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19 May 2013 8:20 PM, PDT | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »

Talk about iconic! The one and only Prince preformed and was honored at the Billboard Awards on May 19.

If anyone deserves the Billboard Icon Award, it’s Prince! At the Billboard Music Awards, the talented star put on a super sexy performance of “Let’s Go Crazy” and “Fix Ur Life Up” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Prince Receives Billboard Icon Award

Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu hit the stage to present Prince with the prestigious award and introduce the star! In the past, the award has gone to other incredible artists including Stevie Wonder.

The seven-time Grammy Award winner is extremely grateful for his fans.

He said in a recent interview to Tavis Smiley:

I think from the beginning, as I was coming into my own persona and understanding of who I was, I never talked down to my audience. When you don’t talk down to your audience, »

- Emily Longeretta

16 May 2013 7:56 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

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Good morning, Brewbies! With the season four premiere of Pretty Little Liars just three weeks away, ABC Family has started raining down promo clips. Yesterday, they dropped three new teases, including an amazing one in which Hanna and Emily get into a squabble about Hanna and Mona. Poor ol' Hanna had no idea what kind of drama she was in for when she started accepting PinkDrinks.

Also, guess who's back this year?

I'm never not going to think of Maya when I see that porch.

Gallup just finished analyzing their annual Values and Beliefs poll, and it turns out more people than ever before are pretty sure you were born this way. In fact, the gap between people who think being gay is more nature than nurture is wider than it ever has been on the pro-gay side of things.

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1 April 2013 8:43 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Perhaps new Pope Francis' widely-praised humility is spreading: Italian superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli made an unannounced singing appearance Sunday during an Easter mass in little old Miami Beach.

As first reported by Miami New Times, the 54-year-old opera legend "crashed" mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church, surprising parishioners when he stood up to sing -- and sending congregants to their smart phones.

Archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agusta confirmed that ensuing videos popping up on YouTube were not an early April Fool's joke: "He did sing during communion -- it was unexpected," she wrote. "Andre Bocelli was attending Mass and asked just before Mass if he could sing. He sang Panis Angelicus."

Bocelli, who has been blind since the age of 12, is reportedly the greatest-selling classical artist of all time, with hits including the charts beheamoth "Time To Say Goodbye.." Might St. Patrick's expect regular pop-up performances? Though he declined to name the town, »

- Janie Campbell

8 February 2013 5:09 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. is appealing to triple homicide suspect Christopher Dorner to surrender, telling CBS Los Angeles he would be happy to meet the fugitive himself. Or, he says, Dorner could turn himself in to one of Jackson's friends in the La area -- like Tavis Smiley or Stevie Wonder.

Dorner is the subject of a massive manhunt in Los Angeles' Big Bear Lake area that has officers from multiple agencies searching through snowy mountains in 12-hour shifts. He is wanted in connection with a double-homicide, as well as three police officer shootings, one of which was fatal. 

After being fired from the Lapd for making false accusations against another officer, Dorner issued a manifesto, pledging to "bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in the Lapd uniform." He also sent a package containing a note, a DVD and a coin with a bullet hole in it to CNN's Anderson Cooper. »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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