Music
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Preacher of Love
It must be nice to be Tom Goss's husband. After all, the good-looking Goss, with his sweet tenor voice, is hopelessly devoted to the man....
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Mighty Kylie
Kylie Minogue is coming back for more. The international superstar only properly toured North America for the first time two years ago, more than two...
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Pop Seduction
Britney Spears just wants to fuck. Is that so wrong? All throughout Femme Fatale, her new seventh studio set, Spears talks about getting it on...
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Queer Ear
Susan Werner trained to be an opera singer, but admits she ''was a little too much of an introvert.'' She wasn't loud enough. Instead, Werner...
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Short Rounds
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's brief relationship with the late Jeffrey Grossi in the mid-'90s provided, if not a lifetime, then at least a few years'...
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Scoring Sondheim
Anthony De Mare prefers to know the score before seeing a show. '' I used to just go to the record store and...
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Feeling Alright
Jennifer Hudson has done it. She's managed to persevere through some of the most tragic personal experiences a human can face -- chiefly, the murder...
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Cutting Crew
Last year Cut Copy turned down Lady Gaga. ''We were literally in the middle of making our record and we couldn't commit to a year...
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Return to Form
''It's just like me to overstay my welcome,'' Michael Stipe sings near the top of R.E.M.'s new album Collapse Into Now. Later, the queer artist...
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Norwegian Nonsense
''It's just a ridiculous name for a group,'' chuckles Svein Berge, one-half of the Norwegian duo known as Röyksopp. ''Let's call ourselves something that is...
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Mixing It Up
''It was really great. Lots of new people, younger people, and a lot of the performances sold out.'' Scott Kenison is still basking in the...
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Winds of Change
When Valerie Coleman was forming what became the Imani Winds quintet, Mariam Adam says, ''she wanted the players to look like her.'' Specifically, Coleman, a...
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Cultural Crossroads
''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...
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Soul Fire
You want a telling sign that Adele Adkins, known by just her first name, has talent to spare, that she's the genuine article? How about...
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Keeping the Faith
Twenty-four years ago, George Michael launched Faith with an organ playing the melody from ''Freedom,'' a hit he had with Wham! a couple years prior....
