The Hip Hop Chronicle — “Film School” features The Scholars family (Novakane, and Chris Capalano), brandUn Deshay, and Lungz…with production from Hip-Notic, Slot-A, Mark Byrd, Madd, Jacob Giles, Trabeats, Bigg Unit, and Tony Baines   Agacee – Film School (Mixtape) ... more info

L.A. Times - News — Jane Harman's appointment, made official today, as president and chief executive of the Woodrow Wilson International Center has sparked a scramble to fill a rare open seat in Congress. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn says she will run. Cali... more info

L.A. Times - News — Democrat Jane Harman, who represents a Los Angeles-area district, is expected to leave Congress to lead the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a congressional source says.U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), a leading congressional voice ... more info

Sky News — An outspoken Pakistani politician assassinated by his bodyguard has been buried as 500 anti-Taliban moderate religious scholars warned anybody who expressed grief over his death could suffer the same fate. more info

Pop Bytes — Plucked fresh from the virgin mind of our golden lady, doth comes this most rapturous of reads: A Shore Thing , from the loquacious plume of Snooki. Yea, from yonder tangelo plum fairy did issue a most wonderous and whimsical tome, one our children... more info

Guardian Music — The Rolling Stone's cigarette played a part in the end of a Phalaenopsis amabilis at the New York Public LibraryIt is not exactly on the scale of trashing a hotel room, but Keith Richards has been blamed for killing an orchid at a library in New York... more info

Guardian Music — Rolling Stones guitarist kills rare flower in New York Public Library with second-hand smokeWhen Keith Richards encountered a library plant, only one of them walked away. The Rolling Stone has been blamed for killing an orchid at a library in New Yor... more info

Altsounds — After nearly 14 years, the long-awaited *Death Row Records* album by one-time *Dr. Dre* protégé *Sam Sneed* is finally being released. *WIDEawake Entertainment Group Inc.*, the company who purchased the Death Row Records catalog, is rel... more info

Culture Bully — Music video for the title track from Blue Scholars' recent Coffee and Snow 2 EP, directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi. more info

Topix — Whatever a listener's spiritual bent , surely only a zombie would have been unmoved by the transcendent singing of the Tallis Scholars on Sunday afternoon in the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center . more info