Love All

Love All A Book By Rachel Spangler Reviewed By Velvet Lounger As one of the senior tennis players on the women’s tennis tour, former star Jay Pierce has lived through the ups and downs of life on the court, as well as surviving vicious personal slander and the worst of the paparazzi. Making a final […]

Migguel Anggelo Returns to Joe’s Pub

Migguel Anggelo is breaking barriers on the American stage, creating unique works that are reflective of the multicultural, multi-lingual, changing demographics of our country and times. The Brooklyn based, Venezuelan born artist began his career at 13 as Pinocchio in a South American touring production of the Broadway musical. He trained for a dozen years […]

January Feature Interview: Kenny Screven

Kenny Screven is a small town boy from Delaware that has recently gained the confidence to wear makeup despite being a guy. However, he wasn’t always this confident, growing up in a really conservative town made it difficult for him to be himself. Now he enjoys expressing himself through his passion for beauty. Although it […]

Coming Up In January: Kenny Screven

Kenny Screven is a small town boy from Delaware that has recently gained the confidence to wear makeup despite being a guy. However, he wasn’t always this confident, growing up in a really conservative town made it difficult for him to be himself.  Now he enjoys expressing himself through his passion for beauty. Although it […]

Buddha In Jail

Cuong Lu, Buddhist teacher, scholar, and writer, was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1968. He majored in East Asian studies at the University of Leiden, and in 1993 was ordained a monk at Plum Village in France under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2000, he was recognized as a teacher in the […]

Carols For A Cure – The 20th Edition

The 20th Anniversary edition of Broadway’s Carols For a Cure is full of spirited holiday favorites sung by stars from leading musicals including Mean Girls, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, My Fair Lady, and Pretty Woman For twenty years, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ holiday CD, Broadway’s Carols for a Cure, has been a staple of every […]

Seeing In The Dark

Belo Cipriani is a disability advocate, an award-winning journalist, the prize-winning author of Blind: A Memoir and Midday Dreams, and the spokesperson for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Learn more at: www.belocipriani.com Rise of D Lit In Publishing In a chilly November afternoon in 2008, I tapped my white cane down Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, […]

The Amazon Trail: Going To The Doctor’s

Her most recent book, An American Queer, a collection of “The Amazon Trail” columns, was presented with the 2015 Golden Crown Literary Society Award in Anthology/Collection Creative Non-Fiction. This, and her award-winning fiction, including The Raid, The Swashbuckler, and Beggar of Love, can be found at: www.boldstrokesbooks.com/Author-Lee-Lynch.html “Visiting the doctor doesn’t have to be all gloom […]

December Feature: David Hernandez

David Hernandez gained national attention with his powerful voice and affable personality as an American Idol finalist. He began acting and singing at age six, starring in musicals and performing with various theatre companies throughout Arizona. As a teenager, David began writing original music and recording his material. 

A Phoenix native, Hernandez recently moved to […]