‘Idol’ bits: Bo Bice in Bremen June 22, suspects in Phillips’ pawn shop burglary arrested
It’s a nice slow news day in the world of “Idol” so here’s what I was able to scrounge up:
- The police arrested three suspects who used a stolen back hoe to break into Phillip Phillips’ dad’s pawn shop in Albany earlier this week:
18-year-old Quymeisha Wallace and 38-year-old George Ferguson appeared before Magistrate Judge Victoria Darrisaw Friday morning at the Dougherty County municipal complex. Police arrested all three after serving search warrants at two homes yesterday. Stolen items from Albany Sporting Goods and Pawn Shop were found. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)
“They got a pile of jewelry, coins, guns, TVs, rod and reels. Just a lot of stuff,” Donnie Phillips told WALB in Albany. He said he sometimes sleeps in his shop with his gun. He was out of town to support his son, who was recuperating from kidney surgery.
- Bo Bice from season four, who now lives in Cumming, is going to perform next week in Bremen, GA, about 50 miles west of downtown off I-20.
Bice, who came in second season four, will be at Mill Town Music Hall at 1031 Alabama Ave. in Bremen on Friday, June 22, at 7 p.m., in time for my 43rd birthday! Tickets are $20 for reserved seating, $15 for general admission. The venue, which opened in February, holds 1,050 seats. Parking is free. Tickets can be had here.
The musician, whose sound evokes 70s Southern rock, opened up to me a few weeks ago about his alcohol problem and the joy of a new baby (No. 4!).
- Nicole Scherzinger, who felt fake in all her teary-eyed messiness on the first season of “US X Factor,” is now a judge on “X Factor UK,” replacing Kelly Rowland. Really? Why?
- Reuters reports that Ryan Seacrest is in the running to buy Dick Clark Productions, which produces “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and the American Music Awards. Clark passed away just a few weeks ago. Seacrest always considered Clark his role model and is often cited as his standard bearer.
This has nothing to do with “Idol,” but Jimmy Fallon does a funny “Evolution of Dad Dancing” in honor of Father’s Day:
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By Rodney Ho, Radio & TV Talk
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♥ kelly&carriefan ♥
June 19th, 2012
9:33 am
Hi y’all,
Sam-A, I haven’t had the time to check Falling Skies yet. I was busy FINALLY learning who killed Rosie Larsen (The Killing). We can have a conversation about that later on when D and Mercedes are around. Seems we’re hitting the summer season lull. Maybe things will pick up soon.
Mercedes S.
June 19th, 2012
9:46 am
I’m here!!!!!
Y’all!!!!!
Harriett
June 19th, 2012
10:04 am
Good morning everyone!
I am here, just back from four days in Memphis. It was a bittersweet trip, but I had some fun, too. We memorialized my brother-in-law in a private family service at Pickwick Landing on Sunday in TN. It is about two hours out of Memphis and simply beautiful. On Friday I flew to Memphis and on Saturday I did the Elvis thing and went to Graceland and Sun Studio. I was pleasantly surprised by Graceland, after hearing negative comments about it over the years. To me, I walked on hallowed ground when I entered that tiny little recording studio at the still “venetian-blinded” Memphis Recording Service (Sun). I was actually awestruck when I walked in. I know Elvis has become a caricature and a subject of derision for many, but honestly, it was moving for me.
Mercedes S.
June 19th, 2012
10:27 am
Harriett, glad you enjoyed your Graceland visit. I’ve been there several times for work related reasons and always thought it a calm, peaceful place, if small. If you consider how young Elvis was when he ht it n he bought it a
Mercedes S.
June 19th, 2012
10:30 am
sorry, got stuck there… how young Elvis was when he bought it (and how quick he outfitted it, in one afternoon) he must have been very pleased with himself and really thought he’d arrived. If you haven’t been, I suggest you visit his birthplace too, in Tupelo, Miss. Now that’s moving.
Mercedes S.
June 19th, 2012
10:30 am
and that should be how quickLY, of course
Sam-A
June 19th, 2012
10:48 am
I’m so tired of correcting my typos, I’ve decided that if you guys can get the gist, I’m just leaving it!
Harriett
June 19th, 2012
11:17 am
I wish I had had time, Mercedes. I can only imagine how that would be. I was such an Elvis fan as a youngster, that I already knew most everything they were telling you via the headphones on the tour, so at one point it got annoying and I just took mine off. My favorite room was the kitchen. It was so “normal” and ordinary compared to the rest of the house, and I could imagine just about anyone cooking there–as opposed to a staff. At the time, I am sure it was the very latest, but given Gladys Presley’s resistance to modern things, she may have had a say there at least. She really did value a place to keep chickens and such, and I was imagining her feeding chickens in the back “yard” of Graceland.
Rodney Ho
June 19th, 2012
11:59 am
It was time for me to create a new entry, even if there wasn’t much in the way of news. So it’s up!