A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
The sign, completed Friday by artist David Lee, shows a grinning, cartoonish Obama and bears the words "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?"
Underneath the president's image is a big yellow square with the phrase, "BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PROVE IT!"
The words "WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD" appear at the bottom of the billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing and Sales, about seven miles west of Denver. The sign is visible from Interstate 70.
Lee said there were plenty of honks as he painted it.
"One lady came by and gave me the 'shame, shame' look," said Lee, of Arvada, another suburb of Denver.
Dealership owner Phil Wolf was unavailable for comment Friday, but General Manager Wayne Means said the business has seen strong opinions about its sign.
"We've had people come by and say, 'Keep it up.' We've had people come by and say, 'Take it down,'" Means said. "We can have differences of opinion. This is America."
Sergio Cilli looks at Billboard's Top Singles on this week's 'White Hot Top 5.' Includes jams by Jay Z Featuring Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Jay Sean Featuring Lil Wayne, Jason Derulo, and Owl City.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. For more Sergio visit http://current.com/white-hot-top-5/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Sergio Cilli looks at Billboard's Top Singles on this week's 'White Hot Top 5.'... more
This week on infomania cable news knows its not the quality of election coverage that matters but the quantity. Al Roker is stealing jokes from 'The Girls Next Door.' Levi Johnston is all out of secrets. Sergio counts down the hottest songs in the land. And Brett scours YouTube for the best Deathcore metal screamers.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.This week on infomania cable news knows its not the quality of election coverage that... more
Britney has come back, once again, or maybe twice again if you listen to the lyrics of her new song "3." It's about threesomes, and this video is about that pissing me off. Need more? Watch the video.Britney has come back, once again, or maybe twice again if you listen to the lyrics of... more
On this week's 'White Hot Top 5' Sergio Cilli looks at Billboard's Top 5 "Heatseekers." On the list: Selena Gomez, Love and Theft, Eric Church, Luke Bryan, and LMFAO.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. For more Sergio visit http://current.com/white-hot-top-5/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.On this week's 'White Hot Top 5' Sergio Cilli looks at Billboard's Top 5... more
This week on infoMania Conor looks at local news' big ass pumpkin obsession and at the G.O.P.'s fancy new web site. Sarah wonders if weird contraptions are the secret to everlasting beauty. Sergio counts down the hottest new tracks on Billboard. And Ben sits down with Mr. Belding from 'Saved By The Bell' 16 years too late.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.This week on infoMania Conor looks at local news' big ass pumpkin obsession and at... more
Found this nice photo on the net, theres an Alpha course billboard near my house... this has given me an idea!Found this nice photo on the net, theres an Alpha course billboard near my house...... more
Three atheist billboards have gone up in Moscow Idaho. The third appeared last week and reads: "Millions are good without God". The billboard campaign is being sponsored by the American Humanist Association.
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Are the atheist billboards a good idea, or a waste of time?Three atheist billboards have gone up in Moscow Idaho. The third appeared last week... more
Ruling this week's Billboard Hot 200, Whitney Houston's comeback album 'I Look to You' has scanned more than 305,000 copies.Ruling this week's Billboard Hot 200, Whitney Houston's comeback album 'I Look to You'... more
A billboard saying "Imagine No Religion" had to be taken down by the billboard company because people were complaining about it.
Do YOU find this offensive? Surely this is essentially the same as putting up a religious billboard saying "No one but almighty God could have created the universe", or words to similar effect.A billboard saying "Imagine No Religion" had to be taken down by the billboard company... more
Despite playing in Chickenfoot and getting read to introduce his latest project, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, the famous drummer told Billboard that the Red Hot Chili Peppers would reunite in October:
"Everybody was like, 'Y'know, I really like having this time off, not being a Chili Pepper and doing other things...It'll be two years in September, so now we're ready. You can't force people to play when they don't want to play or aren't ready to play or whatever -- not in our band, anyway."
Smith expects bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante may come in with some musical ideas, but the group will mostly likely "do a lot of improvising and jamming and songs will come out of that, too. That's what we usually do. I don't know why it would be different."Despite playing in Chickenfoot and getting read to introduce his latest project, Chad... more
A shop owner has said he was threatened with prosecution after displaying joke billboards at his store in Horsham.
John O'Sullivan, who owns the Candy Box, put up spoof news headlines outside his store for 10 weeks in an attempt to entertain his customers.
The spoof headlines included "Crawley Girl Gives Birth to Pitbull" and "Local Youths Abduct UFO".
Sussex Police denied he was threatened with arrest but the local council said it had asked him to take one sign down.
Mr O'Sullivan said: "The policewoman came in and was very strict and said the boards have got to stop. She asked if I realised I could be arrested.
"If everyone hated them and thought they were wrong I would stop but people are laughing at them."
But the local council said it had asked Mr O'Sullivan to remove one of the posters.
A spokesman for Horsham District Council said: "We can confirm that the council has received recent complaints about what has been written on the A-board outside the shop.
"As a message posted there was considered to be potentially offensive, a street scene officer from the council asked for its removal."
The latest sign on display reads "Candy Box Owner Threatened with Arrest over Funny Boards" and Mr O'Sullivan has vowed to continue displaying the tongue-in-cheek adverts.
Candy Box customer Shirley Arlington said: "It's crazy. John's just having a laugh and he's making other people laugh too."A shop owner has said he was threatened with prosecution after displaying joke... more
The LA band makes it onto Jeopardy -- and now has the highest charting indie-distributed song ("Panic Switch") on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks since Everlast's "What It's Like" more than a decade ago.The LA band makes it onto Jeopardy -- and now has the highest charting... more
Woody Allen agreed Monday to a $5 million settlement in his lawsuit accusing a trendy clothing company of using an image parodying him as a rabbi without his permission.Woody Allen agreed Monday to a $5 million settlement in his lawsuit accusing a trendy... more
"The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales rundown is the oddest and most anachronistic of Billboard's charts, tracking sales of commercial singles—physical product, not downloads—in the urban market. In past years, the chart closely mirrored the regular Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs countdown, packed with hits by major label superstars like 50 Cent, Mariah Carey, and, yes, Beyoncé. But as sales of CD singles have dwindled (most major labels have ceased production of CD singles altogether), the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart has become a sales log, primarily, of 12-inch maxi-singles—good old-fashioned vinyl records.
As such, it is a chart dominated by unsigned regional artists, who favor a sweat-and-shoe-leather predigital model of promotion, marketing their records to club DJs. The sales figures involved are probably minuscule. In other words, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales is the most indie chart imaginable, a record not of commercial success, exactly, but of bootstrapping, song-plugging effort. Fourteen-year-old Lauren Ashley may or may not follow in the footsteps of fellow Houstonian Beyoncé. But last week, the 12-inch of Ashley's "Ambulance" outsold "Halo." Does Ashley have a fast-talking uncle, peddling these records out of the back of the van? If so, he done good.""The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales rundown is the oddest and most anachronistic of... more
"These days the Asher Roth show begins after the concert is over. In late March Mr. Roth performed at the Sherman Theater here for East Stroudsburg University’s “I ♥ College” week. By 10:30 p.m. he was offstage, and the obstacle course began.
First came the well-wishers and the weed smokers, who kept this young rapper occupied for a long time in the basement dressing room. Then, outside the theater, came the frat boys, beers in hand. Was Mr. Roth, they wondered, man enough to party with them? Then there was the guy in the gray sedan who trailed Mr. Roth’s caravan back to the Budget Inn & Suites just to see what was going on. After that a return to town: house party crashed, beer pong played, pictures snapped.
“I have to embrace this role of ‘Asher Roth’ now,” he said the following morning in the hotel’s empty restaurant, wearing the same white T-shirt and grayish jeans as the night before and straining a bit after just a few hours’ sleep. “If I continue to behave this way, sure, people are going to love me, but I’m going to be run down into the ground.”
Mr. Roth is taxed because of another morning after, the one described in the woozy party anthem “I Love College,” his debut single, which has sold almost a million copies to date, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been streamed more than 30 million times on his MySpace page. It’s a wistful look back at his slacker student years: “I can’t tell you what I learned from school/But I could tell you a story or two.” In the video Mr. Roth winds his way through a surrealist frat party, dancing with people in animal suits, making out with girls and grinning madly.
This combination of geniality and mischief is the mood Mr. Roth strikes in person as well. “I have no real gimmick,” he said, shrugging. Raised by a father who is the executive director of a design firm and an herbalist-astrologer-yoga-teacher mother, he’s unfailingly affable, with a bit of Ferris Bueller-style naughtiness thrown in. And with his excellent, versatile debut album, “Asleep in the Bread Aisle” (SchoolBoy/SRC/Universal), out this week, he will become the most commercially viable white rapper since Eminem. It’s territory littered with land mines: questions of authenticity and cultural appropriation.""These days the Asher Roth show begins after the concert is over. In late March Mr.... more
Adult alternative music videos, that is. This week on the White Hot Top 5 Sergio Cilli looks at songs by James Morrison, Coldplay, U2, The Fray, and Snow Patrol. Get ready to rock out adult style.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Adult alternative music videos, that is. This week on the White Hot Top 5 Sergio Cilli... more
On this week's infoMania Conor investigates bikini-clad baristas and freaky British TV, Sarah Haskins explores the online home of Lifetime Television, Brett Erlich learns how to make love to a couch, Sergio Cilli gets his R&B on, and a turtle rapes a shoe.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.On this week's infoMania Conor investigates bikini-clad baristas and freaky British... more
Ne-Yo, Beyonce, The-Dream, Keri Hilson, and Jamie Foxx all make it into Sergio Cilli's White Hot Top 5 featuring the best selling R&B tracks according to Billboard. Get smoove wit it!
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Ne-Yo, Beyonce, The-Dream, Keri Hilson, and Jamie Foxx all make it into Sergio Cilli's... more
Soulja Boy, Jim Jones & Ron Browz, T.I., and Kanye West all make it into Sergio Cilli's White Hot Top 5 featuring the best selling rap tracks according to Billboard. Watch as Sergio gets jiggy wit it to some dope hip hope tunes.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Soulja Boy, Jim Jones & Ron Browz, T.I., and Kanye West all make it into Sergio... more
