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Flirtations a Family Favorite

by Jane Dwinell x

The Flirtations are HOT! For those of
you who like acappella, here’s your chance
to enjoy some gay-positive lyrics as well as
great sound. Notas tight or developed as the
Nylons, the Flirtations nonetheless give
you more than what you pay for: sixteen
great songs guaranteed to put a smile on
your face.

The Flirtations are Jon Arterton, Mi-
chael Callen, Aurelio Font, TJ Myers, and
Cliff Townsend, and they have put together
a wild collection of tunes ranging from
remakes of some sixties favorites and bar-
bershop classics to songs about AIDS and
gay parenthood. One of my personal favor-
ites is their rendition of “To Know Him Is
To Love Him.” It’s enough to make you
weep!

My four-year-old daughter’s favorites
include “On Children,” a song based on
Kahlil Gibran’s essay about children. It’s a
joy to hear her walking around the house
singing, “You can give them your love but
not your thoughts, they have their own
thoughts.” It reminds metorespecther, one
of the most important aspects of parent-
hood. Her other favorite, along with every-

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one else’s in the household, is “House-
wor ” —— guaranteed to get you moving
when you’re trying to tidy your own place...
It’s a lament for the want of a househus-
band: “Someone to share my dreams and
wishes, someone to help me with the
dishes,” a thought we can all relate to.
Perhaps the best recommendation for
this tape comes from my six-month-old
son. While Kay Gardner was guaranteed to
calm him down as a baby, now it’s the
Flirtations. If you've got a cranky baby, put

on the tape and watch the broad smile cross
his face as the music begins. Anything
that’.ll calm a baby has got to be good.

But maybe it’s just the positive mood
that pervades the house while the Flirta-
tions are belting out their personal lyrics to
“Surfrn’ USA:” “In the north there’s P-
town, in the south there’s Key West, on the
east it’s Fire  The Beach Boys
would never believe it.

'I‘here’s something for everyone on
this tape.

Holly Hughes’s “Wor|d” Coming to Johnson

Jesse Helms may hate her and John
Frohnmayer may be able, though just
barely, to tolerate her, but Holly Hughes is
still going strong. The “premier lesbian
performance aritist from Michigan” now
brings her play, World Without End, to
Johnson State College's Dibden Center for
the Arts. The perfonnance, sponsored by
the Johnson State College Festival of Arts
and Letters, takes place Tuesday, April 23,
at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $8.00 at the the
door, reservations and further information
may be obtained by calling 533-2575.

Holly Hughes is a writer who, in the
words of Vilage Voice critic C. Carr “has
gleefully invented herselfa genre with little
precedent... the timeless , tasteless world of
‘Dyke Noir."’ Her plays and performance
pieces, which include The Well of
Horniness, The Lady Dick, Dress Suits for
Hire, Into Temptation, (based on an idea by
Kate Stafford), as well as World Without
End, have been performed throughout the
United States and in Europe.

Her work is at once comic and poetic,
feminist and irreverent, controversial yet
entertaining and witty. Drawing upon her
experience as an anorexic, a member of the

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waitress, a Jesus freak, a lesbian, a cham-
pion bowler, and an artist, she creates

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that has received funding from the NEA,
the Jerome Foundation and New York State
Council on the Arts grants.

Last year Holly Hughes found herself
drawn, against her will, into Jesse Helms’
reelection campaign when the Senator
seized on the issue of “obscenity” in thearts
to bolster his popularity. To demonstrate
his concern over this vital issue, Helms and
his epigones put enough pressure on NEA
Chairman John Frohnmayer to cause hirnto
deny recommended grants to Ms. Hughes
and three other perfonnance artists whose
material also dealt with gay and feminist
issues. Now that Senator Helms is safely
ensconced in his seat for another six years,
the NEA has found the courage to award
Holly Hughes a grant for the coming year.

The Johnson State College Festival of
Arts and Letters is a project of Johnson
State College and Northern Vennont Per-
forming Arts. Funds for its performance

series are provided, in part, by a grant from V

the Vennont Council on the Arts.

 

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