Weekend News Roundup! Everybody Loves Good Neighbors


IF ONLY LAURYN HILL HAD LIVED IN ENGLAND…

Happy Monday! Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.

• Pet Twitter and Instagram accounts are so pedestrian these days; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s dog Luppo is getting his own children’s book series. [People]

• Jennifer Esposito and Bradley Cooper were married once? And she may have written a chapter about him in her memoir? Who knew… [E!]

• In a shocking twist of events, Donald Sterling is still an insufferable racist. [CNN]

Neighbors de-throned The Amazing Spider-Man 2 at the box office. [BOM]

• Defensive end Michael Sam became the first openly gay man to be drafted into the NFL. He’s going to play for the St. Louis Rams. [ESPN]

• In celebration of mother’s day yesterday, Eminem released a new Spike Lee-directed music video shot from the perspective of his mother, Debbie Mathers.  [The Guardian]

• Good news for white-collar British criminals: you can keep your Order of the British Empire even in you get caught for tax evasion. [The Guardian]