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An Australian Kookaburra sits on a branch in Sydney, Australia. An Australian school principal has asked students to stop using the word "gay" when singing a classic children’s campfire song trying to keep the kids from laughing.

Australian school drops ’gay’ from classic song

By Kristen Gelineau | Thursday Sep 2, 2010
An Australian school principal has asked students to stop using the word "gay" when singing a classic children’s song, but said Thursday no offense was intended - he was simply trying to keep the kids from laughing.

Movies

Socialite Paris Hilton in a police booking photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

The American

By Kilian Melloy | Sep 1
George Clooney plays a smart, anxious assassin hiding out in a scenic Italian village in the slow-cooking thriller The American.

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Theatre

Socialite Paris Hilton in a police booking photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Marcy Harriell Hits the Heights

By Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle | Aug 30
Anyone who’s ever seen Marcy Harriell on stage, television, or the silver screen, knows how she illuminates the space around her. During her two-year run in the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Rent, the New York Times called her "incandescent."

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Celebrities

Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain opens up about campaign, Palins

By Jonathan J. Cooper | Sep 1
John McCain’s daughter says in a new book released Tuesday that Sarah Palin brought drama, stress and uncertainty to her father’s failed bid for the presidency in 2008, but she doesn’t blame the vice presidential nominee for losing the race.

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Music

CRISPNESS, CAROL | Wendy Welch’s parody of Carol Channing is a spectacular highlight of ’Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits’ from Uptown Players.

Katy Perry wows them at NYC’s Splash

By JC Alvarez | Aug 31
Katie Perry started last Friday on the Today Show and ended it at Splash. Here’s our report on her last stop of the day.

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Television

In this image released by the Montgomery County Police, James J. Lee is seen is a booking mugshot from 2008 on disorderly conduct

Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming

By David Dishneau and Sarah Brumfield | Sep 2
A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel’s headquarters said he hated the company’s shows such as "Kate Plus 8" because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.

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Books

David Gray

Got A Minute? 60 Second Erotica

By Adela M. Brito | Aug 31
Got a Minute? is a collection of 60 super-short and sexy stories. Alison Tyler, its editor and an erotica aficionado, has gathered effective writers who know how to find that special spot--uh, that is, get to the point pretty quickly.

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Fine Arts

Jeffrey Grove, who came to the Dallas Museum of Art last fall as its first titled curator of Contemporary Art, poses in the museum’s sculpture garden. Photography by Arnold Wayne Jones

Thoroughly modern Jeffrey

By JEF TINGLEY | Aug 28
Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s new gay curator of Contemporary Art, takes a forward-thinking approach to keeping art - and museums - vibrant

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