Benefit set for Sunday’s Dream game

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 25, 2008 | 8:06 PM

Mix a pro sports team, a business networking group and a non-profit and what do you have?

A fun afternoon (with cash bar), or at least that’s the hope of the Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The group is partnering with the Atlanta Dream on Sunday to host a reception and fund-raiser that benefits the Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative. READ MORE »

WNBA smacks brawl participants

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 25, 2008 | 6:22 PM

The punishment was handed down and the WNBA isn’t happy. Ten players and an assistant coach were smacked with suspensions for their roles in the league’s first-ever brawl on Tuesday.

Author Patricia Nell Warren has a point-on take about the brawl and the ensuing media attention, writing that women now “have equal opportunity with men to make fools of themselves in front of the TV cameras and try to settle with tempers what they failed to settle with their talent.”

Speaking of the WNBA, the Atlanta Dream schedule includes two home games before the league breaks for the Olympics: tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
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Tom Brady: Dude, buy my house

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 25, 2008 | 5:40 PM

Oh, to be Tom Brady.

The NFL’s 31-year-old MVP of last season and three-time Super Bowl winner has a super model for a girlfriend, more money than he’ll ever need and he’s a stud (though he did lose his off-season parking space at Gillette Stadium).

He’s also got a 3,000-square-foot condo in New York’s Time Warner Center that he wants to unload. Price tag: $18.29 million, up 30 percent from his purchase price in December 2006.

His girlfriend, Gisele Bundchen, is also looking to dump her West Village penthouse, a more modest abode that lists for $5.9 million. Media reports indicate the pair shacks up at another West Village penthouse Bundchen owns. No word on its cost. READ MORE »

Ready for a little volleyball?

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 24, 2008 | 5:15 PM

The gay volleyball circuit stops in Atlanta on Friday for the Hotlanta Classic XVII. READ MORE »

Diving glory

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 24, 2008 | 5:09 PM

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arts & culture

E. Lynn Harris plays to friendly crowd

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 24, 2008 | 1:57 PM

Gay author E. Lynn Harris read portions of his novel, "Just Too Good to Be True," to a packed crowd at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse on Wednesday.

The book, billed by Harris as about "football, family and secrets," adds to the author's collection of nine novels and a 2004 memoir.

Harris talked with Southern Voice for a profile earlier this month.

“I’m still very, very thankful and dependent on my gay readers. I don’t want them to think for one minute that I have abandoned them,” Harris says, noting that his next book, due out in January 2009, is a “totally gay story” called “Basketball Jones.”

For a gallery of photos from the event, go here.

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Hotlanta Softball settles on World Series teams

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 23, 2008 | 8:35 PM

The Open Division of the Hotlanta Softball League wrapped up its season on Sunday. READ MORE »

Slugging Sparks ‘Shock’ the WNBA

By Project Q Atlanta | Jul 23, 2008 | 8:31 PM

Candace Parker proves that it’s not just male athletes who are ill tempered.

Parker, of the Los Angeles Sparks, threw down with Lisa Leslie and her Detroit Shock in the closing seconds of a game on Tuesday. The Shock, ironically, are coached by former NBA bad boy Bill Laimbeer. This comes just three day after IndyCar driver Danica Patrick got in the face of Milka Duno in the pits.

Parker keeps breaking new ground in the WNBA. In June, she became the league’s first player to dunk (and did it in back-to-back games) and now, she’s the ringleader in what’s probably the league’s first brawl.

Watch the video after the jump. READ MORE »