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Turn Out The Lights And Do It In The Dark

HerBadMother — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:31:00 GMT

Nelly Furtado is going to. In front of thousands of people. Tonight's the night.

You can do it, too.

Tonight at 8pm it will be Earth Hour - an hour during which everyone on the planet will be asked to turn off their lights, please - and Nelly Furtado - who is, in addition to being Canada's favorite semi-skanky pop singer cum single mother, is our ambassador for Earth Hour (not as cool a gig as Angie's humanitarian biz for the UN, but still, you gotta start somewhere) - is going to kick off the hour with a free! concert! in Toronto. ("Turn Out The Lights"? GET IT?)

The partners of Toronto’s Earth Hour today announced that multi-platinum Grammy and Juno Award-winner, and Canada’s own, Nelly Furtado will join Earth Hour as the first Canadian Earth Hour Ambassador. She will also perform a free concert at Nathan Phillips Square on March 29 to celebrate Earth Hour.

As an Earth Hour Ambassador and an advocate for the environment, Nelly Furtado will play an unplugged concert at the Earth Hour community event, starting at 7:30 p.m. The organizers are taking steps to make the event as carbon-neutral as possible - including powering the event with green, renewable energy from Bullfrog Power. People from across the GTA are invited to attend.

That's awesome that they're making it carbon-neutral and unplugged and all, but I still don't get how it's going to be a particularly effective concert with all the lights out. I mean, will there be candles? Isn't that a fire hazard? Or will Nelly just light everything up with the glow of her own fabulousness?

Whatever. Do it for the children.

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Hayden Panetierre: Angelina's My Hero

HerBadMother — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:02:00 GMT

Heroes hottie Hayden Panetierre says that she wants to be Angelina Jolie when she grows up.

Panettiere, in Washington, D.C. for the Forecast Earth Summit by The Weather Channel, told People magazine that she would be honored to be thought of as 'the next Angelina Jolie' when it comes to activism. "Absolutely," said the Heroes star. "She was definitely one of my inspirations growing up and she was definitely somebody I looked up to."

Inspirations while she was growing up? God, she's so young. She probably doesn't even remember Gia Angelina, or Hackers Angelina - you know, back when Angie was just a hottie, and not a humanitarian crusader packing a horde of children on her back and leading Brad Pitt around by the nose. Still, Hayden's to be commended for being, probably, the only red-blooded Angie-fan who would rather be Angie than do Angie. That she looks at Angie and sees an older-woman-slash-potential-mentor is actually really, really sweet. It makes me feel old and dirty, but that's neither here nor there.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Should Just Adopt Us All and Get It Over With

Whit Honea — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:08:00 GMT

Brangelina can do no wrong. Seriously, they're like robots that can only do good. They put 25 hours a day, eight days a week, into doing the right thing. I am constantly amazed at how much they do, and in comparison, how lazy and shallow my life truly is. Wow. Give me a moment...

Okay, I'm better. Thank you.

Here's what Brad and Angelina have going on today: Not only are they both promoting new films, raising a family, adopting a kid, watching a dog, and filming new movies, they are also speaking to the U.N. (twice) and the Clinton Global Initiative in hopes of gaining support for the charities and movements they are involved in. That's just today. What did you do?

Me? I drank a pot of coffee and held a washcloth to my kid's bloody nose. If I do that for Brad will it make me a better person?

Photos (Top): Just Jared