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Beyoncé Takes Heat for Ignoring Activist Calls to Support Houston Transgender Law

The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance — a proposal that would have allowed men to enter women’s bathrooms, showers, and changing areas based on gender identification — was soundly defeated by Houston voters at the ballot box last week. According to one advocate for the now-defunct proposal, pop star Beyoncé bears at least some of the blame for its failure.

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Jay-Z’s Streaming Music Service Flops

Last month, Jay-Z and a handful of some of the biggest names in music teamed up to launch Tidal, a new artist-owned streaming music service that would compete with household names like Pandora and Spotify. The concept seemed promising; a new

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Cybersquatters Force Celebs to Buy .Porn Web Addresses

Celebrities, heeding Benjamin Franklin’s advice that “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” are buying up new “top-level” domain names like .porn to prevent cybersquatters or extortionists from besmirching their reputations and/or selling them later for a much higher price.

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‘Real Artistry': Beck’s Father Worked on Beyoncé Album

Album of the Year Grammy-winning artist Beck’s father worked on a Beyoncé album in 2006, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed Thursday. Maybe, now that it is known that his dad worked on an album for his Beyoncé, Kanye West will finally concede that Beck is a “real artist.”

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Kanye West Grammys Stunt Boosts Beck Album Sales 1000 Percent

Sunday night’s Grammy Awards broadcast was relatively uneventful. Sam Smith won four statues, Taylor Swift danced in her front-row seat (and didn’t win anything), and Pharell Williams brought “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” to his Hans Zimmer-tweaked rendition of “Happy.”

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Kanye West: Beck Should Have Given His Award to Beyoncé

On E! Network’s post-Grammys coverage, Kanye West followed up on what was an apparent effort to repeat his 2009 MTV Video Music Awards folly, in which he interrupted Taylor Swift and said Beyoncé deserved the year’s best female video award.