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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Facebook can hunt down your face in any photo now, and the company says that you should consider it a privacy enhancement as getting tagged will alert you to “a photo of you on the Internet that you didn’t know about… you can remove the tag, or you… can write the person and say,… Read More

This Week in Buzz

Editor’s note: Each Friday, our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed curate a post for us that’s filled with links to some of their favorite items on the web that week. Enjoy!

This week at BuzzFeed, we couldn’t take our eyes off of a certain unexpectedly horrifying lip-dub of Taylor Swift’s “You… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. The nominations for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards were announced last night. Eminem is up for ten awards, Bruno Mars has seven nods, and Lady Gaga has six. We were also happy to see Robyn, Janelle Monáe, and Cee Lo Green get recognized.

2. NBC has bought a new comedy from Steve… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Non-Risky Business decision: Jeremy Renner confirms that he will take over for Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible series if Cruise decides to retire from future installments! [via /film]

2. “In its extreme self-consciousness, the album Fantasy reminds me most of is John Lennon’s cathartic 1970 Plastic Ono Band record.” The Guardian reviews… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. So, Kanye West performed his new album last night at Bowery Ballroom, and he said some things. Ten minutes worth of things. Namely about George Bush and Taylor Swift. (video) [via The Awl]
2. Not that we usually care about Dancing with the Stars, but we have to admit that we’re… Read More

CSI’s Best Musical Guest Stars

Today, a clip of Justin Bieber’s high-anticipated guest spot on CSI: Miami leaked to the delight of tweens everywhere. But he’s not the first musical star to grace the blood-spattered sets of the CSI franchise; the various spin-offs of the crime drama have a bizarre and extensive track record of stunt casting popular musicians to help drive up ratings. From John Mayer as lounge performer to Travis Barker as sinister rapper, we count down the best (and by that, in most cases we mean the funniest) musical guests, after the jump. … Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Kanye West apologized to Taylor Swift over Twitter yesterday for last year’s VMAs incident, and in the process, compared his life story to the plot of Wicked. Oh, and he also wrote her a very special song. [via BuzzFeed]
2. Other than a few standout films like Toy Story… Read More

What’s on at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

Today at Flavorpill, we flipped out over Weeels, an extremely helpful new iPhone app that’s dedicated to cab sharing in New York City. We chortled over the fact that Micheal Jackson [sic] was a trending topic on Twitter — thanks in part to Taylor Swift. We strongly disagreed with Woody Allen about his six… Read More

What If Tween Icons Ruled the Literary Charts

22-year-old Hilary Duff has had quite the adult venture into 2010. First she got engaged, and now she’s working with the folks at Simon & Schuster on a Young Adult series. After the jump, check out our predictions of tweens with sophisticated book deals to come.… Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. A record exec from Taylor Swift‘s label tries to defend her lackluster Grammy duet with Stevie Nicks, and only makes things worse. [via ArtsBeat]
2. Why was Martin Scorsese‘s new Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Shelter Island pushed back to the dead of winter? [via E!]
3. The dates for the fifth… Read More