Alec Baldwin & Kim Kardashian: Mr. & Ms. Mayor?

Alec Baldwin says he would love to run for mayor of New York City, and Kim Kardashian considers running for mayor of Glendale, a Los Angeles suburb. Plus, the photo of Hillary Clinton drinking beer out of bottle that has everyone talking, Jennifer Aniston’s reaction to Brad Pitt’s engagement, Julia Louis Dreyfus as Veep, and why the moms group, One Million Moms, is now attacking Urban Outfitters.

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AT&T LTE goes live in Canton, Akron and Lafayette today

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Earlier this month, AT&T announced plans to expand its LTE service to several new cities. Three of those cities goes live today:

If you're an AT&T customer in any of those cities, congrats on the new LTE service. If you're considering getting a new LTE device on the network, some that will support it are: Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, LG Nitro HD, HTC Vivid and the Pantech Element.

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R2-D2 Has a Very Important Message from Hologram Tupac [Video]

It was only a matter of time, I suppose. But here it is, the two most revered moments in hologram history, combined to form one glorious internet video. Luke and Obi-Wan seem awfully confused by Tupac's message. I guess rap doesn't translate intergalactically? [YouTube via Reddit] More »


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The Band's Levon Helm Dead At 71

Famed drummer passed away 'surrounded by family, friends and band mates' on Thursday.
By John Mitchell


The Band's Levon Helm
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After fighting a long battle with cancer, Levon Helm, former drummer for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group The Band died Thursday (April 19). He was 71.

"Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon," a statement on his website reads. "He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul."

Born in Elaine, Arkansas, on May 26, 1940, Helm's signature Southern drawl is featured on some of the Band's most iconic songs, from "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek" to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."

Helm was first diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998 and has struggled with his voice since. He initially lost his ability to sing entirely, but continued to play drums, mandolin and harmonica. Radiation left him with little more than a raspy whisper, but Helm continued to try to sing, and by the time he recorded 2007's Dirt Farmer he'd recovered 80 percent of his voice.

With his daughter Amy, he started a series of weekly concerts at his Woodstock, New York, studios called the "Midnight Ramble," which grew from an idea Helm explained to Martin Scorsese while making "The Last Waltz," the legendary documentary directed by Scorsese about the Band's epic, all-star Thanksgiving farewell concert in 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

The Midnight Ramble shows became very popular and attracted many of music's most renowned stars, from Elvis Costello and Norah Jones to My Morning Jacket and Emmylou Harris. The shows' success reignited Helm's recording career in the early 2000s, leading him toward Grammy wins for his albums Dirt Farmer (2007), Electric Dirt (2009) and Ramble at the Ryman (2011).

Helm's music career began when he joined the band of rocker Ronnie Hawkins in 1957. During his stint in Hawkins' band, he met Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson and together they formed the core of the Band. After their split from Hawkins, the group became the backing band for Bob Dylan as the folk icon transitioned to an electric sound.

Helm, Manuel, Danko, Robertson and Hudson eventually earned a recording contract of their own, and as the Band released 10 studio albums, beginning with 1968's Music From Big Pink. Though the Band broke up in 1976, they regrouped without Robertson in 1983 and continued recording through 1998.

Helm was also an actor, appearing in 12 films, most notably the 1980s Oscar-winning "Coal Miner's Daughter," in which he played Loretta Lynn's (Sissy Spacek) father, and most recently the Mark Wahlberg-starring "Shooter."

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Dick Clark, Thank You For Introducing Madonna to The World

Pop star's appearance on 'American Bandstand' remains one of her most legendary.
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Twenty eight years later, it remains one of the most famous things she's ever said. Asked on "American Bandstand" by TV icon Dick Clark, who died on Wednesday at the age of 82, "What do you hope will happen, not only in 1984 but for the rest of your professional life? What are your dreams? What's left?" Madonna answered simply, famously and with characteristic directness.

"To rule the world," she said without hesitation. And that's what she went on to do ... well, the pop world anyway.

She was on "Bandstand," ostensibly, to perform "Holiday" and promote her self-titled debut, which was released a few months earlier in the summer of 1983, but in retrospect it feels like she was really there to prepare the world for what was coming. Like a Virgin dropped later that same year, and with its release Madonna went from being a well-liked and charismatic pop tart with a few radio hits to the most famous female singer on the planet.

The "Bandstand" crowd went wild for then-25-year-old Madonna's performance, and Clark had a hard time getting a word in. When everyone finally settled down, he asked Madonna about her burgeoning career, including her early years in New York and touring Paris with "Born to Be Alive" singer Patrick Hernandez. "He offered me a tour with him as a background singer and a dancer," Madonna told Clark. "So I jumped on that boat and got into the music industry that way and started writing songs, and here I am."

As news of Clark's passing began to surface, fans started posting the clip all over Twitter and soon enough, Madonna's herself chimed in, posting the video to her Facebook page with the message, "Even though I told him in 1984 that I wanted to rule the world, it's Dick Clark who has ruled the world."

While "Bandstand" wasn't her first TV appearance and Clark certainly didn't discover Madonna — she already had a top-five hit with "Lucky Star" by the time she appeared — her visit to the show feels like the first seminal event in what went on to be one of the most legendary careers in pop-culture history. It's where things really began, months before she took the stage in a wedding dress at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards.

It's also a real showcase for the Madonna many fans love most. Playful, natural, beautiful and — most importantly — brimming with confidence, it's no surprise the emerging pop star on display on "Bandstand" that night went on to score 38 top tens, more than any performer in music history, 12 #1 singles and eight #1 albums, the latest of which, MDNA, debuted in the top spot 28 years, two months and 20 days after her visit to "American Bandstand."

Today, many will be looking back on Dick Clark's many achievements and dissecting the almost immeasurable impact he had on music and television, and we'll remember for how genuinely excited he seemed to be talking to a little-known disco singer on January 14, 1984. His decision to invite her on that night quite literally changed the face of pop music forever, and for that we will always be thankful.

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Scarlett Johansson’s boyfriend is reportedly on the brink of proposing already! Nate Taylor, an advertising creative director, is said to be ready to tie the [...]

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Analysis: Chinese PC Market Will Grow 12% In 2012

chinaIf you were wondering where all the PC growth was, look East, young person. IHS, formerly iSuppli, expects that desktop sales will rise 8% and ultrabook sales will take up 15 to 20 percent of notebook shipments. Windows 8 and Intel's Ivy Bridge are to be driving factors in PC growth this year. In comparison, IDC found that 2011 PC shipments shrank in Europe and the United States by 9%.

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Intel reports $12.9 billion in revenue for Q1 of 2012, breaks no records

Intel reports $12.9 billion in revenue for Q1 2012, breaks no recordsWhile it's hard to get upset when your company is raking in just shy of $13 billion over just three months, we're sure Intel's investors are a little sad to see revenue drop across all business divisions. With a net income of $2.7 billion, profits dropped nearly 19 percent from last quarter and everyone from the data center group to the PC client group saw revenues fall by significant margins. There's no reason to worry about Chipzilla, though. The company's seemingly constant record smashing quarters had to come to an end sometime and we're sure with its entrance into the smartphone market this year new streams of revenue will start pouring in shortly. Check out the source link for all the financial nitty gritty.

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Nikon adds D3200 to its DSLR range, we go hands-on! (video)

Nikon outs D3200 to bolster its low-end DSLR line, we go hands-on!

Nikon's recent cashback promo gave us a twinge that new consumer models might be around the corner, but as of today there's just the one: the almost entry-level D3200, which Nikon hopes will complement the cheaper D3100 without supplanting it. The price gap between these two low-end DSLRs is significant -- around $150 based on current D3100 prices, with the black D3200 and regular 18-55mm kit lens expected to hit shelves at the end of April for $700. What does that extra outlay get you? Quite a lot, actually: a hefty resolution upgrade to 24-megapixels with an Expeed 3 processing engine, versus 14-megapixels mustered by D3100; an extra ISO notch of 6400, providing more flexibility in low-light situations; and also a much higher-res LCD display for cleaner live-viewing and playback, with around four times as many pixels as the D3100's grainy window. Read on for some initial impressions and a hands-on video, and you'll see that there are a couple of subtler selling points too.

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