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(Reuters) – Alicia Keys has canceled two shows on her newly launched North American tour because of swollen vocal cords, her record label said on Wednesday.

The 27-year-old R&B singer scrapped Tuesday’s show in Pittsburgh, the third stop of the tour, and has also pulled the plug on Thursday’s concert in Cleveland.

The tour is expected to resume in Columbus on Saturday. Tickets for the Cleveland show will be honored at Columbus, said J Records.

Keys’ tour, to promote her chart-topping album “As I Am,” began last Saturday in Hampton, Va.

Sore throats must be contagious on the tour. One of Keys’ opening acts, 2007 “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks, has been unable to perform because of an acute vocal cord hemorrhage. Her Jive Records label expected her to join the trek in May.

Dates are on tap through June 18 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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It’s been a rough few weeks for Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford, who split with Carrie Underwood and endured online gossip about his sexuality.

Specifically, it was rumored that Chace and pal JC Chasez were lovers.

Lil’ sis Candice Crawford says he’s hanging in there though.

“He’s doing okay through this whole ordeal,” Candice said. “He was upset about the breakup. It’s always hard when you lose a relationship.”

Still, his sister added, don’t expect to see Chace Crawford and the American Idol champ-turned country star moping around for long.

“Chace will get through it,” Candice Crawford said. “We love Carrie, too. They’re dolls and they’ll both do well.”

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Beauty queen Candice Crawford and actor Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl.

Candice Crawford is doing her best to distract her bummed-out brother. Next week, she’ll compete in the Miss USA Pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino – and Chace, 23, will be there in person to cheer her on.

“The whole family will be there rooting for me,” Candice, a.k.a. Miss Missouri, said. “My mom made T-shirts and little pins for everyone.”

To capture the crown April 11, Candice will have to impress judges such as Heather Mills, Joey Fatone, Rob Schneider and Christian Siriano.

It’s been a rough few weeks for Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford, who split with Carrie Underwood and endured online gossip about his sexuality.

Specifically, it was rumored that Chace and pal JC Chasez were lovers.

Lil’ sis Candice Crawford says he’s hanging in there though.

“He’s doing okay through this whole ordeal,” Candice said. “He was upset about the breakup. It’s always hard when you lose a relationship.”

Still, his sister added, don’t expect to see Chace Crawford and the American Idol champ-turned country star moping around for long.

“Chace will get through it,” Candice Crawford said. “We love Carrie, too. They’re dolls and they’ll both do well.”

Candice Crawford PhotoGossip Guy

Beauty queen Candice Crawford and actor Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl.

Candice Crawford is doing her best to distract her bummed-out brother. Next week, she’ll compete in the Miss USA Pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino – and Chace, 23, will be there in person to cheer her on.

“The whole family will be there rooting for me,” Candice, a.k.a. Miss Missouri, said. “My mom made T-shirts and little pins for everyone.”

To capture the crown April 11, Candice will have to impress judges such as Heather Mills, Joey Fatone, Rob Schneider and Christian Siriano.

Over the past decade, the driveways of mainstream America filled with SUVs whose fuel-swilling was, at the time, not a concern.
Fuel costs almost doubled from 1996 to 2006 and grew another 20 percent in the past year. The average U.S. household income, meanwhile, rose only 35.8 percent in the same 10-year period.
The associated shift in vehicle sales is telling.
In 2007, sales of Chevy‘s Tahoe full-size SUV fell by 9.4 percent from 2006, while retail sales for the unlovable but frugal Chevrolet Aveo leaped by 82 percent.
GM‘s John McDonald wrote this off as these vehicles’ being “deferrable purchases,” implying that land barges hold some kind of inherent allure and that Americans would prefer to drive dump trucks if gas were free. This is, of course, entirely possible.
But gas is not free, and we don’t drive dump trucks, and as car buyers search for better fuel economy, they increasingly don’t want to drive trucks of any kind. R&D dollars are focused on unibody crossovers that ad campaigns tout as more fuel efficient than the trucks they replace, with even Ford’s Explorer headed for a frame-free future.
It’s not just big trucks that get lousy fuel economy, either.
The culprits of poor fuel economy are many, but common underlying causes include portly curb weights, older drivetrains, and the conscious exclusion of fuel-saving technologies to keep production and purchase prices down.
Before you spend your money on a new car, make sure you pay attention to the equipment list, because with the wrong engine or transmission choice, heinous fuel economy is sometimes just a checkbox away.

What must Kristy Lee Cook do to get eliminated from American Idol?

No offense to the lovely singer. We’d never wish an elimination on anyone. But her butchering of a Beatles classic seemed to make her the front-runner to be voted off the show last night. Instead, David Hernandez said goodbye.

At least he has a lucrative career he can go back to…

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Do you think David Hernandez deserved to go home? Who do you think is the worst performer on American Idol?


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