It?s been a year!! A whole year since I started Big Binder! It?s a good time to reflect on what I wanted Big Binder to be, what it has become, and where I want it to go. I think when I started, I had somethin? to prove. It?s easy to pick on Grand Rapids.? Small potatoes, conservative, backwards, mono-cultural? These are all myths. But?with any good myth, there is a little truth to them.? So my goal was to show the folks who believe GR is ?boring??that it?s not. I wanted to offer

Sa Wa Di kap everyone! This blogger just got back from Thailand. This blogger is still tired from her trip. This blogger misses her best friend. This blogger needs a healing. I just thought of something crazy to do the other day, went over to his blog and i have to say, not so surprised about how he's doing. He always have a way with him self. God Knows how much i miss him right now!! The energy of him being inside me, beside me, with me. I miss the times we've spent in Singapore.

I have in the recent past done posts about the richest men in the world and the top grossing films of all time and the urge to do another greatest hits ?top? post is upon me again! I actually remember when I was in school and Michael Jackson won a record number of Grammys for his album Thriller, which was a top selling album and recently when I was listening to the unbeatable pop song Beat It! I was quite swamped with nostalgia! And I know that Thriller is the best selling album of

Here are the Videos of 18 awesome Star Spangled Banner Performances. For me the Best is clearly Marvin Gaye performed 1983 in the NBA All Star Game. Also in the List, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, the talented Anthony Gargiula and even Jerry Stackhouse who did also a great job! Hope you like it! So stand up

From the Tribune: PROVO - For Robynn Houston, Kristen York and Amy Jo Jones, the best act at Stadium of Fire was not tween sensation Miley Cyrus. Nor was it The Blue Man Group. Instead it was their husbands, who are deployed with the U.S. Army in Iraq. Stadium of Fire organizers arranged to have the women receive a live greeting on the stadium?s video screens from their husbands - Staff Sgt. Brock Jones, Sgt. Whitney Houston and Spc. Douglas York. ?I can?t believe I kept the sur

NEW YORK - Even for Amy Winehouse, it was a dramatic chain of events. After fainting and being rushed to a hospital, Winehouse?s father said her crack and cigarette smoking had so damaged her lungs, she was risking emphysema and death if she didn?t clean up. Yet Winehouse - famous for her rebellious anthem ?Rehab? - was photographed with a cigarette dangling from her lips as she left the hospital. It was a potent symbol of how Winehouse?s troubles have multiplied since February

Jay, Snoop and Nduka (CEO ThisDay Newspapers, Nigeria) Me and Spliff Me and Busta Pictured left to right: Indira LaRoda, Rod Stewart and Barrett LaRoda at the 4th Annual Plymouth Jazz Festival Tobago. Photo Credit: Arnold Turner JAY Z, USHER AND MARY J. BLIGE TO HEADLINE. Chris Brown, Rihanna and Sade also Slated to Perform. Fresh from the success of the 4th Annual Plymouth Jazz Festival Tobago, with headliners Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart and Shakira, Barrett LaRoda, CEO of the

Sexy R&B singer Mya vacationed on the beach in Barbados this past weekend. The singer caused a lot of uproar when she didn't attend a important party that she was suppose to host. Here's the scoop: Mya was scheduled to host at a pretty major event in Barbados last night - the Celebrity Party @ Club NXS in St. Lawrence Gap. A few hundred people showed up, eager to give Mya some love. Now mind you, this is during the height of Crop-Over (carnival) season, with TONS of other even

Bobby Brown is in this week?s issue of Jet Magazine claiming New Edition did the ?best thing? by kicking him out of the group. Boggy was voted out of the group at the end of 1985, but he did bounce back initially. He found much success with his solo efforts and became a multi-platinum selling artist with ?Don?t Be Cruel? followed by 1992's ?Bobby.? Unfortunately, his behavioral problems continued to plague his career as well as his marriage with R&B singer Whitney Ho

MONDAY ? JULY 7, 2008 MCCAIN PROMISES TO BALANCE BUDGET: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to promise on Monday that he will balance the federal budget by the end of his first term by curbing wasteful spending and overhauling entitlement programs, including Social Security, his advisers told Politico. The vow to take on Social Security puts McCain in a political danger zone that thwarted President Bush after he named it the top domestic priority of his second term.

My ass invader is LG, she tagged me. She was obviously looking for mi-trouble. Tairebabs you don get your wish!!! The rules: 1. Put Your iTunes/ Music player on Shuffle 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer 3. YOU MUST WRITE THE SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT 4. After you?ve answered all of the questions, tag 5 other people and then let them know HIT ME! *IF SOMEONE SAYS ?IS THIS OKAY? YOU SAY? Another Day in paradise- Phil Collins: Well isn't it? *WHAT WO

Whitney Houston performed live in Kazakhstan over the weekend. It?s hard to tell by this video if Whitney?s voice is back in shape, but the audience appreciated her efforts. I hear Whitney was treated like royalty by the people of Kazakhstan. (V

Singing legend Whitney Houston continued her road to redemption this weekend with a live performance in Kazakhstan. Check out her rendition of 'I Will Always Love You' below: (the video quality is a mess, but the sound is great) {Thanks Trent!}: She's getting there. Good stuff. What do you think of the

Whitney Performs In Kazakhstan Related Categories: Whitney Houston Singing legend Whitney Houston continued her road to redemption this weekend with a live performance in Kazakhstan. Login or register to p

100 Greatest Dance Hits of the 90s [Bootleg] 001 - C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (1991) 002 - Real McCoy - Another Night (1994) 003 - MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This (1990) 004 - La Bouche - Be My Lover (1996) 005 - Madonna - Vogue (1990) 006 - The Immortals - Mortal Kombat (1995) 007 - Four Seasons - Oh What A Night! (1994) 008 - Haddaway - What Is Love (1993) 009 - Scatman John - Scatman (1995) 010 - Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You (1991) 011 - Ce Ce Peniston -

I loved George Michael's songs form the 80's and early 90's. Doug R, picked this song, because he's trying to kick the monkey off his back ( cigarettes) Doug we're all pulling for you, and I'm sure you can do it! Did You know: "Monkey" is a song by George Michael. It was released as a single in 1988 and reached #1 on the U.S. Hot 100 and #13 on the UK Singles Chart. "Monkey" debuted at #42 on July 9, 1988, reaching #1 for two weeks, beginning August 27, 1988. "Monkey" became Geor

VA - Relax (2008) Pop | MP3, 192-320 Kbits | 1.96 Gb | 21:18:34 Tracklist: 001. A Remniiscent Drive - Ambrosia 002. Acoustic Alchemy - With You in Mind 003. Afterlife - Speck Of Gold 004. A-Ha - There?s Never A Forever Thing 005. A-ha - Velvet 006. Air - Once Upon a Time 007. Air - Playground Love 008. Airlock - Awaikening 009. Akmusique - Subtile Lady 010. Alan Price - Poor People 011. Alejandro De Pinedo - Aquarius 012. Alejandro De Pinedo - Sex On The Beach 013. Allain Bougra

The 4th of July is my favorite holiday, packed with plentiful sunshine and the quadruple F 's: Friends, Family, Food, Fireworks. The day started like last year with our 7am Freedom Run in Prov0. I ran without Craig since he's still nursing an injured Achilles tendon courtesy of the Ragnar Relay two weeks ago. (I'm hoping to get around to posting about that and bragging about his accomplishment. But alas, not today.) So instead of my sweetheart, I ran with my sweetheart's sister, Hei

Greetings from the never-ending road. I left my parents? house three days ago and have been driving the teal green Volvo painstakingly toward Wisconsin ever since. I?ve made it as far as Iowa, but I?m progressing slowly because I have to stop every three hours to sit in front of the hateful breast pump for twenty minutes. The good news is that my dad offered to fly to Wisconsin next week with the baby so I don?t have to worry about getting into an accident with her (or stopping to fe

The Williams Sisters - class act all the way...let's be frank, some people don't like the Williams sisters because they are black....others do not like them because years ago their father made a few racist comments.... Today older sister Venus beat younger sister Serena to win her fifth Wimbledon crown...three hours later, they teamed together to steamroll their opponents in winning the women's doubles title...they are both tough tennis players who are deadly on the grass surface of