August 19, 2008
A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing – even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake. Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room. His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own […]
August 19, 2008
Sony has launched a new urban imprint dedicated to reviving the practice of artist development, AllHipHop.com has learned. Battery Records will be lead by Penalty Records Founder Neil Levine and distributed through Sony’s RED Marketing Group. While operating as it’s own independent company, Battery Records will primarily be responsible for the early-stage development of certain artists on the rosters of the RCA and Zomba groups of labels. “We started operation back in mid-June, so it’s a brand new division,” Neil Levine told […]
August 19, 2008
Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu romped home to take the 400 metre gold medal in Beijing today. Ohuruogu produced a storming finish to overhaul favourite Sanya Richards and win in a time of 49.62 seconds and add Olympic gold to the world title won in Osaka last year. Richards tied up badly down the home straight and could only finish third behind Jamaica’s Shericka Williams. Ohuruogu admitted it was a dream come true to land Olympic gold. She said: ‘ I don’t know where […]
August 19, 2008
Jade Goody Reality TV star Jade Goody has spent her first night on the Indian version of Celebrity Big Brother. (WHY????? I can’t believe they invited her on the show SMH….) It comes 18 months after the 27-year-old was accused of racism towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in the UK show. Goody told Indian audiences before she went in to the house the incident with Shetty was “in the past” and that she was “not proud of it”. Shetty takes Davina McCall’s […]
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