Massa: Orientation Query ’Insults Every Gay American’
By Kilian Melloy | Mar 11
Eric Massa, the Democratic Congressman who resigned his seat in the House amid allegations that he groped several male staffers, says that he’s the target of a plot to pass President Obama’s health care plan at any cost--a claim that has made him, according to some media outlets, a darling to the conservative right.
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CDC: MSMs Hardest Hit by HIV, Syphilis
Mar 11
A new analysis from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reaffirms previously studies that show that younger MSMs (men who have sex with men), which includes gay and bisexual men, are particularly hard-hit by STDs like HIV and syphilis.
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They’re here. They’re queer. And they live next door to Sarah Silverman
By Jim Halterman | Mar 11
Gays on television are usually portrayed as good looking fashionistas -- not on Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program (that also re-airs on Logo) where her next door neighbors -- Brian Spukowski and Steve Myron -- are big goofy stoner who play video games. EDGE’s Jim Halterman spoke to Brian Posehn and Steve Agee, the actors who play the roles, about how they met Sarah, working on the show and what happens when they’re seen out in public together.
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Cult hit inspires style, for ’Shore’
By Michelle R. Smith | Mar 11
Hair gel and hair extensions, tanning and True Religion jeans, Ed Hardy T-shirts and eyebrow threading. It’s fashion, "Jersey Shore"-style. MTV’s hit reality show put the spotlight on the style of a group of 20-something Italian-Americans, self-professed "guidos" and "guidettes," as they partied and fist-pumped their way through a Seaside Heights, N.J., summer. Read more...
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Epic at the House of Blues :: February 27, 2010
Mar 4
It was a special Epic at the House of Blues this past Saturday when rising dance diva Erika Jayne took to the stage accompanied by her hunky dancers. And with DJ Escape providing the music, it was three hours of non-stop fun. Here’s the pics.
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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
By Malcolm Ritter | Mar 11
A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
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Black Eyed Peas
By Brian Callaghan | Mar 11
The Black Eyed Peas have been hugely successful on the singles charts for the past five years. Their TD Garden show Friday night proved they’re an equally impressive force live.
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Finding the Soulful, and the Entertaining, in "Sloane"
By Kilian Melloy | Mar 11
Joe Orton’s 1964 play Entertaining Mr. Sloane is a pitch-black comedy of absolutely awful manners in which a charming criminal’s intrusion on a family troubled by old secrets leads to tragedy and moral compromise. Director Eric Engel tells EDGE about finding the "dark underbelly" of Orton’s comedy, and the joys of working with a cast of real live Brits.
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American Idolatry :: Paula Moments
By Mark Russo
You would think this crucial week would be the most dramatic yet this Idol season. Instead it remained duller than ever. Though last night episodes was not without Kara again displaying her Daddy issues and Ellen having a ’Paula outburst’ all her own.
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LA Uncovered :: A User’s Guide to Culver City
By David Andrusia | Mar 11
Against all odds, Culver City is suddenly hot and hip. Once a sleepy, working- to lower-middle-class community, this burgeoning hipster haven is no longer a mere dot on the map next to its bigger city sister. Read more...
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Sexy Class: The Black and White Ball
By Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle | Jan 2
It was forty-three years ago that the crème de la crème of New York society turned out for the legendary Black and White Ball thrown by Truman Capote at the Plaza Hotel, a party that became known as "the party of the century." Well, guess what-we’re in a new century now, and the New Year’s Eve Black and White Ball at the Chelsea Art Museum, produced by Josh Wood, Tony Fornabaio and Brandon Voss, the powerhouse triumvirate behind the recent resurgence of New York nightlife, proved that there’s a whole new pack of sexy A-listers who know how to carouse with as much panache and élan as anyone on Truman’s guest list.
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Toyota troubles put spotlight on US safety agency
By Ken Thomas and Stephen Manning | Mar 11
Toyota’s massive recalls are prompting Congress to reconsider whether the nation’s auto safety agency has lived up to its mission of protecting motorists.
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Drivers complain that Toyota’s fixes didn’t work
By Ken Thomas and Tom Krisher | Mar 4
At least 15 Toyota drivers have complained to U.S. safety officials that their cars sped up by themselves even after being fixed under recalls for sticky gas pedals or floor mat problems, according to an Associated Press analysis.
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Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth
By Jacob Adelman | Mar 11
Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
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Theatre
| ’Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3
at Club Cafe 209 Columbus Ave Boston, MA | Becky Shaw
at Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA | Disney’s The Lion King
at Opera House, Boston, MA | Legacy Of Light
at The Lyric Stage Company, Clarendon Street, Boston, MA | Not Enough Air
at Central Square Theater, Central Square, Cambridge, MA | Paradise Lost
at Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge | Shear Madness
at Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Ave, Boston, MA | Stick Fly
at Huntington Theatre Company, Calderwood Pavilion, Tremont Street, Boston MA | boom
at New Repertory Theatre, Watertown, MA |
Fine Arts
| Trans-fusion: India’s Artists Mine Their Traditions
at Peabody Essex Museum , Salem, MA |
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