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  • Miley Cyrus’ Concert Banned In Dominican Republic

    It looks like Miley Cyrus will be cancelling her September 13 concert in the Dominican Republic.

    According to People, the Dominican Republic government commission, which oversees public performances, has made the decision to ban Miley’s performance based on morality grounds.

    After the commission met, they issued a statement on Thursday regarding their decision. They claim that many of Miley’s performances “undertakes acts that go against morals and customs, which are punishable by Dominican law.”

    Tickets for the concert have been on sale since July, and have ranged in price from $27 to $370.

    This is not the first time that the commission has banned artists that play songs that they find vulgar. They previously banned Calle 13 of Puerto Rico over several of their songs.

    So far, neither Cyrus nor the commission have commented on the ban.

    Miley is expected to appear at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards, however she is not slated to perform. Last year, she gave a very controversial “twerking” performance with Blurred Lines singer Robin Thicke.

    The performance was so shocking that Thicke’s mother even commented on it. “I don’t understand what Miley Cyrus is trying to do. I think she’s misbegotten in this attempt of hers. And I think it was not beneficial.” Gloria Loring said. “I didn’t get what her point was. It was so over the top as to almost be a parody of itself.”

  • Fox Pulls Family Guy Episode Over Boston Marathon Joke

    The network TV show Family Guy is known for its satirical and sometimes insensitive humor, but when jokes, in hindsight, hit too close to reality, even Fox won’t stand behind its hit show.

    According to a Reuters report, Fox this week has pulled the Family Guy episode “Turban Cowboy” from the Fox website and Hulu due to a joke in the episode that involves murder at the Boston Marathon. The studio also announced that the episode will not be rebroadcast.

    The episode, which aired on March 17, 2013, depicted the show’s main character, Peter Griffin, as he drives a car through Boston Marathon runners. He is then interviewed by sports reporter Bob Costas, who asks him how he “won” the marathon.

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    Later in the same episode, Peter is depicted as accidentally setting off two separate bombs using his phone. These clips were later edited together to make it seem that Family Guy had predicted the bombings at the Boston Marathon this week.

    Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has condemned the clip, calling it “abhorrent.”

  • ‘Captain Underpants’ Complaints Beat ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ in 2012

    A constant in history since the invention of the printing press is that censorship is always a threat to publishers and authors. In more recent times, the fear of U.S. parents that children might be exposed to written descriptions of or allusions to sex (or, in some parts of the U.S., magic) has caused a predictable stream of complaints and bans on certain books.

    The American Library Association (ALA) tracks such bans, and this week has issued its report on the state of America’s libraries in 2013. Though the sudden popularity of E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey novels might first come to mind when guessing which books have endured the most complaints in the past year, it turns out that parents across the U.S. are more concerned about a kid in his underpants.

    The Adventures of Captain Underpants, the series of books that irreverently follows a superhero in ‘tighty whities’, were the most-challenged books of 2012. The Fifty Shades novels came in fourth place on the list.

    In second and third place on the list were Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why. Alexie’s novel is a semi-autobiographical young adult novel about his difficulties growing up poor on a U.S. Indian reservation. The book includes adult topics, such as racism, his father’s alcoholism, and multiple instances of violence. After the book began eliciting complaints from parents, Alexie wrote in the Wall Street Journal why he believes those types of complaints are meaningless when it comes to protecting children:

    Of course, all during my childhood, would-be saviors tried to rescue my fellow tribal members. They wanted to rescue me. But, even then, I could only laugh at their platitudes. In those days, the cultural conservatives thought that KISS and Black Sabbath were going to impede my moral development. They wanted to protect me from sex when I had already been raped. They wanted to protect me from evil though a future serial killer had already abused me. They wanted me to profess my love for God without considering that I was the child and grandchild of men and women who’d been sexually and physically abused by generations of clergy.

    Below are the ALA’s top 10 most-challenged books of 2012:

    1. Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
    2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
    3. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
    4. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
    5. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
    6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    7. Looking for Alaska by John Green
    8. Scary Stories (series) by Alvin Schwartz
    9. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
    10. Beloved by Toni Morrison