Into the Pines Kitchen contains 200 recipes from 100 contributors, including Pines notables Scott Bromley, Gilbert Parker, and Hal Rubinstein. As a nod to bygone days, the book also features a posthumous contribution from John Whyte, one of the Pines' founders. The book includes original photography of the island from Pines artists William Karam, Mark Lonsbury, and Barbara Sahlman. •More About this Book»
"Drag Queens Can Cook-Recipes to Sync Your Lips Around" is a new cookbook, being sold for a tax deductible $25, created by doctors and life partners Rick Byrd, PhD, and Patrick Fratellone, MD, as a benefit for the Elmer A. Lindsay Memorial Medical Center, the Cherry Grove Doctor's Fund. •Read More»
"Qtalk" Gives the Gay 'View,' with Hot Topics, Singers & Underwear
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert |
photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Qtalk, with Joseph Macchia, Frantz Hall, Arbender Robinson, Terese Genecco & Stacey Todd Holt
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The Ice Palace presented something different for a weekend evening, on July 17, with "Qtalk," a talk show-something of an LGBT version of television's "The View"-complete with hot topics, hot singers, and a hot underwear fashion show. Frantz Hall was the host and Terese Genecco, a Fire Island virgin, the guest host, and Stacey Todd Holt, also new to FI, and Joseph Macchia were the other panelists. Audience participation was encouraged as well.
Discussion of the hot topic, billed as "Relationships: One on One or Free for All," or open relationships vs. monogamy, ranged from agreements between lovers and honesty in openness to commitment-including committed threesomes-exploration and "cheating." The Meat Rack and its etiquette, and the hanky code were also probed.
Assisted by pianist Jeff Cubeta, singer Genecco, a MAC Award Winner, who lives in San Francisco, and has a show at Iridium in Manhattan on the last Tuesday of every month, contrasted a lusty "When You're Good to Mama," from "Chicago," with a wistful "If I Were a Boy," a ballad by Maria Gentile and Karen Cole, encompassing such lines as "Would you love me better if ...?" and "Would my Daddy love me if I was his son?" Arbender Robinson ("Hairspray," "Little Mermaid," and about to join the cast of "Hair"), announced as "the first gay, African-American Disney Prince on Broadway," sang "King of the World (chief of the sea)" in a powerful tenor-with, amazingly just one functional lung-and followed it with a dulcet "Georgia on My Mind," complete with piano interlude from Cubeta.
The evening included an N2N Bodywear fashion show, with some of the briefs modeled by Brandon the Ice Palace lifeguard, bartender Ugo from Jumping Jack's Seafood Shack, and cocktail waiter James from Cherry's.
Catch "Qtalk" in Manhattan, monthly at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, 212/206-0440 for reservations, with the next edition due on July 25 at 9:45 p.m.-with Hall, Macchia, Holt, Angie McKnight, and Eddie Jacques, and guests Shaun Barker and Thomas Bistritz (AKA Demanda Darling)-when the hot topic will be "Bare or Bear."
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