"What Happens in Vegas" actress Cameron Diaz, who was left devastated by the death of her father Emilio last week, will take a year off from making movies. Tough news about the father. The rest is pretty awesome. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: cameron diaz
Added: Thu, 24 Apr 2008

The cover of Time this week morphs together the faces of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The cities of Cambridge, MA and San Francisco were said to have fainted. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Political
Keywords: hillary clinton barack obama
Added: Thu, 24 Apr 2008

Two weeks after the next president is elected, Mike Huckabee will publish a book sharing details on his failed bid for the White House and offering his vision for remodeling the conservative movement. Step one is getting plastic surgery to look like John McCain. Step two is renaming yourself John McCain. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Political
Keywords: mike huckabee
Added: Thu, 24 Apr 2008

"Saturday Night Live" has replaced a flu-ridden Janet Jackson with another diva: Mariah Carey. Carey, 37, will fill in for Jackson on the March 15 "SNL" telecast, NBC announced Wednesday. This helps maintain their 'one washed-up singer' quota. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: mariah carey snl
Added: Thu, 13 Mar 2008

The Boston Zoning Commission set a limit of four yesterday on the number of college students who can live together off campus, a far-reaching decision that could spur a citywide crackdown on crowded student housing. All part of a plan to stop Hispanics from going to college in Boston. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: News
Keywords: boston colleges
Added: Thu, 13 Mar 2008

An eighth-grade honors student who was suspended for a day, barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president after he was caught with contraband candy in school will get his student council post back, school officials said. The school district cited the long forgotted 'Marion Barry Law.' [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: News
Keywords: suspension
Added: Thu, 13 Mar 2008

Naomi Watts had to breastfeed her seven-month-old son Alexander to keep him quiet on a 14-hour flight. Ever since, men have cried in her presence. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: naomi watts
Added: Thu, 13 Mar 2008

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to marry in an "intimate" ceremony this summer. It will come after their PR staffs are 'baffled' that every reporter in the country knew exactly which out-of-the-way island to be at on a certain date. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: angelina jolie brad pitt
Added: Wed, 12 Mar 2008

Janet Jackson has dropped out of her upcoming "Saturday Night Live" performance because she has the flu, the singer's representative said Tuesday. NBC executives expect a ratings spike. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: janet jackson saturday night live
Added: Wed, 12 Mar 2008

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama assailed as "slice and dice" politics Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that he wouldn't be where he is in the presidential race if he weren't black. This coming one day after Obama won the Mississippi Democratic Primary, essentially, because he is black. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Political
Keywords: barak obama
Added: Wed, 12 Mar 2008

Slot machine revenues are off by more than 6 percent at Connecticut's casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, in the five months ending Jan. 31, compared to a year ago. Racists. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: News
Keywords: mohegan sun foxwoods
Added: Wed, 12 Mar 2008

Patrick Swayze is being treated for pancreatic cancer but is doing well enough to continue working, his representative said Wednesday. Shocking news, that Swayze is still working. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: patrick swayze
Added: Fri, 7 Mar 2008

Like a herd of antelope, jockeying and shoving for position, 150 young women raced down Amsterdam's most famed fashion street in stiletto heels Thursday, racing for a $15,000 prize. The race ended at a strip joint, where the contestants promptly went back to work. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: News
Keywords: amsterdam heels race
Added: Fri, 7 Mar 2008

A former lawyer convicted of stealing from clients has been told by a judge to get a job, even if it means shoveling snow off roofs. The lawyer then moved to Florida. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: News
Keywords: lawyer job
Added: Fri, 7 Mar 2008

Rihanna has insisted that all umbrellas be confiscated from fans, in case they injure themselves trying to copy the dance to her song "Umbrella." In a related story, Tool will stop playing 'Aenima' live. [more]

Author: Doug Chagnon
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: rihanna tool
Added: Wed, 5 Mar 2008