Friday 9 March 2012

'Kill Bill' actor Michael Madsen jailed in Malibu

Authorities say actor Michael Madsen has been arrested for investigation of cruelty to a child after a fight with his teenage son.

Obaid Sheikh

The creations of Fashion designer Obaid Sheikh indicate feminine beauty and sophistication, which is a must-have for all women of substance.

Hoorain

Fashion designer Saima Yousaf is primarily known for its Haute Couture and its signature style, focusing on luster, shine and vibrancy.

Rehana Saigol

Fashion designer Rehana Saigol is marvelously establishing her name in designing of Bridal and other types of formal Sarees, in particular.

Bruce Springsteen performs at the Apollo Theater

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the Apollo Theater on Friday, March 9, 2012 in New York. The concert was hosted by SiriusXM in celebration of 10 years of satellite radio. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)It was show time at the Apollo, as Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band rocked Harlem's legendary theater.


Tazeen Hassan

The design philosophy of Tazeen Hassan says that the beautiful amalgamation of cuts & embroidery must give comfort, along with the style.

Hazree Wahid

Fashion Designer Hazree Wahid mostly plays with traditional handmade and machine embroidered outfits with noticeable hints of western designs and trends.

Ahmad Bilal

Pakistani Fashion Designer Ahmed Bilal is among those fashion designers who hold strong passion and true dedication for art and designs.

Ray J says he's 'still hurting' over Houston death

FILE - In this April 19, 2008 file photo, singers Ray J, left, and Whitney Houston attend the Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe, of Britain, light heavyweight boxing match at the Thomas & Mack center in Las Vegas. Ray J says he's Ray J says he's "still hurting" nearly a month after the death of Whitney Houston.


Shazia

Shazia is one of the outclass fashion designers of Pakistan, who is into this field for more than a decade now.

Robert Temple Ayres, 'Bonanza' illustrator, dies

Robert Temple Ayres, the set illustrator whose burning Ponderosa map opened TV's long-running Western series "Bonanza," has died in California. He was 98.

Gingrich says new ABC show 'GCB' is anti-Christian

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to a crowd at the Mississippi State University Riley Center in downtown Meridian, Miss. on Friday, March 9, 2012. (AP Photo/The Meridan Star, Paula Merritt))Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says a new ABC television series is evidence that the entertainment industry harbors anti-Christian bias.


Jimmy Buffett 1 step closer to casino license

Jimmy Buffett is one step closer to sharing in the gambling revenue his Parrotheads deliver to his Margaritaville casino in Sin City.

Dennis Quaid's 3rd wife files for divorce in Texas

Actor Dennis Quaid's third wife has filed for divorce, saying the couple's seven-year marriage has "become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities."

Rapper Coolio arrested in unpaid Vegas ticket case

Rapper Coolio has been arrested in Las Vegas on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court on a traffic ticket almost two years ago.

Dick Van Dyke marries makeup artist at age 86

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2012 file photo, actor Dick Van Dyke, right, and Arlene Silver arrive at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Van Dyke and Silver were married on Leap Day at a chapel in Malibu, according to his publicist, Bob Palmer. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)Dick Van Dyke is a very happy newlywed at age 86, his spokesman said Friday.


Prosecutor: Many threats before Hudson killings

FILE - This Dec. 3, 2008 file booking photo provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Department shows William Balfour. Balfour, accused of killing the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson on Chicago's South Side in 2008, is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing Friday, March 9, 2012. Jennifer Hudson is on the witness list for the upcoming Chicago trial of Balfour, according to court documents. But prosecutors haven't yet disclosed whether Hudson will actually testify at the April 9 trial of Balfour, who was the estranged husband of Hudson's sister, Julia. (AP Photo/Cook County Sheriff's Department, File)The man accused of killing Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew had threatened to kill members of the family at least two dozen times before the October 2008 slayings, a prosecutor said during a Friday hearing in Chicago.


Judean coin brings $1 million at NYC auction

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows the front of a Year 1 prototype silver shekel. The rare prototype shekel silver coin made in 66 C.E. by Jewish rebels fighting Roman occupation in ancient Judea sold for a record $1,105,375 in an auction conducted by Heritage Auctions in New York on Thursday night, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Heritage Auctions, File)An ancient Judean coin has sold for $1.1 million at a New York City auction.


Jimmy Buffett one step closer to NV casino license

Jimmy Buffett is one step closer to sharing in the gambling revenue his Parrotheads deliver to his Margaritaville casino in Sin City.

Bob Barker Building will be PETA's West Coast hub

Bob Barker's name has been attached to a game show and a cause for decades. Now it's attached to a building, too.

Obese US man's plea becomes YouTube sensation

A morbidly obese California man whose tearful, videotaped plea for help became a YouTube sensation may be getting the support he wanted.

Parents Television Council likes 'Bully' rating

Katy Butler, 17, a high school student, from Ann Arbor, Mich., poses by the petitions she delivered to the Motion Picture Association of America, Wednesday March 7, 2012, in Los Angeles. Butler is urging the MPAA to change the A petition urging the film-ratings board to overturn the "R'' rating it gave to the teen-centric documentary "Bully" has garnered more than 250,000 signatures, but at least one organization is OK with the decision.


"Mad Men" fans, head to Manhattan for a cocktail

In this Thursday, March 8, 2012 photo, Doug Quinn, serves a Sidecar cocktail as he works at the bar at P.J. Clarke's in New York. P.J. Clarkeรข€™s is one of many bars and restaurants in Manhattan featured on the AMC show รข€œMad Men,รข€ which returns March 25 after more than a year hiatus. The show is filmed in California but itรข€™s set in New York, with many references to real establishments from the 1960s, some of which still exist. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)"Mad Men" fans, it's time for a cocktail.


Obese Calif. man's plea becomes YouTube sensation

A morbidly obese California man whose tearful, videotaped plea for help became a YouTube sensation may be getting the support he wanted.

Olive Garden Review Goes Viral: The รข€˜Largest and Most Beautiful Restaurantรข€™

The restaurant reviews on websites and in newspapers are often of a certain pedigree, describing meals that can cost a table for two over $200.  It’s easy to forget that outside the world of expensive restaurants and celebrity chefs, restaurant reviews are limitless and can...

Anti-Kony video campaign draws criticism in Uganda

A box full to the brim with KONY 2012 campaign posters are shown Thursday March 8, 2012 at the Invisible Children Movement offices in San Diego. The workers are monitoring the social media impact of their KONY 2012 campaign. Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal Central Africa militia that has kidnapped thousands of children and forced them to become sex slaves, fight as child soldiers and kill family members during a 26-year campaign of terror. The KONY 2012 project is an effort to stop Joseph Kony. (AP Photo/John Mone)The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict.


Bollywood star avoids jail in rash driving case

Big-biceped Abraham has a huge fan following in IndiaBollywood star John Abraham avoided jail Friday when the Bombay High Court stayed a local court's 15-day sentence against him for rash driving.


Libraries protest Random House price hike

The American Library Association is urging Random House Inc. to reconsider its steep increases in the price of e-books for library wholesalers

LA's Getty Museum returns antiquities to Greece

Three ancient marble fragments from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have been repatriated to Greece following a deal last year.

Indie-rock darlings The Shins back with new album

Indie-rock favorites The Shins are back with a new album, a new lineup and a more upbeat sound that lead singer-songwriter James Mercer credits in part to his tranquil family life.

Louis Vuitton exhibit: It's the bag, stupid

A visitor takes a picture of fashion creations displayed at the Louis Vuitton-Marc Jacobs exhibit in the Art Decoratifs Museum in Paris, Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)"Fashions fade, style is eternal," Yves Saint Laurent once said.


Toddler Kicked Off Plane Not the First

“We were just trying to control a 2-year-old child who was scared and wanted to be held by her mother,” Collette Vieau told WJAR, a television station in Providence, R.I., of the incident that got them kicked off a JetBlue flight last month. The Rhode...

Chabon, Franzen voted into arts academy

FILE - This Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 file photo shows author Michael Chabon as he poses for a photo in New York. Chabon, Jonathan Franzen and Jhumpa Lahiri were voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The new inductees will be officially welcomed at a ceremony in May. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)Michael Chabon credits his latest honor to the gray in his beard.


Rush wreaks the s-word, but why are people so mad?

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2010 file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speaks during a news conference at The Queen's Medical Center looks on in Honolulu, after he was rushed to the hospital after experiencing chest pains during a vacation. Limbaugh, who for a quarter-century of radio dominance has gained clout and wealth with his salvos against Democrats, liberals, minorities, the poor and other disenfranchised groups. On his radio show, Limbaugh called Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke a It isn't what you say that counts, but who you say it about.


Memorials to honor Monkees singer Davy Jones

The heart attack that killed Monkees heartthrob Davy Jones came while the singer was in his stable surrounded by his beloved horses.

Chicken slaughter art project ruffles feathers

Officials have banned an artist from publicly slaughtering chickens in eastern Kansas, saying the proposed art installation would amount to animal cruelty.

Rapper Jim Jones arrested after fight at US casino

Rapper Jim Jones has been arrested and charged with assaulting a state trooper during a brawl at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.

Premier North Korean orchestra is Paris-bound

Members of North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra gather at Pyongyang airport before their departure for Paris Friday March 9, 2012. Musicians from the Unhasu Orchestra left Pyongyang on Friday and will meet up in France with South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun for a joint performance with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)A premier North Korean orchestra headed to Paris on Friday for an unusual collaboration with French musicians and a South Korean conductor.


Trespasser suspected on Garth Brooks' property

Oklahoma authorities say they're searching for a suspected trespasser after a burning vehicle was found near the home of country singer Garth Brooks.

Mann, Pierce co-host the 43rd annual Dove Awards

Actor David Mann of Tyler Perry's sitcom "Meet the Browns" and Christian comedian Chonda (SHAHN'-duh) Pierce will share the stage for The Dove Awards.

Actor Steven Seagal, US sheriff's office sued

Actor Steven Seagal and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office are being sued over a 2011 arrest that a Phoenix-area man says was staged for a reality TV show.

Actor Steven Seagal, Ariz. sheriff's office sued

Actor Steven Seagal and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office are being sued over a 2011 arrest that a Phoenix-area man says was staged for a reality TV show.

James T. Ellis, singer for The Trammps, dies at 74

James T. "Jimmy" Ellis, who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit that's still replayed in modern sports arenas, has died. He was 74.

Ky. company sues to stop name airing on Limbaugh

A Kentucky-based health care company has sued to protect its name after being involuntarily drawn into the backlash over Rush Limbaugh's derisive comments about a Georgetown law student.

Chef Batali settles lawsuit for $5 million

Celebrity chef Mario Batali and his business partner have agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged they confiscated a portion of their restaurant workers' tips.

Feds seize $60,000 from Mystic Pizza owners

The U.S. Treasury Department has seized more than $60,000 from a bank account of the owners of the Mystic Pizza restaurant made famous in a 1988 movie starring Julia Roberts.

Jewish rapper Matisyahu goes bottle blonde

File picture of Matisyahu performing at New York's Rockefeller CentreMatisyahu, the ultra-Orthodox US Jewish rapper with bushy beard and sidelocks who shocked fans by shaving it all off last year, has surfaced in Jerusalem with a new bottle-blonde hairdo.