http://www.newscloud.com/section/entertainment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:16:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us http://www.newscloud.com/read/Barenaked_Ladies_singer_faces_drug_charge_in_NY Steven Page, along with two women, were arrested after police found cocaine and marijuana in a Fayetteville, N.Y., apartment, according to a Syracuse-area radio station's website, 9WSYR.com. Page and one of the women were apparently arrested Friday after police discovered a car with an open door in the driveway of a home. While they were investigating the vehicle, officers observed a man and a woman sitting at a kitc

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Actor_Brolin_arrested_after_fight http://www.newscloud.com/read/Invincible_Opportunity_in_Crisis The Detroit rapper reflects on her music, activism and inspirations. Balancing art and activism is a challenge. Just ask Ilana Weaver, better known to hip-hop fans as Invincible, the Detroit-based emcee who has been rapping for well over a decade. A 2002 XXL Magazine feature lauded her as a talented lyricist and seasoned performer. She was also called "every A&R's worst nightmare" due to her notorious reputation for turning down record deals and butting heads with industry stalwarts.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Don_t_Go_to_Commercial Have you heard the good news? If not, let me be the first to tell you. BET has FINALLY gotten the ol' Don Imus treatment. That's right. Some major sponsors have pulled advertisements from BET, due to the gratuitous violence, profanity and obscenity on some of the cable network's programs, according to a report in the Chicago Defender.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/A_Few_Words_About_Golf_With_Condoleezza_Rice_DC_Sports_Bog I'm sick of politics - time for summer pursuits! I think it's fascintating that Condi plays golf, though not as well as she plays the piano: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/arts/music/09tomm.html?pagewanted=1

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/GM_Procter_amp_Gamble_Pull_Ads_on_BET Media watchdogs are declaring it a victory. Black Entertainment Television hasn't said much, and advertisers are mum. What is clear, though, is that at least two top advertisers--automaking giant General Motors and consumer goods manufacturer Procter & Gamble--have pulled ads from BET's Rap City and 106 & Park programs.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Moment_Mens_Fashion_The_New_Black Italy is not a country that is known for its tolerance or its embrace of multi-culturalism, and yet, all of a sudden the runways in Milan are crowded with black models. (I say black and not African-American because most of them were in fact recruited from France and England.) The news of an entire "black issue" of Italian Vogue photographed by Steven Meisel is still fresh in the American press. Both Guy Trebay and our own New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn have gone far to bring to our attention the lack of ethnic diversity on the fashion runways, in advertising campaigns and in editorial pages of magazines.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Steven_Tyler_admits_he_entered_rehab_for_drug_addiction__NMECOM Steven Tyler has admitted that he entered rehab last month to recover from drug addiction.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Popular_Hip_Hop_Site_Gets_Hacked_By_TechSavvy_Racists Hate 2.0. As of right now, hip hop website SOHH.com is down. This is all well and good, because you probably didn't want to see what was on it earlier. The site was attacked by a group of very anti-SOHH, anti-black, anti-Jew hackers, who infiltrated the forums, splashed racist and anti-semitic pictures on the homepage, and changed all headlines to things like, "Jews Did 9/11″ and "Enjoy This White Wimmenz, N*gger." The group, which gets no publicity here, tried to blame the disturbance on comedy site ebaumsworld.com. [

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/HipHop_Elitism_Why_Soulja_Boy_is_More_Hip_Hop_Than_You Soulja Boy is seen as the anti hip-hop by some purists, but how do race and age set the terms of the debate?

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Battlestar_Galactica_in_SciFi_Ghetto "Because our profile is so low, we've been able to tell the kinds of stories we've been able to tell," Weddle said. "We're off the radar because we're just a sci-fi show, and we've told some pretty amazing stories because we're just a sci-fi show. We're not on the radar of the networks, or the censors. To me, that's a positive way to look at it." Weddle and writing partner Bradley Thompson brought the mid-season finale to life two weeks ago, and while some fans may have felt cheated by the ending, they really need to get the whole story before passing judgment, he said.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/George_Carlin_Splenetic_Comedian_Dies_at_71_Obituary_Obit_NYTimescom Where would we be if not for George and his seven words you can't say on television?

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/George_Carlin_Comedian_George_Carlin_Dead Stand-up comedian George Carlin, whose routine about forbidden words on the airwaves led to a key Supreme Court decision on government broadcast oversight, died of heart failure near Los Angeles. He was 71.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Pasture_Of_Muppets_Inside_the_Metallica_Reviews_Scandal_Listening_Post_from_Wiredcom Agents of Metallica managed another internet debacle last week, caused this time by preposterous demands that journalists who attended a listening party for the upcoming Metallica album pull their subsequent reviews. Only one publication refused: The Quietus.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/One_of_the_Girls_BBF_in_the_City As the black best friend in Sex and the City: The Movie, Jennifer Hudson plays a tired role.

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