Queer Artists Energize San Diego’s CRSSD Fest

Kaytranada, Yaeji, and Amo Amo delivered electrifying sets that brought queer energy to the Southern California EDM festival.

www.advocate.com/music/2019/10/05/queer-artists-energize-san-diegos-crssd-fest

Joel Kim Booster on developing Fire Island rom-com: “I’m making my friends wear Speedos”

The Joel Kim Booster Renaissance continues: The prolific comedian is developing Trip, an “unapologetic, modern-day rom-com inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice” set on the gay mecca of Fire Island.

The series, picked up by short-form video platform Quibi, “centers around two best friends who set out to have a legendary week-long summer vacation with the help of cheap rosé and a cadre of eclectic friends,” Deadline adds.

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“For the last couple of years, I’ve been threatening to pitch a gay Pride and Prejudice adaptation that takes place entirely on Fire Island and I finally found a platform foolish enough to do it!” Booster tweeted on September 25.

“This is my version of Sandler telling Netflix he has to film his next movie on the Amalfi Coast or some shit. Only I’m making all my friends wear Speedos on Long Island in April!”

In a follow-up tweet, the 31-year-old quipped: “I’m just laying the groundwork for my real passion project: Persuasion, set on an Atlantis Cruise.”

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Booster, who’s openly gay, has been rising in the comedy ranks since performing a set on Conan in 2016. He got a Comedy Central special in 2017 and released his debut comedy album, Model Minority, in November. He has also co-produced the Comedy Central series The Other Two and recurred on the Hulu comedy Shrill. These days, he’s starring on the NBC comedy Sunnyside.

With this latest project of his, though, we’re totally Trip-ping.

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Following Reports of Another, More Directly-Involved Whistleblower, Trump Rages, Calling NYT and ‘Washington Post’ Reporting ‘Pure Fiction’

Donald Trump raged at The New York Times and Washington Post on Saturday morning following reports that another whistleblower, more directly-involved in the Ukraine phone call controversy, was considering filing a complaint.

The NYT reports: “The official has more direct information about the events than the first whistle-blower, whose complaint that Mr. Trump was using his power to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals touched off an impeachment inquiry. The second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence community inspector general to corroborate the allegations of the original whistle-blower, one of the people said.”

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Following Reports of Another, More Directly-Involved Whistleblower, Trump Rages, Calling NYT and ‘Washington Post’ Reporting ‘Pure Fiction’