Entertainment :: Top Story
Machete
Machete is a good title for this movie: it’s blunt, broad, and makes it’s point all too keenly felt.
Movies
Shut Up & Kiss Me
This no-budget vanity project delves into the fertile minefield of pre-middle-aged single gay men trying to navigate romance and dating, but an ultimately flaccid script, dead line readings & clichéd set-ups ultimately do it in.
Culture
Australian school drops ’gay’ from classic song
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.
Theatre
Marcy Harriell Hits the Heights
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."
Celebrities
Meghan McCain opens up about campaign, Palins
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.
Music
My Gold Mask :: music junkie’s dream-come-true
Discovering Chicago-based duo My Gold Mask is a music junkie’s dream come true. Their high-energy art rock has made them favorites with music writers and bloggers throughout the country. EDGE spoke to them about their new record and upcoming appearances.
Television
Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming
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.
Books
Author Hawking says God not needed for creation
Did creation need a creator? British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.
Fine Arts
Thoroughly modern Jeffrey
Jeffrey Grove, the DMA’s new gay curator of Contemporary Art, takes a forward-thinking approach to keeping art - and museums - vibrant

