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Michael Caprio honored at St. Therese Center’s Annual “Circle Of Roses” Gala 2011

Tonight at the Riviera Hotel, my husband Michael Caprio will be honored with others in our community for the support and service he volunteers to this amazing organization.

I’m very proud of Michael. He’s one of the hardest working people I know, but never so busy to not help promote the St. Therese Center’s work and mission. Throughout the year, and indeed for many years, he spends many hours promoting and getting the word out about the Center’s many events.  He also has been instrumental in getting others, like Broadway’s Brent Barrett and the Chippendales among others, to participate and donate their time and energy to this great charity.

The St. Therese Center, named after Saint Therese of Lisieux, is a Catholic ministry that welcomes and serves people of all faiths and extends the Lord’s healing to all persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Emphasizing wellness, Saint Therese Center reaches out to those touched by HIV/AIDS to provide spiritual, physical and emotional support, educational and social services in the spirit of love and compassion.

If you have time tonight, come to the Riviera Hotel on the Strip, donate to the gala dinner and find out more about this terrific organization. Drinks are at 6PM, dinner around 7PM.

Click here for more info about the Saint Therese Center.

UPDATE: Thank you for everyone who came out to support the St. Therese Center and celebrate Michael being honored for his contributions.  Especially Gordon Miles, Alex Chavez, John Genovese, Joey Gonnello, Ben Lemke, and Chris Saldana.  Much fun was had at the table, and it was a great night for the St. Therese Center.

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DOJ: Rick Perry’s TX Redistricting Plan Purposefully Discriminated Against Minorities

From TalkingPointsMemo: The Justice Department said late Friday that based on their preliminary investigation, a congressional redistricting map signed into law by Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry appears to have been “adopted, at least in part, for the purpose of diminishing the ability of citizens of the United States, on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group, to elect their preferred candidates of choice to Congress.”

DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is specifically contesting the changes made to Texas Districts 23 and 27, which they say would not provide Hispanic citizens with the ability to elect candidates of their choice.

Read more here.

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Victor Garber – the new voice of “Charlie’s Angels”

Victor Garber has been named the new voice of the boss on Charlie’s Angels, USA Today reports.

The 62-year-old actor, who you might recognize from Alias, replaces the earlier announced Robert Wagner in the role.

In the original series, Charlie was voiced by John Forsythe.

Charlie’s Angels, starring Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh, and Rachael Taylor, premiered last night on ABC.

Anyone see it? Thoughts?

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Video: GOP Debate Crowd Boos Soldier Serving in Iraq

During the FOX News/Google GOP presidential debate, a YouTube question regarding ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ from Stephen Hill, a soldier serving in Iraq, was directed at Rick Santorum.

Asked Hill: “Do you plan to circumvent the progress that has been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?”

In a disgusting display of disrespect, Hill – an active soldier serving in Iraq – was booed by members of the audience at the debate.

Answered Santorum:

“Any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military. And the fact that they are making it a point to include it as a provision within the military – that we are going to recognize a group of people and give them a special privilege, I think tries to inject social policy into the military and the military’s job is to defend our country. We need to give the military, which is all volunteer, the ability to do so in a way that is most efficient and protective of our men and women in uniform and I believe this undermines that ability.”

Megyn Kelly followed up: “So what would you do with soldiers like Stephen Hill. Now he’s out. What would you do as president?”

Said Santorum: “What we’re doing right now is playing social experimentation with our military right now, and that’s tragic. Going forward we would reinstitute that policy…”

In addition to the disrespect shown to an active US soldier serving overseas, Santorum makes the odd statement that “any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.” So I’m guessing he feels no soldier – gay or straight – has the right to have ANY sex while in the military. Also, he refers to allowing gay and lesbian citizens the right that all heterosexual citizens have as a “special privilege.” I’m not sure how more backward that comment could be. Allowing all citizens the SAME rights is hardly doling out ‘special privileges.’

Notice not ONE of the candidates on that stage defended the soldier from those in the crowd booing.

One more thing – imagine how FOX News would play out the scenario of a Democratic crowd booing a US soldier. Think about that.
(via towleroad)

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Reva Rice “Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries”

Reva Rice, current star of “Vegas the Show” in Las Vegas, stops the evening with her rendition of “Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries” at Jim Caruso’s Cast Party in Las Vegas with musical director and co-hort Billy Stritch. Btw, this was at about 1AM after two performances of “Vegas The Show.”

Jim Caruso’s Cast Party is a wildly popular weekly soiree that brings a sprinkling of Broadway glitz and urbane wit to the legendary Birdland in New York City every Monday night. Now occasionally in Las Vegas, Jim continues his cool cabaret night-out enlivened by a hilariously impromptu variety show. Showbiz superstars hit the stage alongside up-and-comers, serving up jaw-dropping music and general razzle-dazzle.

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Miss Coco Peru does Vegas!

The legendary Miss Coco Peru is coming to Sin City – at the one and only Onyx Theatre!

Miss Coco got her start as a downtown favorite in the cabaret world of NYC after writing, producing, directing, and starring in “Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret” nearly 20 years ago.

On screen, Miss Coco is best known for her roles in Jim Fall’s Fineline feature film, Trick (Sundance 1999) and Richard Day’s IFC feature length comedy Girls Will Be Girls.(Sundance 2002) For this film Coco shared the Best Actress Award with his two co-stars Jeffery Roberson and Jack Plotnick at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen as well as the Best Actor Award at Outfest Film Festival.

Other film appearances include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Nick and Jane, and Straight-Jacket.

Coco has appeared on TV in Arrested Development, Twins, Will and Grace, New York Undercover, Showtime’s Rude Awakening, Bravo’s Boy Meets Boy, Bravo’s Sexiest Moments in Film, Bravo’s Welcome to the Parker, and in an Orbitz commercial that was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.

Coco has her very own half-hour LOGO comedy special taped as part of the “Wisecrack” series. The episode airs regularly and is available on iTunes! She recently followed up this show with an hour-long LOGO special called “One Night Stand-up – DRAGTASTIC.”

This is going to be an event you don’t want to miss. Buy your tickets now before they’re all gone, and join us for Coco’s limited Sin City engagement!

Performance Dates:
Friday – September 23, 2011 at 08:00 PM – Reserve C Seating
Saturday – September 24, 2011 at 08:00 PM – Reserve C Seating
Sunday – September 25, 2011 at 07:00 PM – Reserve C Seating

Located near the famous Las Vegas Strip, The Onyx Theatre is Las Vegas’
leading alternative theatrical and performance space for world-class and local artists.

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Chris Matthews: Gov. Rick Perry and “appeasement”

I completely agree with Chris Matthews on this point.

Quoting Chris Matthews: “At this very moment of national challenge, with the president doing what every friend of Israel — left, right and center — understands he needed to do, this person from Texas, this foreign policy ingenue, spotted his chance and he showed up in New York to make his diplomatic debut.”

“Mr. Perry, you did our president a disservice, our country a dishonor today. You showed that you do not understand the role of the American presidency in our national life. When a president acts to defend the United States, in this case on principle as well as national interest, we should all stand behind him.”

“If you don`t get that, you don`t get us — much less the job of representing us on the world stage which the president did so well and so courageously today.”