From Gay Dive Bars to Jazz at Lincoln Center (Ep 487 - jazz/Richard Cortez)

From Gay Dive Bars to Jazz at Lincoln Center (Ep 487 - jazz/Richard Cortez)
Matt Baume & Richard Cortez
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My guest this week is jazz musician Richard Cortez, whose new album Mood Swings comes out in one month, on October 24, 2024. Richard’s love of music was instilled early in life, but he hit some road bumps on his first attempt to move to New York and make it big in the arts. That was followed by various jobs in health care, in more adult careers, and occasionally flipping between stripping and jazz singing before he finally found success with his latest project.

We’ll have that conversation in just a moment. First, if you’re enjoying The Sewers of Paris, I hope you’ll consider supporting the show on Patreon. Patrons get access to an exclusive Discord server, stickers and books in the mail, bonus videos, and more. You can join the Patreon at patreon.com/mattbaume.

And you may also enjoy my other projects —  my YouTube videos, weekly livestreams on Twitch, my book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!, and my email newsletter. Check out all that at MattBaume.com.

Also, I hope you’ll check out a new documentary series premiering on CNN on September 22, about TV milestones that shaped American culture. It’s called TV on the Edge, and I’m just one of the folks interviewed on the show.

A Little Space Alien (Ep 486 - Superman/Glenn)

A Little Space Alien (Ep 486 - Superman/Glenn)
Matt Baume & Glenn Kiser
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This weekend, there’s a new documentary coming to theaters about the life of Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman. It’s called Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, and it’s about his career, the injury that changed his life, and about what Superman the character means to different people. For this week’s episode, we’re diving into the Sewers archives to revisit a 2018 conversation on that topic. My guest was Glenn Kiser, whose name you might not recognize but he’s had a hand in countless films over the last thirty years — helping to craft movies alongside directors like David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Jane Campion, and George Lucas. As a kid, Glenn would obsess over movies and dream of the day he could make his own — never dreaming that his journey could take him from living on an isolated ranch in Texas to working at Skywalker Ranch.

We’ll have that conversation in just a moment. First, if you’re enjoying The Sewers of Paris, I hope you’ll consider supporting the show on Patreon. Patrons get access to an exclusive Discord server, stickers and books in the mail, bonus videos, and more. You can join the Patreon at patreon.com/mattbaume.

And you may also enjoy my other projects —  my YouTube videos, weekly livestreams on Twitch, my book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!, and my email newsletter. Check out all that at MattBaume.com.

Also, I hope you’ll check out a new documentary series premiering on CNN on September 22, about TV milestones that shaped American culture. It’s called TV on the Edge, and I’m just one of the folks interviewed on the show.

Homosexuals Are Mad as Hell and We're Organizing (Ep 485 - live television/Mark Segal)

Homosexuals Are Mad as Hell and We're Organizing (Ep 485 - live television/Mark Segal)
Matt Baume & Mark Segal
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My guest this week is Mark Segal, who started making waves in the 1960s and hasn’t stopped since. Mark was there for Stonewall, he was there for the organizing of the first Prides that followed, and he was ready to get arrested for the cause of gay liberation — and was many times, including on one memorable occasion when he invaded a broadcast of the CBS evening news. These days, he claims the title of the nation’s most awarded LGBT journalist, he continues to oversee operations at the Philadelphia Gay News, and he has some wisdom to offer queer people following the trail that he blazed.

We’ll have that conversation in just a moment. First, if you’re enjoying The Sewers of Paris, I hope you’ll consider supporting the show on Patreon. Patrons get access to an exclusive Discord server, stickers and books in the mail, bonus videos, and more. You can join the Patreon at patreon.com/mattbaume.

And you may also enjoy my other projects —  my YouTube videos, weekly livestreams on Twitch, my book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!, and my email newsletter. Check out all that at MattBaume.com.

Also, I hope you’ll check out a new documentary series premiering on CNN on September 22, about TV milestones that shaped American culture. It’s called TV on the Edge, and I’m just one of the folks interviewed on the show.

A Strange Kind of Family (Ep 484 - Grey Gardens & Second Life/Tony & Brad)

A Strange Kind of Family (Ep 484 - Grey Gardens & Second Life/Tony & Brad)
Matt Baume, Tony Maietta, & Brad Shreve
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Tony Maietta and Brad Shreve are the co-hosts on the podcast Going Hollywood, where they talk about their favorite films. And on this week’s Sewers of Paris, we’ve got a double feature — first an interview with Tony and then an interview with Brad. Tony’s an actor-turned-writer whose books include The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens, which he wrote after a chance encounter with The Marble Faun himself. And Brad’s a writer of queer mystery novels, though he went through a pretty rough time before his writing career took shape — spiraling through drug use, homelessness, and a period where the only way he could communicate with his then-boyfriend, now-husband was through the video game Second Life.

We’ll have those two conversations in just a moment. First, if you’re enjoying The Sewers of Paris, I hope you’ll consider supporting the show on Patreon. 

And you may also enjoy my other projects —  my YouTube videos, weekly livestreams on Twitch, my book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!, and my email newsletter. Check out all that at MattBaume.com.