The Illinois Governor was arrested for attempting to bribe aspirants for the vancant senate seat that President-elect Obama has left. With this episode, it is clear that the old ways of politics are not over. But, who would ever expect that Lil Jesse to be involved? I mean, we all knew his father was conniving,…

A former contestant on American Idol, Paula Godspeed, commtted suicide near the home of Paula Abdul. According to Abdul, Godspeed had been stalking her for the past 18 years, a fact that encouraged the producers to allow her on the show. If she had been stalking Paula Abdul for 18 years, obviously something wasn’t right.…

Fran Drescher may want to make discretion the key word in her bid for Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate seat. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday morning on corruption charges stemming from his selection of Barack Obama’s Senate successor. A federal investigation alleges that Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, sought campaign…

We may want Big Brother to leave God alone, but that doesn’t stop a few hundred million of us from hittin the big guy up for favors on a regular basis. A recent study shows that 90 percent of Americans pray every day. About three quarters pray for themselves and loved ones, and the other…

Up until I was about 10 or so, dance for me was tap and tutus, toe shoes and the Rockettes, and the New York City Ballet twirling through George Balanchine’s version of The Nutcracker. It was the pretty white teacher in my Staten Island, N.Y. dance studio teaching me how to pirouette and the chorus…

People are beginning to notice that President-elect Obama and his still-forming circle of advisers are a very different kind of people in power—different from those we have known in recent political history. Whereas, the Bush administration—and Reagan before him—seemed to bask in a beer-drinking, next-door neighbor image, Obama has assembled a team of highly educated…

What do you do when life becomes so distressing and coping mechanisms begin to fail? Teenagers in South Africa are experimenting with anti-retroviral drugs as a way to escape their realities. These drugs are designed to treat HIV/AIDS by boosting patients’ immune systems and suppress the virus. Across the country, teenagers—even those who do not…

The unemployment jumped to 6.7 percent in November, shedding 533,000 jobs. It’s the largest loss in one month since December 1974. And since January, nearly 2 million jobs have been cut. More than 10.3 million people are unemployed, according to the Labor Department. Companies are issuing pink slips, left and right. AT&T cut 12,000 jobs,…

So The Buzz knows that times are hard. Everybody’s strugglin’. November’s unemployment rate is the highest in 34 years. Even celebrities are feeling the drought. Scrapin’ to make a dollar. But. come on, an ode to McDonalds’ chicken nuggets? For real? Yep. Keith Sweat is helping Mickey D’s celebrate the 25th anniversary of the McNugget. Dreamin’…

There’s a distinctly authentic feel to Cadillac Records, from the fried catfish to the fried hair—gotta love the sight of Jeffrey Wright in that ‘do rag—and most of the time, from the grind of the guitars to the wail of the harmonicas, it makes for compelling entertainment. Beyoncé’s not bad, either. Still, there’s a certain…