The Star Online: Entertainment: Music
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- Victoria & David Beckham welcome baby girl
- Singer's donation to wild-horse group criticized
- Rihanna cuts Dallas concert short because of fire
| Victoria & David Beckham welcome baby girl Posted: 10 Jul 2011 11:37 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters): Celebrity couple David and Victoria Beckham welcomed a new baby girl into the world Sunday, adding a daughter to the three sons they already have in their growing family. ``I am so proud and excited to announce the birth of our daughter Harper Seven Beckham,'' Beckham posted on his Facebook page. ``She weighed a healthy 7 pounds 10 ounces and arrived at 7.55 this morning, here in LA. Victoria is doing really well and her brothers are delighted to have a baby sister.'' The Beckhams have three sons, Brooklyn is 12 years old, Romeo 8 and Cruz 6. A representative for the family said the boys' baby sister was born ``happy and healthy'' at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. David Beckham is the British football superstar who has played on soccer teams in the United States, and Victoria is an equally well-known singing star and fashion designer who was a member of the Spice Girls pop music group. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Singer's donation to wild-horse group criticized Posted: 10 Jul 2011 05:09 PM PDT RENO, Nevada (AP): Sheryl Crow, hailed as a champion of wild horses that roam the range in the West, is being criticized by a national animal rights group that is calling her a hypocrite for performing at Wyoming rodeo. The "All I Wanna Do" singer planned to donate a portion of the proceeds from her July 22 concert at the Cheyenne Frontier Days to a wild-horse protection group that's suing the government to try to halt a big mustang roundup in Nevada. Crow is the opening act for Kid Rock on a summer tour that includes the Wyoming gig. But Showing Animals Respect and Kindness claimed that wild horses are abused at that event in a special race just for them. "How can an organization dedicated to helping wild horses take blood money that was based, in part, on abusing wild horses? We believe what Ms. Crow is doing is nothing but PR spin," said Stuart Chaifetz, a spokesman for the Illinois-based group. The group, also known as SHARK, called on the Cloud Foundation to reject the donation. Ginger Kathrens, executive director of the Colorado-based group, said she and other activists consider Crow a true champion of wild horses. Crow has adopted a wild horse and contributed time and money to the cause of keeping them on public lands, she said. SHARK's criticism is unjustified because rodeos are prohibited under the 1971 federal Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act from using mustangs removed from the range by the government, Kathrens added. "I think it's important for people to know the wild horse act prohibits the activity they're concerned about," Kathrens told The Associated Press. "They are not using wild horses off our ranges in that race." A spokesman for Crow agent John Marx at the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills, California, referred inquiries to Crow's publicist, who did not respond to an email. In a statement issued on her website last week, Crow said she was aware of "the contrasting and very passionate opinions that people have about this event and rodeos in general." She said she was making the donation "in recognition of these differences and out of my love for wild horses." Chaifetz said Crow only decided to make the donation after its protests over her involvement at the rodeo. He said SHARK helped coordinate a June 24 protest at a Crow book-signing in Salt Lake City at which activists showed up with a banner reading, "Sheryl Crow: Betrayer of Horses." The Cloud Foundation is trying to win an emergency injunction to block the federal Bureau of Land Management's roundup of 1,700 mustangs scheduled to begin this weekend along the Nevada-Utah line. A hearing on the request is scheduled Thursday in US District Court in Reno. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Rihanna cuts Dallas concert short because of fire Posted: 10 Jul 2011 05:08 PM PDT DALLAS (AP): A small fire above the stage forced pop star Rihanna to cut her Dallas concert short. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the fire broke out near a lighting truss as Rihanna was finishing the ballad "California King Bed" and descending below the stage for a costume change. The newspaper says the production crew quickly extinguished the fire, but the Friday night show was canceled anyway. About 12,500 people were in the audience. American Airlines Center spokeswoman Jenny Walker says an evacuation was orderly and no injuries were reported. The fire cut a short show even shorter. Rihanna was about an hour late taking the stage after her flight from New York to Dallas was delayed. The singer later tweeted that "We set the stage on FYAH tonight!!!" Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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