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Victor Choban, left, of Sacramento, Calif., and Richard Otterstad, right, of Oakland, Calif., hold up signs outside City Hall in San Francisco, Thursday, August 12, 2010

Machete

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Sep 3, 2010
Machete is a good title for this movie: it’s blunt, broad, and makes it’s point all too keenly felt.

Movies

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.

Shut Up & Kiss Me

By Steve Weinstein | Sep 6
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.

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Culture

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 | Sep 2
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.

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Theatre

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.

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.

My Gold Mask :: music junkie’s dream-come-true

By Joseph Erbentraut | Sep 3
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.

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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

Author Hawking says God not needed for creation

By Jennifer Quinn | Sep 3
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.

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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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