A long-running weekly tradition at a Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ venue came to a sudden halt this week after a drag performance involving black makeup provoked intense community backlash and a wave of violent threats. Blue Moon Bar, located on Butler Street in the city’s Lawrenceville neighborhood, called off its September 30 Open Stage night. Management stated
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Say it ain’t so, Joe! After 36 years and 15 novels (not to mention short stories, graphic novels and a TV series), Edgar Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale is retiring his indomitable duo, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.  At Petrified Dreams’ opening, the two are already retired from the detective business, or so they think.
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Justin Timberlake is taking a look in the mirror when it comes to his beatboxing passion.  After content creator Hannah Young jokingly questioned why Timberlake’s habit of using vocal percussion went largely unchecked during his early career, the Grammy winner apologized for his preferred music technique.  In the video shares to Instagram Oct. 5, Young noted how “we don’t talk
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Since Carly Rae Jepsen followed up 2015’s E•MO•TION with a B-side album, the pop singer’s fans have counted on a companion project for every new release. But when Day and Night, her latest, dropped as a double LP this summer, it was unclear whether the 24-track project would come with additional music. Sure enough, Jepsen
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Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War is reaching its climatic conclusion very soon, and fans are, understandably, filled with all manner of emotions. On the one hand, the epic follow-up to Tite Kubo’s legendary original run has proven a smash hit and featured some of the best moments in the series’ history, many of which paved the
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $2.99 Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Get This Deal $1.99 Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews Get This Deal $2.99 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Get This Deal $1.99 Chain-Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Get This Deal $2.99 Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser, Hildegarde Serle 
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MANGO, an international leader in the world of fashion, has announced the appointment of Katarzyna Niemirowicz-Majtas (Kasia) as Chief Retail Officer and a member of the Steering Committee. She succeeds César de Vicente, who is leaving MANGO to pursue a new opportunity outside the company. In her new role, Kasia will lead MANGO’s global retail
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Slayyyter wants you to know that, per her private alt account @WRSTGRLINAMRICA, “today is important.” Now we know why: After a poster campaign teasing a sequel to Wor$t Girl in America, the pop provocateur has officially announced Wor$t Man in America. It’s out December 4 on Columbia. In recent months, Slayyyter has fed the rumor
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Jonathan Bailey and Ella Purnell have given the internet a very sinister and sultry start to spooky season. Audible’s full-cast adaptation of Dracula is officially here, but a behind-the-scenes clip of the pair recording a feeding scene is demanding some attention of its own. As Purnell’s Mina feeds from Bailey’s Dracula, their breathless vocal performances
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Stephen Colbert‘s The Late Show was canceled ahead the merger between Paramount and Skydance Media, marking the end of an era. But since then, Colbert has moved onto other endeavors, including an in-development Lord of the Rings movie. Now, however, it seems that Paramount Skydance’s imminent merger with Warner Bros. Discovery might have an impact
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Partita is, in a way, a love story, though the central love in question is not for a person, but for classical piano. Livia Bohusz grows up on a dairy farm in rural east Tennessee, her most prized possession a copy of the key to the local church where she practices piano day after day.
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