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Brent Calderwood’s work appears in Rolling Stone, Cineaste, Out, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. His cover story “Carnival Noir” for Noir City magazine was touted on Turner Classic Movies.
He has interviewed artists including Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro, The Manchurian Candidate composer David Amram, women’s music pioneer Holly Near, Harvey Milk photographer Daniel Nicoletta, and the singer-songwriters Mary Lambert and Justin Vivian Bond.
Features & Cover Stories:
Interview: Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan on Nightmare Alley. Noir City Magazine. Excerpt here.
Cover Story: Carnival Noir. Noir City Magazine. Excerpt here.
“I Never Was a Beat”: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Musical Vision. Rolling Stone
The Many Lives of a Musical Master: An Interview with David Amram. Cineaste Magazine
Joni Mitchell’s Blue at 50. JoniMitchell.com
Year in Review. OUT Magazine
A Case of You: Be Prepared to Bleed. Joni Mitchell.com
Harvey Milk Photographer Daniel Nicoletta Interview & Profile. A&U Magazine
Susan Sontag. Lambda Literary
San Francisco’s Literary History. Locuspoint
Lies Your English Teacher Taught You: Prepositions. Grammarly
Film Essays & Profiles:
Interview: Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan on Nightmare Alley. Noir City Magazine
The Many Lives of a Musical Master: An Interview with David Amram. Cineaste Magazine
Harold and Maude at 50. The Film Experience
Judy Holliday at 100. The Film Experience
Juanita Moore. The Film Experience
The Postman Always Rings Twice. The Film Experience
The Wachowskis’ Bound at 25. The Film Experience
Frameline International Film Festival. Communications & Community Outreach Director for 2008 Frameline LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco.
“We Were Here.” Film review, A&U Magazine
“The Wedding Banquet.” Film review, San Francisco Examiner
“This Boy’s Life.” Film review, InsideOUT Magazine
Lesbians on the Frontlines: A New Film and Exibit, “We Were There,” Tells a Story of Compassion and Leadership. A&U Magazine
Art Reviews & Profiles:
Re/Purpose: Mixed-Media Artist Solis Combines Postmodern and Precolonial Influences to Imagine a Better World. A&U Magazine
Saints and Stereotypes: Photographer George Dinhaupt Captures the Beauty and Importance of Human Diversity. A&U Magazine
Talking Pictures: The Museum of Design Atlanta Brings Writers and Graphic Artists Together. A&U Magazine
Hide/Seek: Sexual Difference in American Portraiture. A&U Magazine
Defining Moments: Artist Gypsy Ray. A&U Magazine
Materials of Survival: Artist Grahame Perry. A&U Magazine
True to Life: Artist Lenore Chinn. A&U Magazine
Music Reviews & Profiles:
The Many Lives of a Musical Master: An Interview with David Amram. Cineaste Magazine
Joni Mitchell’s Blue at 50. JoniMitchell.com
A Case of You: Be Prepared to Bleed. Joni Mitchell.com
Summer Sounds: Northern California’s Best Outdoor Music Festivals. Bay Area Reporter
Back to the Garden: Luscious Music Festival’s Star-Studded Sounds. Bay Area Reporter
“Tales of the City: The Musical.” Theater review, A&U Magazine
Jewel, Pieces of You. East Bay Express
k.d. lang, Drag. East Bay Express
Red House Painters, Songs for a Blue Guitar. East Bay Express
Dar Williams, Mortal City. East Bay Express
Mark Eitzel, 60 Watt Silver Lining. East Bay Express
Sarah Hickman, Misfits. East Bay Express
Politics, News & Editorial:
John Gruber, One of Gay Movement’s Unsung Founding Fathers, Dies at 82. Lambda Literary
Beards are Back. San Francisco Bay Times
Gays Protest Jamaican Reggae, Not American Rap. New America Media. Republished in the Hartford Courant and The Times of India
Out of the Closet, Onto the Dancefloor. San Francisco Examiner
The Swish Beneath the Swagger: Liberating Our Queer Selves. San Francisco Bay Times
Queer Liberation? No Thanks, We’ll Pass. Beyond Masculinity
Be Butch or Be Bashed. Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Wisdom about AIDS for the Next Generation. San Francisco Bay Times
The Savage Truth. Bay Area Reporter
Literature & Book Criticism:
“Slide to Unlock by Julie E. Bloemeke.” Kenyon Review
“Volando cometas/Flying Kites: Spanish Language Book Review and Interview with Author Lawrence Schimel.” A&U Magazine.
“Christopher Hewitt Awards 2016.” A&U Magazine
“Christopher Hewitt Awards 2015.” A&U Magazine
“What the Future Holds: The 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award Winners.” A&U Magazine
“A Growing Legacy: The 2013 Christopher Hewitt Award Winners.” A&U Magazine
“‘Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities’: Does the Huffington Post Hate Poetry?” Lambda Literary
“Vice and Consent: The Question of Rape in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” Tiresias
“Hide/Seek: Sexual Difference in American Portraiture.” A&U Magazine
“Cultural Confluences by Lenore Chinn.” A&U Magazine
“Cool Limbo by Michael Montlack.” Lambda Literary
“Dunstan Thompson: On the Life and the Work of a Lost Master.” Lambda Literary
“The First Risk by Charles Jensen.” Lambda Literary
“Field Folly Snow by Cecily Parks.” American Poetry Journal
“The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White.” Lambda Book Report
“Breakfast with Thom Gunn by Randall Mann.” Lambda Book Report
“Want by Rick Barot.” Lambda Book Report
“Boy with Flowers by Ely Shipley.” Lambda Book Report
“Imago by Joseph Legapsi.” Lambda Book Report
“Next Extinct Mammal by Ruben Quesada.” Lambda Literary
“Mad for Meat by Kevin Simmonds.” Lambda Literary
“A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering by Dawn Lundy Martin.” Lambda Literary
“Legacies of Love by Winston Wilde.” Lambda Book Report
“The World Underneath by Richard Tayson.” Lambda Book Report
Youth Journalism:
“Gay Kids Are the New Helms Victims.” San Francisco Examiner 11 Aug. 1994. (Republished as: “Anti-Gay Provision Will Hurt Teens.” Chicago Sun-Times, Arizona Daily Star, and New Designs for Youth Development; “Gay Teen-agers Easy Pawns in Senate’s Political Power Plays.” Chapel Hill Herald/Durham Herald
“Opinion: Brent Calderwood.” Back-page guest editorial, premiere issue of XY Magazine
“Young-Eyed.” First-ever LGBT youth-themed news column in San Francisco. San Francisco Bay Times, 1993
“Memoirs from a Closet.” Youth Outlook! (YO!), August 1993, Pacific News Service: Two-page cartoon bio written and illustrated by Brent Calderwood, editors Richard Rodriguez and Sandy Close; received national distribution and press attention
InsideOUT Magazine. C0-founder and Editor-in-Chief of InsideOUT, America’s first nationally distributed magazine by, for and about LGBT youth: 1993-1996