Tuesday’s back-to-back pair of “Glee” episodes brought us an homage to “Freaky Friday,” a Lindsay Lohan movie, during hour one and the actual appearance of Lindsay Lohan during hour two. It also delivered another trip to nationals (this time in Chicago, not New York), several musical numbers and, of course, a ton of important questions.

Chef Robert Irvine, who goes around fixing up restaurants across the country on the show, will get a special request from Michelle Obama. The first lady will challenge him to rebuild Horton’s Kids, a children’s community center in Washington that serves meals after school.

Despite nabbing the highest judges scores on Monday night’s performance show, TV host Maria Menounos was eliminated from “Dancing With the Stars.”

There was an audible gasp in the ballroom when Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet revealed that Maria and her partner, Derek Hough, wouldn’t make it to next week’s season finale. They were against NFL player Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd in the bottom two; Donald will join classical singer Katherine Jenkins/Mark Ballas and actor William Levy/Cheryl Burke in the final competition round.

Ellen, as she is known to the millions who watch her syndicated talk show, had this to say about the award.

In addition to its successful Wednesday comedy block, the network will launch another block on Tuesdays and will resurrect its Friday family comedy block, last seen during ABC’s “TGIF” days.

Quoth the Biebs: “For me, it's just like, I like to be in control of myself. I mean, I've had a beer, like, before.... But I never get out of control.”

“2 Broke Girls,” CBS’ young raunchy comedy hit, has driven the network’s older raunchy comedy hit “Two and a Half Men” out of Monday night, opening up a half-hour for the network’s only new comedy this fall.

“We don’t know what we are doing. We have no idea what people want to see. Why is this so hard for you to understand? Remember last year, that [cross-dressing guys] show ‘Work It’? You know we were kidding about that. That was a joke. The fact that [Brit ABC programming chief] Paul Lee greenlit that should tell you everything you need to know about what Brits think about us.”

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When Sen. Dick Lugar ran his 30th consecutive ACLI Capital Challenge last year, the celebration was a modest one. Everyone just assumed there’d be a few more milestones ahead.

But the Indiana Republican lost his primary last week. Next year, he will no longer be eligible to run the annual three-miler, which pits teams of Capitol Hill folks, agency staffers and journalists against one another. So it was his 31st race Wednesday in Anacostia Park that turned into a bittersweet victory lap.

One way to announce you have Alzheimer’s is to issue a quiet statement and fade into history. That’s not Glen Campbell’s route.

Instead, the “Rhinestone Cowboy” legend publicly announced his diagnosis, sang at the Grammys in February and started a tour of farewell concerts around the world.

• Insane costumes, blood-soaked dancing, a general lack of pants — we in the U.S. are fairly used to Lady Gaga’s stagecraft by now, but it’s still fairly heady stuff in Indonesia, where officials just pulled the plug on her sold-out June 3 concert in Jakarta, reports the Associated Press. Islamic hard-liners and conservative politicians had criticized her sexually suggestive style — with some claiming she worships the devil — and local police, fearing violent protests, announced Tuesday they had withdrawn the permits for the concert at a 52,000-seat stadium.

I suppose it’s a forgivable oversight. The stooped, frail-looking woman in a powder-blue dress was neither a celebrity nor a newsmaker when she appeared on “The Tonight Show” in August 1987. She was just a little old lady from a tiny town in Kansas—and by old, I mean historic. She was 105 at the time. But she had all her marbles, as well as a fierce, straight-shooting wit, and that was enough for Carson.

Its steady growth reflects the escalating popularity of its surrounding community, where dining, nightlife and home renovations are creating a new energy, and also the Atlas’s new formula for booking acts.

   The names were read aloud, each followed by the sound of a chime. Then a moment of silence. "The brave men and women whose names are etched on the Journalists Memorial remind us that little about a free press is actually free," James C. Duff, the Newseum's CEO, said in a statement. "Every day, journalists around the world scramble to bear witness, sometimes at great personal risk, to record the first draft of history."