Tonight I attended a terrific photo exhibit at the Magnolia Theater in Dallas's West Village. My friends Brian Amman and Daniel Kusner have an essay entitled "214 TRANS4M" which is about Dallas landmarks and their connections to popular culture and gender identity. It's a fascinating exhibit with large blown-up photos depicting transgendered and drag performers at important Dallas sites. In one, entitled "Dallas In Wonderland," Jenna Skyy portrays Lewis Carroll's Alice at Dealy Plaza and pointing out the the 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.

The exhibit is on display in the bar area of the Magnolia Theater and will remain through October 12. Check out more information about the exhibit (and a sneak peek at one of the photos) at the below link.

http://photopol.us/tag/214-trans4m/

Is Hollywood legend Gara St. James responsible for Lindsay Lohan's career decline?

I recently published my first novel, a comic mystery entitled WHAT'S GOOD FOR GARA (available at Amazon.com in print or in Kindle edition). Gara St. James is a Hollywood legend (mostly in her own mind). With the death of her third husband, a British lord, Gara hightails it to London in order to cash in on the will, in which she's expecting a windfall. She's not necessarily expecting a hearty welcome from her resentful former in-laws, not to mention the appearance of old Tinseltown "frenemies" also connected to the recently deceased Lord Lindale "Laddie" Fotheringay Bottomly. Least of all, she's hardly expecting potential murder attempts at Brownmoor, her ex's English estate.

There's more than one intriguing mystery at the heart of WHAT'S GOOD FOR GARA, and interspersed between the novel's chapters are sequences called "Strange Interlude" which offer details to Gara's past and clues to the mysteries. It's all very tongue in cheek and lots of fun.

Here's a promotional video we made and posted to youtube, excerpted from a "Strange Interlude" wherein Gara inadvertently sends Lindsay Lohan's career into a nosedive, repeating a pattern Gara's exhibited throughout her career of causing one Hollywood scandal or another but remaining unscathed by gossip herself.

Look for Part 2 of the St. James/Lohan saga to be posted soon! And check out the book on Amazon! Below is a link to the book's page at Amazon.com, where a link to the Kindle edition is also featured.

http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Good-Gara-Robert-Sanchez/dp/0615469078/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314917524&sr=1-1