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"The Apprentice" wasn't on the schedule NBC unveiled last week, but Donald Trump refused to be fired — he quit instead, Reuters reports, moving on to "a major new TV venture." Julia Roberts is set to produce and star in a movie about Joan Root, a wildlife conservationist who was murdered in Kenya last year, says the BBC news. Let's just say it wasn't exactly "National Bingo Night" after all Read more
For the second year in a row, the Recording Academy has given a hip-hop artist the most Grammy nominations. Last year, it was rapper Eminem with eight, and this year, Kanye West leads the nominees with seven chances at the golden gramophone, including a song of the year nod for "All of the Lights." West is also nominated twice in the rap album of the year category for his collaboration with Jay-Z Read more
The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) are currently gathered in Austin, TX, for their annual weeklong conference. Last night, Dave Arnold, the director of technology for The French Culinary Institute and Chris Young, the co-author of Modernist Cuisine, hosted the 2011 Cookbook Awards Gala. Among the winners? The New York Times and Food52's Amanda Hesser and French Read more
