Making sense of Bonnie Tyler.
The prize committee of Denmark's lucrative Sonning Music Prize praised the 42-year-old singer, saying "her sound is unique, her technique unsurpassed … and her radiation [sic] like that of Callas."
Spoil-sport Sir Paul has had his swinging London pad removed from Google Street View.
From Norway to Iceland, Eurovision's costumes, as ever, were more interesting than the singing.
BBC has the picture highlights.
Here is the hot new footage of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament getting mugged by three masked man as he walks out of an Atlanta recording studio
Ukrainian singer Svetlana Loboda tells an interviewer she wants to use the Eurovision Song Contest as a platform for her message about domestic violence, pointing to the bruises on her face.
According to Wonkette, every disaster that has befallen America of late was preceded by a Bob Dylan album with suspicious lyrics... grassy knoll anyone?
One gets the sense that MTV is a bit nervous about whether it can stay in touch with the kids' zeitgeist.
Steps include doing no research on MySpace, scrawling incomprehensible notes and capturing the zeitgeist.