Friday, June 05, 2026

Remains of the Day (06/05)







Tennis MajorsThis year's Roland Garros needs to be scrubbed from the record 




Speedo Sunday: 100% pure sex




Proud Voice: Broadway stars Jenn Colella and Noah J. Ricketts join the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus for a Pride concert packed with showstoppers, pop classics and an afterparty with DJ Mike Borowski. We got our tickets HERE!

Thursday, June 04, 2026

The Queerest of the Queer


Holy trigger warning, Batman!

God help all gays of a certain age when a New York Times reporter could actually think someone would have told him that she'd moved to New York City to pursue a full life as "a queer in the arts." 🙄


Happy Pride, guys!


Read Nicholas Fandos's corrected piece HERE.

On the Rag, Vol. 910


This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Michael Johnston, Tom Holland, Belmont Cameli, Stephen Kalyn, Anna Camp, Michael Urie and more BELOW.

Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Unluck of the Draw

 

As much as I've enjoyed some of the unpredictability at this year's Roland Garros, the problem with so many upsets is that you often wind up with lopsided endings -- and 2026 is no exception. A Mensik-Zverev final and a Kostyuk-Andreeva final would be just fine. But instead Arnaldi or Cobolli will be in the men's final and Shnaider or Chwalinska(!) will be in the women's -- and either of them could end up beating their more challenged opponent. While it's foolish to say anyone who wins a major didn't really deserve to do so, sometimes the luck of the draw is more egregious than others.


Thoughts?

Remains of the Day (06/03)

















Killer Summer: My pal Frank Spinelli is back with "Precious Friends: Murder in Sag Harbor," a Hamptons-set psychological thriller packed with infidelity, murder and buried secrets. Order HERE.


As You Like It ... or Not


Last night I was a guest of my friend Tim at Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” at the newly renovated Delacorte Theater. Directed by Saheem Ali, the production is performed in English, but Romeo and Juliet -- played by Ra’Mya Latiah Aikens and Daniel Bravo Hernández -- speak to each other in Spanish, which I suppose was an inventive twist on the classic love story even if it prevented me from fully understanding most of what was said.

I might have been more receptive to the play’s urban reimagining had I not recently seen a similar approach to “Carmen” at the Met. And it didn’t help that the production was somehow simultaneously heavy-handed (with “ABOLISH ICE” painted on a giant wall) and baffling. (I'm still trying to figure out what any of it had to do with the Montagues and Capulets -- and don’t get me started on the nonbinary Mercutio.)

But Shakespeare is Shakespeare, and Central Park is Central Park. So it was hard not to get swept up in it all once the sun went down -- and my guard -- went down. 



Love child's playground?


P.S. Cheers to the couple who got married on stage after the show ended!