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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The Obama White House music series will honor Motown Records at a Feb. 24 concert. The star-packed performance will mark Black History Month. "The program will include tributes to Motown's distinctive soul-infused pop music sound that solidified its popularity in American culture, and showcase Motown's impact on all music," the White House said in a statement. Performers booked for the show: Smokey Robinson, Natasha Bedingfield, Sheryl Crow, Jamie Foxx, Gloriana, Nick Jonas, Ledisi, John Legend, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Seal and Jordin Sparks. PBS will air the concert Tuesday March 1 at 8 ...
Now that WCW Saturday Night isn't around anymore, TBS can devote itself to its two greatest passions: sitcoms about hilarious fat people directed by Tyler Perry and the MLB Playoffs. TBS being linked with playoffs baseball means six more weeks of this year's equivalent of the Frank Caliendo FrankTV ads, Kid Rock singing about baseball! Okay, he's not singing about baseball, he's singing about freedom. But the song has lyrics with words like "knock me down" in it, so editors can put in clips of somebody falling down during a baseball game and make it theme-appropriate. Per my role in this ...
The White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
Maybe you have a fine appreciation for simple melodies and lyrics written in an LA boardroom. Maybe you think that Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce are all washed up. Or maybe you just don't have enough high-pitched shrieking in your life.Whatever the reason, we know you're going to want to be at DC's Verizon Center this Monday night for the "Kids' Inaugural Concert," featuring Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, and Demi Lovato! (We had to Wikipedia that last one - turns out it's a 16-year-old girl who used to be on "Barney.")But you can't go...Contrary to initial reports that it ...
To Americans, Lance Armstrong is a hero. He's a man that not only beat cancer, but went on to beat thousands of cyclists for seven straight years at the Tour de France, a feat never accomplished before in the sport's biggest race. To everyone else, Armstrong is a cheat. Countries see him as an American that found an edge that still can't be traced. They see him as a guy that has a little too much dirt under his fingernails that one day will be revealed, like a sports figure with a Joker jersey on under his cycling gear. Because of that, Armstrong has professed fear for his personal safety if ...
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