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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. …

Just in from the Ali Forney Center: As Rev. Manning — after a period of relative silence — is once again using his illegal sign as a mouthpiece of anti-LGBT hatred (see below), I thought I would provide an update on the status of the foreclosure of ATLAH church. Reverend Manning has made every effort to delay the foreclosure auction …

Vox reports: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has set up a commission to study school safety in the aftermath of mass shootings like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida, in February. But on Tuesday, DeVos revealed that the commission will not study a key problem: guns. “That is not part of the commission’s charge, per se,” …

CNBC reports: Apple debuted a series of tools to combat technology addiction and “fear of missing out” on Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California. Top software executive Craig Federighi said Apple has “thought deeply” about technology addiction and introduced several new features in conjunction with its new operating system, iOS 12. “Do Not Disturb during bedtime” …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Google has apologized to Republican North Carolina state Sen. Trudy Wade for an old photo of her with the superimposed word ‘bigot’ in red capital letters that appeared on the search engine’s results related to the senator’s name. A knowledge panel is the box that populates on the right-hand side of the screen of …

Sky News reports: A champion cheese chaser has smashed the record for the most wins in Gloucestershire’s death-defying cheese rolling race. Chris Anderson, 30, says he now has “nothing to prove” after scooping his 22nd Double Gloucester cheese in 14 years. The professional soldier, who doesn’t even like the taste of Double Gloucester, tumbled down Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth to …

Playbill reports: As June 1 rolls around, theatre aficionados enthusiastically share an easily searchable video of Leslie Uggams performing Carousel’s “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” on the Capitol lawn in Washington, D.C. The Tony winner makes her way through the song, but not without adding her own gibberish lyrics. “Well, it poured like crazy the night before, and then …

Via Huffington Post: Musical theater fans can expect “an unparalleled evening of seductive striptease” later this spring with the return of a wildly popular Broadway-meets-burlesque spectacular. On June 17, more than 150 of New York’s most well-toned dancers will take to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom for “Broadway Bares: Game Night.” The 28th installment of the annual fundraiser promises …

Billboard Magazine reports: Kendrick Lamar flew to New York City Wednesday (May 30) to accept the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his album DAMN. The ceremony took place at Columbia University. The honor marks the first time ever a non-classical or jazz artist received the distinction. In the Facebook live stream posted by Pulitzer Prize, Lamar is introduced to the …

In case you missed this sidebar to the Roseanne furor: Donald Trump Jr. retweeted some of the offensive tweets posted by Roseanne Barr before her show was canceled Tuesday — calling billionaire George Soros a Nazi “who turned in his fellow Jews.” After falsely claiming that Chelsea ​Clinton ​is married to Soros’ nephew, Barr responded ​with ​an “apology” that included …

Billboard Magazine reports: Korean boy band BTS debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with its latest effort, Love Yourself: Tear. It’s the first No. 1 for the seven-member group, the first K-pop album to lead the tally, and the highest-charting album by an Asian act. Notably, as Love Yourself: Tear is performed mostly in the Korean …

TMZ Sports reports: The Pope is gonna be stoked ’cause he just got some serious props from the guy who won “Dancing with the Stars!” Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon — the first openly gay U.S. athlete to medal in the Winter Olympics — says he heard about Pope Francis telling a gay man that his sexuality “does not matter” …

Billboard Magazine reports: The Force is being tested in a serious way. Disney and Lucasfilms’ Solo: A Star Wars Story is struggling in its debut at the Memorial Day box office, where it could come in well behind expectations with about a $110 million four-day holiday. The projected three-day weekend tally sees the movie just topping $90 million. The Han …