Adele was the big winner at last night’s Billboard Music Awards (20th May), taking home twelve major gongs at the ceremony, including Top Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album for 21. LMFAO were also one of the night’s top winners, taking home six awards: with Party Rock Anthem picking up the prize for Hot 100 […]
A day after his company went public, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his Facebook status to “married.” Zuckerberg wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan (his girlfriend of nearly a decade) in a surprise ceremony in Palo Alto. The couple married at Zuckerberg’s California home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would […]
Donna Summer, the singer who came to be known as the “Queen of Disco” during her 1970′s heyday, died at her Naples, Fla. home today after battling lung cancer. She was 63. “Early this morning, surrounded by family, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith” – her […]
Necrotizing fasciitis or flesh eating bacteria victim (Aimee Copeland) is set to breathe on her own as her condition improves. But she may still lose more parts of her body Just less than a fortnight ago, she was one of very healthy, young women with stars in her eyes looking to begin her career after […]
Chris “Birdman” Anderson will not be suiting up for the rest of the playoffs, or anytime soon for that matter. The Denver Nuggets excused him indefinitely from all team activities after Douglas County sheriff deputies entered and searched his home on Thursday afternoon before Denver’s game six first round match up against the Lakers. While […]
Boston Red Sox public address announcer Carl Beane (the voice of Fenway Park whose booming baritone called ballplayers to the plate for two World Series champions) died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack while driving. He was 59. “We are filled with sadness at this tragic news” – Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said […]
George Lindsey, better known as the grinning (beanie-wearing Goober from the classic rural comedy ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and ‘Hee Haw’) has died on Sunday at age 83. According to a press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville, Tennessee, the actor passed away after an extended hospitalization. Lindsey is best remembered as Goober Pyle, […]
According to NASA’s calculations – Saturday night is when the moon will hit your eye like a big pizza pie, to paraphrase Dean Martin. It’s “super moon” time. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is letting its enthusiasm show in a new video on the subject. “The timing is almost perfect” – it notes. At […]
Adam Yauch (the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group) has died. He was 47. Yauch’s representatives confirmed that the rapper died Friday morning in New York after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. Also known as MCA, Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous salivary gland in […]
The man best known for helping single people find love is now single himself. Chris Harrison, host of ABC’s hit reality dating shows “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” has separated from his wife Gwen. The couple, who had been together for 18 years, confirmed to People magazine that they decided to split “after much heartfelt […]