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2012 Billboard Music Awards: Best-Dressed Stars (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 05.21.2012

The stars were out and shining Sunday night for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Despite our red carpet faves like Beyonce, Rihanna an...

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A Chart-Topping Playlist for "The Billboard Music Awards"

David Wild | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Billboard Music Awards, Abc, Billboard, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Modern Family, Music, Donna Summer, Entertainment News

The Billboard Music Awards reminds me that sometimes the public actually is right. Here then is my list of some of my favorite songs that all hit #1 on Billboard's's Hot 100 since that chart started in the late Fifties.

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McDonald's Billboard Has Drivers Worried They'll Get Crushed By Banana Bread

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Billboard, Fast Food, Billboards, Video, Advertising, Advertising News, Banana Bread, Business News, McDonald's, Bananas, Fast Food Industry, Baked Goods, Business News

The last thing any motorist wants is a slice of banana bread to come crashing down on his or her car, especially if that slice is actually a chunk of ...

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Burger King Creates Billboard From Over 2,500 Hot Sauce Packets

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Billboard, Hot Sauce Billboard, Burger King Istanbul, Hot Sauce, Young & Rubicam, Burger King Hot Sauce Billboard, Burger King, Food News

Here's a creative way to get notice for your fast food chain: design a billboard out of an ingredient your restaurant uses. The Burger King billboard,...

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Madonna Sets Humiliating Record

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Billboard Charts, Billboard, Mdna Record Sales, Mdna Disappointment, Madonna MDNA, Madonna, Madonna Record, Madonna Mdna Fail, Guy Oseary, Mdna Sales Drop, Video, Mdna Fail, Pop Music Sales, Madge, Slidepollajax, Madonna Sales, Entertainment News

Madonna's MDNA may be the first album to both top the Billboard charts and be a massive commercial failure. The record debuted at No. 1 on the cha...

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A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Candlebox Is Never "Far Behind"

Jon Chattman | Posted 04.06.2012

Multi-platinum rockers Candlebox are back with their first studio album in almost four years called Love Stories & Other Musings.

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These Students Are Literally Selling Their Faces

Emily Cohn | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Billboard, New Online Ad Space, Video, Student Debt, Unconventional Ads, Sell Your Face, Ad Space, Selling Ads, buymyface.com, Money News

Calling all debt-ridden students: Would you consider turning your face into a billboard to help pay off your loans? This is not a joke, but rather ...

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Madonna's "MDNA" Pop Powerhouse or Pablum?

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Madonna, Billboard, Pop Music, Mdna, Karel, Shena Easton, Entertainment News

The weight of being Madonna is never greater on you than when you record an album. After all, you inspired a generation, including the GaGa, brought William Orbit to world wide mainstream attention, you brought us Junior Vasquez and Shep Pettibone and countless others.

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New Atheists Are Neither A Minority Nor Heirs Of The Civil Rights Movement

Nathalie Rothschild | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Billboard, Atheism, New Atheism, Atheism in America, New Atheists, Reason Rally, Religion in America, Religion News

Nobody should be mistreated simply because they believe or do not believe in certain ideas. But if you can't identify with people around you, if they won't accept you for who you are, then ditch them. It's not always easy, but nobody is stopping you.

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A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Talking "fun." and "We Are Young" in NYC

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Glee, Billboard, Nyc, Fun Band, Janelle Monáe, New York City, A-Sides, Some Nights, A-Sides With Jon Chattman, Fun., Lea Michele, Zoolander, Fun, Sons of Essex, We Are Young, Video, Entertainment News

I realize quoting "Big Spender" lyrics from Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields' Sweet Charity musical won't earn me any sweet indie cred, but I went there anyway. Why? Because it allowed me to use this as an intentionally tacky lead-in: "Who doesn't want to have some 'fun'?"

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Atheist Billboard Aimed At Brooklyn Jewish Community

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: American Atheists, Reason Rally, American Atheists National Convention, American Atheists Billboard, Billboard, Video, New York News, Slidepollajax, Ny News, New York News

Ahead of the American Atheists National Convention and Reason Rally in DC later this month, the American Atheists are erecting a billboard in Brooklyn...

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Lana Del Rey Scores No. 2 Album In The Country

Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Billboard, Video, Born to Die, 21, Adele, Billboard Albums Chart, Lana Del Rey Born to Die, Lana Del Rey, Entertainment News

Lana Del Rey has a simple response for critics now: she has the second most popular record in the country. Born to Die, her debut album, is second ...

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PHOTOS: John Baldessari's $100,000 Bill... Board

Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Billboard, Art Value, Capital Art, Money, 000, 99%, Currency, Financial Crisis, Money Art, John Baldessari, New York Installation, 100, Great Depression, Bill Board, Arts News

It's no big shocker that we are not at our finest economic hour, but John Baldessari may have stumbled upon a solution to our money woes. All this tim...

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Occupying Billboards: the Power of the Creative Crowd

Caroline Henderson | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Billboard, Cause Marketing, Arab Spring, Crowdfunding, San Francisco, Occupy Wall Street, Crowdsourcing, San Francisco News

As this year draws to a close, I can't help but feel as if a new era is approaching. What if the message that defines 2012, and this emerging era, came from the crowd?

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Baby Lisa Billboards Raise Awareness Of Missing Infant

AP | By BILL DRAPER | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Murder, Billboard, Video, Digital Billboards, Digital Billboard, Baby Lisa Irwin, Lisa Irwin, Lisa Irwin Billboard, Missing Persons, Baby Lisa, Missing Child, Missing Children, Missing Person, Lisa Irwin Search, Kansas City, Crime News

By BILL DRAPER, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Nearly a decade ago, a suburban Kansas City man desperately searching for his teenage daughter...

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LA's Mural Moratorium -- More Art! Less Red Tape!

Gregory Linton | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Melrose and Fairfax, LA City Council, Vhils, Murals, Rules, Street Art, Portland Oregon, Graffiti, Herakut, Los Angeles, Saber, La Art, Billboard, Cache, La Murals, La Around Town, Shepard Fairey, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles made a name for itself as the mural capital of the world between 1986-2002, when murals were encouraged and celebrated in the city. But in 2002 the city instituted a city-wide moratorium on murals.

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Outback Steakhouse Billboard Goes Up In Flames

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Outback Steakhouse Billboards, Billboard, Video, Billboard on Fire, Outback Steakhouse, Outback Steakhouse Billboard Fire, Outback Steakhouse Billboard, Food News

If you saw smoke coming out of a billboard, would you call 911? That's what several Georgia residents did after seeing an Outback Steakhouse billboard...

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A Diva Is Gone: Vesta, You'll Be Missed

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Krxa, Sting, Billboard, Long Beach, Kfi, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Janet Jackson, Kgo, Andrew Howard, Kjfk, Kjrb, E. J. Jackson, Advocate, Liberal, A&M Records, Gay, Huffingtonpost, Los Angeles, Wvnj, Kyns, Progressive, Radio, Vesta Williams, Vesta, green1640, Talk, Knx, San Francisco, Entertainment News

Vesta Williams was one of the greatest singers in R&B and music, period. And I was lucky enough to call her a friend. Her voice is now silenced but her drive and passion live on forever in her music and videos.

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Would You Take Divorce Advice From A Billboard?

Monique Honaman | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Best Interst of Kids, Divorce, Billboard, Divorce Advice, Divorce News

I guess at the end of day, I'm all for looking out for the best interests of the kids. I'm all about freedom of speech and freedom of press, and I value that about our country. But perhaps the well-intentioned groups creating these billboards might look through a different lens to consider the impact to the kids reading the message.

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New York City's Mood-Reading Billboard Smiles Or Frowns (You Decide)

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Weird Advertising, Jello Billboard, Billboard, Video, Twitter Billboard, Twitter, Jello-Billboard, Advertising, Jello, Mood Reader, Slidepollajax, Interactive Billboard, Mood-Reading Billboard, Jell-O, Weird News News

This advertisement won't just make you smile -- you can make it smile. A newly-installed billboard for Jell-O constantly studies the ratio of happy...

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Songs for the New Depression: Americana Icon Gillian Welch Storms Charts, Brings Stark Songs to DC

Art Levine | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Npr, Americana, Billboard, Gillian Welch, Folk, Debt Deal, Strathmore, Entertainment News

With the economy teetering on collapse with the new debt deal, music fans can prepare for the mournful times ahead by listening to the sad, evocative songs of Gillian Welch, whose sound is steeped in Depression-era bluegrass but updated for today's hard times.

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Amy Winehouse: An Artist, Not a Cliché

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Billboard, Advocate, Amy Winehouse, Andrew Howard, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News

The fact is, at times, being an artist hurts, and so many choose to self-medicate because it gets them out of their heads, it slows things down, it removes, temporarily, the unbearable lightness of being.

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'Book of Mormon' Cast Album Breaks Billboard Records

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Trey Parker, Billboard, Matt Stone, Dreamgirls, Rent, Tony Awards, Book of Mormon, Robert Lopez, Casey Nicholaw, Arts News

After winning Best Musical at the Tony Awards this past Sunday, the cast album for "The Book of Mormon," Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez's m...

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Anti-Cancer 'Butt' Billboard Blocked In Washington

AP | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Billboard, Benton Franklin Health District, Kennewick, Cancer Awareness, Colon Cancer, Washington, Weird News News

KENNEWICK, Wash. -- A health board in Washington state has reversed itself and voted against endorsing a colon cancer awareness campaign that uses bil...

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David Foster a BMI Icon

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Krxa, Long Beach, Billboard, Good Charlotte, Kfi, Charles Karel Bouley, Karel, Kgo, Progressives, Kjrb, Los Angeles, Liberal, Advocate, Huffingtonpost, Gay, Kara DioGuardi, Collbie Calliat, Bmi, Andrew Howard, Kyns, David Foster, OC Blade, Radio, Kkgn, Kudo, Talk, Knx, San Francisco, Entertainment News

The BMI Pop Music Awards, while star studded, may not be handing out awards to household names unless you're one of the people that hit the "Get Info" button on the track or are an aspiring singer/songwriter.

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