The inevitable march towards Taylor Swift's new album 1989 continues with a new single, and it's only getting worse: "Welcome To New York" is a gentrification anthem so obtuse it makes one wonder if she is, in fact, trolling at this point. And it calls into question whether rich white-person privilege is, in fact, a… » 10/20/14 6:40pm 10/20/14 6:40pm

"I’ve met some serious aliens in my life… I’m sure you’ve seen a UFO. Haven’t all of us seen something flying in the sky [at some random time of night] and it’s not the shape of a plane? …I don’t know if I’d go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien’s vibe. I’m a vibe person." » 10/07/13 1:10pm 10/07/13 1:10pm

After admitting on The Talk last week to undergoing eye enlargement surgery at the behest of a racist Dayton, Ohio TV studio back in '95, Julie Chen has clarified that she has not had a nose job. Any difference you see above is due to expert contouring, witchcraft and wizardry. » 9/19/13 9:00am 9/19/13 9:00am

Lest we think Justin Theroux is little more than a B-list actor completely devoid of personality, before he got together with the Ol' Ball and Chain Jennifer Aniston, he had a yen for old-timey STD wax figures, he told GQ. » 9/17/13 9:01am 9/17/13 9:01am

Now that Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise have been away from the Xenu madness and securely ensconced in the filthy bosom of Manhattan for some time, the 7-year-old child can go about having a totally normal childhood. Which now involves ghost-designing a fashion line that's worth more than Reese Witherspoon's new property » 5/11/13 11:30am 5/11/13 11:30am

In today's Tweet Beat, someone hacks Alicia Keys' twitter account only to tweet about drake, Anna Kendrick is getting unclear messages for Valentine's Day, Jose Canseco questions the Pope and — congratulations— we get a surprise appearance by Dourtney.
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It's hard to start the weekend off on a snarky note, especially when Maya Angelou started off her third annual Black History Month program on public radio with such sincerity by teaching professional singer Alicia Keys how to sing, thereby proving that none of us should ever stop learning. The AP explained that… » 2/02/13 5:00pm 2/02/13 5:00pm

I think it was Tolstoy who wrote, "Happy families are all alike, but Kardashians are all different kinds of bacterial strains of fame-grubber." Here is their Christmas card, which features dearly departed Persian kitten Mercy (RIP) sitting unhappily in something that looks like it came from Ikea and is maybe called a… » 12/18/12 9:00am 12/18/12 9:00am

Pizza Hut is releasing a perfume. Seriously. But if it seems like a joke, it's because that's how this all started. In an effort to get people talking about the pizza chain, an advertising agency that works with its Canadian branch posted on Facebook, "Do you love the smell of a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened? We… » 12/05/12 4:40pm 12/05/12 4:40pm

Last night at KIIS FM's 2012 Jingle Ball, held at the Nokia Theatre in L.A., celebrities wore leather. Leather jackets, leather skirts, leather shoes, leather boots. It was all about the leather. » 12/04/12 5:30pm 12/04/12 5:30pm

Last night in Frankfurt, Germany, luminaries of the music world gathered for the MTV Europe Awards. On the red carpet, a few of the artists looked pretty good… but most of them stood firmly in the bad and/or ugly categories. » 11/12/12 11:55am 11/12/12 11:55am

During the Lufti/Spears trial, Sam Lufti let this slip: "[Courtney Love and I] are currently working on a possible motion picture or Broadway musical based on the Nirvana catalogue, based on her life and Kurt Cobain's." However, because Lufti is skeezier than the stuff that falls between the wall and your bed and… » 10/25/12 9:00am 10/25/12 9:00am

The music video for Alicia Keys' "Girl On Fire" premiered on VEVO yesterday, and no, it's not based on The Hunger Games (although if it were in the end credits of Catching Fire, nobody'd complain). The video, which portrays Keys as a working mom with a magic touch, features lots of jewel tones and one hella cool … » 10/20/12 4:40pm 10/20/12 4:40pm

As many current R&B mainstays are wont to do at this point, Alicia Keys dropped Frank Ocean's name as a major inspiration for her upcoming fifth studio album, Girl On Fire, in a discussion with The New York Times. More importantly (to us, anyway), the title, unfortunately, wasn't drawn from The Hunger Games… » 9/29/12 12:30pm 9/29/12 12:30pm

Rihanna, God of Patron Shots and Cigarette Butts and Hangovers and General Chaos, almost got thrown out of a London nightclub after she supposedly jumped on a glass table, fell, smashed it and then started screaming "Don't you know who I am?" when the doorman started kicking her out (which undoubtedly sounds less dick… » 9/01/12 11:30am 9/01/12 11:30am