It’s been another busy week here in Seattle!
Here are some of my favorite articles from the week that get to be combined with some other posts…
The 20 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make In Your 20s – Oh, where was this three years ago?
NBA star Royce White speaks out about his anxiety disorder.
- Makes me proud to be a Seattleite!
- This Is Water
- Kate Moss has married rocker James Hince wearing a YSL wedding gown. [Source]
- Justice releases the title of the tracks for their new album. [Source]
- Paul McCartney has been named the best live act. [Source]
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. [Source]
- Macho Man Randy Savage has died from a bad heart. [Source]
- Chris Colfer will star in the indie flick that he wrote himself. [Source]
- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen launched their new line Stylemint yesterday. [Source]
- Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore have recorded a song together. [Source]
-What if you had $1 million dollars in your bank account? [Source]
- Denise Richards has adopted a little girl. [Source]
- Lenny Kravitz and his cellphone. [Source]
Eight-inch Louboutins that are an emergency room visit waiting to happen. [Source]
- Elle Fanning poses for Marc Jacobs’ new fall 2011 campaign [Source]
- Whatever happened to being just single or in a relationship? Check out these modern-day terms for relationship statuses. [Source]
- Vinny has left the Jersey Shore house in Italy and the show mid-production, but is it for good? [Source]
- A schoolgirl was suspended from school after she dyed her hair to look like her icon Rihanna. [Source]
- Maria Shriver has officially filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. [Source]
- Chord Overstreet will not be a Glee regular next season, but Darren Criss and Henry Shum Jr. will be. [Source]
- The divorce between Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson has been finalized. [Source]
- Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood are back on again…sew jealouz. [Source]
- Could the NBA be cancelled next year? [Source]
- The University of Washington has increased their tuition by 20% – its highest increase ever! [Source]
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During Finals Week, I was unable to keep up with these “In the News…” posts so some of these bits are from two weeks ago. From here on out though, everything will be pretty current.
- Giambattista Valli will design for Macy’s. [Source]
- Hamish Bowles is writing an autobiography. [Source]
- Gary Time has officially launched! [Source]
- Jessica and Ashlee Simpson will collaborate on tween clothing line. [Source]
- Dakota Fanning is the new face of Marc Jacobs’ “Oh Lola!” [Source]
- Emma Watson will grace the cover of American Vogue’s July issue. [Source] [Source]
- Coachella is turning into a multi-weekend event! [Source]
- Adele has canceled the rest of her North American tour due to sickness. [Source]
- MTV has cancelled Skins. Sad day. [Source]
- Fear Factor is returning to NBC. [Source]
- Jane Lynch will host the Emmys. [Source]
- Katie Couric is launching a talk show on ABC next fall. [Source]
- There has been talk of a US remake for the UK hit show “Misfits.” [Source]
- MTV will film their next season of Real World in San Diego. [Source]
- Blur Seattle has created the HappyButts project to encourage smokers to toss their used cigarettes in these designated cans and not the streets of Capitol Hill. [Source]
- “Human Barbie” Sarah Burge who has had $800,000 worth of surgery recently purchased a voucher for breast implants for her 7-year old daughter to redeem when she is 16. [Source]
- The ridiculous family that started the whole Balloon Boy incident last year has decided to auction off their enormous balloon in order to raise money for the Japan relief. The price is currently set at $1m. Okay, you’ve redeemed yourself a little bit. [Source]
- Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn are no longer dating. [Source]
- Shaq announces retirement after 19 years in the NBA. [Source]
- Ed Norton is engaged. [Source]
- Nikki Reed is engaged to American Idol contestant Paul McDonald. [Source]
- Jack White and Karen Elson are throwing a divorce party. [Source]
- The creator of Mad Libs, Leonard B. Stern, has passed away at 88. [Source]
- This fall, Emma Watson will resume her college education by attending Oxford University. [Source]
- Lily Allen got married today. [Source]
- Matthew Williamson’s collection for Macy’s is now out and it is packed with beautiful party dresses and prints for the spring/summer. View and purchase the collection here.
- J. Crew will open their first International store in the UK at the end of the summer. [Source]
- Last season, Miu Miu’s appliqued dress made on the cover of nearly every magazine. This season, it is Prada’s entire Spring collection that has earned 48 covers. [Source]
- FOX News makes a huge deal over a J.Crew ad in which creative director Jenna Lyons is painting her son’s toenails pink. [Source]
- Incubus will release their new album “If Not Now, When?” on July 12th. [Source]
- Glenn Beck has been using Metric’s music and Emily Haines is weirded out. [Source]
- Taking Back Sunday’s new self-titled album will be released June 28th. [Source]
- My favorite former boy band member Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees has decided to join the Chippendales dance crew at the Rio in Las Vegas from May 12 thru June 5. [Source] The little girl inside of me is swooning.
- And in case you haven’t heard yet, Nicki Minaj will be touring with Britney Spears this summer. [Source]
- LCD Soundsystem will be releasing their final show on DVD. [Source]
- Nickelodeon has renewed iCarly for a fifth season. [Source]
- ABC is cancelling All My Children and One Life to Live. [Source]
- AJ Cook is planning her return to Criminal Minds full time again. [Source]
- Cannes has announced their film festival line up. [Source]
- Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, and Alec Baldwin have signed on for Woody Allen’s new film set to be shot in Rome this summer. [Source]
- Monte Carlo starring Selena Gomez, Katie Cassidy, and Leighton Meester with an appearance by Cory Monteith. I don’t think anyone actually believes that all of them are supposed to be just graduated seniors.
- Moe bar will be streaming live coverage from Coachella this weekend for free! Still not the same experience, but it’s the thought that counts. [Source]
- This Saturday is Record Store Day! Tons of record stores in Seattle will be having special events including band signings and special band performances. For the full schedule, check out The Stranger here. Also, a new record store called Spin Cycle is opening TODAY on Broadway at 321 Broadway on Capitol Hill.
- Yogurtland’s opening is tentatively planned for this weekend! [Source]
- A man is auctioning off a jelly bean that looks like it has an imprint of Kate Middleton’s face. [Source]
- NBA has fined Kobe Bryant $100,000 for his offensive slur at a ref. [Source]
- Seann William Scott has checked out of rehab. [Source]
- Catherine Zeta-Jones is currently being treated for bi-polar disorder. [Source]
- Scarlett Johansson has moved in with Sean Penn. [Source]
- Emma Roberts is covering the May issue of Seventeen Magazine. [Source]
- Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright is engaged to Jamie Campbell Bower. [Source]
- A two-year old boy was given sangria instead of orange juice at a Florida Olive Garden. [Source] rookie mistake
- Learn how to be a jetsetter with Refinery 29′s useful infographic. [Source]
- The world’s oldest man, Walter Breuning has passed away at age 114. [Source] Damn.
Hooray. This is the longest In the News…posting I have ever made.
Are we surprised? haha not really.
This is the most frightening thing I have seen in a long time. How do you go from being a well-known basketball player and winning five NBA championships to changing your entire appearance into this?! It’s unbelievable to me … kind of.
