Bono

Bonjour, Cannes!

Peggy Siegal | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment


Peggy Siegal

A private jet, seven lunches, six premieres, 16 parties, five megayachts, one helicopter, one-on-ones with Brad Pitt, Mick Jagger, and Robert DeNiro. One woman lives the dream at the Cannes Film Festival.

Talking To Ali Hewson, AKA Mrs. Bono

Telegraph | Posted 05.18.2008 | Entertainment


There was a time when one might have expected a meeting with a rock star's wife to be attended by a certain amount of mayhem - temper tantrums and tr...

Bernanke and Greenspan Live in the Bates Motel

Max Keiser | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business


Max Keiser

If you want to understand why the US dollar is doomed and what drives current Fed policy, keep in mind Hitchcock's Psycho, but with financial derivatives instead of carving knifes.

Idol Gives Back, and Then Some

Michelle Kung | Posted 04.10.2008 | Entertainment


Michelle Kung

Three things I learned from watching "Idol Gives Back" last night: Heart still rocks, Teri Hatcher has a decent voice, and Fergie can do one-handed cartwheels. While singing in leather pants. For that, I say props, woman.

Idol Gives Back: Brad Pitt, Fergie, Miley, Posh & Becks In All-Star American Idol

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.10.2008 | Entertainment


What an incredible phenomenon American Idol is — and what a phenomenal idea it was to capture that juggernaut and put it to good use for a star-...

Barry Diller Snubbed By Bono

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business


Now that Barry Diller has won his court case against John Malone, he's free to break up IAC (IACI) into 5 pieces. The problem: Convincing investors th...

"You Can't Do It With Force": Will the 44th President Listen to Jeffrey Sachs?

Dan Brown | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business


Dan Brown

Sachs has many allies and supporters, including Al Gore, Kofi Annan, and Bono. Will the Democrat nominee embrace his humane and sensible proposals?

Blab It, Grab It: Why Evangelicals are Finally as Mad as Hell

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.25.2008 | Home


Karen Dalton-Beninato

McCain is walking into the buzzsaw of denouncing the evangelical community again. Walking away this time is going to be more difficult than he anticipates.

Our Greatest Poet Inducted Into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.12.2008 | Entertainment


Greg Mitchell

Leonard Cohen, one of the few true poets to ever cross the musical charts called his induction into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame on Monday night an "unlikely" event, surely the understatement of the week.

Ode to a Great Statesman Sang Bono

Michelle Kraus | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics


Michelle Kraus

As Bono, sang the Beatles' song "All You Need is Love" people mourned the loss of the great statesman, Tom Lantos at the memorial held in his honor th...

NYC Auction Raises $42M for AIDS Relief

AP | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — A celebrity-studded Valentine's Day charity auction of contemporary artworks _ all inspired by the color red and the concept of love ...

My Conversation with Damien Hirst

Charlie Rose | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media


Charlie Rose

2008-02-15-rosehirstpull.jpgArtist Damien Hirst discusses his (RED) auction.

Bono's (RED) Campaign Sees Red Over Shortcomings

New York Times | Ron Nixon | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business


A year ago, staff members at the Treatment and Research AIDS Center could barely cope. Patients, unable to find care elsewhere, flowed in from every c...

Dish After Davos: Magic and The Mountains

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business


Susan Sawyers

Much like Thomas Mann's main character in The Magic Mountain, written in Davos, I was an "ordinary [wo]man," amongst a sea of world leaders and power brokers. This convergence of knowledge and influence in one place made for some heady observations and encounters.

Bono Confesses Sins To 'Father' Al Gore

AFP | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics


Having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.....

Bono Takes A Meeting At The Pentagon

Reuters | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment


U2 lead singer and activist Bono visited the Pentagon to discuss Africa and the fight against global poverty with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates,...

Bono Pushes Sarko For More French Aid

AP | Posted 01.10.2008 | Entertainment


Rock star Bono pressed French leader Nicolas Sarkozy to increase aid to developing nations, the aid advocacy group DATA said. The organization, co-fo...

Bill Gates Works Out WIth McConaughey, Raps With Jay-Z, Auditions For Spielberg In CES Video

Gizmodo | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business


OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I kn...

Melinda Gates On Dating The Boss, Being Friends With Bono and Buffett, And Donating All That Money

Fortune | Patricia Sellers | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business


Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working...

What The World Needs Most: More Taddy Blechers (And Also, Cab Sauv)

Randi Solomon | Posted 12.31.2007 | Living


Randi Solomon

Rarely do our suburban party discussions take us to settings beyond our backyards, but when they do, I'm happy to tout the open-minded, sympathetic, globally-concerned view that will digest well with wine and brie.

U2 Planning To Build Ireland's Tallest Building

AFP | Andrew Bushe | Posted 12.11.2007 | Business


Ireland's top rock band U2 are hoping to make their mark on Dublin's skyline, but two property developments on the river Liffey waterfront are fueling...

Manhattan Co-Op Board Sued By Madonna

AP | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business


Madonna has sued the people who run her luxury co-op building overlooking Central Park, complaining they won't let her buy a neighbor's apartment. Th...

Synergy: Bono Vlogs For NBC Nightly News From SNL Set

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.02.2007 | Media


"Hello, my name is Bono, and I'm a rock star" — so begins today's rather unusual video blog from NBC Nightly News. Bono dropped by 30 Rock to sp...

Bono Meets Bloomberg, Says He'd Be Great President

AP | Sara Kugler | Posted 11.01.2007 | Entertainment


Bono sang the praises of Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday, declaring that his fellow philanthropist "could do an awful lot of good inside or outsid...

Bono To Merge Anti-Poverty Groups Into One Organization

Reuters | Posted 10.30.2007 | Entertainment


Anti-poverty groups the ONE Campaign and DATA, both co-founded by rock star Bono, will merge in the United States to form a single organization in tac...


 

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