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Chad Michaels Out to Take Reality TV With a Bang (and a Tuck)new

San Diego queen is going to 'drag Disneyland.'

San Diego CityBeat | Enrique Limon | 01-20-2012 | TV

Tags: RuPaul, Chad Michaels, RuPaul’s Drag Race

Two 12-year-old reporters enter the CNN debate spin roomnew

Down in front sit the two youngest reporters in the room, twin siblings Faith and Zach Dalzell of Daniel Island. They are 12 years old.

Charleston City Paper | Paul Bowers | 01-19-2012 | Elections

Tags: Elections, Election 2012, South Carolina Primary, Southern Republican Presidential Debate

Protesters Glitter-Bomb Santorum Rallynew

On the east bank of the Cooper River, in the chilly shade of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, Santorum appeared alongside Tony Perkins, president of the conservative thinktank Family Research Council. The former Pennsylvania senator was making a clear appeal to conservative values voters, talking about “striking a blow for family and freedom” and upholding nuclear families as “the pillars of society.”

Charleston City Paper | Paul Bowers and Joshua Curry | 01-19-2012 | Elections

Tags: gay rights, Rick Santorum, Elections, election 2012

'Ron Paul doesn't kiss babies; babies kiss Ron Paul'new

Texas Congressman Ron Paul drew an audience of hundreds for a talk on the College of Charleston campus Thursday morning.

Charleston City Paper | Paul Bowers | 01-19-2012 | Elections

Tags: Elections

Lesbian Couple Applies for Marriage License in Charlestonnew

A couple went down to the courthouse in Charleston to get married Thursday morning. They left with drawn faces and tears welling in their eyes, their request denied.

Charleston City Paper | Paul Bowers | 01-19-2012 | LGBT

Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, marriage equality, Campaign for Southern Equality, gay marriage in South Carolina

Expect The Artist to be showered with Oscar lovenew

You'll know it's truly the Year of the Silent Film if next Tuesday morning you wake up and The Artist has earned an Academy Award nomination in at least one of the two Best Sound categories.

San Antonio Current | Kiko Martínez | 01-19-2012 | Movies

In the Worksnew

Rumors, notes and half-truths regarding this year's legislative elections in Arizona.

Tucson Weekly | Jim Nintzel and Hank Stephenson | 01-19-2012 | Elections

Tags: Elections, Arizona legislative elections

MarchFourth Marching Band: Magnificent Beastnew

Is there not something sublime about the best marching bands? Without irony, they deliver joyful melodies, inventive charts and the natural power of amassed brass—and for the last decade or so, Portland, Ore.'s MarchFourth Marching Band has taken the marching-band format in exciting new directions...

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 01-19-2012 | Reviews

Tags: MarchFourth Marching Band