Posts Tagged ‘U2’

What ‘Brothers’ Says About Afghans and Americans

In Afghanistan, Crime, Film, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, War on 7 December 2009 tagged Barack Hussein Obama, Brothers, burqa, Captain Sam Cahill, Elsie Cahill, Grace Cahill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jarhead, Jim Sheridan, Mare Winningham, Natalie Portman, Occident, Orient, Oriental, orientalist, Patrick Flueger, Private Joe Willis, Sam Mendes, Sam Shepard, taliban, Tobey Maguire, Tommy Cahill, Troop Surge, U2, William Westmoreland with Comments

Only three days after President Barack Obama announced a 30,000 U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan, Jim Sheridan’s Brothers went into wide release. The story of filial ties tested through loss and shaky reunification boasts an impressive lead cast of some of Hollywood’s brightest young stars Natalie Portman (Grace Cahill), Tobey Maguire (Captain Sam Cahill), and [...]

Video : Robin Williams on Sarah Palin, Bono, AND The Obamas

In News, Opinion, Politics, TV, comedy, fame on 25 November 2009 tagged Africa, ambush journalism, Barack Hussein Obama, Bono, CBS, David Letterman, Elephant, Going Rogue, Huffington Post, Katie Couric, Late Show, Old Dogs, oprah, Robin Williams, Sarah Palin, Scotland, U2, Video, Youtube with Comments

Robin Williams was on the Late Show with David Letterman this week where he took on Sarah Palin and her accusations of “ambush journalism” from Katie Couric. As Williams puts it, only with Palin would “what do you read?” catch someone off guard:

Robin Williams Takes On Sarah Palin [Huffington Post]

Video : U2 Goes Green for Iran During Live Webcast of Los Angeles Concert

In Art, Crime, History, Internet, Iran, Music, News, Opinion, Politics, citizenship, fame on 26 October 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Ahmadinejad, Bono, Green Revolution, Iranian election, Los Angeles, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mousavi, Radio Tehran, Sea of Green, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Sea of Green, U2, Video, Youtube with Comments

“All who love freedom, and all who don‘t, we‘re speaking to you. Can you hear us?”

Jay-Z’s Platinum Status in Perspective

In Art, Hip Hop, History, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, fame, radio on 14 October 2009 tagged 21st Century Breakdown, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Green Day, Leah Greenblatt, Live on the Inside, No Line on the Horizon, Sugarland, U2 with Comments

Since Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 record setting debut five weeks ago, BNW has been tracking the album’s progress on the Billboard 200 Album chart.
This week the album officially surpassed the platinum mark, and now we have this EW article to put the achievement into perspective. Pay attention to the big names who have yet [...]

MTV’s VMA Nominations Getting Better, But Still Terrible as a Whole

In Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, R&B, TV, fame on 4 August 2009 tagged 2009 Video Music Awards, A.R. Rahman, Asher Roth, Bjork, Britney Spears, Cobra Starship, D.O.A., Death of Autotune, Dr. Dre, Drake, eminem, Everlong, Flo Rida, Foo Fighters, Francis Lawrence, Freedom '90, George Michael, Good Girls Go Bad, Green Day, Heads Will Roll, Human Behavior, Jai Ho, Jake Nava, Jay-Z, Jonas Akerlund, Kai Regan, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Major Lazer, Marc Webb, Miss Independent, Mr. Hudson, MTV, Ne-Yo, Nominations, Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang, Paranoid, Passion Pit, Pussycat Dolls, rihanna, T.I., U2, Use Somebody, VMA, VMA Nominations, Where The Streets Have No Name, Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Comments

This year’s Video Music Award nominations actually boast some great pop videos: Gnarls Barkley’s Whose Gonna Save My Soul, Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Heads Will Roll, and essentially the entire Breakthrough Video cateogry, unfortunately, many of these videos were nominated in the wrong categories.
Though Eminem’s We Made You and Britney Spears’ Womanizer [...]