Local lady rapper Kreayshawn, who's profiled this week in the Guardian's Queer Issue and whose video "Gucci Gucci" is now a bonafide hit, spoke to New York Magazine this week to critique the latest offerings by stars Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Britney. Regarding the tights and leotard looks that Britney tried to work in her "Til the World Ends" video, Kreayshawn offered this brilliant musing: "Even when she shaves her head and does all this crazy shit — she's still not wrong, dammit. She's still not wrong. The leotard thing, it's either you can pull it off perfectly or it's like a complete fail. If you're in a music video rocking it, you pretty much have no choice but to pull it off. But personally, if I were going to a party, I would definitely put some goddamn pants on." In case you've been under a music/internet-free rock recently, watch "Gucci Gucci" below. [NY Mag] more ›

Aging Italian performer, singer, and pop-star Lorella Cuccarini hasn't gotten this much American press in her whole damn life. But ever since Beyoncé did a major number at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night that was extremely similar to something Cuccarini did last year, the internets have been abuzz with the Italian lady's name. Above, please see the evidence: a side-by-side comparison of Beyonce's number and Cuccarini's earlier one. We're not sure Beyoncé's to blame here... it very well probably was the work of one of Beyonce's clever team, a choreographer perhaps, who said, "Beyonce girl no one besides me has ever heard of Lorella Cuccarini." Ah well. [via WOW] more ›

Well, this is just downright sweet, Beyonce. You don't seem nearly as frosty as some have claimed. The former Destiny's Child frontwoman performed in Oakland this weekend, garnering astounding reviews. Above is a clip of the megagargantuansupersashanova star singing "Say My Name" directly to a delighted fan. more ›

San Francisco clothing retailer bebe has decided to drop real fuzzy-wuzzy fur from all of their designs come January, according to bebe CEO Gregory Scott. The company -- which made a name for itself with their beautiful yet momma's-little-whore designs -- only has about 3% fur-use ion their clothes now. Come next year, they will be proudly fur free. more ›

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. more ›

As we sat down to write this week's Best of the -ists post, a car blaring "21 Questions'" passed by our house. And that started us thinking about how some of the best -ist posts out there have at their hearts questions, some of which are answered, and some of which are left open. Check out the Best of the -ists from this week, and see if you agree. more ›

Here in the labs, we're not above passing along a bit of Corporate Advertising as if it were genuine tech news. So we'll tell you that Apple is running a Billion Songs Countdown promotion for its iTunes Music Store. Every 100,000th song downloaded gets a free iPod nano and a gift certificate, and the recipient of the billionth download gets an iMac, a $10,000 gift certificate to the iTMS, and ten (10) 60GB iPods. (If you don't feel like giving your money to The Man, there's a free entry form). more ›

Hey, everyone loves a good tool (unless you're from New England, in which case no one loves tools), and if you want to be a blogger, one of the best tools is Movable Type. Folks build blogs with it, folks use it as a simple content management system -- heck, folks even use it as a software design platform. Well, Movable Type is four years old now, and at version 3.2 is looking better than ever. more ›