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A Harps grocery store in n Mountain Home, Arkansas found the cover of US Weekly Magazine featuring Elton John and his life partner holding their newborn son too offensive, so they had to do something about it.

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Hipster faith

Here's a riddle: A young man walks into a building. From the outside, it looks like a nondescript, run-down, abandoned warehouse. Inside he finds mood lighting, music with throbbing bass, and young people wearing skinny jeans and superfluous scarves. A bar off to the side offers drinks of some sort, and a frenetically lit stage is shrouded in fog. Jumbo screens display what appear to be music videos. Everywhere people text on their iPhones.

A young woman with a nose ring and a vaguely Middle Eastern tattoo comes up andintroduces herself. She makes awkward (but refreshingly earnest) small talk about her passion for community gardens and food co-ops. She asks him if he has heard Arcade Fire's new album, and compliments him on his bushy beard and lumberjack look. Beards like that are cool, she says. Eventually she asks him for his contact information.

Question: Is the man in a bar? Or is he in a church?

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The New Yorker "steals" Vanity Fair's idea of featuring Justin Bieber on their cover, turning him into art.

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Gay kiss magazine cover

A somewhat altered famous photo was used by Seattle Weekly on its cover to pay a tribute to the repeal of the military Don't Ask Don't Tell policy.

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