BREAKING NEWS: Solange doesn't know when to STFU AND STFD.



The woman who was totally pissed off that a TV anchor would dare ask her about her famous bro-in-law (Jay-Z) rather than her own stellar career is now casting a net of blame over her on-air rant. She points out TMZ-TV is on FOX stations and her diva freak-out yesterday was on KVVU TV -- also a FOX station. Coincidence? Beyonce's sis claims we're running this story to "bring attention to their websites."

For the record, we're running the story because she acted like a total bitch.

This might be the one time I agree with TMZ. Your sister earned the title of "Diva," bitch. All you did was get lucky. Try harder.

Source

Sunday August 31st - Edmonton Event Centre
8882 170st
Edmonton, AB
9PM - $20 - 18+
Click here for tickets

Tuesday September 2nd - Tantra Nightclub
355 10th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB
7PM - $15 - 18+
Click here for tickets

source (a bulletin, of course)

Boo, I want to "hang with" them! BTW, I saw them in Atlantic City and busted a nut six times. I'd forgotten how much I am in love with them. I knew all the words, all the dance moves, all the extra "woos" and "girls" they do in their songs. I was, and am again, OBSESSEDDD. Don't judge.

Summer, Buffy, and Rory are back at a computer near you.

Here’s a reason to believe in life after death: Almost exactly a year after the WB was shut down, it’s getting a second chance as an online-only network.

The TV channel that got taken over by the CW is now offering up some of its classic shows (like The OC, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Gilmore Girls) for free through their relaunched website. And that’s not all: You can watch webisodes of their new shows, like Whatever Hollywood and A Boy Wearing Makeup, and put together your own video mash-up (since episodes of Friends and Smallville are just begging for side-by-side treatment).

But by far, the coolest function is the search tool; not only can you look for a certain show or character, but find episodes that have a certain term. Prepare to waste hours searching for terms like “Death Cab” and “The OC” in between Veronica Mars marathons.

thewb.com, source

I just splooged.

Dhani Harrison, son of the Beatles' George, has a band called thenewno2 (obvs, and they've been mentioned before). Evidently, they're playing free shows every Tuesday in L.A. Someone go and lick Dhani's face for me?

source (they've also updated their page, and their album is available on iTunes, and videos on YouTube)

'Dark Knight' vs. 'Mamma Mia!': Gender differences still matter in movies


One is sun-sparkled Aegean blue, the other dark as ink. One teems with women scattering flowers, the other with men tossing grenades.

Both are highly entertaining, though each has moments of sheer over-the-top goofiness when viewers' eyebrows may arch toward their hairlines.

So why is "Mamma Mia!" considered a guilty pleasure, while "The Dark Knight" is widely respected as a grown-up drama?

Yes, Christopher Nolan's Batman movie has a jaw-dropping performance by Heath Ledger as the Joker, while Phyllida Lloyd's musical has — well, let's just say that my jaw remained right where it was throughout the whole thing.

But beyond Ledger's singular piece of work, there's an obvious difference between these two fantasy films. One's a chick flick, and the other is for "everyone," defined in this case — and in many others — as everyone whose idea of a good time is watching men attempt to destroy the world or save it.

Spare me the argument that "Dark Knight" isn't a boys' club because Maggie Gyllenhaal is in it. She gives an OK performance in an OK role in a movie where Ledger, Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Eric Roberts and even a pair of old guys, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, have more interesting things to do.

Oh, and Det. Ramirez, the girl cop who plays what I believe is known as a "small but pivotal role" in the denouement? Bet you can't even name the actress who plays her. And that goes double for Judge Surrillo, the lady jurist.

To be considered serious by critics and a blockbuster among viewers, a film obviously need not include a single scene in which one woman has a meaningful exchange with another. Even a chick flick, though, has to have dudes.

So in her frilly and, yes, often silly ABBA-fest, Lloyd takes care to put Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard together on a boat for a little male bonding. There's just so much time that the husbands, boyfriends and other straight guys in the audience can spend watching women, after all.

Especially when they're not, you know, babes in the Maggie G. sense. Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters: Not one of them has been on Maxim's Hot 100 list in — well, ever. Not the sort of women who kill at the box office.

And, of course, while shooting and stabbing and throwing punches is serious business, singing and dancing and throwing weddings is fluffy stuff.

Never mind that "Dark Knight's" final hour, which may throw you off balance with its climax-after-climax-after-climax pacing, is as grandiose as "Mamma Mia!'s" disco-till-you-drop finale. Nolan's movie thrilled me with its opening, then let me down somewhat, while Lloyd's made me squirm a little as that ridiculous plot unfolded, but sent me out of the theater as delighted as if someone had presented me with my very own mirror ball and a pair of shiny platform boots to match.

Of course, for all its imperfections, Nolan's movie gets far more than mere critical respect. A box-office behemoth, it has taken in $471 million — dwarfing "Mamma Mia!'s" healthy but far from record-setting $116 million.

If I sound at all surprised by this, I'm telling it wrong. The pastel fantasies of female-centered movies — even chick flicks not reeling a bit under the weight of all that ABBA-tude — rarely gain the acclaim or accrue the receipts of films powered by good old-fashioned machismo.

By the way, "Dark Knight's" Ramirez and Surrillo are played by Monique Curnen and Nydia Rodriguez Terracina. I'm guessing that, having had relatively little to do in Nolan's Gotham, both of them might have had more fun flouncing around Lloyd's Greek island while singing "Money, Money, Money."


SOORCE

Since being dropped by Hollywood Records, Raven Symone's looking forward to being an independent artist for her next album. She told Billboard: "I did it on my second album and like it. When you're an independent you really do get full control. You get to do it how you want to do it and promote it how I want to promote it and sell it how I want to sell it."

Raven said she was disappointed in weak sales for this year's 'Raven-Symone,' which bowed at No. 159 on the Billboard 200. "No one really dropped the ball. I just think it didn't get enough publicity so people would know it's coming out."

Raven already has ideas in her head about what she wants to do with her next release. "It'll be R&B, most definitely, with an alternative base for the lyrics."

She's hoping to find new talent to collaborate with. "It's good to go out there and spread your wings and find new talent and work with people you haven't worked with before.

I'd love to find the next Pharrell or the next someone who's coming up and no one really knows yet. At the same time, I'd love to work with the Clutch and the J.A.M. again."

Source

"we at JLHQ are pleased to inform you of our upcoming journey across the pond.

we will sing our hearts out and bang the drum for all of you and then some...
euro and UK dates"

Wed-Oct-08 Paris Le Maronquinerie
Thu-Oct-09 Amsterdam Melkweg
Fri-Oct-10 Hamburg Knust
Sat-Oct-11 Berlin Lido
Mon-Oct-13 Stockholm Kagelbanan
Tue-Oct-14 O Copenhagen Vega Jnr
Thu-Oct-16 Cologne Gebaude 9
Fri-Oct-17 London Koko
Sat-Oct-18 Glasgow QMU
Sun-Oct-19 Dublin Button Factory

source, words from a bulletin her team posted.

IM SURE YOU ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE SUBWAY COMMERCIAL.

$5 FOOT LOOOONG!!!
IF NOT, ITS STILL PRETTY FUNNY, Y/Y?

Here are my first textures for userpics that i made my own hands.

You can easily download it, but of course don't forget 'bout crediting if you use it. thanx for understanding! =))

Download it HERE

Houston, TX Show Announced

(08/25/08) The Offspring will headline BuzzFest XXII in Houston, TX on October 26 at Woodlands Pavilion. Visit 94.5 The Buzz's website for the full line up and more information. Tickets go on sale at 10:00 AM (Central) this Friday, August 29 via ticketmaster.com.


SOURCE

Summer isn’t over yet but Jennifer Aniston, 39, is already back at work.

The Friends star is making a guest appearance on 30 Rock opposite Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, a source tells Star.

The episode is expected to film in New York next week and will air this fall.

“Jen has wanted to stay busy since her split with John Mayer because she doesn’t want the world to think she’s at home crying into her pillow,” says the source.

“She is up for any kind of work and thinks doing a big TV series is a clever way to ramp up publicity for her fall films.”

The source says Jen chose 30 Rock “because she thinks it’s hilarious and she is a major, major fan of Alec’s.”

( Another minor casting spoiler... )

Source 1 & 2

I hope the Jennifer Aniston thing is false...idc who you break up with, don't use my favorite show as a therapy session, k?

eta - fyi I liked her on Friends, but every character she's played since has been some variation of Rachel Green, and Rachel Green does not fit in the 30 Rock world.

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Neko Case will take a break from recording in late August to embark on a North American tour that will find her performing at such high-profile festivals as Bumbershoot in Seattle and Austin City Limits.

The appearance probably closest to Neko's heart is the show that will kick off these tours on August 25th at the Rialto in Tucson AZ. The passionate animal enthusiast will donate the earnings from both ticket sales and show posters sales (by artist Kathleen Judge – http://www.judgeworks.com) to the Greyhound Adoption League of Tucson, AZ. Neko also hopes to get information out to the public about the efforts of the Tucson Dog Protection as well. The Greyhound Adoption League seeks to place retired racing greyhounds in permanent, loving homes, while the Tucson Dog Protection is both a non-profit organization and a ballot initiative to improve on the legal treatment of the city's dog population.

Another key event in the upcoming dates is the Stanley Park Singing Exhibition curated by Neko's other band, The New Pornographers. Neko and the Pornographers,
Destroyer, Andrew Bird, Deerhoof, the 1900s and Visqueen, are among only some of the international bands that will perform over the two-day festival in Vancouver. Proceeds from the festival will benefit local organizations like the ALS Society of Canada for Lou Gehrig's disease (http://als.ca/) and the Urban Native Youth Association (http://www.unya.bc.ca/).

Neko is currently in the studio, recording her follow-up to 2006's lauded Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Her new album is expected early in 2009.

Neko Case on tour:
Aug 25 Tucson AZ The Rialto (Benefit for GAL + Tuscon Dog Protection)
Aug 27 Reno NV Robert Hawkins Amphitheater
Aug 28 Salt Lake City UT Gallivan Center (Twilight Concert Series)
Aug 29 Boise ID Winery at Eagle Knoll
Aug 30 Seattle WA Bumbershoot Festival
Aug 31 Vancouver BC Stanley Park Singing Exhibition (Neko Case set)
Sept 1 Vancouver BC Stanley Park (New Pornographers set)
Sept 12 Laytonville CA Earthdance Festival @ Black Oak Ranch
Sept 14 Morrison CO Monolith Festival
Sept 15 Omaha NE Slow Bar
Sept 16 Des Moines IA Hoyt Sherman
Sept 18 Minneapolis MN First Avenue
Sept 19 Madison WI The Orpheum
Sept 20 Chicago IL Hideout Block Party
Sept 21 Chicago IL Hideout Block Party – with New Pornographers
Sept 23 Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom
Sept 24 St Louis MO The Pageant
Sept 25 Oxford MS The Lyric
Sept 26 Oklahoma City OK Diamond Ballroom
Sept 27 Dallas TX Granada Theater
Sept 28 Austin TX Austin City Limits festival

source

Why do you hate Philadelphia, Neko? =(

Hello!
jw if anyone has any thoughts on a Harry Potter "Professional" Debate topic. It's for a argumentative essay.
We're allowed to choose our own topic - but it has to relate to our degree in some way. I'm at uni studying a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education.
The teacher said that i could do Harry Potter (not that i want to "do" Harry Potter - EW! No way! *hehe*), but i'm not sure what to focus on...

What the teacher said:

has to be a *professional* debate -
perhaps from your perspective as a teacher, from a literacy perspective,
or a children's literature perspective. Go to scholar.google.com and see
what they're saying about it. (I just found an abstract there for an
article called "Heteronormative Heroism and Queering the School Story in
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series" - unfortunately we don't have
access to the whole article though!)

If anyone has any thoughts, i'd appreciate anything! :D

Thanks!

New Gossip Girl clip from season 2, episode 3 "The Dark Knight"
*Beware: Spoilers*



Source: GossipGirlInsider

Hot new mom Halle Berry has said time and time again that she doesn’t want to marry again. She had two failed marriages, first to David Justice then to the sex addicted cheater Eric Benet.

She has since moved on to the smokin’ hot model Gabriel Aubry and had a beautiful baby girl with him named Nahla Ariela Aubry in March. Could baby Nahla have helped her change her mind? I hope so, I think they are so cute together!

SOURCE

Zooey Deschanel at the Spotlight Award's Morning Reception Honoring Annette Bening yesterday.

The outfit is a mess, but she's still cute as a button.

source

( WHO WAS THE SPECIAL GUEST ON HSM: GET IN THE PICTURE? )


Corbin Bleu's Special Sauce

CW released stills of green arrow, black canary, and aquaman for 8.01 odyssey.



( SV has such a ~genius costume designer.  )

justin hartley/oliver queen is such a hot bitch.

lol, aquaman.

In part 1 of a recent video interview with Tokio Hotel before their Anaheim, CA show, androgeneous lead singer Bill Kaulitz revealed many things about himself, including his love for caramel brownie ice cream and his secret wish to act -- he would love to portray a vampire in a movie, the young punk rocker says in a heavy german accent.  Also, his hair takes alot less time to do then one would thing -- only about 45 minutes, including shower time -- that ain't that bad considering the amount of wild hair he has.

watch the video here http://tokiohotel.buzznet.com/user/video/3482311/buzznet-talks-ice-cream-hair/?id=3482311&lmode=video 

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