The City: Top to Bottom

thursday, dec. 31 Rent Inspired by Puccini’s La bohème, the modern-day rock opera tells the story of a collection of struggling artists and musicians trying to survive and practice their craft in the avant-garde neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. Special New Year’s show includes ringing in the New Year onstage with the cast….

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Star Trek gets Postal Service stamp of approval in 2016

WASHINGTON —The Postal Service is providing a preview of its 2016 stamp program that is sure to attract the interest of fans of Sarah Vaughan, Star Trek, NASA’s New Horizons mission, Trucks, Shirley Temple, flowers, soda fountain fans and the holidays — just to name a small handful. “Our stamps articulate the American experience through…

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Far-right pastor: ‘President Hillary Clinton will turn your kids gay’

Far-right Colorado pastor Kevin Swanson, who has advocated executing gay people and warned that liking Harry Potter is a sin, has come up with another whopper — this time about Hillary Clinton. On his “Generations Radio” program yesterday, Swanson said that America must repent or God will punish the nation through the election of Hillary…

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Santorum would ignore the SCOTUS ruling in U.S. v. Windsor and enforce DOMA (VIDEO)

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said in an interview Sunday that, if elected, he would ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Windsor and enforce the parts of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that the court found unconstitutional. Santorum also said that he would attempt to undermine the court’s ruling in Roe…

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National LGBTQ Task Force calls for federal probe of Cleveland Police and death of Tamir Rice

WASHINGTON — The National LGBTQ Task Force today called for a federal probe into the Cleveland Police over the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year old black child. Yesterday an Ohio grand jury declined to indict the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot the unarmed black 12-year-old. In statement Russell Roybal, National LGBTQ Task Force deputy executive…

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