Bono

NYC Auction Raises $42M for AIDS Relief

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 ...

Bono's (RED) Campaign Sees Red Over Shortcomings

New York Times | Ron Nixon | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 08.14.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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...

Video Shows Bono Censored For Torture Comments

The Smirking Chimp | Mary Shaw | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


On September 27th, here in Philadelphia, the Liberty Medal for 2007 was awarded to Bono and his organization DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), for their ...

Chris Rock's Call To Action: "I Bet If You Had AIDS You'd Find Time" To Volunteer

Radar Online | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


During an MTV/Clinton Global Initiative event called "Giving" at the Apollo Theater in Harlem Saturday night, the comic responded to one student's com...

Stars Party With Clinton At Apollo As Shakira Pledges $40 Million For Disaster Relief

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


After getting hundreds of pledges to tackle the world's problems at his philanthropic summit this past week, former President Bill Clinton is doing wh...

George Clooney Lined Up To Guest Edit Newspaper

Guardian (UK) | Stephen Brook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Oscar-winning film star George Clooney, twice voted sexiest man alive by People magazine, is being lined up to guest edit the Independent newspaper. ...

Bono Receives Liberty Medal: "America Is Not Just A Country, It's An Idea"

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Irish rocker and activist Bono, accepting the Liberty Medal on Thursday night for his humanitarian work in Africa, exhorted Americans to keep working...

Bono, Forbes Family Eye Selling Company Or Offering IPO

New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


It's been a year since rocker Bono and the gang from Elevation Partners bought into the Forbes family media empire in a deal that stunned the industry...