Posted in Celebrity, TV, tagged LOGO, MySpace, Project Runway, reality TV, RuPaul's Drag Race, TV, Video on January 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
According to RuPaul’s MySpace, there will be viewing events of his newest reality show on LOGO, RuPaul’s Drag Race. I don’t know if it can fill our void of Project Runway but it sure looks like a lot of fun. His bulletin lists Dallas but no listing on the official calendar here. Maybe just not yet. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
Posted in Internet, tagged "Baby It's Cold Outside", day off, Video, winter, YouTube on January 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Sorry ladies and gents. We’re cold. We’re staying home. As if you didn’t realize by now. Meanwhile, enjoy.
Posted in Books, Music, tagged autograph, book signing, Borders, High Voltage Tattoo, Jeffree Star, Kat Von D, Vans Warped Tour, West Village on January 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Although Internet club kid gone recording artist, Jeffree Star, isn’t slated to perform in Dallas until the Vans Warped Tour this summer (July 5 to be exact), he will be making a special appearance at Borders book store next month. He’s helping to promote his BFF’s book, Kat Von D‘s High Voltage Tattoo in which Star has a spread. So apparently you can see some of those usually covered tatts.
Get your autograph and snapshots Wednesday, February 4, 7 – 9 p.m @ Borders, 3600 McKinney Avenue in the West Village.
Posted in Community, Film, Movies, tagged "Martini the Movie", Robert L. Camina, Steven Jay Crabtree, Studio Movie Grill on January 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
And we mean that in the nicest way. We heard Steven Crabtree’s movie premiere tonight was sold out over at the Studio Movie Grill. Hopefully someone will fill us in. Otherwise, we’ll track down Mr. Crabtree and Mr. Camina (director) for the scoop!
Posted in Celebrity, Concerts, Movies, Music, tagged Concerts, Dances With Wolves, Granada Theater, Hollywood, Kevin Costner, Men We Love, Modern West, Music on January 26, 2009| 1 Comment »
Some of us here used to have huge crushes on Kevin Costner. OK, one of us. And this was back in the early 90s. But really, who couldn’t resist the noble hero of Dances With Wolves? Scruffy good looks made for a classic leading man and the butt shot in the movie wasn’t so bad either. He kept our interest with more heroics in JFK and somehow had us watching Robin Hood.
Then he divorced, married a younger chick, started making bad movies and lost his heroic demeanor. He became 2nd rate. He became the male Sharon Stone. And now he’s apparently become the one thing all of us dread. The Hollywood somewhat-icon has gone into music. Yep, Costner does country-rock. Or perhaps its a bit bluesy. All we know is that he’ll be playing his tunes with his band Modern West at the Granada here on February 6.
Does anyone forecast a train wreck up ahead?
Posted in Celebrity, Film, Movies, TV, tagged Celebrity, Gay Super Bowl, Movies, Oscars, Screen Actors Guild on January 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Get your ballots out for tonight’s Screen Actors Guild awards as these have become better indicators of who is going home with an Oscar. Not those now-lately amateurs, the Golden Globes. Tune in tonight on either TNT or TBS (no really, it’s on both) for the show. Below are the film nominees for this year. Check the rest here.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
RICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale – “THE VISITOR” (Overture Films)
FRANK LANGELLA / Richard Nixon – “FROST/NIXON” (Universal Pictures)
SEAN PENN / Harvey Milk – “MILK” (Focus Features)
BRAD PITT / Benjamin Button – “THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON” (Paramount Pictures)
MICKEY ROURKE / Randy – “THE WRESTLER” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
ANNE HATHAWAY / Kym – “RACHEL GETTING MARRIED” (Sony Pictures Classics)
ANGELINA JOLIE / Christine Collins – “CHANGELING” (Universal Pictures)
MELISSA LEO / Ray Eddy – “FROZEN RIVER” (Sony Pictures Classics)
MERYL STREEP / Sister Aloysius Beauvier – “DOUBT” (Miramax Films)
KATE WINSLET / April Wheeler – “REVOLUTIONARY ROAD” (Paramount Vantage)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
JOSH BROLIN / Dan White – “MILK” (Focus Features)
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. / Kirk Lazarus – “TROPIC THUNDER” (Paramount Pictures)
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Father Brendan Flynn – “DOUBT” (Miramax Films)
HEATH LEDGER / Joker – “THE DARK KNIGHT” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
DEV PATEL / Older Jamal – “SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
AMY ADAMS / Sister James – “DOUBT” (Miramax Films)
PENÉLOPE CRUZ / Maria Elena – “VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA” (The Weinstein Company)
VIOLA DAVIS / Mrs. Miller – “DOUBT” (Miramax Films)
TARAJI P. HENSON / Queenie – “THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON” (Paramount Pictures)
KATE WINSLET / Hanna Schmitz – “THE READER” (The Weinstein Company)
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount Pictures)
MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ ALI Tizzy
CATE BLANCHETT Daisy
JASON FLEMYNG Thomas Button
JARED HARRIS Captain Mike
TARAJI P. HENSON Queenie
ELIAS KOTEAS Monsieur Gateau
JULIA ORMOND Caroline
BRAD PITT Benjamin Button
PHYLLIS SOMERVILLE Grandma Fuller
TILDA SWINTON Elizabeth Abbot
DOUBT (Miramax)
AMY ADAMS Sister James
VIOLA DAVIS Mrs. Miller
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Father Brendan Flynn
MERYL STREEP Sister Aloysius Beauvier
FROST/NIXON (Universal Pictures)
KEVIN BACON Jack Brennan
REBECCA HALL Caroline Cushing
TOBY JONES Swifty Lazar
FRANK LANGELLA Richard Nixon
MATTHEW MacFADYEN John Birt
OLIVER PLATT Bob Zelnick
SAM ROCKWELL James Reston, Jr.
MICHAEL SHEEN David Frost
MILK (Focus Features)
JOSH BROLIN Dan White
JOSEPH CROSS Dick Pabich
JAMES FRANCO Scott Smith
VICTOR GARBER Mayor Moscone
EMILE HIRSCH Cleve Jones
DIEGO LUNA Jack Lira
DENIS O’HARE Briggs
SEAN PENN Harvey Milk
ALISON PILL Anne Kronenberg
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
RUBINA ALI Youngest Latika
TANAY HEMANT CHHEDA Middle Jamal
ASHUTOSH LOBO GAJIWALA Middle Salim
AZHARUDDIN MOHAMMED ISMAIL Youngest Salim
ANIL KAPOOR Prem
IRRFAN KHAN Police Inspector
AYUSH MAHESH KHEDEKAR Youngest Jamal
TANVI GANESH LONKAR Middle Latika
MADHUR MITTAL Oldest Salim
DEV PATEL Older Jamal
FREIDA PINTO Older Latika
Posted in Community, Politics, tagged Community, Crossroads Bookstore, GLBT rights, Milk box, Queer Liberaction on January 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The peeps over at Queer Liberaction continue to come up with original ideas in small ways to move this big country 
into offering equal rights for GLBT. This afternoon QL meets at 4 p.m. in front of the old Crossroads Bookstore to “get up on their Milk box” (a nod to Harvey Milk (instead of soap box)) where it sounds like everyone is invited to pop off about their feelings toward treatment of GLBT rights in America. ” For all those who feel angry, frustrated or perhaps even hopeful, QL invites those to get up on the Milk box and “publicly speak our mind and educate Dallas’ Queer Community as to exactly how we are being oppressed.”
Oh and you can hand out flyers too.
We here at Hint of Mint simply have to applaud Queer Liberaction’s efforts. Their fresh and unique ideas are progressive, assertive, bold and interesting. So get your afternoon coffee over at Crossroads and practice your First Amendment rights to speak out on your missing rights.
Posted in Clubs and Nightlife, Concerts, Music, Video, tagged Amy Ray, Concerts, footage, House of Blues, Indigo Girls, Live video, YouTube on January 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
One half of the lesbian duo Indigo Girls made her way to Dallas this week over at House of Blues. Amy Ray ventures away from usual folky fare to a more rockin’ edge and we’ve heard her show was definitely on the slammin’ side. Here’s a snippet of it thanks to YouTube poster teejay9798.
Posted in Celebrity, Movies, tagged Academy Awards, Gay Super Bowl, nominations, Oscars on January 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
First Barack Obama becomes president and now the Oscar nominations are announced? Best. Week. Ever! So without further ado, here is a short list of the major categories. For the rest, check them out here.
Actor in a leading role
* Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor”
* Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon”
* Sean Penn in “Milk”
* Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
* Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”
Actor in a supporting role
* Josh Brolin in “Milk”
* Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”
* Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”
* Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road”
Actress in a leading role
* Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”
* Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”
* Melissa Leo in “Frozen River”
* Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
* Kate Winslet in “The Reader”
Actress in a supporting role
* Amy Adams in “Doubt”
* Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
* Viola Davis in “Doubt”
* Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
* Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler”
Director
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” David Fincher
* “Frost/Nixon” Ron Howard
* “Milk” Gus Van Sant
* “The Reader” Stephen Daldry
* “Slumdog Millionaire” Danny Boyle
Adapted screenplay
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
* “Doubt”
* “Frost/Nixon”
* “The Reader”
* “Slumdog Millionaire”
Original screenplay
* “Frozen River”
* “Happy-Go-Lucky”
* “In Bruges”
* “Milk”
* “WALL-E”
Posted in Clubs and Nightlife, Concerts, Music, tagged Bill's Hideaway, Concerts, Facebook, Gary Floyd, live music, Local bands, MySpace, Picks of Mint, Web site, Wednesday on January 21, 2009| 1 Comment »
Yep, that’s what his Facebook said as of four hours ago. And in that small crowded venue known as Bill’s Hideaway, that might be the most intimate many of you can get with Mr. Gary Floyd (not this guy). And thankfully he has a silky smooth voice to go with that not-too-shabby mug. But he probably gets that ALL the time.
By the way, can someone tell Bill of Bill’s Hideaway to PLEASE get a Web site? MySpace at least? Facebook could work. Something!
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