The Boss and Sting top George Michael

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Flying to a concert in Boston this week, George Michael was forced to delay his flight an hour, bumped behind two other rock stars who were also flying out. Coming in after Bruce Springsteen is understandable (he IS The Boss, after all) but Sting? That’s gotta burn.

Two University of Virginia football players were arrested for stealing cases of beer from the cooler of an after-hours gay club. Boys, what were you thinking? You tried to steal booze from gay men? Be thankful your hands weren’t chopped off!

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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