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That oldest of questions — “Anything good on TV?” — may soon get a new answer: Music.

A new generation of Internet-connected TV sets are emerging as potentially useful tools for the recording industry in its ongoing quest to extend the reach of digital music into living rooms.

Judging from the buzz that connected TVs from Samsung, Sony, Vizio and LG generated at the otherwise subdued International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, Internet access may soon become as important a feature to TV buyers as screen size and resolution.

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“At times we shall simply have to admit that, one way or another, what we can neither explain nor understand certainly doesn’t cease to exist because we cannot see how it does or why it should.”

-Unknown

A man named Yusuf Evans was injured when an exotic dancer lost her shoe doing a high kick.  Apparently, the sexy move sent her shoe flying through the air and straight into Evans’ face!  His nose to be exact and he claims he hasn’t been able to breathe without difficulty since it happened.

Evans is now suing the night club XTC because “the management allowed dancers to wear “improper attire” and required strippers to perform dances that made the stage “a hazardous area”.

this gives all whole new meaning to: work that body, work that body make sure you don’t hurt nobody.  Can you imagine if Evans wins this case?  Strippers will be required to wear plastic shoes…lol.

So little Kim went to see Notorious and she’s pissed off about being depicted as Big’s jump off.

“Even though my relationship with Big was at times very difficult and complicated (as with most relationships we have all experienced at one time or another), it was also genuine and built on great admiration and love for each other,” Lil’ Kim said in a statement.  (more…)

One thing magazine advertising and hip-hop music have always had in common is skin — images of models, usually women, in alluring poses and various states of undress. The Source, the hip-hop magazine, does not aim to do away with such images — there is a lot of money in them — but it wants to make the sex in its pages a lot less explicit.

Ads for pornography and escorts had been a mainstay for The Source, more than half the ads at times.

To that end, the magazine announced recently that it would no longer take what the co-publisher, L. Londell McMillan, calls “booty ads,” for pornographic films, pornographic Web sites or escort services. But those have been a mainstay for The Source — more than half the ads in the magazine at times, he said.

The Source hopes to gain more than it loses by chasing mainstream advertisers that do not want their ads alongside the adults-only kind. That’s a serious gamble at a time when magazines are struggling, unable to hold onto the ads they have.

“I realize the risk that we’re taking,” said Mr. McMillan, 42, a partner at a major law firm, Dewey & LeBouef. “But I think when you have the more raunchy, seedy ads, you lose ads like financial services ads, some of the travel ads, the bigger corporate consumer ads like McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, technology, high fashion.”

The Source, he said, should be able to appeal to the core hip-hop audience, mostly young men, while also being something “you wouldn’t mind your kids seeing.”

Founded in the 1980s, The Source became the first major magazine devoted to hip-hop, but in the 1990s, it lost ground to its primary competitor, Vibe. Since then, it has gone through turnovers in management and financial troubles that culminated in bankruptcy.

A group of investors, led by Mr. McMillan, bought The Source in 2008. The major independent auditors of circulation and advertising have not examined it in recent years, making it hard to gauge the magazine’s progress, but these are hard times for the entire industry.

Mr. McMillan says eliminating sex ads is no mere business decision. Sounding, at times, less like the music’s fans than like their parents, he says he wants to transform the often raunchy image of hip-hop itself.

“We don’t want to just glorify the lowest-hanging fruit,” he said. “There’s a lot of people that want hip-hop but don’t want some of the filth that some of the business carries with it.”

Now the whole dorky new look suddenly makes sense….

I absolutely loved this performance! What did you think of it? Am I alone on this one?

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”

-Henry Ford

The company that made Beanie Babies a top toy craze is hoping for another winner with dolls named “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia.”

Now where have we heard those names before? Ty Inc. has released the 12-inch plush dolls as part of the company’s “TyGirlz Collection,” introduced in 2007.

The Sasha doll has pigtails and wears a white and pink dress with hearts. The Malia doll has a side ponytail and a long-sleeve shirt with capri pants.

The Oak Brook-based company chose the dolls’ names because “they are beautiful names,” not because of any resemblance to President Obama’s daughters, said spokeswoman Tania Lundeen. (more…)