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The White House hosted a Google Hangout Friday, and President Obama took burning questions live from citizens about issues, policy and his well-being. The White House and Google billed the event, which featured nine people from across the country, as the “first-ever presidential hangout road trip.” All of the questions—culled from the motley group of…

Well, this is rich. According to Radar Online, George Zimmerman has agreed to participate in a celebrity boxing match for charity. Which celebrity? We don’t know, since Zimmerman is still looking for an opponent. But according to TMZ, the event promoter is not discriminating! Purple, yellow, white or black contenders can catch the fade. “It was…

Bad news for students who thought “Oprah Scholars Program,” which promised to give $20,000 to the first 50,000 people to follow an Instagram account of the same name: It’s a scam. Shocker. An Instagram post calling for entrants read, “Oprah Scholars Program Scholarships for the first 50K followers then partial scholarships to the first 100K…

Actor Vin Diesel loves music. In this seven-minute video posted to his Facebook page, Diesel dances, stands awkwardly, sings off-key and mouths the words to Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” and Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.” No patience for the full seven minutes? For highlights, fast-forward to 6:00 and watch Diesel do the Damon Dash. He also…

Here’s a consensus: Kendrick Lamar’s debut album, good kid, M.A.A.d. City, was the best rap album recorded last year. Another popular opinion: Macklemore is kinda cheesy. So of course, people weren’t happy when Macklemore’s The Heist beat out Lamar’s freshman effort for best rap album at last night’s Grammy Awards show. (Macklemore won four Grammys…

Justin Bieber spoke out for the first time after his arrest by posting a split image of him and Michael Jackson to Instagram Friday morning. The photo is captioned “What more can they say.” Bieber’s photo was taken as he sat on top of his black Escalade and blew kisses to his fans shortly after…

Nicki Minaj isn’t happy that her forehead appears to have been altered on the cover of ESPN the Magazine’s annual music issue, according to her post on Instagram. Minaj describes the photo, taken with Kobe Bryant, as “when retouching goes wrong.” Not quite sure that the forehead manipulation is obvious, but her body does look…

In case you’ve missed it, Justin Bieber got arrested last night in Miami. It’s not funny that he broke the law, or that he was charged with a DUI and could have hurt someone while driving drunk. But it is kind of fun to, well, poke fun at how we talk about Bieber’s legal troubles,…

Racists and otherwise tacky people really showed their asses this holiday weekend. We witnessed Madonna do a sorry-not-sorry dance on Friday after she used the n-word on Instagram. We saw the hateful responses to Richard Sherwin’s now-legendary postgame interview on Sunday.  And then there were the numerous corporations that thought it wise to co-opt Martin…

Madonna stepped into it yesterday when she Instagrammed a photo of her 13-year-old son, Rocco, during a boxing workout.  “No one messes with Dirty Soap!” she wrote in the caption. “Mama said knock you out! #disn—-a.” She deleted the post immediately, but then she reposted it with this odd double down. Because anyone who takes…