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Brit popstar Ed Sheeran on the O2 Arena red carpet last night for the Brit Awards in London. He’s news to us, but Wiki will have you know he’s quite the rounded-out fellow: a singer, songwriter, rapper, and beatboxer whose genres include folk, hip-hop, and grime.


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Very good news. The brilliant but shelved show will make its triumphant return to NBC’s must-see Thursdays on March 15, smack in the 8PM slot. 30 Rock will move to 8:30, followed by The Office and Up All Night. Parks & Recreation, now airing at 8:30, will take a break after its March 8 episode and return April 19 to finish its run after Up All Night wraps its season. Got that? NBC had considered moving Community to a new time slot to avoid it going up against the CBS  hit-sit The Big Bang Theory, but decided against it.

 


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Photographer and mother Rachel Hulin uses her baby boy Henry as the subject of her Flying Series, shooting magical images of the kid seemingly floating peacefully in space, like a tiny astronaut. “I wanted the flights to feel genuine,” she told the New York Times. “These are places we are really in every day; it’s not a cut-and-paste job on random interiors and landscapes.” And she insists she doesn’t throw Henry into the air. Which is how we would have done it. Because the camera is not supposed to lie. (via LightBox)


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Connor Cruise, the son of You Know Who and You Know Who Else, will be spinning a two-hour set following the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) Oscars-viewing dinner party at gay bar The Abbey, where Elizabeth Taylor spent some of her happiest last days. We rarely get news on Connor, so it’s good the news is good when we do. (Info)


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Recently Dead

Michael Davis, bass player in the late-’60s rock band MC5, died on February 17 in Chico, California, after being hospitalized for the past month with liver disease. He was 68. He’s the third member of the seminal band to pass away; singer Rob Tyner died in 1991, guitarist Fred Smith in 1994. The Motor City Five were known for incendiary anti-establishment lyrics and a proto-punk sound and, in fact, were playing outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago before rioting stopped the concert. Writer Mike Rubin said in a 1991 Village Voice article that MC5′s influence “lives on in any heavy metal band from Motley Crue to Metallica.” After the band broke up in 1972, Davis (at right in photo) played in a kind of spin-off band called DKT-MC5 with former MC5 mates Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson.