The ACM Awards: The Grammys in Disguise?
The days of country music being about songs such as “My Wife’s Married, But I’m Not” are in the dim and distant past. Especially if Sunday night’s Academy of Country Music Awards is anything to go by.
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Lady Gaga’s After Our Jobs, Landing a Gig as a Columnist
This means war, Gaga.
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Security Guard Arrested Near London 2012 Olympic Stadium
And so it begins: with the countdown to the next Olympic Games well and truly on, a disturbing reminder of the “new normal” has come with a guard being arrested on the suspicion of possessing explosives. (via BBC)
India Defeats Pakistan in Cricket World Cup’s ‘Mother of All Battles’
While America prepares for another baseball season, much of the wider world only had eyes for the Cricket World Cup on Wednesday as rivals India and Pakistan faced off. And it was the home team Indians who won and will face Sri …
Will George Clooney Testify in Silvio Berlusconi’s Sex Trial?
The Hollywood actor’s new role, if greenlit, will be filmed by many cameras and viewed around the world. And when he says his lines, George Clooney won’t have the safety net of a script to fall back on if he ends up testifying in …
LeBron James Returns to Cleveland, Doesn’t Really Have a Good Night Out
NewsFeed enjoys a bit of hyperbole as much as the next site, but this just might have been the most eagerly-awaited return by a superstar in the history of the NBA (well, since the last one). But the result this time will have …
Britain’s Royal Mail Gives Stamp of Approval to Will and Kate
Finally: a legal way to lick the future King and Queen of England without getting thrown in the Tower of London.
Ditching Dad? Beyonce Knowles Drops Her Father as Her Manager
Beyonce Knowles, ever the “Independent Woman,” has dropped her father, Mathew Knowles, as her manager.
Not Even Prince Harry Can Stop Prince William From Surviving Bachelor Party
NewsFeed also went to a stag do (the British term for Bachelor Party) over the weekend, but it wasn’t for Prince William. Our absence, of course, is the future King of England’s loss.
‘She Even Wanted to be Late for Her Own Funeral’: Elizabeth Taylor Laid to Rest
The irony won’t have been lost on anyone: the funeral for Elizabeth Taylor started fashionably late, which is exactly how the legendary star wanted it.