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Maddow Talks Sequester on the Today Show

Maddow appears on the Today Show with... um... who is the host? There have been so many changes there I have no idea who's on? ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mother of Rock 'n' Roll

Following Black History month, is Women History month and on this occasion last night I came across a documentary on PBS about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ...

Amanda Palmer's TED Talk

Amanda Palmer gave a TED Talk! Amazing, right? ...

March 2013 Horoscope

ARIES ...

Voting Rights Act, Maddow and Stewart Discuss

Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow always a good combo. Last night they talked about the Voting Rights Act, currently up for debate in the SCOTUS, which Maddow had attended in person. ...

Poetic Beats Fill Athens Boys Choir's New Album "Heartstrings and Hamstrings"

It's been a few years, but Athens Boys Choir (aka Katz) is back with a new album, Heartstrings and Hamstrings, and will be starting a new ...

Whistling Fitzpatrick

Daphne Fitzpatrick returned to the New York art world with a cool and breezy walk through the Dada-hood with "...

The LGBT Community Needs to Rally Around VAWA

VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act, has been passed by the Senate and has now moved to the House for consideration, where it is facing heated, bigoted, misogynistic, and homophobic attacks from c ...

Vatican Sex Parties...w00t-w00t! w00t-w00t!

As a follow-up to Moon's post, apparently the Pope decided to step down after receiving a 300-page dossier about "Vatican sex parties," and gay sex parties at that. ...

V Magazine Features Jenna Lyons & Courtney Crangi

V Magazine may not have the most appealing of covers for its "dynamic duos" issue, with its glaringly ridiculous lickfest (or chompfest) between Kate Moss and Rihanna, but one of the coupl ...

Photographer Samantha Box Talks "Invisible" Tonight in NYC

Photographer Samantha Box will discuss her photographs with Alexis Heller. ...

Kenji Yoshino Breaks Down Marriage Equality Court Cases

NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino—the great conceptualizer of "covering," active "toning down" of a "disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream"—appeared on Melissa Harris-Perry's Sunday program ...

MoBama and Fallon Bring Us Our Saturday Morning Mom-Dance

WHAT. MoBama and Jimmy Fallon collaborated on a dance—a "mom dance"—as a part of Mo's "Let's Move" campaign. ...

Walk in the Park

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Paul McCartney Supports Pussy Riot in Letters to Russian Authorities | Music News
Rolling Stone
May 23, 2013

Sir Paul to the rescue. The former Beatle sent handwritten letters on behalf of Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, asking Russian officials to consider parole for the incarcerated women.

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Pussy Rioter Opts Out of ‘Absurd’ Parole Hearing, Starts Hunger Strike
Jezebel
May 23, 2013

After being refused permission to appear at her own parole hearing and subsequently forbidding her lawyers to further represent her, Maria Alyokhina, one of the band’s two imprisoned members, has begun a hunger strike to protest a justice system ...

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Fox News Says Middle School Anti-Bullying Class Is Lesbian Role Playing
Jezebel
May 23, 2013

When Bard College students recently held anti-bullying workshops at a middle school on topics like gender identity and consent, instructors split boys and girls into two groups to practice "saying no" in a comfortable setting.

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Peace Corps Opens to Same-Sex Couples
Out Traveler
May 23, 2013

Peace Corps deputy director Carrie Hessler-Radelet announced on Tuesday that the agency will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.

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What Happens When a Gay Boy Scout Comes Out to His Camp Leader
Advocate.com
May 23, 2013

Apparently being gay in the Boy Scouts is DADT all over again...

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Was the London killing of a British soldier 'terrorism'?
guardian.co.uk
May 23, 2013

Knife welding crazies... terrorism?

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Saltz and Davidson on Donald Judd’s Loft
NY Mag
May 23, 2013

The newly renovated loft of famed installation-light-sculptural artist Donald Judd will open at the end of this month. Cirtic's Jerry Saltz and Justin Davidson argue its merits, too minimal or not too minimal that is the question...

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