Fridae's self-professed No. 1 fan of Queen Kylie, Ms Mariah Scary, attempts to dance to her idol's new release, Body Language, only to leave the dance-floor completely disappointed.
The 13th Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival will be held from Nov 28 - Dec 13, 2003, after almost being cancelled due to the lack of corporate sponsorship caused by the economic downturn. Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Tim Cribb tracks down festival directors Raymond Yeung and Wouter Barendrech for an exclusive report.
Fridae's movie buff, Alvin Tan, catches the worldwide premiere of The Matrix Revolutions and delivers his verdict on the concluding chapter to the mind-bending Matrix trilogy.
Fridae's resident club kid Alvin Tan reviews James St James' novel on murderous gay party promoter Michael Alig and explains why Party Monster is a must read for obsessive circuit queens everywhere.
Fridae's resident music critic, Ms Mariah Scary, reviews Texas' new album Careful What You Wish For and swoons over the band's revitalised sound, and lead singer and lesbian icon Sharleen Spiteri.
Beyonce Knowles claims that her homophobic comments were taken out of context, and tries to set the record straight after news of her potentially career-damaging quotes hit the gay press worldwide.
Houston-based DJ Michael Tank and Australian Alex Taylor will play at SnowBall at Suntec Singapore on Dec 27 and the Meltdown Recovery party at China Black on Dec 28 respectively.
Taiwanese songwriter-artiste Emil Chau Wakin has gone all out to display his gay-friendliness in his new music video. Film and television actors Wing Fan and Yang Yuning frolic topless on the beach and get into some intimate moments in a story that tells of a love that has hardly ever been the subject of the Chinese-language pop music scene.
Fridae's Alvin Tan reviews Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 and decides that he wants to be a member of the female assassin clan also known as DiVAS.