The Scene

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pop singer Ke$ha led Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth week on Thursday with her debut single “TiK ToK,” and also grabbed the No.

(EUR) – This year’s Grammy awards will turn up the heat in an often overlooked category – Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.

(EUR) – Forbes magazine has named Jay-Z and Beyonce the top earning couple in entertainment — married or unmarried — for their combined $122 million banked between June 2008 and June 2009.

Next Tuesday evening, Sidewalk Café will screen District 9, a 2009 science fiction-action film directed by Neill Blomkamp.

Sonia Noel is the kind of woman for whom it seems there is never a dull moment.

Yes I know, I know. Bah! Humbug! was Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas greeting, but it’s what my new year feels like: I am tired and broke!

Hi Everyone, “I ain’t seen you since last year!” A corny joke, it’s true, but we all do it every New Years and this, after all, is my first column for 2010.

There is a pot of social commentary brewing in the Mashramani Calypso Competition this year which is expected to kick off in early February and some of the usual suspects are lined up and ready to take on a string of newcomers.

Peter Yates’ charming 1979 film, Breaking Away, is the first selection for Classic Tuesdays for the year and will be screened next Tuesday at 6 pm, at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.

LONDON (Reuters) – No two lists are the same, but as pop pundits gaze into their crystal balls at the start of a new decade it is single female acts who look destined for the top, at the expense of indie bands.

(EUR) A rep for Keyshia Cole has officially confirmed the singer’s pregnancy and announced she is engaged to the baby’s father, Cleveland Cavaliers player Daniel “Boobie” Gibson.

(EUR) After winning Favourite R&B artist at the People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday night, Mariah Carey went backstage and attempted to explain to the press her bizarre behaviour from the night before.

(Billboard) Let’s coin a new term to describe Kara DioGuardi. Instead of a multihyphenate, she’s a mega-hyphenate.

If style has a rogue child in Guyana it is probably Dorian Obermuller, who brashly walks around with make-up and fashion so loud it screams “you can’t look away”.

I am a Christmas junkie. Unlike the Scrooges and the others who “just don’t get” the Christmas spirit, I am normally consumed by the feeling since November if not before.

Hi Everyone, each year at Christmas, no matter how organized and prepared we are, there is one area that always has us flummoxed – what presents should we buy for friends and loved ones!

It was for charity and the patrons showed up and gave willingly.

Cinderella Promotions, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture will entertain Christmas shoppers with its Christmas Peace and Unity Concert on the lawns of the National Museum, Water Street from 10 am on Tuesday.