Vanessa Williams endured a ton of public shame after she lost her Miss America title. But while the scandal almost ruined her legacy and prevented her from capitalizing on her newfound fame, she still managed to excel in Hollywood. Williams has since starred or appeared in three dozen movie roles — including "Soul Food," "Shaft," and "Dance With Me." However, her musical chops have also served her well. She sang "Colors of the Wind" Read More...
Dark lightning is the most energetic radiation produced naturally on Earth, but was unknown before 1991. While scientists now know that dark lightning naturally occurs in thunderstorms, they do not know how frequently these flashes take place or whether visible lightning always accompanies them. Is dark lightning possible? Dark lightning appears sometimes to compete with normal lightning as a way for thunderstorms to vent the electrical energy that gets pent up inside their roiling interiors, Dwyer says. Read More...
Last week Ja scheduled a radio interview with Renada Romain's Ear Candy Mornings show on Hip Hop Nation. Following the phone call, on March 6th, Ja Rule faced a disciplinary hearing and the phone call was ruled unauthorized. His punishment is a seven-day work detail.
However, Ja Rule's publicist, Melanie Bonvicino, says that he is a model prisoner, he obtained his GED and started to take college courses recently. Bonvicino thinks that it was a different interview, one with New York Daily News, where Ja spoke on his relationships with former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski, which upset prison officials. Read More...