Alicia Keys’ The Element of Freedom Tops the Charts | Concert Dates
December 23, 2009
Twelve-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys’ latest opus The Element of Freedom (MBK/J Records) debuts at #1 on Billboard‘s R&B Albums and Digital Albums charts and #2 on Billboard‘s Top 200 Albums chart, according to Nielsen/SoundScan.
With radio stations playing five songs simultaneously from The Element of Freedom (“Doesn’t Mean Anything,” “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart,” “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down,” “Un-thinkable,” with background vocals provided by Drake, and “Put It In A Love Song” featuring Beyonce) and critics such as Entertainment Weekly citing “Keys latest hits all the right notes” there’s no wonder why fans flocked to purchase Keys’ fifth release.
Named one of Billboard‘s Artists of the Decade, Keys is never one to rest on her laurels as we move into the new year. Keys will launch 2010 in high gear with a performance on Saturday Night Live on January 9 followed by an AOL Music Sessions premiere on January 14. On March 3, Keys embarks on the U.S. portion of “The Freedom Tour” at Chicago’s Allstate Arena. The European leg of the tour will commence late April 2010.
The Alicia Keys Freedom Tour U.S. dates kick off in March - click for tickets (subject to change)
DATE CITY VENUE
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March 03, 2010 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
March 05, 2010 Detroit, MI Fox Theater
March 06, 2010 Detroit, MI Fox Theater
March 13, 2010 Mashantucket, CT Foxwoods Casino
March 17, 2010 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
March 19, 2010 Newark, NJ Prudential Centre
March 20, 2010 Atlantic City, NJ Mark Estess Arena
March 22, 2010 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
March 24, 2010 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
March 25, 2010 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center
March 27, 2010 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
March 28, 2010 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times-Forum
March 30, 2010 Atlanta, GA Phillips Arena
April 02, 2010 Dallas, TX Nokia Theater (Grand Prairie)
April 03, 2010 Houston, TX Toyota Centre
April 06, 2010 Los Angeles, CA Staples Centre
April 07, 2010 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
April 09, 2010 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay
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Nick Cannon in the Morning | Radio?| What’s Up with that Brother Buzz
December 23, 2009
Somewhere in the photo is Nick “her Trick” Cannon
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Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Gets 90 Days Jail, Four Years Probation – ABC News
December 23, 2009
Today, Larimer County Court Judge Stephen Schapanski sentenced the man behind one of the year’s biggest scandals to 90 days jail and four years probation. He also prohibited Richard Heene from making any money off the balloon boy fiasco during that time.
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Blogger Declares 2009 the Official Year of FAIL
December 23, 2009
FAIL! By the time you read this post because you FAIL to to keep up in REAL TIME, 2009 will be DONE! Stick a fork in it. It seems everything FAILed in 2009. Was it the year NOT to remember. Unless you remember it by what FAILed.
Barack Obama now President FAILed to deliver as evidenced by this SNL clip. The year 2009 was a clunker year for the President. The President FAILed to see the many correlations to past one term presidents. Most say he dropped the ball and the voters at the White House door. At post time, the President reportedly has radio interview scheduled with Steve Harvey to discuss his relating with Black America – we predict FAIL! You might find archive audio here unless the station FAIL to post it.
Television FAIL! Fake marriages with multiple children i.e. Jon & Kate FAIL! Cable news networks FAIL! World class golfers with fake marriages FAIL! Fifty year old’s with 50 concerts FAIL! (FAIL again – is it too soon to do an MJ joke). Jay Leno FAIL to leave television. His five year departure moved him to an earlier slot. Oprah FAIL to retire. You now have to say goodbye over and over for the next two years.
Did nearly every idea FAIL in 2009? We planned to give out the FAIL Awards but FAIL to find inspiration in the domain we purchased www.theFAILawards.com – FAIL. For the most part, it looks like we took the year off. We FAILed to find stories interesting with enough depth to warrant further discussion. FAIL was coming too fast.
We intended to declare 2009 as the year of HATE Happy! FAIL! The post is still sitting in draft form. Since everyone had an opinion in REAL TIME, it became the year to HATE (highly anticipate the error) of everything and everyone trying to do Happy. Life moments and failures became hashtags with FAIL leading the way.
We won’t FAIL to bore you any longer as we have probably passed that point. Or did we FAIL to make a point. For all we FAILed to mentioned… FAIL! There is good news, hopefully it is all up hill from here. FAIL! That would denote we are at the bottom. FAIL!
Despite the FAILs of 2009, as one of the first, it was exciting to blog this past decade. Without FAIL, let us wish you and yours a Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa and many a joyous Holidays.
Go in peace, don’t HATE Happy!
Walmart banking on the Food Stamp Hour… Midnight in the food-stamp economy | Reuters
December 22, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – At 11 p.m. on the last day of the month, shoppers flock to the nearest Walmart. They load their carts with food and household items and wait for the midnight hour. That’s when food stamp credits are loaded on their electronic benefits transfer cards.
“Once the clock strikes midnight and EBT cards are charged, you can see our results start to tick up,” says Tom Schoewe, Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s chief financial officer.
As food stamps become an increasingly common currency in a struggling U.S. economy, they are dictating changes in how even the biggest retailers do business.
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Property vets to buy condos, convert to apartments | Reuters
December 22, 2009
Boutique investment bank Westwood Capital, veteran apartment building owner and manager Gerald Guterman, and appraiser Jonathan Miller plan to buy $1 billion worth of new condominium buildings from struggling banks and convert them into rental apartments.
The venture, Condominium Recovery LLC, would buy whole buildings or large swaths of 50, 100 or 200 units at a time from banks that soon may be forced foreclose on billions of dollars in loans they made to developers.
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Naomi Campbell wins International Woman Of The Year Award – Moscow | PhotoBuzz
December 22, 2009
Supermodel Naomi Campbell arrives for an award ceremony at Moscow’s GQ Bar restaurant in Moscow, Russia on December 22, 2009. Campbell has been named as the winner of Glamour Russia Magazine’s 2009 Woman Of The Year Award in the the International Woman of the Year category. Photo Maxim Shemetov/ABACAPRESS.COM Photo via Newscom Content © 2009 Newscom All rights reserved.
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BBC News – Michael Jackson: FBI releases classified files on star
December 22, 2009
The FBI has released more than 300 pages of formerly classified documents relating to pop icon Michael Jackson.
They include information regarding the singer’s 1993 and 2004 child molestation cases, as well as an extortion case where he was a victim.
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BBC News – Firefox for mobile ‘days away’ from launch
December 22, 2009
he first mobile phone version of the popular web browser Firefox is “days away” from launch, the head of the project has told the BBC.
The browser, codenamed Fennec, will initially be available for Nokia’s N900 phone, followed by other handsets.
It is currently going through final testing and could be released before the end of the year, said Jay Sullivan at Mozilla, the group behind Firefox.
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ObamaMeter: A Christmas Tale by Two Presidents – Happy Holidays
December 22, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama reads The Polar Express to elementary aged children at a Boys and Girls Club in Washington on December 21, 2009. After reading the President passed out cookies. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg Photo via Newscom Content © 2009 Newscom All rights reserved.
U.S. President George W. Bush shows pictures from story book ‘The Night before Christmas’ as First Lady Laura Bush listens during a story telling session to 50 first-graders of Hoffman – Boston Elementary School December 10, 2001 at the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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