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The 2007 Tony nominations are out. It looks like Spring Awakening leads with 11 nominations, followed by Grey Gardens with 10. UPDATE: I failed to notice that Kiki & Herb – Alive On Broadway, which Little David and I saw on opening night, is nominated for Best Theatrical Event. Woo-hoo! Best Play: The Coast of Utopia – Author: Tom StoppardFrost/Nixon …

Bryant Park is a neat little 9-acre park squeezed behind the Main Library at 5th Avenue & 42nd Street. While an official NYC park, Bryant Park is managed by a private non-profit group. During the civil war, Union soldiers drilled there. Fashion Week takes over the park twice a year and during warm weather I’ve seen some great 8AM concerts …

Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprise’s Hip-O Records, this week’s swag haul is a fantastic collection of 13 Elvis Costello CDs. The prize package comprises two brand new collections compiled by Elvis himselvis and his first 11 albums!Brand new is The Best Of Elvis Costello – The First 10 Years, containing 22 hits spanning Costello’s first decade on the charts. Also …

Joe: Hello. Joe’s boss: Hey, I’m running late. My tranny is leaking. Both: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! We are such children..

I remain mystified by Eurovision, the annual camp fest that captivates gay Europeans. Although I’m pleased that The Gays took first and second place, this year’s winner, the song by out lesbian Marija Serifovic, representing Serbia, was complete schlock ripped from the Jim Steinman/Celine Dion songbook. However, I am amused by the second place winner from Ukraine, a drag queen …

“This is deeply disappointing and concerning to me and the rest of the management team.” – PlanetOut CEO Karen Magee, announcing that the company, owner of Out, Advocate, and Gay.com, will be out of money by the end of the year without an infusion of cash. PlanetOut reported a first quarter loss of nearly $7M on Friday, sending its stock …

Nine years ago DaimlerBenz bought Chrysler for $37 billion. Today they sold the bulk of the company to a private equity firm for the bargain basement price of $7.4 billion. Ouch! Lee Iaccoca, who famously engineered a government bailout of Chrysler in 1979, is “broken hearted.” The new owners of Chrysler are faced with billions of dollars in employee costs …

Overheard: “Hi, mom! Happy Mother’s Day! I tried to call you this morning. What? No, I’m in the city. At a bar. A bar. The Eagle. You wouldn’t like it.” Traversing our usual haunts yesterday, we observed that teh gays must be good sons, because Mother’s Day really wiped out attendance at the bars. Good boys.

Several hundred thousand Italians protested proposed gay rights laws in Rome on Saturday, in a giant rally called “Family Day.” The rally was organized by a consortium of Catholic groups and was attended by many nuns and priests. The new law would give expanded rights to gay and unmarried couples in matters like welfare and inheritance rights, but does not …