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Best home improvement you Best recipe or food you learned accomplished (inside or outside) to make during shelter in place 1. My Garden 1. Soudough bread, sourdough pancakes, 2. Organized the garage or other storage areas sourdough pretzels, and bread in general 3. Repainted or remodeled a room in the home. 2. Keto Recipes/Food in Air Fryer 3. Vegan Recipes (not specific) Best answer: Due to COVID-19 I had to convert our garage into my office, sewing Best answer: workshop and macaw entertainment center. This not only gave me Navajo Flat Bread space to work, but is saving my marriage to my amazing husband!

Best place to have a picnic or best picnic spot 1. Right in the backyard 2. William Land Park 3. Along the American River

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outwordmagazine.com July 23, 2020 - August 13, 2020 • No. 653 Outword Magazine 15 Best Of Queer Music For 2020 By Chris Narloch Orville Peck ride Month may be over, but great queer music just keeps Orville Peck – Pony This queer cowboy from Canada has on ‘coming out’ so I decided to put together an article been performing behind a fringed Lone Pspotlighting the finest LGBTQ+ music CDs released recently Ranger mask since long before the – as part of our “Best Of” issue. coronavirus was a ‘thing.’ Like Sia, he is part of a new generation of performers Indigo Girls – Look Long Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, better known as the iconic lesbian folk-rock duo Indigo who eschew fame in favor of privacy and Girls, began performing together in the 1980s. They are famous for hit songs such as artistic integrity. “Closer to Fine” and “Galileo, and “Look Long” is the pair’s first new album since 2015’s “Pony” is Peck’s debut disc, and it is as “One Lost Day.” wonderfully weird as one would expect – The group’s mellow harmonies still sound great, and I especially like the CD’s rocking the singer sounds like a gay reincarnation first track (“Shit Kickin’”) and “Country Radio,” a vivid slice of life about “a gay kid in a of Roy Orbison. If I were forced to describe small town who loves country radio.” his sound, I would label it ambient alt- country. A follow-up album, entitled “Show Pony,” is slated for release this August. The Indigo Girls

Brandy Clark – Your Life Is A Record This Grammy-nominated, openly-gay, country singer-songwriter released her third solo CD recently, and it’s another winner, with Clark sounding like Trisha Yearwood on the album’s fine first cut, “I’ll Be the Sad Song.” “Love is a Fire” is another terrific track, as is “Long Walk,” which is part of the long tradition of clever country kiss-offs.

Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately Perfume Genius is the stage name used by Brandy Clark Michael Alden Hadreas, an enormously talented 38-year-old singer- Adam Lambert – Velvet songwriter who recently With “Velvet,” this big-voiced American Idol released another stunning alum has finally made the successful solo CD record, his fifth. The artist I had almost given up on. Long a victim of has a lovely voice and a substandard songwriting and cheesy penchant for creating production, Lambert’s previous discs were dreamy, trippy-sounding mostly one disappointment after another. Adam Lambert songs that show off his “Velvet” turns things around for the gay versatility as a singer and singer with a mix of sexy songwriting, improved production, and more restrained vocals. as a musician. The single “Superpower” is repetitive and sort of lame, but “Stranger You Are,” “Overglow,” “Set My Heart On Fire and “Roses” (with Nile Rodgers) are all winners. Immediately” is probably my favorite of the six discs in this article, and I especially enjoyed Hadreas’s fantastic falsetto on “Jason,” the addictive beat of “Your Body Changes Everything,” the cool catchiness of “Without You,” and the hypnotic gay grunge of “Describe” and “Nothing at All.” Perfume Genius

Rufus Wainwright – Unfollow The Rules This queer crooner has always been a better songwriter than singer, but his lyrics and his melodies are often so lovely that I have grown accustomed to his nasal voice. Nobody writes a sad song quite like Rufus Wainwright, and so when he produces a beautiful bummer like “Early Morning Madness” towards the end of this CD, all you can do is just bask in the gorgeous pain of it all. “You Ain’t Big,” which is unusually upbeat and fun (for Wainwright) is another standout new song on “Unfollow The Rules.” Rufus Wainright 16 Outword Magazine July 23, 2020 - August 13, 2020 • No. 653 outwordmagazine.com Broadway Bares 2020 Will ‘Take It Off’ Online...For Free! By Chris Narloch roadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is taking Bits signature sensational striptease online for the first time with “Broadway Bares: Zoom In,” a celebratory virtual edition streaming on Saturday, August 1, 2020. Although this year’s in-person 30th anniversary edition of “Broadway Bares” has been postponed until 2021, the free event this August will allow Broadway fans who have never seen the spectacular, in-person edition in New York City to have a taste of the big-budget, high-end strip show, which in past years has had Las Vegas-caliber production values. “Broadway Bares: Zoom In” will include some of the most beautiful male and female Broadway dancers in new performances that make social distancing sexy, plus favorite numbers from years past and fun appearances by special celebrity guests. Though the stream is free, donations are of course welcome, and every dollar donated focused on social justice and ending racism. bar and raised $8,000. To date, the 29 channel and on streaming media partners will help those across the country affected by “Broadway Bares” was created in 1992 by editions of “Broadway Bares” have raised BroadwayWorld.com, iHeartRadioBroadway. HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical Jerry Mitchell, then a Broadway dancer, as a more than $21.2 million for Broadway com, Playbill.com, TheaterMania.com and the illnesses receive healthy meals, lifesaving way to raise awareness and money for those Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Pride Media family of sites, including medication, emergency financial assistance, living with HIV/AIDS. The free and frisky stream of “Broadway Advocate.com, Out.com and Pride.com. housing, counseling and more. The donations In Broadway Bares‘ first year, Mitchell and Bares” begins at 6:30 p.m. PST. It can be For more information, please visit also support and champion organizations six of his friends danced on a New York City watched on Broadway Cares’ YouTube www.broadwaycares.org Now on ZOOM! VIRTUAL BINGO!

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20 Outword Magazine July 23, 2020 - August 13, 2020 • No. 653 outwordmagazine.com A Tale of Two Series by Ron Tackitt etflix has been on a roll for a good while now. They realized that content providers all wanted their own piece of the Nstreaming entertainment pie and knew they would have to create their own, quality content if they were to survive. These days we take for granted that Netflix is the provider of some of the best documentaries, shorts and series that streaming media has to offer. In their own, individual way, these two series offer quality viewing, but are worlds apart. Down To Earth – With Zac Efron There are nights where you just don’t want planet. to watch car chases, people shooting each Of course, Zac is wonderful eye candy, and other or aliens eating people. I find myself in his traveling companion, Darin Olien, is this place more and more lately. I was handsome in his own way. But this isn’t looking for some light, fuffy escape TV and about hunky guys traveling around, it’s found it in “Down to Earth.” I have to say about seeking out ways to help the world, that the first episode was a bit too goofy. It and meeting people, eating their food and was like someone turned two bros loose with respecting different cultures and ways of a camera crew, in an exotic location (Iceland). living. As someone said to me, before I However, if you press on to the next episode watched it, “It’s no Anthony Bourdain.” But it and beyond, you will find a lighthearted doesn’t need to be. Zac is purposefully using documentary series that doesn’t take itself his star power and his followers to bring too seriously, but puts a spotlight on some attention to things that need to change. I’d really cool, but sometimes troubling, things really like it if Zac and Netflix produced a that are being to done to help save this second season.

Down To Earth – With Zac Efron

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich After finishing the final episode of moments and times when I found myself “Down To Earth – With Zac Efron” I still pointing at the TV and saying, “I remember had some time to kill before bedtime, but I that!” This documentary pulls all these wasn’t willing to commit to an entire seemingly, far-flung details together and it is movie. This documentary series came up fascinating, and ultimately haunting and as a suggestion, so I clicked on it, and repulsive. ended up watching the first three episodes. As I write this article I am not sure I will I have to say I was not prepared for what I watch the final episode. I keep thinking that watched. That being the information that the President of our country was good was presented and the portrayal of Epstein. friends with this man. I would imagine All I really knew of Epstein was that he Donald would have had to know what was was very rich and was a very good buddy happening, if not also participating in the of Donald Trump – and that he liked the filth. Some of the ways the documentary company of underaged girls. describes Epstein’s personality and behavior This documentary started out a little are mirrored in Trump to a T, so to speak. slow, it bounced around the timeline a lot, Thinking that the person in charge of our but told you where you were on it, country could be very much like Epstein however, when the back details were filled makes me want to puke. I may need to in it really picked up steam. By the time re-watch “Down To Earth” again just to the third episode, aptly named “The cleanse my thoughts of Epstein. Island,” played there were jaw-dropping www.netflix.com outwordmagazine.com July 23, 2020 - August 13, 2020 • No. 653 Outword Magazine 21 Charlize Theron & Cate Blanchett Tear It Up By Chris Narloch feel for theaters trying to stay afloat, and also for our Governor employees than customers). rescheduled for August, but as with “Tenet,” I whose job it is to keep us safe. I also give up trying to predict Theaters may have a tough time enticing will believe it when I see it. In the meantime, folks back to the big screen during a I did recently see another movie on the big Iif and when movie theaters (and specific movies) are going to pandemic, but (as I wrote this) Sacramento’s screen at Rancho Cordova’s West Wind open this summer. Esquire IMAX on K Street was still planning drive-in, which is packed every night of the I did manage to see a couple older films spread out in the cavernous Crest to reopen on July 31 with the re-release of week these days with socially distant cars. on the big screen recently when the Crest auditorium for the first of those movies (talk Chris Nolan’s “Inception,” a couple weeks I have also been streaming movies at briefly reopened for business in between about social distancing!) and then one before the planned debut of “Tenet,” Nolan’s home via Netflix and Hulu, and I have a shutdowns. straight couple and myself for a total of three new blockbuster, on August 12. couple recommendations for fans of chick There were about half a dozen of us people the second night (literally, more Disney’s live-action “Mulan” has also been flicks.

The Old Guard As an Academy Award-winning dramatic actress who is also a butt- kicking action movie star, Charlize Theron is pretty unique in American cinema. Theron stars in this new Netflix film about a team of immortals – superheroes who have saved the day and changed the course of history around the world for hundreds of years. Marwan Kenzari as Joe, a Muslim warrior who had partici- More realistic-looking than your pated in the Crusades, as well average DC or Marvel movie, “The Old as Nicky’s lover. Luca Marinelli Guard” is still pretty gimmicky, and I as Nicky, a former Crusader. He and Joe started off as ene- found the filming and the editing of the mies, but became lovers after action sequences routine and repetitive. discovering their immortality. The best reasons to watch the film are for the always-awesome Theron and for her international supporting cast, which includes Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthias Schoenaerts. “The Old Guard” isn’t as amazing as “Atomic Blonde” or Theron’s marvelous “Mad Max” movie, but it’s probably worth two hours of your time just to see Charlize Theron stars Charlize The Great kicking ass. in “The Old Guard.”

Mrs. America My favorite show so far this year is a fascinating and funny, nine-part, historical miniseries on Hulu about the attempt to pass the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s. The phenomenal ensemble cast of “Mrs. America” includes the brilliant Cate Blanchett as the conservative witch Phyllis Schlafly, Rose Byrne as Gloria Steinem, Margo Martindale as Bella Abzug, Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm, Tracey Ullman as Betty Friedan, plus the great Sarah Paulson as a fictional, composite character whose allegiance to Schlafly’s obsession with defeating the ERA begins to crack over the course of the series. Everything about “Mrs. America” is first-rate, beginning with Blanchett’s characterization of Phyllis as a woman you love to hate. Also dynamite are the dialogue, the direction, the music, the clothes, the set design, and the Emmy-worthy performances of Cate Blanchett plays practically the entire cast. Phyllis Schlafly in “Mrs. America.”

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Anthony Catanzaro Now, in “HEAT,” his brand-new coffee Parkinson’s disease. table book featuring 165 pages of photos He chose to title the book “HEAT” not and original poems, the popular fitness only because of the steamy pics throughout model reveals his body and soul along its pages but because fire is essential for with the many life lessons he has learned life. “It’s important we maintain control of since being diagnosed with his disease. our inner fires because they can burn and It was when he was crouched inside a destroy, if we’re not careful,” adds gigantic cake, poised to jump out and Catanzaro. surprise Betty White for her 91st birthday Anthony hopes that the photos and on live TV, that Catanzaro noticed inspirational poems in “HEAT” will help something was wrong. His normally others to push through their physical, limber body tightened up. mental or health limitations. The hunky model assumed it was an “HEAT” comes with a personally isolated incident but two years later, the autographed 12x18 poster and is available left side of his body had become so rigid exclusively at tonycatanzaro.com. 100% of that he finally sought the help of a doctor, proceeds will benefit Catanzaro’s battle who diagnosed him with early-onset with Parkinson’s. 26 Outword Magazine July 23, 2020 - August 13, 2020 • No. 653 outwordmagazine.com Anthony Catanzaro