
Joan Armatrading
Singer/Songwriter Comes to Long Beach Terrace Theater Aug. 7
By Charles Karel Bouley
“Is she the one that sounds like Tracy Chapman?”
That’s a question often posed when explaining the musical wonderment of Joan Armatrading. Since the release of 1972’s Whatever For Us, the European-based singer-songwriter has consistently satisfied lifelong fans and created new ones. Her success [...]

This questionairre is the most dehumanizing thing…wait, just another in a long step of dehumanizing things. This is what our military is being asked by the Big Bad Gays.
It’s all here:
Wait to you get to the GLBT questions. Love the ones about showering. Replace Gay with Black and would this [...]

If We Stand Back And Take A Breath, We’ll Choke Up
By Charles Karel Bouley II
We’re so many things, each of us. We’re male, female, gay, straight, we’re progressive or conservative, we’re black, white, Latino, we’re husband, wife, son, daughter, we’re American, we’re immigrant, we’re blue or red or purple, we’re so many adjectives these days, so [...]

OK, so, every so often I get an item sent to me to review that Iove so much, I just have to keep. The Sonos players are such items. Each and every day I begin with them now, and can’t imagine my multi-media life without them.
These all in one players merge all my digital needs. At [...]

Karel –
Two weeks after it was signed into law, health insurance reform is still the talk of the town.
It’s for a good reason: This was a historic accomplishment. But it wasn’t easy. I remember what it’s like to be a senator and take a tough stand on an issue — confident that it’s the best thing [...]

I may bare my soul on air, but in print for almost two years now I’ve remained silent, outside of my commentaries at the HuffingtonPost.com and my Blade work. I haven’t blogged per se, for many reasons. First, professionally, I’m on four radio stations and no matter how that is happening, it’s not a bad thing. [...]

Stop the GayHunt And Refocus on the War
By Charles Karel Bouley
Rep . Patrick Kennedy got all fired up on the floor of the Congress Thursday, March 11, 2010, veins bulging, spittle flying….why? He was angry that while the Congress debates Afghanistan and the $3 Billion dollar a year escalation there are two members of the press [...]

Heather is well on her way through Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena. See what today [...]

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are insane zealots who pervert Christian teachings to meet their own bigotries. There is nothing that Fred Phelps or his lunatics could scream or say that I, as a thinking American and openly gay male, care to hear or need to know. It’s why today, February 19, 2010 as they [...]

http://calcoastnews.com/2010/02/kyns-1340-signs-up-controversial-gay-talk-show-host/
So says the [...]