Take Home a Pair of MS/DC Sneakers, Doodled on by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park

Take home this pair of MS/DC sneakers, doodled on by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. The sneakers were also on display in the Los Angeles DC store! The proceeds for this item benefit Music for Relief for Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Relief

Michael Kenji Shinoda is a Japanese American songwriter, performer, record producer and visual artist from Agoura Hills, California. He is best known for his vocal and musical endeavors with two-time Grammy winning, multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park. The band has sold over 50 million albums worldwide to date. Their debut, "Hybrid Theory" is certified diamond (10 million sold) by the Recording Industry Association of America. The group's most recent album, "A Thousand Suns," debuted at #1 in the US and 14 other countries this year, and has already sold over 1.5 million units worldwide. ...

18. May 2011

‘Teach Me How To Dougie’ Rapper Shot To Death Sunday Night

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- M-Bone of the rap group Cali Swag District, which scored a hit last year with the song "Teach Me the Dougie," was killed in a weekend drive-by shooting as he sat in a car outside a liquor store, police said Monday. The motive for Sunday night's shooting was under investigation, Lt. James Madia said. The 22-year-old Inglewood man, whose real name is Mante Ray Talbert, was sitting alone in his car shortly after 10:30 p.m. "Another car pulled alongside, gunshots were fired, and the victim was struck twice in the head," Madia said. Talbert died at a hospital....

16. May 2011

Black Couple Shocked After Having A White Baby

Black and white family: Francis and Arlette with Seth and Daniel

A black couple told yesterday of their shock and mystification when their son was born with white skin and blond hair. Francis Tshibangu admitted: ‘My first thought was “Wow, is he really mine?”.’ He and his wife Arlette already have a two-year-old boy, Seth, whose features reflect his African parentage. But it is thought that baby Daniel, now 11 weeks old, has a slight genetic mutation. He is not an albino. Congo-born Mr Tshibangu, 28, said his ‘jaw dropped open’ when Daniel arrived at Leicester Royal Infirmary. ‘I was too stunned to speak and I could see the doctors looking at each other, thinking the baby couldn’t be mine. ‘Then Arlette and I looked at each other and smiled and I knew he was. I have been with my wife for three years and there was never a question of infidelity, but seeing his white skin was a surprise to say the least.’ ...

16. May 2011

Florence & The Machine Start Recording New Record At Abbey Road Studios

Florence talks about recording a new record, performing at the Met Ball in New York and working with Baz Luhrman in her newest blog post on florenceandthemachine.net:

Temples, McQueen And New York Dreams Mon 16 May, 2011 Hello everybody! I haven't written one of these in a while; sorry for neglecting you. I do hope this finds you all just splendid. I'm back in Blighty now; the birds are singing, the summer's nearly here, I miss you all and hope to see you soon. We've started recording the new record, excitingly, at the famous Abbey Road Studios. Haven't quite managed to get our pictures taken on that legendary zebra crossing yet, but we do spend a lot of time looking over at other people's attempts. Lying down in the middle of it seems to be popular, weirdly. Bit dangerous if you ask me....
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16. May 2011

In Turkey, the ‘friendship train’ encourages children to visit museums

ANKARA, Turkey, 12 May 2011 – Thirty-three child members of Turkey’s provincial child rights committees undertook a train journey of almost 2,000 km in April, as part of a UN joint programme targeting the development of Eastern Anatolia through cultural tourism. “I expected it to be very tiring and it was,” said Ismail Pelenkoglu, one of the children who made the journey, and a national coordinator for the child rights committees. “But we learned a lot about our culture. We also made a lot of new friends.” ...

16. May 2011