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A Royal Read: Tina Turner Takes Aretha Franklin To Task Over “Queen” Controversy

After an eight-year retirement, Tina Turner kicked off her “Tina Turner Live” tour at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. on Oct. 1.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Performing for the first time in almost a decade isn’t the only thing the ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ singer is doing.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The 68-year-old singer also broke her silence [...]

Hip-hop Artist Nas Protests Fox Coverage of Obama

NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop artist Nas is protesting Fox News’s coverage of Barack Obama.
The rapper joined members of the activist groups MoveOn.org and ColorofChange.org to deliver more than 600,000 petitions Wednesday to the network’s New York City headquarters.
Nas, whose new album Untitled was released last week, said in a statement that “Fox poisons the [...]

Dr. Dre Says Detox May Come By The End Of The Year

 

Dr. Dre has finally emerged from his lair (aka studio) to do some press for his new line of headphones, Beats By Dr. Dre, and of course, he’s been asked the question: When is Detox coming out?
While speaking with USA Today, the veteran producer revealed that the long-awaited album may just see the light of [...]

Apple’s Jobs Sorry For IPhone Price Cut

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits Thursday to customers who shelled out $599 for the most advanced model of the iPhone, only to have the company unexpectedly slash the price $200 in a push to boost holiday sales.

 
 

In a letter on the company’s Web site, Jobs acknowledged that Apple disappointed some [...]

Charges Against Husband Put New Focus on Televangelist

 Juanita Bynum is known and admired by thousands as a fiery evangelist whose no-nonsense, lead-by-less-than-perfect-example message of self-improvement was seemingly illustrated by her fairy-tale marriage to a man who also is a widely known minister.
The romance, which included a million-dollar wedding, became a nightmare last week when Thomas W. Weeks III was charged with choking [...]