharps and Flats: John Dowland

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Paul Paray

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.

Classical music: R.I.P.?

By Sarah Vowell — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Die Vvgel

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.

Ute Lemper

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.

3 Russian Fairy Tales

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Sharps and Flats is a daily music review.

Stravinsky

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST

Sharps and flats is a daily music review.

Salon: Sharps and Flats

By Paul Festa — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:04:00 PST