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Habbibi

The New York Times looks at Habbibi, Manhattan’s long-running dance party for gay Arabs. In the D.J.’s booth, Abraham kept the hits coming — mainly from Egypt and Lebanon, but also some South Asian and Indian pop. “Anything with a belly dance beat,” he said. “Keeping people on the dance floor is a natural high for me.” The dancers included …

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Press Release Of The Day

From the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, in its ruling that radio stations may no longer play Dire Straits’ 1985 smash, Money For Nothing: Like other racially driven words in the English language, “faggot” is one that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so. The Panel finds that it has fallen into the category of …

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