Join Reichen Lemkuhl from The A-List New York & our hosts for a special VIP red carpet reception on Saturday, December 4, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. at Here Lounge.

Enjoy no cover and hosted bar. They'll also be giving away a FREE SKI TRIP FOR 2! (including 3 nights accommodations, VIP Passes and Lift Passes)

VIP Red Carpet Reception & Launch Party
Saturday, Dec 4, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
No cover, hosted bar & giveaways
Here Lounge, 696 N. Robertson, West Hollywood

For more information about Matthew Shepard Gay Ski Week, visit www.matthewshepardgayskiweek.com.

You know those old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials where somebody’s yellin’ that somebody else got her peanut butter on his chocolate? That’s kind of how we feel about tomorrow night’s “Conversations with Coco” with special guest Karen Black. Because it’s two of our favorite things in one delicious bite place at the same time!

Our favorite Karen Black movie of all time is Airport 75 because we loves us a good disaster movie. And we loves us a trailer that gives away the entire plot even more because it saves us money.

And while we’re on the subject of movies, the greatest Coco Peru movie of all time has got to be the high-larious Girls Will Be Girls. Well, that and Schindler’s List.

Tonight, we recommend Paranormal Activity 2 for a little scary pre-Halloween fright (yes, it really is creepier than the first). Then tomorrow night for a show that’s so hilarious it’s scary, catch Miss Coco Peru live on stage chatting, singing and telling jokes alongside Karen Black. We haven’t witnessed two divas fighting so hard for our affection since this.

The main reason we love Miss Coco so much is because she’s the real deal – a triple-threat as Debbie Allen loves to say. She can dance, she can act, and damn, that bitch can sing!

So scratch together some money and see one of Hollywood’s legendary entertainers before she dies of old age and alcohol poisoning. Oh, and Karen Black, too.

Conversations with Coco featuring Karen Black
Tickets: $25
Saturday, October 23, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

The Renberg Theatre at the L.A. GLBT Center
1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles
(323) 860-7300

For more info and to purchase tickets, visit www.lagaycenter.org

(Photo by Bill Santoro)

Of course, we also love them for everyday use, too. We were sent some Timothy Jay West Hollywood Candles and immediately fell in love. It’s hard to find scents we like, so whenever we find great, masculine fragrances, those are the candles we like to keep around. (Don’t worry, ladies, they’ve got some spectacular women’s scents, too.)

The ten-ounce jar candles seem to last forever (one did last us almost a month with daily use), which makes them a great value. But we also love the look of the Serenity Bowls if you’re looking for something a little more unique and zen.

So light up, lie down and relax. And just ignore that scratching on the basement door.

10 oz. candles, $34
www.timothyjaycandles.com

Facial tissues…KLEENEX!
Bleach…CLOROX!
Jeans…LEVIS!
Soda pop…COKE!
Whitney Houston’s Favorite Snack…COKE!

See, wasn’t that easy? These brands are all so huge that they’re the first ones that pop into your pretty little head. The same can be said for Manhunt in the world of online dating/hookup sites for gay men. Because if you’re not on Manhunt, well, you must not be that horny.

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Though the brand recently lost one of its brightest designers in Matt Singer, it’s our gain as the self-branded up-and-comer boasts an eponymous accessories (plus a few classic button-downs) label that’s right up our dimly-lit, booze-stained alley.

We say booze-stained in only the classiest of contexts – Singer’s launch line is full of the reminiscent updated takes on classic lines and minimal appointments that inspired us to have our first big crush with Jack.

Included in Singer’s collection is everything from the traditional: two shirt styles (short and long sleeve Oxfords, $195), a bevy of vintage-invoking watches ($450 – $985), suede and cotton belts ($52); to the whimsical: tie-dye lighter cover ($20), suede roll-up backgammon ($165), and a mysterious Super Hero Secret Identity Kit (coming soon).

But it’s the similar creations Singer stitched to make us fall in love with him when we called him by another name – the four canvas bags offered in the collection: tote, weekend, brief and messenger ($205 – $215) – that we have a hard spot on our hearts for. It’s these homo-satchels that have pushed us over the edge, having us willing to cheat on Jack with Matt.

After all, juggling two men is not a new trick for us, so at least we have a cute new weekend bag to keep our infidelities straight (well, gay).

www.mattsinger.net

Papz problem solved, darlings – the unique personal paparazzi for-hire service known as Methodizaz will help you spread your papz smear on all over town!

First and foremost accomplished photographers, think of Methodizaz as a mobile Glamour Shots – minus the amazing diffused glow, gravity-defying LA Looks-sprayed bangs and kitschy backdrops.

Instead, Methodizaz will capture you when you least expect it in your natural daily environment, whether leaving Starbucks on your way to work, or, like us, leaving the spa (or the alley behind it if it’s still a few days until payday).

Once hired, the unconventional photographers will inquire where you plan to be seen over the next few days then sleuth you out and shoot fabulous candid – but professional – shots depicting you in all your glory. A few weeks later you’ll have a finished product unlike any photo or artistic rendition of your handsome mug that’s already on display in your foyer.

Sure, we like to tell our first dates that we have plenty of stalkers (it makes for a great first impression!), but after hiring Methodizaz, for once, a portion of our reputations is actually true.

How we wrote that with a straight gay face is beyond us…

Prices and locations vary
www.methodizaz.com

There are buff boys at all hours on the sidewalk testing our will power, gallons of caffeinated confections, offered on every corner in doses large enough to give Rush Limbaugh a stroke, and now, succulent gourmet sweets at Plaisir.

We’ve had a hard enough time ignoring our hard enough times below when facing the ever-changing sea of boys on the boulevard. Since they’re as fickle and fleeting as the industry that drew them here in the first place, at least we now have a place to drown our romantic sorrows in Boystown that doesn’t end at the bottom of a glass.

Yea, desserts are bad, but we have never been good. The fare at Plaisir is the spanking bad boys like us have always wanted but have been to shy (or coy) to receive on Santa Monica Boulevard.

With one lick of the ginger ice cream (paired alongside a house-made croissant, might we recommend), there’s no going back. (It’s like Prince Harry always says, “Once you go ginge…”)

Luckily, customers who grab a seat at Plaisir’s bar have for their perusal one of a handful of mini-iPods loaded with palatable music to pass the hours they’ll want to spend sipping on exquisitely brewed espresso drinks and nibbling on the eatery’s crepes.

Don’t worry; Speedo season is still four months away. Even if you indulge in Plaisir as much as we think you’ll want to right up until May and beyond, as the café’s motto says, “The devil eats at Plaisir.”

It wouldn’t be L.A. if there wasn’t a deal to be made at the table…

8613 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood
www.plaisir-la.com

But in front of a crowd? Cirque School's latest, a TRX Suspension class, might provoke our inner-exhibitionists to come out of the closet.

We profiled Cirque School last year, when it was just a wee little twink, gaining its aerial wings in a temporary space at Absolution in WeHo.

Now, as popular and massive as Sagiv, the aerial trainer we may or may not have crushed on when we checked it out in 2008, Cirque School LA has packed up and moved out on its own to a bigger space in Hollywood near the 101.

Like any kid confronting its first taste of freedom, Cirque School refuses to conform, adding even more unconventional (and impressively difficult) workouts to its repertoire, including the aforementioned TRX Suspension class.

And though you may have heard differently, being strapped to the ceiling in front of five or more circus performers is – believe it or not – an entirely new experience for us.

The challenging class, which blends military training with acrobatics, might be the most serious workout we've ever given our core. With a variation of exercises planted around the hanging straps (each student is provided their own set to work with), participants train their entire bodies through extensive core development.

Of course, Cirque School's other rebellious new classes, like juggling, acro-fit (tumbling, handstands, etc.), and a flexibility/stretch class might make the training space the gayest gym in LA (which is quite an achievement considering the fitness landscape of the city) for the third year in a row.

Since we've been avid supporters since its infancy, when do we get the “Our kid likes to do it with straps!” bumper sticker that would make us such proud daddies?

Single TRX class, $25; 6 pack of TRX classes, $125
Cirque School's new location:
5640 ½ Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Enter through an alley on the south side of Hollywood Blvd.
www.cirqueschoolla.com

At the top of our eccentric education includes getting sloshed while upright, and getting sloshed while not (get your minds out of the glitter gutter – we mean drinking cocktails in a moving vehicle!).

While party buses or Hummer-limos are good for servicing an entire frat on their way to the strip club, they really don't match our outfits or fill a need to compensate for something we don't need compensating for (according to our AOL profiles).

And though drinking on a booze cruise in Marina Del Rey fits the fabulous bill, there's nothing that makes us sicker to our stomachs than waves and cocktails (well, like David Guest suffering from night sweats as he recalls Liza's hot pocket, there are a few other things that might make us sicker…).

Worry no more, ravishing revelers, we finally have a way to drink and drive while dapper: Booze Croozers!

Like a taxi with a bar, Booze Croozers is a new pay-by-the-mile (rather than the hour) limo service that comes stocked with an all you can drink bar! It's our wet dream car!

As long as you're within 25 miles of downtown and give at least 45 minutes of notice, Booze Croozers can pick you and no more than five fairy friends up in a sleek Cadillac DeVille or Lincoln Town Car. Once inside the luxury limo, a bar stocked with whiskey, vodka, rum, water, cola and diet cola turns the mobile party into a hot homobile party!

Sure, it might be just as pricey as driving to WeHo or Silver Lake for a bar crawl, but at least with Booze Croozers, the only cops you risk seeing at the end of your night will be the ones who are off-duty.

$19.99 first 1/10th of a mile
$0.99 each additional 1/10th of a mile
www.boozecroozer.com

Some of the most important life lessons were imparted from the show during boyhood: the hypnotic powers a consistent ab routine affords, that impossibly-tiny boy briefs aren't masculine no matter the size of the weapon we wield, the homo-eroticism of sword play – you know, learned items we still utilize today.

But HeMan's Eternia of childhood can also be interpreted in a few (like two, maximum) ways that aren't gay. Gallery 1988 asked 100 artists for their talented depictions of the 80s cult hit, which are available for perusal in a special exhibit titled, “Under the Influence: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.”

Thankfully, we caught you in time as this is the final week of the nostalgic-yet-contemporary show. That's right, you have until Friday for the in-gallery art work to help you remember where your unwavering addiction to the gym and bowl-cut Scandinavian princes stems from.

There's the in-gallery installation of Castle Grayskull, the dragalicious depictions of She-Ra and, of course, dozens of incarnations of He-Man in various states of undress.

But it's simply Johnny Sampson's “Cosmo Skeletor” print (depicting a ripped Skeletor who's more muscle than bone) that we remember most from this exhibit. Now we understand why He-Man was always chasing the classic villain around with a throbbing sword.

Speaking of, maybe we should add “a knack for dirty sexual innuendo” to our list of things we subconsciously gleaned from He-Man…

“Under the Influence: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”
Through Friday, January 29
Gallery 1988
7020 Melrose, Hollywood
www.nineteeneightyeight.com