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Alonso Duralde spotlights the month's new physical-media releases -- because you can't count on HBO Max to hang onto anything

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Have you been keeping up with Only Murders in the Building? We bet you didn’t know the queer history of the Ansonia hotel.

Mainstream pop albums like Bette Midlers Bette of Roses work because the songs are inclusive of a broader range of audiences and the themes relate to most people.

Is there a link between the Ramones and the Ronettes? The Stooges and the New York Dolls and the Shangri-Las? There’s no denying that a rich vein of musical similarities and mutual fandom existed between these two camps. Louis Jordan takes us on a time trip through the evidence as we pay homage to the great “girl groups” of the 1950s and 1960s and their positive influence on those who came in their wake. As Louis observes, “the influence of girl group gave early punk records a sense of p...

We take a look at the long, colourful history of gay bathhouses, taking you from their origins in 1492 right up to the present day.

Ronnie gave her “ohs” the shape of shock, smoke rings, and the after-image of a bullet hole through a beehive.

Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes and gay icon, has died at the age of 78 after a brief battle with cancer.

Growing up in Hawaii, Bette Midler had no idea what she looked like. "None," she says. Its a stunning admission from someone so magnetically present,

Bette Midler was one out of five selected to be a Kennedy Center honoree this month.