Bryan van Gorder

A cheeky Instagram post for April Fool's Day.

The Media District wanted to highlight some of the businesses for Mother's Day.

A chat with the architect/owner of the ARRIVE hotel in Palm Springs.

Write, edited, and designed this quarterly newsletter for an LA-based business improvement district.

The four men looked at me as if I had just touched down from Mars. With the jet lag creeping in, I suppose I might as well have.

A few minutes earlier, I had decided that my pint of beer required the companionship of a cigarette and headed out to the Funny Girls theater’s smoking patio to find one.

Courtesy of Funny Girls; Courtesy of Visit Blackpool (mirror ball, and blackpool tower)

Blackpool

Blackpool, a seaside resort town on the northwest coast of England, is one of the most popular vaca...

A slide appearing in a slideshow on The Onion. The topic is "Things to say if you catch your son watching right-wing propaganda."

Earlier this year, RuPaul, the recording artist/actor/author and executive producer/host of RuPaul’s Drag Race, famously remarked in an interview with Vulture, “I’d rather have an enema than an Emmy.”

In September, he revisited the comment on stage as as he somewhat ironically accepted the Emmy for Outstanding Host of a Variety, Non-Fiction or Reality Program.

“Now I can have both,” he said. It was the most buzzed about speech of the night.

Anyone who has seen an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race...

Satirical take on newsworthy topics.

Winner of Open Screenplay's 2nd Open Topic Short Film Contest

A satirical take on topical news.

As he spoke, I could see the sadness in Daniel Arzola’s dark, brown eyes. This was not the sadness of a relationship just ended or recently lost pet. It ran much deeper and, especially on the face of someone so young, cast a heaviness across his brow. Daniel and I were both speaking at a conference in Buenos Aires. I had sat in on his panel as he talked about his childhood in Venezuela, the country's culture of violence and lack of basic human rights, especially for its LGBT citizens.

Arzola,...

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An interview with two of the funniest women in the business.

If you miss seeing the lovely and talented, Jasika Nicole playing Astrid Farnsworth on the hit TV show Fringe, or as Kim, Huck's wife, on Scandal, then you're in luck since she now has a new film out that is heating up the festival circuit. Indeed, you can catch her playing Billie, one-half of a lesbian couple in Suicide Kale, a dark comedy about a casual lunch that takes an unexpected turn with the discovery of an anonymous suicide note. Between courses (and servings of intrigue), we caught ...