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Reviews of the novel Exception to the Rule, and Lady Gaga’s album Artpop.

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The Diving Board by Elton John Capitol/Mercury Records THOMAS WOLFE was right: you can’t go home again. That’s the sad-but-true wisdom at the heart of “Home Again,” the…More

Cher
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Closer To The Truth Cher Warner Bros. Records WELL, our über-goddess is at it again. Defying all industry expectations, the Lazarus of pop has a new album, Closer…More

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WHETHER you’re a Bowie fan or not, chances are you’ve heard about the sudden return of the Thin White Duke in the form of an album, The Next Day.

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Reviews of the play Hit the Wall, and the albums OUTlaw and One True Thing.

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Frank Ocean
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EARLIER THIS YEAR, Frank Ocean hit the 55th Grammy Awards like a tsunami. Nominated for six awards, Ocean took home two; and performed a down-tempo love song to a guy named Forrest Gump. …

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Reviews of the books Chicago Whispers:  A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall, Secrets and Strangers, and A Long Day’s Evening, the play My Big Gay Italian Wedding, and the album “The Beatles” by AG.

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Madonna, still the patron saint of scandal, has lost none of her power to piss people off.

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The anthems of Yes I Am still verge on the overblown, which is why 4th Street Feeling strikes the right chord by hitting the brakes just a bit. With the help of producers Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Norah Jones) and Steve Booker (Duffy), Etheridge plays all the guitars without overpowering the production.

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There Will Be Rainbows:A Biography of Rufus Wainwright by Kirk Lake
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YOU MAY NOT NEED Kirk Lake’s recent biography of Rufus Wainwright to learn that the singer-songwriter has a penchant for peacocks. …

[and Kirk] Lake’s portrait of Wainwright, titled There Will Be Rainbows, is the perfect complement to the Canadian-American’s loud and lavish œuvre and, with its references to Tennyson, Wilde, Kubrick, and Barthes, …

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