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Billboard reports: Playing to a rapturous New York City crowd that greeted her with a loving roar of sound, Kylie Minogue reciprocated the very vocal adoration from her fans by treating them to a previously unheard song — and an unplanned second encore — at her Monday (June 25) night concert. Entitled, appropriately enough, “New York City,” it was clear …

The Chicago Tribune reports: The pop-culture polyglot known as Cher snuck quietly into Chicago this past weekend. She was here to see three weekend preview performances of “The Cher Show,” a new Broadway musical about her life, work and loves that has its official out-of-town opening in Chicago on Thursday. The 72-year-old iconoclast hadn’t seen the show in production before …

The Hill reports: A top conservative leader criticized former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) for tweeting out a picture of gang members, saying they were House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) “campaign committee.” Bob Vander Plaats, the president and CEO of Iowan conservative group The Family Leader, chastised the former governor on Saturday. Vander Plaats was responding to a tweet …

File this one under “womp womp.” An executive for the largest U.S. nail producer who voted for President Trump said he is so dismayed by the president’s trade policies that he is lobbying a Democratic senator for help. George Skarich, vice president of sales for Missouri-based Mid Continent Nail Corporation, told The New York Times that his nail company could …

Playbill reports: A new music video from Tectonic Theater Project and The Matthew Shepard Foundation features Tony winners Harvey Fierstein, Annaleigh Ashford, Billy Porter, and Mary-Louise Parker, along with The Boys in the Band stars Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer, Bridget Moynahan, Torch Song-bound Michael Urie, and Michael Benjamin Washington. Judy and Dennis Shepard and Laramie Project director-playwright Moisés Kaufman …

Texas Monthly reports: A former Border Patrol agent who resigned from the agency after he was arrested on child pornography charges was later hired as a case manager at a major shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in Brownsville, Texas Monthly has learned. Ernesto Padron worked at Austin-based nonprofit Southwest Key’s Casa Padre shelter last year, where, as a case manager, …

The New York Post reports: White House adviser Stephen Miller was accosted at a Mexican restaurant by a patron calling him a “fascist” — two nights before Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was hounded out of another south-of-the-border eatery, sources told The Post. “Hey look guys, whoever thought we’d be in a restaurant with a real-life fascist begging [for] money …

From the clip’s description: Broadway’s hottest dancers and two explosively responsive audiences came together for a fierce and steamy evening of fun and sensational striptease at Broadway Bares: Game Night, this year’s record-breaking edition of the annual spectacular. Produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Bares: Game Night raised $1,875,090 with two standing-room-only performances on Sunday, June 17, …

The New York Post reports: Tronc, one of the most lambasted corporate name changes of the digital era, is going to return to its original name, Tribune Publishing. An insider said that the name change for the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News was awaiting the completion of the spinoff of the Los Angeles …

The Guardian reports: For nearly 14 years as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel has defined and personified Europe’s middle ground: pragmatic, consensual, mercantilist, petit-bourgeois, above all stable. It is little wonder the leader of Mitteleuropa’s major economic power has dominated the political centre for so long. But what if Merkel falls? Can the centre hold? These are increasingly urgent questions as …

E Online reports: After Meghan Markle, another royal is making history. This summer, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II (whose husband Prince Philip’s last name is Mountbatten), will marry his partner James Coyle at what will become the first same-sex wedding of a member of the British royal family. The news comes almost a month after Meghan …

Some beefcake to get you started: Get a taste of what’s in store for audiences at Broadway Bares: Game Night — the annual striptease spectacular benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS—in the rehearsal video below. A host of Broadway favorites will take part in the annual fundraiser, set for June 17 at 9:30 PM and midnight at the Hammerstein Ballroom (311 …

The New York Daily News reports: Roseanne Barr now insists her offensive tweet about Valerie Jarrett had nothing to do with race, and was instead her way of speaking out against anti-Semitism. The actress posted a puzzling new explanation Wednesday for her tweet calling Jarrett, who is black, the baby of “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes,” which led …

Dominic Holden reports on a new survey at Buzzfeed: LGBTQ people fall decisively on the left of the political spectrum, but not exclusively. Sixty-five percent consider themselves Democrats and 21% are independents. Just 12% are Republican; the remaining 3% have other affiliations. In the 2016 election, 59% went for Hillary Clinton and 14% for Donald Trump; a full fifth of …

Billboard Magazine reports: Kanye West lands his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his latest studio effort, Ye, bows atop the list. The set — which was released on June 1 via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings — earned 208,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 7, according to Nielsen Music, and is the fifth-largest …

Playbill reports: The music of the all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, the 1980s hit makers behind “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Our Sealed,” serves as the score to this heady comic romp inspired by Philip Sidney’s prose poem Arcadia. Head Over Heels is making history with the casting of Peppermint, the runner-up of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s ninth season; …

Playbill reports: The Broadway community comes together June 10 to celebrate the 72nd Annual Tony Awards, celebrating the creative teams, producers, stars, and beyond who made the last season on Broadway possible. Hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, the evening will feature performances from a number of this year’s Tony-nominated shows including The Band’s Visit, Carousel, Frozen, Mean Girls, …

The New York Times reports: The ladies of the court, wearing long dresses and hats with trailing veils, moved in a stately minuet across the stage of the Coliseum Theater in London on Wednesday night, in the English National Ballet’s production of “The Sleeping Beauty.” They tapped their canes on the floor as the Prince looked on, circling elegantly with …

File this one under totally unsurprising: A Department of Motor Vehicles office in Manhattan was “mired in corrupt practices,” with clerks accepting cash and other perks to fix tickets and refer clients to attorneys, state investigators revealed Friday. Investigators from state Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott’s office found “systemic wrongdoing” at the DMV’s Manhattan North Traffic Violations Bureau, including “woefully …

Stereogum reports: A Flock Of Seagulls’ “Space Age Love Song” sounds like it’s on the cusp of summer: bright, breezy, and hopeful. With a few weeks left until we feel the sun’s full wrath, the ’80s new wave outfit have decided to reunite for the first time in 34 years and gift us five new versions of the hit song. …