Steve Erickson

1 week ago | gaycitynews.com | Steve Erickson

In the best sense of the word, Pierre Creton is a hobbyist. While he’s been able to accumulate a sizable body of work — most of which can be seen in BAM’s current retrospective — the gay French director works far outside the careerist rat race. He’s never tried to make a living as a filmmaker, instead working as a farmer in Normandy. He centers the lives of the residents of rural France from the perspective of someone who actually lives there.

2 weeks ago | gaycitynews.com | Steve Erickson

Gooners beware! The title of “Sex” is a provocation against the demand for cheap thrills. Rather than titillation, it offers two hours of talk. The second installment of Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Love, Sex, Dreams” trilogy opens in New York, where it takes a quiet look at two middle-aged men’s experiences. That shakes up their understanding of themselves as cisgender and heterosexual.

3 weeks ago | gaycitynews.com | Steve Erickson

This month, Gay City News reviews the latest albums bi singer/actor Cynthia Erivo and trans singer/pianist Lucy Liyou. Cynthia Erivo | “I Forgive You” | Verve/Republic | June 6Even without last year’s release of “Wicked: Part 1,” in which she performed a duet with Ariana Grande on “Defying Gravity,” British singer Cynthia Erivo’s background in musical theater can’t be missed. Her voice reaches to the rafters.

3 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Steve Erickson

Pulp’s first single in over a decade, “Spike Island,” grapples with Jarvis Cocker’s mixed feelings about the song’s very existence. He reflects about the unhappiness that seeped into the band’s music after they hit it big in the mid ’90s: “I was heading for disaster/And then I turned back.” Yet he remains torn between rejecting the glare of the spotlight and feeling that “I was born to perform/It’s a calling.” It’s a hell of a way to reintroduce the Britpop icons.

1 month ago | richmondsentinel.ca | Steve Erickson |Steve Daniel

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — President Donald Trump green-lit disaster relief for eight states on Friday, assistance that some of the communities rocked by natural disasters have been waiting on for months. The major disaster declaration approvals allow Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas access to financial support through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Several states requested the aid in response to damage from a massive storm system in mid-March.