Kenny Smoov's Blog – March 2013 Archive (127)

The world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have a new spiritual leader.

As afternoon turned to evening in Vatican City on Wednesday, a little after 7 p.m. local time, white smoke rose from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel and bells rang through St. Peter's Square — the traditional signals that…

CHICAGO (CBS) – A 6-month-old girl died Tuesday morning, hours after she and her father were shot multiple times while he was changing her diaper in the family van in the Woodlawn neighborhood — a crime the mayor described as “a senseless, despicable act.”

Jonylah Watkins died at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital on Tuesday,…

Kenya Moore knows how to get people talking. This week she released her music video to her song “Gone with the Wind Fabulous”, where in it she wastes no time to poke fun at her “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast mates including her nemesis Porsha Stewart and her booty-video foe Phaedra Parks.

Watch her perform live. Click the youtube link below:…

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges, ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation’s youngest big-city leaders.

Jurors convicted Kilpatrick of a raft of crimes, including a racketeering conspiracy charge. He was portrayed during a five-month trial as an unscrupulous politician who took bribes, rigged contracts…

Gabby is giving her comedy chops a spin in a brand new web series.

In the new show, titled “Riding Dirty With Officer Turner,” Gabrielle Union stars alongside some well-known comedians like Bill Bellamy and Affion Crockett as she plays an overzealous cop who gets off (literally) by pulling over random people for no reason–just because she’s bored, horny or both. As the show…

Prince Jackson has already launched his showbiz career, serving as an

ET special correspondent and filming a guest spot on 90210 -- and now

his sister Paris has an offer on the table.

After footage of the 14-year-old cheering with her Buckley prep

school's varsity squad surfaced online, the Philadelphia Eagles say

they're interesting in having…

     Hermitage Precinct detectives are asking for the community’s assistance in locating 19-year-old Terrell Lamont Booker, who is alleged to have taken part in the critical wounding of a man on Village Green Drive in the Nashboro Village area on the afternoon of…

Come Win On Of These Flat Screens!!!

92Q sets off the weekend at Club Cirok!!!

Flat Screens and all kinds of great prizes to wrap up your Work Week

We Don't LOUNGE!  We Grown Folks…

Apparently throwing a tantrum at the tender age of eight can get you almost thrown in jail.

St. Louis’ KMOV reports an elementary school student Jmyha Rickman, 8, was handcuffed by her wrists and feet and was taken tot he police station after throwing a tantrum in school.

School officials at Lovejoy Elementary School called the Alton, Ill. police to…

Although Drake has never enrolled at the University of Kentucky, he's received a national championship ring -- and now he's narrated a documentary about the school's basketball legacy.

The film is called Bluegrass Kingdom: The Gospel of Kentucky Basketball and is scheduled to air on March 17th on…

A group of diehard R. Kelly fans want him saluted in a bizarre way -- by having "Ignition" replace "The Star Spangled Banner" as our national anthem.

The Kells brigade has put a petition on the official White House website asking that the…

After Ghanian promoters complained loudly that American singer Chris Brown took $1 million and skipped out on them, the singer showed up after all — with a bag full of weed on stage!

"From Ghanacelebrities.com:

Few hours to the Chris Brown concert, he showed up in Ghana with a frown face. The organizers were supposed to be the ones carrying the frown face…

Via Nashville City Paper:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Two football players at Tennessee State University have been suspended from the team indefinitely after allegedly causing thousands of dollars in damage to another student's car in early February.…

Via Shanghaiist:

It will likely come as no surprise to our readers (particularly our non-white, non-Chinese readers) that racism is a problem in China. We’ve reported in the past on the Chinese media’s less than PC approach to race, and the repugnant strain of racism and…

Via NY Daily News

A Walmart shopper took extreme couponing to a new level of crazy when she allegedly whipped out her handgun at a Florida store in a fight over a piddling discount, police said.

The Sunshine State shopper went…

Last week, Chicago Public Schools' Board of Education approved expanding sexual education in their schools as a means of addressing the high rates of gonorrhea and Chlamydia cases among the city's teens, as well as a teen HIV rate that has risen 43 percent since 2000, DNAinfo Chicago reports.

The new…

Terrence Howard stars opposite Oprah Winfrey in the upcoming film The Butler.

And in an exclusive interview with Movie Fanatic, the actor gushes over the best part of working with this talk show goddess.  Her warm? Her generosity? Her spirit? Not…

Did you miss Love and Hip Hop last night!  Well here's like the best clip of the night...

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Jim Jones says when he turns in his taxes next month, he plans to take a deduction for all the money he spent making it rain in strip clubs in 2012. And Jim might not be alone, as several rappers claim they're going to write off their strip club expenses this year. 

Bizzy…