Hulu has been making some, well, interesting business decisions of late. First, it drops hints that the portal will soon be charging viewers to watch TV shows and movies that are currently "free." Now, they're adding content that is widely available elsewhere.
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The news on Monday that Window Media had finally closed its doors (literally) and that its chain of papers was officially kaput didn't seem to register much. Maybe that's because its two NYC titles, Genre and New York Blade, had already perished earlier this year. But the fact that the Washington Blade, a paper with a sizable reputation, as well as 21-year-old Southern Voice, one of the last papers focused on gay and lesbian issues in the South, disappeared is reason to worry.
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Is there such a thing as a better nervous breakdown? Absolutely according to TheNervousBreakdown.com founder Brad Listi. The online literary collective launched a bigger, better Breakdown yesterday with its new site expansion. We found out from Listi about all TNB’s new bells and whistles and just what literary lovers can expect from the new site after, as he put it, lunatics take over the asylum and do a little redecorating.
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They’re still creepy and they’re still kooky. The upcoming Addams Family musical shared backstage interviews and a cast photo with Vanity Fair, proving that the actors will stay true to the undead hilarity of Charles Addams’s original New Yorker cartoons.
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Directors at the Ali Forney Center had reason to thank Bea Arthur for being a friend today after receiving a $300,000 gift from the estate of the late actress (and Golden Girl).
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Nowadays Times columnist Frank Rich is usually explaining Obama's agenda to the masses or championing this civil rights cause or some other issue. But first he was known for his theater criticism in the Times. This week he'll be interviewing Sondheim out in Seattle, so The Stranger's editor, Dan Savage, decided to interview Rich. He doesn't mince words—calling Washington D.C. much more unsophisticated than Seattle (or Chicago)—and sharing his opinions about theater. But Savage also asks Rich why he spends so much time and ink on gay issues:
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Some of you might best know Adam Shankman as the director of Hairspray—that one where John Travolta does drag in a fat suit—but I prefer to think of him fondly as the judge most likely to burst into tears on So You Think You Can Dance. Where he registers on your pop culture radar is really neither here nor there. What's important is Shankman announced today his decision to put down the tissues and get back into the director's chair; he's been picked to take musical Rock of Ages from Broadway to the big screen.
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Sure, the New York Times might be getting rid of 100 newsroom jobs, but that doesn't mean that there's no good news coming from the paper these days.
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One burial wasn’t enough for Edgar Allan Poe or his fixation with macabre and morbidity. In fact neither was two. On Sunday, Poe was buried for the third time in celebration of what would have been his 200th birthday.
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