Yesterday at Essence magazine's sixth annual Black Women in Hollywood awards luncheon, tears flowed as honorees took the stage.

Twitter is deluged with celebrities (and civilians) chiming in on the gun control "debate" following today's horrific school shooting. The one I saw retweeted the most ubiquitously was this, from Dax Shepard: "I love guns. I have several, but I would gladly get rid of them if it would help prevent anything like this from…

Kate Middleton giggled uncontrollably as she and Prince William visited the Solomon Islands and were presented with garlands by topless women from the village of Marau, likely because being presented with boobs are kind of on-the-nose for her right now. The islands were the latest stop on the royals' Diamond Jubilee…

In this week's television roundup, Nene makes her first appearance on Glee, 30 Rock references Tracy Morgan's homophobia and Daniel Radcliffe revisits his role as Harry Potter.

Today in Tweet Beat, Chris Brown's mom is doing his PR. Plus, the Reno 911 crowd was unsurprisingly disruptive at Niecy Nash's wedding.

And we do mean literally! This was a red carpet blinding in its sparkle!

This Bulgari event in Beverly Hills benefited several very worthy causes, which is great. And Gerard Butler was there, which was also great.

Confession: I love Clean House. As a recovering pack rat, seeing people part with their clutter — and end up enjoying it — is an oddly soothing type of entertainment.

The ESPN ESPY awards, honoring athletes across sports, make for one of our favorite red carpets of the year. And this one, at Nokia Theatre L.A., was no exception. But...why was Zac Efron there?

Today in Tweet Beat, Ice-T is not in a good mood today, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany (and a gun?) are hanging out together, and with Jon Gosselin, it's the same shit, different girlfriend.