While country singer Trace Adkins was away from home, his Bentwood, Tennessee home caught fire and is a total loss. Adkins was on a plane to Alaska for two shows and some fishing when the fire happened. He immediately boarded a return flight to Tennessee when he landed in Alaska. The flames apparently ignited in the garage, but quickly spread to the attic of the large home Saturday afternoon, said Brentwood, Tennessee, Fire Chief Brian Goss. The house is considered a total loss. Adkins three young daughters and their dog were inside the home with their nanny when the fire started. Rhonda Adkins, Trace's wife was driving a few blocks away when a neighbor called and told her what was happening. Brentwood firefighters, the same ones who were inside her home battling the flames, visited her children's elementary school to teach fire safety earlier this year, she said. One lesson was to place a yellow ribbon where the family should gather if the house caught fire. "I tied the yellow ribbon around the tree to go to," Rhonda Adkins said. "It stayed there for about a month. Trace kept asking, 'When you gonna take that ribbon down?' and I'm like, 'You know, I might need it one day.'". Adkins said she never really expected it to be needed. "But we did what those firefighters told us and we practiced it today," she said. "It saved my kids' lives."

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Stevie Nicks returns with her first solo studio album in 10 years with In Your Dreams.

Stevie Nicks, the gypsy queen is in top form on In Your Dreams — it's not just Stevies first album in 10 years, it is her finest work since the Eighties.

In Your Dreams is the work of Stevie Nicks, Glen Ballard and Dave Stewart. Secret Love one of the top tracks from her new album is an oldie Stevie wrote in 1976. It's about one of her rock-star beaus though she claims she can't remember who it was. Also the ballad "Italian Summer" ends with in a very Stevie credo: "Love was everywhere. You just had to fall."

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In 2004, producer Sean "Diddy" Combs returned with Making the Band 3, this time searching for the next female super group.^[4] With the help of choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson, vocal trainer Doc Holiday and talent manager Johnny Wright, he set out on a multi-city search and chose twenty young singers out of almost 10,000 young women.^[4][5] While seven women remained, Combs became discontent with the level of talent remaining in the competition, and eventually decided not to form a band.^[4] He did, however, give a reprieve to three contestants he felt deserved another chance, including then-best friends Aubrey O'Day and Aundrea Fimbres, whose close bond originally formed early in the season.^[4] The three contestants became the first to appear in Season 2 of the show.^[4]

Afterwards, Combs once again pressed his team to audition new young women for the group.^[4] Finally, twenty young women were chosen and moved into a loft in New York City.^[4] Viewers had become invested in O'Day and Fimbres's friendship, naming them "the AUs" and "Aubrea" (portmanteux of their first names put together), as they watched the two compete all over again for positions in the group.^[4][6] As the competition's challenges increased, their friendship seemed to become the foundation upon which the group was being built.^[4] In addition, O'D ay emerged as the show's breakout star.^[4][5]

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Just one week before he's officially sentenced following the plea deal he struck in the Rihanna case, Chris Brown appeared at ease as he joined Keri Hilson in Los Angeles on the set of what is apparently Hilson's next video, "Slow Down."

The pair were joined by plenty of musical company: Omarion, Monica, Polow Da Don and Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton were all also on set.



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Founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995, the Pussycat Dolls began as a burlesque dance revue based in Los Angeles, spawned a second revue in Las Vegas, grew into an A-list phenomena with a revolving cast of guest celebrities, and eventually became a recording act with a number one dance hit. It wasn't long after launching its revue that the troupe began attracting actresses and models who wanted to become a Pussycat Doll for a night. Christina Aguilera, Pamela Anderson, Kelly Osbourne, Pink, Britney Spears, Carmen Electra, and Gwen Stefani are just some of the names who donned lingerie and pinup costumes and joined the Dolls for their flirtatious shows. An appearance in the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle was followed by numerous television appearances, most with Carmen Electra.

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