ting so popular, but the only way it's going to sustain itself is if people are able to connect the dots and spend money on it. It's sort of like the cheap queens who sit and , ~ Z007 hog up tables at a coffee shop for free-wi-fi and c never order anything. (Yeah bitch, how about Is IIance MUSic C8dIU baI:IIarlllhllll ordering some damn food for a change?) The r same goes for music. by Jimmy R. Smith Quit downloading podcasts all the time and email: [email protected] spend a little money every now and then! Is it really going to hurt you to spend 15or 20 bucks a month to make op for all that free shit you've I've said before that at the end of a decade If you have it in your car (not the one with the been stealing? is when we usually see dance music see m to FMmodulator, the REALbuilt-in system), drive flourish for some odd reason. In the late 70's for about 2 hours and listen only to XMor what- Well, I was going to talk about some hot new we had disco, 80's saw the electronic move- ever, then pop in your favorite CDand hear the records but I got off on another tangent ment, and in the late 90's we saw, even that difference. It's really pretty horrible. CH Whitney Houston flying high with Dance re- Ohwell ... mixes. Second, I wish there was a good way to keep Well here were are about to start 2008 and I 'rn track of songsyou hear on the satellite so that and that's Music...this Week In Texas. waiting. I mean don't get me wrong, there are you can buy them later ....or even better direct- some really good records out right now, but it ly from your car! How fabulous would it be to Happy New year and Happy dancing! doesn't seem like we're having any earth-shat- be driving down that Holy Highway 1-35 (yeah tering "movement." whatever) and when you hear something you Could it be that Dance Music has become so like push the purchase button? HOT! fragmented among genres that there is no real momentum? I dunno, but it seems like most of Or maybe you have something like a USBinter- the tracks I am feeling lately end up being a face that holds sort of a jump drive that you cover track or a rip-off of something else from can take into your house with you and plug into back in the day. your computer and it finds all the music you selected in your car? Maybe we have to attribute much of this to technology. There's jus t so much information It's great that Dance music is supposedly get- coming at us these days that it's hard to figure out what we like! Take XM for example. Thanks god we can actually get good music in our cars Ex~C$2j with no commercials. And at least its national, that songs which find their way to a heavier rotation can really have a decent mar- ket impact since everyone is on the same page within a particular genre. I just have a couple of complaints about satellite radio. First off the sound quality sucks. If you don't believe me try this on your next road trip. ~ • )' . , .. 7 '.v AnExclusivePresentation of . -. ~ Gloria Trovi's Celebrating the release of her NewAlbum UNA HOSABLU • • NO Cover Charge E WlDNlSDA~~Nyg Complimentary Party Favors 8 • Complimentary Champagne uj at Midnight <U @ DJ Bryan's Top Video Countdown ~ Hosted by Wayne and Ivana en • Live on the Internet 10p-Midnight ~ 'AU ~).r· Featuring Ciroc Vodka all evening :Q E Ring in the New Year at Mickey's ~ • Toast to your friends and family ~ All around the world LIVE II ~ SPACE CITY Mondav EMPIRE Dec. 31st HOUSTON • TEXAS "Wouldn't you like to be a Peker too?" Pink Christmas PoPvour cork with die Toni Page show! AUSTIN temper of another unemployed Broadway per- One of the hottest shows on HBO is Real Sex, and former, who suddenly shows up with the news that We're pulling all the stops fOr2008 one of the most popular segments of the series is he has sub-let the apartment from her ex- Pany Favors- Champagne Toast The Colosseum, a series of choreographed boyfriend, who is unreachable at the location of the Special LATENIGHT bunet! wrestling matches staged purely for fun adult film for which he dumped his girlfriend to begin Reservations are suggested entertainment, and featuring only M/M, M/M/M, with. Naturally, as in all great musicals, the hap- F/F and F/F/F pairings in non-nude and semi-nude less actors find themselves falling for each other, performances. Colosseum Wrestling features a and merriment, mirth and music ensues as surely Oaklawn's friendliest series of mock matches that combine a comedy as the night follows the day. Performancesresume script, great dance music, wrestling parody and next Friday, January 4, after the holiday break and neighborhood hangoutl sexy, traditional, oil and strip wrestling. The first continue through Sunday, January 20. Tickets, match, for example, is staged as Roman Gladiators priced $25-40, are available at the T3 box office, (one man v. one man,) with the second bout done 2800 Routh Street; by calling 214-871-3300, option as a more traditional staging featuring wrestlers in 1; and, online at theatre3dallas.com. singlets (one man v. one man.) Now, this cult phe- nomenon comes to Austin for six segments that will HOUSTON be presented at Arts on Real Theater, 2826 Real Make plans now to enjoy the revival of a cherished Street, during three consecutive weekends in community tradition by attending the Brenda February, and the show's producers - Darkhorse Thomas Memorial New Year's Day Social next and Imperial PrincessJudy Reeves proudly present Entertainment of Van Nuys, California - are looking Tuesday, January 1, at Vanity: A Trans-formation Goodbye 2007 & Hello 2008, a very special year in for men and women that think they can rise to the Studio, 1442 Yale. Before her death in 2006, well- review show, on New Year's Eve, Monday, occasion. Auditions for the show will be held on known activist and educator Brenda Thomas host- December 31, at Tony's Corner Pocket, 817 W Saturday, January 12, and successful "contestants" ed an all-day open house at her residence on New Dallas. The show - which is open to any and all appear in the six Austin performances. A Texasdri- Year's Day which, over the years, became a much- performers that would like to come out and share MALE UWEAR ver's license and signed consent and wavier forms -loved tradition in the local gay, lesbian, bisexual memories of the year now passing - is a fundrais- are required; payment for the performance is made and transgender community. After her death, ing event for ICOH SpaceCity's Reign VI, with pro- each night. For more information, please e-mail many of her friends found themselves at a loss at ceeds benefitting the Bering Omega Community the start of the 2007 new year, and decided to BiancaCherry13at yahoo.com Services Dental Clinic and Hospice Programs and NEW YEAR recreate for 2008 the companionship, fellowship, the Lexy Bowen Community Fund. There'll be the support and networking that the social always DALLAS traditional champagne toast at midnight, plus a SALES EVENT One of the most successful film adaptations of a engendered. The informal, open-house-style event heapin' helpin' of black-eyed peas to get the New Neil Simon work occurred with The Goodbye Girl- will include a potluck meal, door prizes, a white- Year started-off right. It all starts at 7 pm with a a film that garnered nine Oscar nominations plus a elephant gift exchange, board and card games, and light buffet, followed by the fabulous show at 8 pm. 20% win for the film's star, Richard Dreyfus, who took other fun activities. There is no admission charge; For more information, please call 713-443-1518 or the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 1977. guests are encouraged to bring food or beverage 713-692-8735. OFF ALL MERCHANDISE Simon wrote the film as a Valentine's Day gift to his items, as they are able. A silent auction - featuring items from Eastman Gallery, artist Keith Curry, then-wife, actress Marsha Mason (who starred in SAN ANTONIO *CHECK OUT OUR NEW LOCA TION* the film and was Oscar-nominated,) and the astrologer Lilly Roddyand Vanity itself - will be held during the social, all proceeds of which will support San Antonio Lesbians Improving Relations (SALIR) screenplay was adapted by Marvin Hamlisch and is pleased to present it's annual New Year'sEvecel- David Zippel into a smash hit Broadway musical. Unity Committee programs, which include Unity ebration, Eve's Eve, to benefit Esperanza Peace& Now, Theatre Three presents the Bruce Coleman- Month in March, the annual Transgender Unity Justice Center and Equality Texas this Sunday, directed debut of the play in performances that run Banquet, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and December 30, at 922 San Pedro Avenue at 8 pm. through January 20 in Theatre One, the Main the Peggy Rudd Transgender Scholarship Fund. Music will be provided by Easy Marie, and the $20 SALf<: IS GOOD THRU 1/31/08 Stage, in its Quadrangle home. Dubbed the perfect For more information about this event, please visit Not \"1\lid \lilh nnv Ot/IN CliM'OtUlf or previous purcha..<;C''', admission includes beer, wine, non-alcoholic drinks romantic musical comedy, Girl depicts the trials and the Houston Transgender Unity Committee (HTUC) GOOD AT 80TH HOUSTON LOCATIONS: and delicious food from WD.