The Week - Adele is expected to bring down the house — and bring home six awards — and other likely highlights from Sunday's telecast of music's biggest nightBrace yourself, says Kyle Anderson at Entertainment Weekly. This year's Grammy Awards features roughly "957 performers and will last four years." The statement is only slightly hyperbolic: Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Clarkson, Tony Bennett, and Alicia Keys are among the 30 entertainers booked to sing at the show (so far). As for the actual awards, Kanye West leads the pack with the most nominations (7), followed closely by Adele, Bruno Mars, and the Foo Fighters, who have six nods apiece. Here, 5 reasons commentators are hyping Sunday's telecast as music's biggest night yet:
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Has Los Angeles County turned into Sombertown? Earlier this week, according to CBS Los Angeles, the California county passed a 37-page ordinance that prohibits "any person to cast, toss, throw, kick or roll" any object other than a beach ball or volleyball "upon or over any beach" between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The Week - Divers recover a little boy's sunken teddy bear, while a girl discovers that her father shot her laptop — and more winners and losers of today's news cycleGOOD DAY FOR:
The Week - C'mon. This is a legitimate compromise: Look, says Scott Lemieux at The American Prospect. Obama's supporters should be happy: "Employees will still be able to receive contraceptive coverage at no extra cost." And the Catholic Hospital Association, for one, is "very pleased" with the religious exemption, saying that it "protects the religious liberty and conscience rights of Catholic institutions." It's only the "intransigent bishops" who aren't on board. The rest of us can see that this is a fair deal."Birth control chess"
The Week - A Colorado college student could wind up behind bars for throwing glitter on Mitt Romney. Excessive punishment or a necessary deterrent?Colorado's Tuesday state caucuses were tough on Mitt Romney. Not only did he lose, he was glitter bombed. Colorado authorities this week filed misdemeanor criminal charges against Peter Smith, a 20-year-old college student, for throwing glitter on Romney to protest the Republican presidential candidate's general platform. Though glitter bombers have similarly enhanced Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul — more typically to protest the candidates' position on gay marriage — Smith is the first person criminally charged for the increasingly popular stunt that could, say some medical professionals, lead to scratched corneas or even loss of sight. If convicted, Smith could face up a $1,000 fine and up to six months in prison. Fair punishment?
The Week - Certain susceptible women will love it. Their dates, not so much: The Vow is marginally better than it looks, says Kimber Myers at Indie Wire. Still, anyone outside of its target demographic will "find it a painful experience." Tatum's swoonworthy Leo is the personification of "everything that women are told they want in Cosmopolitan": He strums the guitar, proffers flowers, and finds time to maintain washboard abs. Too bad he's saddled with dialogue "straight out of a Sweet Valley High novel." Women who love these types of movies will gobble up The Vow like a Whitman's Sampler. Everyone else: Run."Review: The Vow is for people who like to get Teddy Bears on Valentine's Day"
The Week - Trying to secure a massive European bailout, Greek leaders finally agree to major job and spending cuts. But European leaders insist that Greece do more
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The Week - The world's most populous nation is finding that its economic prosperity comes with a price: Inequality, social division, and political unrest
The Week - Hundreds of millions of years in the future, humans will be able to walk from North America to China by foot — at least according to a new theory from Yale
The Week - J. Lo prefers all-white decor, Mary J. Blige demands a fresh toilet seat... and M.I.A. would like 3 young women dancing in full-body burkas, thank you
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