Posted 1/18/13 1:33 pm EST by Alexandra Govere in Art, Celebs, Music
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Justin Bieber recently added a roman numeral tattoo to his growing collection of ink, and while nobody seems to know what the f%$# it means, we have totally figured it out. You can’t evade us, Biebz! And while we’re at it, allow us to explain the meanings behind a few of his other interesting tats…sort of.
Posted 1/17/13 3:13 pm EST by Danica Davidson in Art, Events, Health, Social media
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I need you to sit down when I tell you this: every day 2,600 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 become infected with HIV. On top of that, we’ve lost 30 million people to AIDS and 34 million people are living with HIV and AIDS right now. Now I need you to get up, because you can help change this with the Arches of Hope.
Posted 1/11/13 5:48 pm EST by Danica Davidson in Art, Movies
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The 2013 Oscar nominations are out, and MTV is doing a little happy dance. The MTV film “Inocente” has been nominated for Best Documentary Short! “Inocente” is an eye-opening film about an artistic homeless teenage girl who defies stereotypes and turns her life around.
Posted 12/13/12 5:29 pm EST by Claire Biggs in Art
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The first time I did it, I’m pretty sure I was in the DC airport. But it could’ve also been that time I had a few minutes to kill when I was in Dunkin Donuts that one day.
Posted 12/12/12 10:32 am EST by Caroline Walker in Art, Celebs, Contests, Health
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'Tis the season for paper chains and glitter, ornament-making and cookie-decorating. So round up your Sharpies and pinking shears: Our friends at Cards for Hospitalized Kids are counting on your creative reserves.
Posted 11/30/12 11:15 am EST by Danica Davidson in Art, Celebs, Resources, Sweet Tweet
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If you’re a bookworm like me, you know there’s no such thing as too many books. (Maybe there's not enough shelf space, but that’s another story.) And all you bookworm philanthropists out there need to give Common a hand, because he has some amazing reading/giving news for you.
Posted 10/25/12 4:27 pm EST by Caroline Walker in Art, Interview, Music, School
Photo: Devon Glover aka The Sonnet Man is making Shakespeare fun with hip hop. (Devon Glover)
Devon Glover studied a bit of Shakespeare in high school. He'd read a few plays. He'd seen "West Side Story" and "Ten Things I Hate About You" and "The Lion King" -- loosely based on "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "The Taming of the Shrew," respectively. He knew the basics. Then one day...
Posted 10/10/12 12:03 pm EST by Danica Davidson in Art, Celebs, Sweet Tweet
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Alicia Keys, P!nk and Jada Pinkett Smith have joined forces with the mtvU Against Our Will Campaign to fight human trafficking. The dynamic trio (Can you imagine if they all sang together?!) lent their voices to read poems written by survivors of sex trafficking. Alicia knows that spreading the word about slavery and letting victims express themselves are two important things, and she’s out to tell more people about mtvU's campaign.
Posted 10/5/12 3:15 pm EST by Alexandra Govere in Art, Celebs, Contests
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Calling all artists, graphic designers, sharpie tattooists, and paper margin doodlers -- Miley Cyrus is looking for an original image, photograph, drawing, or painting to print onto an American MoJo hoodie!
Posted 10/1/12 12:36 pm EST by Danica Davidson in Art, Resources
A lot of us toss our old cardboard into the recycling without thinking about it, but a boy named Caine Monroy figured out that you can do A LOT with cardboard. He made a cardboard arcade, then filmmaker Nirvan Mullick created a film about it that received millions of views, and before you knew it Caine and his arcade were an inspiration to creative kids (and adults!) everywhere.
