Sunday Edition: February 13, 2011

Hello everyone and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back in the week in Punknews. I'm Bryne Yancey
and I'll be your guide through some of the juiciest, most popular and otherwise noteworthy stories from the last seven days. Remember, every Punknews story is built from tips from our wonderful, good-looking readers, so get to submitting. Here's what got the strange, slow and old community talking this week:

• Lauren Denitzio of The Measure [SA] published an essay on her experiences with sexism in the punk scene which provoked (mostly) a healthy discussion of the issue in our community.
• AFI frontman Davey Havok will be taking a turn as the lead in the Broadway production of Green Day's American Idiot, giving credence to the rumors that eventually, everyone who wants a turn playing St. Jimmy will, in fact, receive one.
• Ashlee Simpson filed for divorce from Pete Wentz and that's the last we're ever going to speak of it here.
• Rise Against will be joined by Bad Religion and Four Year Strong on an an upcoming tour.
• Screeching Weasel unveiled their first new song in 11 years, "Beginningless Vacation"
• The once-popular Guitar Hero video game series has been discontinued.

With that, we hand over this Sunday evening to the Punknews community, where anything is possible, from the next amusing-then-overwrought meme, to the creation of bands and message boards, to alienating sports chatter. So talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Monday morning.

PS--Happy 50th, Hank.