| SOHH Soulful Exclusive: Tank Talks "Sex, Love & Pain," "I Say What ...
After a five year hiatus, R&B heartthrob Tank returns to the spotlight with his third album Sex, Love & Pain. In this SOHH exclusive he opens up about bringing real R&B back, working with Robin Givens and Kelly Rowland, and getting pushed by Jamie Foxx. "The new album is called Sex, Love and Pain, it deals with everything within the confines of those three words," Tank said of his new album, which is expected to land in stores this May or June. "It's taking R&B back to what R&B used to talk about. I don't know how we got to singing about Cristal. Back when Smokey (Robinson) and those guys were singing, they were singing about they woman, to they woman, trying to keep they woman or trying to get rid of they woman. It was something meaningful," Tank lamented.
'Trade Must Cut Poverty'
BRUSSELS, Mar 23 (IPS) - European Union officials devising a new strategy on helping poor countries boost their share of world trade have warned that it must contain concrete measures for reducing poverty.
In October last year, EU governments decided to prepare plans for spending 2 billion euros (2.6 billion dollars) a year in 'aid for trade' by 2010. The aid is intended to address the marginalisation of the world's poorest countries, who have seen the proportion of international trade that they hold fall from two percent to one percent over the past four decades.
The officials tasked with drawing up the EU's strategy have complained that key international recommendations on aid for trade have paid little attention to the need for poverty alleviation. A World Trade Organisation report on the subject last year was "relatively quiet" on linking such aid with poverty, the officials noted.
Girls Gone Wild Boss Faces Jail
(andPOP) - The man behind the GIRLS GONE WILD video and DVD empire faces jail in Panama City after failing to appear in court for a mediation hearing. A federal judge has ordered JOE FRANCIS to surrender to authorities so he can begin serving jail time for contempt of court. US District Judge RICHARD SMOAK insists Francis should be jailed until he agrees to participate in mediation talks aimed at ending a four-year-old legal battle between the media mogul and seven underage women, who sued the Girls Gone Wild boss after he filmed them in sexual situations. Negotiations were set to begin last month but Francis stormed out of proceedings after verbally attacking lawyers. The media mogul then made a settlement offer for the plaintiffs to consider. But Francis failed to appear at an emergency hearing on Wednesday, prompting Judge Smoak to raise the amount of money the Girls Gone Wild boss has to pay the plaintiffs' lawyers.
The 7th Annual Honda Civic Tour Gears Up for the Ultimate Concert ...
NEW YORK, NY (Top40 Charts/ Honda Civic Tour) - The 7th Annual Honda Civic has pulled together an all star line up of today's most popular music artists featuring something for everyone with headliner Fall Out Boy and special guests +44 (featuring Travis Barker & Mark Hoppus, formerly of Blink 182), The Academy Is ... , Paul Wall and Cobra Starship. The Honda Civic Tour is the only tour that could bring these bands together for a dynamic stage production filled with surprises at ticket prices that are sure to please fans. Civic Tour is making pit stops in over thirty cities from April to June kicking off in Charlotte, NC on April 18th. Honda has redefined the concert experience by bringing together five unique performers: .
Baseball Keeps 'Extra Innings' on Cable
NEW YORK - After negotiations that went into extra innings, baseball struck a deal to keep its "Extra Innings" package of out-of-market games on cable television.Under pressure from Sen. John Kerry, baseball and iN Demand reached an agreement in principle Wednesday on a seven-year contract, a deal that likely will allow the sport's new TV network to be available in at least 40 million homes when it launches in 2009.Baseball announced an exclusive $700 million, seven-year agreement with DirecTV on March 8, but viewers who would have lost TV access to the games complained."The concern expressed by our fans who would have been forced to switch to alternative carriers or were unable to switch was something we tried to be responsive to," baseball chief operating officer Bob DuPuy said. Kerry had asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the original deal, and during a hearing last week in Washington he pushed baseball to resume talks with iN Demand, owned by affiliates of Time Warner, Comcast and Cox.
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