Grafton Street in Dublin is a cobblestone walk in the city center with some of the fanciest and funkiest stores in the capital, and lively street culture featuring everyone from opera singers and folkies performing for spare change. I had a great time strolling...

According to papers filed today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the business manager of a "world famous super group" has been cooking up a mess of trouble for the band, including non-payment of federal taxes for at least eight years,...

A photo from May's Rockin' the Runway™ televised fashion event shows party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi posing with the Black Eyed Peas, Randy Jackson, and PRESIDENT OBAMA

The show was part of the America's Polo Cup DC Fashion & Polo Weekend, in which the Salahis...

In a major restructuring, cable channel Current TV -- co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore -- has laid off 80 staff members, about 25% of its staff.

Most of the axed were based in the Los Angeles office, affecting in-house production and...

Former Google employee James Bara has filed suit against the search giant, citing sexual and religious discrimination in violation of the US Civil Rights Act. Bara alleges that situation began when his supervisor Pam Sohn learned a new employee was transgendered. Sohn joked frequently about the new hire, Ashleigh...

In a stunning show of tolerance that defies theocon C-Streetism, the GOP in Queens, New York will not replace pagan high priest Dan Halloran as their candidate for District 19 city council in the Nov. 3 election. Considering George Bush administration officials objected to giving author J.K. Rowling...

Filmmaker and art community consultant Patrick Courrielche has made a quite a splash on conservative talk shows by releasing audio clips and transcripts of a conference call that occurred August 10. The purpose of call, which was attended by artists, NEA staff, White House...

Deep in the Colombian jungle, a group of men clusters in a carefully guarded camp, stirring a noxious brew of chemicals. They're not manufacturing cocaine, but rather building a fiberglass "narcosub," a submersible boat which can hold a crew of three, tons of cocaine...

Currently, Maine's anti-equality forces have been casting for "real Mainers" to play concerned citizens. But the sides--the script the actors are reading for the first round of auditions--being sent out to hopefuls have nothing to do with the upcoming ballot initiative to overturn...

As campaigns in the US for marriage equality gear up -- notably Maine, Washington State and Washington DC -- Marriage Equality Ireland has launched this sweet ad, Sinead's Hand.

Lisa Derrick is La Figa on

Gay Couples: *Marriages must be legally recognized in 1 state

The show, originally produced by Chuck Barris, is now...

Two politicians who have consistently voted against gay rights, Reps. John Shimkus (R-IL) and Jean Schmidt (R-OH), will be holding fundraisers at the Elton John/Billy Joel Face2Face concert in Washington DC's Nationals Park July 11, reports PartyBlog.

Maybe they don't care...

Oh it can be hard work being a Tea Party promoter. The Republican Party of Duval County, Florida wants you to know that just because they promoted a Tea Party event with e-mails that stated "Paid by Republican Party of Duval County"--...

The city of Bozeman, Montana has backed down over its request that job applicants hand over their passwords for social networking and blogging sites in order to get a job with city. Bozeman city officials said they'll suspend the practice of reviewing...

If you want a job working for the city of Bozeman, Montana be prepared to hand over the log in and password info to all your social networking and blogging sites as part of the application process, and expect the city to review all your comments on Huffington Post,...

Jon Voight's speech at last night NRCC-NRSC dinner was a carefully crafted jingoist clap-a-thon, larded with dominionist, eschatological messages to stir up the theocratic nutbags, while hitting the usual right wing punching bags: the media, Hollywood, Joe Biden, the stimulus package, Congressional Democrats.

Gods help me, Carrie Prejean is a simple as a stick. And she's a catty piece of work, too, full of self congratulatory airs saying how sometimes it's better to come in second place. She spent the longest hour of my life on Fox & Friends this morning, and...

TicketsNow, a subsidiary of Ticketmaster royally screwed fans who paid up to 3x face value for premium seats to the Boss' sold out DC show at Verizon Center. The ticket reseller --which mysteriously had Springsteen tickets on sale for well over the stated...

Snake dancing, stage blood-covered shock rocker turned Republican golfer Alice Cooper will open for President Barack Obama at Arizona State University's graduation ceremony May 13.

Cooper who's shared the stage with the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Groucho...

Twitterati Ashton Kutcher sent out some tweets during the White House correspondents dinner along with this photo of his missus. Kutcher is a really bitchen dude, and actually gives his time, energy and effort as well as money to make difference.

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