Entertainment

This just in from the Central Planner’s office: Jay-Z’s Shanghai “Vocal Concert” was cancelled by the communists.  From ChinaDaily: The Ministry of Culture has decided to protect the city’s hip-hop fans from nasty lyrics about pimps, guns and drugs. The ministry has denied New York rapper Jay-Z permission to perform in the city. He was supposed to [...]

Allen Iverson and Chris Webber showed up late to last night’s Fan Appreciation Night in Philly. “I honestly thought as long as I got there before the ball went up, everything would be cool,” Iverson said. “I’ve been doing it that way my whole career and it never was a problem, even when coach [Larry] Brown [...]

50 Cent has a few words for some audience members. The 50 Cent-Fat Joe beef heated up at tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards. The words started when Fat Joe was presenting an award and ended with: “I just wanna say how safe I feel in here tonight with all of this police presence courtesy [...]

Almost all of America’s news coverage was short-circuited by the bombshell of bombshells back in the Spring of 2005 when Corey Clark, an ousted contestant on Fox Network’s smash-hit singing contest show, American Idol, told a national television audience on ABC’s Primetime Live that he had engaged in a sexual affair with Idol judge and [...]

Twelve jurors, 8 men and 4 women, will now determine the fate of pop superstar Michael Jackson as his 14 week long trial came to an end this week. He faces 10 charges of sexually molesting a 13-year old boy and could spend the next 20 years in prison. The judge has allowed media to [...]

I must admit that I’ve been looking forward to The Huffington Post. Sure there is going to be a lot of garbage to sift through but with that many celebrity “bloggers” there is bound to be something interesting on there once in a while. The celeb-blog kicked off today with 63 posts. So far, [...]

Michael Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of the King of Pop’s children, is expected to take the witness stand this week in Jackson’s child molestation trial. A judge ruled on yesterday that Rowe may take the stand against Jackson. She is expected to testify that she was part of a [...]

Strike up the band! Ben Affleck, the star of such superflicks as Gigli, Paycheck, Dogma, and Armageddon, is engaged to Alias’ star Jennifer Garner. Affleck and Garner worked together on the movie blockbuster Daredevil, in which Garner played a role she recently reprised in one of the few movies I’ve ever seen get [...]

There haven’t been many train wrecks on The Apprentice. Actually, there have, but they usually don’t involve chewing tobacco or alleged assault. Those were the calling cards of Christopher Shelton, the third-season contestant who one contestant called the first clown (as in, an actual clown with a nose and everything, not the class [...]

Microsoft is putting out a new means for battling grade inflation at America’s universities: the Xbox 360. Video games — the great eaters of college students’ time — just get more and more complex, and now the means by which they hit the market is getting more complex too. Too chic to simply [...]