WEB SERIES REVIEW: No Shade
{rating} As the media guru here at Cypher Avenue, I made it a goal to find time in my busy schedule to not only take in a lot of gay books, music and films featuring people of color, but to also write detailed reviews…
WEB SERIES REVIEW: Finding Me – The Series
{rating} First things first, the Finding Me web series is a spin-off of the Straight-to-DVD movies of the same name. Props to the filmmaker for showing entrepreneurial initiative. If you haven’t seen the films, DON’T WORRY. You will be constantly reminded of their existence in…
FILM REVIEW + VIDEO: “Dakan” – The First West African Gay Film
{rating} Since the early days of this website, we’ve been most surprised by the numerous page views and emails we get from young men either from a country in Africa now living in America and the UK or men currently still living there….
FIVE BLACK GAY WEB SERIES RECAPPED
SHOTS FIRED! Let’s face it, even William Shakespeare had hecklers. Hell I’m sure there were even cave men that critiqued cave art. Criticism of art is probably older than art itself. Having said that, I decided to finally watch all of the scripted web series…
CYPHER AVENUE’S BEST OF 2012 AWARDS
As we begin our first full week of 2013, we also celebrate all that we thought was awesome throughout 2012. This was a pretty fucking great year, I must say. We witnessed a crazy Presidential election, the beginning and end of The LA Complex…
The Death of Kaldrick King (and The L.A. Complex)
It’s official. The L.A. Complex has been cancelled. After just nine short months, the Canadian show that featured the most interesting and addictive-to-watch masculine black gay characters has been laid to rest in both Canada and The United States. Many would argue that the show…
Tyler Perry’s New Black Gay Sitcom “Tony and Dave”
TBS has announced a new black gay male comedy-drama titled “Tony and Dave” which will be produced by Tyler Perry. The setting is Houston, Texas where Tony (Omari Hardwick) is a very successful Networking Engineer Director and Dave (Mel Jackson) is an Aircraft Mechanic. The…
R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley – You Finally Got a Piece of the Pie!
Sherman Hensley best known as George Jefferson on television’s hit sitcom The Jeffersons has died at the age of 74. He leaves behind no wife or children (or known husband or partner). I mentioned that last part because in his life and…
Album Review – Childish Gambino: ROYALTY
{rating} Amidst the Frank Ocean media blitz, Donald Glover (AKA Childish Gambino) free mix tape download ROYALTY was almost lost but was only kinda pushed to the background. The mix tape has been receiving critical acclaim all across the music blogosphere. This is Gambino’s latest release…
Patrik-Ian Polk’s The Skinny Premieres on LOGO this Month!
In case you missed Director Patrik-Ian Polk’s new film, “The Skinny” during its limited theatrical run, it makes its network television premiere Sunday July 8th at 8pm eastern on the gay cable network LOGO. If you’ll recall, we reviewed the film back in April giving…
STYLE: UK Grime Music Artist Dot Rotten
U.K. rapper/producer Dot Rotten sports a sick tailor fitted suit by London based designer A. Sauvage in his music video for “Norman Human Being.” For those unfamiliar, 24-year-old Dot Rotten (born Joseph Ellis) has been on the rise in the U.K. Grime Music scene since…
Cypher Avenue Interviews: Patrik-Ian Polk on “The Skinny”
It’s a rare occasion when we see new feature films made by and featuring openly gay/bisexual men of color. For what may be the first time since his 2008 film “Noah’s Arc: Jumping The Broom”, writer/director Patrik-Ian Polk (Punks, Noah’s Arc) gives us that opportunity…
Porn Star Update: Brian “Scorpion” Stinger
I’ll go on record and admit that I’m somewhat of a porn aficionado. I’m unapologetic about that. Straight or Gay, when it comes to smut featuring people of color, I’m pretty knowledgeable on the subject. So I was pretty intrigued when I stumbled upon…
Actor Travis Winfrey is so “NOT” gay…Really?
This website isn’t one that attempts to start or encourage rumors about who’s gay and who’s not. From the title of our site you can tell we actually respect the individuals decision to remain in the closet for as long as you feel the need….
FILM REVIEW: W delta Z (aka The Killing Gene)
First off, SPOILER ALERT. The following post contains spoilers about this United Kingdom filmed horror/thriller movie entitled, W delta Z (aka The Killing Gene). So if you like dark, suspense thrillers and want to see this film without any foreknowledge on its plot twists,…
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