The crews literally lit up the stage at last night’s ABDC taping (and we ain’t just talking about the disco-themed dance floor!), but the coolest surprise was when Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe showed up. She came to support the crews (and to steal a hug from her celeb-crush JC Chasez). Here are some more highlights from the evening:

— Role reversal happens as one tiny female picks up her male counterpart!
— One crew starts working out mid-performance.
— An injury has dramatic results on one of the dancers and their crew.
— One crew releases a walrus on stage!
— Omarion compares a dance mistake to a car crash.

If you haven’t seen Gabby’s critically acclaimed feature yet, Precious is now available on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and as a digital download from Lions Gate Home Entertainment.

Ludacris, Omarion and more to be involved in hip hop social gaming experience now live in open beta form on Facebook and the web.

US, March 4, 2010 – Austin, Texas – Heatwave Interactive, a game development studio and online publisher creating innovative cross-media properties, announced today that the open beta of its social hip hop lifestyle game Platinum Life: Web Edition is now live on the web and Facebook! Head on over to www.platinumlife.com now to get your rise to the top going!

A precursor to Platinum Life, its in-development online title for PC and console, Platinum Life: Web Edition gives players the chance to interact with the hip hop universe as they try to make the transition from unsigned musician to superstar celebrity. Work your way from playing shows at local dive bars to selling out world-renown venues while you climb the ladder to fame and stardom. Along the way you’ll encounter some of hip hop’s brightest stars who will help you break into the big time, including Ludacris, Omarion, DJ Holiday, DJ Skee, Shontelle and other artists from Universal Motown Republic Group with more artist announcements forthcoming. Details on each celebrity’s involvement in the game will be released at a later date.

“The caliber of hip hop celebrities we’ve attracted during the development of this project really reflects the level of quality Platinum Life: Web Edition will bring to social gamers,” said Anthony Castoro, CEO of Heatwave Interactive. “Our team is extremely proud to not only bring the first hip social game to the web, but also to show off our creative talent by sharing an online experience with gamers and music lovers alike that truly defines the hip hop universe and lifestyle.”

You can download Platinum Life: Web Edition assets by clicking here. For more information about Platinum Life: Web Edition, please visit www.platinumlife.com, or to play it for yourself, please click here. For more information about Heatwave Interactive, please visit www.heatwave.com.

About Heatwave Interactive:
Based in Austin, TX, and established in 2007, Heatwave Interactive, Inc. is a game development studio and online publisher revolutionizing the entertainment landscape by creating cross-media properties for gaming, film, music and television. The credited works of the veteran team includes over 200 commercial video, PC and tabletop games, and Academy Award-winning films. Heatwave’s current products offerings include iSamJackson (iPhone and iPod touch) and the soon-to-launch hip hop social gaming experience Platinum Life: Web Edition (Social Networks/Web). For more information please visit www.heatwave.com

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In an effort to celebrate the culmination of Black History Month in Palm Springs, hundreds of residents are expected in downtown Saturday for the city’s 23rd annual Black History Parade and Town Fair.

The parade kicks off at 11 a.m. at Arenas Road along Palm Canyon Drive and will feature Los Angeles radio personality Big Boy as this year’s grand marshal.

The Town Fair, featuring live music, great food and family fun, including carnival rides and a kids zone, will begin at noon at Palm Springs Stadium, located at, 1901 E. Baristo Road.

Popular R&B artist Omarion will be the headline performer.

“The City of Palm Springs Black History Parade and Town Fair is an important event that brings our community together each and every year,” said Mayor Steve Pougnet.

BET.com – Here’s an op-ed piece Omarion wrote on the importance of Clean Energy Education for the urban community.

Young people in America today have a right to be upset. A lot of people just out of high school or college are wondering about their futures when jobs are so hard to find. But in a time when our country has so many problems that appear unsolvable, we do have a solution that can make our communities more prosperous. We can take control of our energy future.

For decades, we’ve been spending hundreds of billions of dollars to buy oil from overseas. Outdated factories and dirty power plants are polluting our neighborhoods. Gasoline and electricity prices have skyrocketed. And all the while, big corporations and their lobbyists have fought against any changes to the current state of affairs.
But the good news is that the situation is not hopeless. We can make investments in clean energy that will reduce pollution, revitalize our neighborhoods and create new jobs.

For the young Americans who might listen to my music or watch my films, I hope I can convince you that it’s time to get engaged. For African Americans and other people of color, I hope you can support the clean energy solutions that will make our communities more prosperous. This isn’t the time to surrender to feelings of hopelessness and despair. It’s time to tell our friends, neighbors and elected officials why clean energy is good for our communities and our country.

That’s why I’m proud to be part of a movement that took to the highways of our nation this month. It was a bus tour for clean energy, known as the Hip Hop Caucus Clean Energy Now! tour. It brought together young people, entertainers such as myself, people of color and people of many faiths. We are a diverse group with a united voice in support of a clean energy future. The tour started in New Orleans and concluded in Washington, D.C., with stops on college campuses, in neighborhoods, at churches, and at factories where clean energy is putting people to work. We held rallies and concerts to get young people, communities of color, and Americans from all walks of life excited about clean energy solutions.

It’s time to spread the word that clean energy means new jobs. We can invest in free energy sources like wind and solar, as well as the technology that will make our homes and businesses more efficient. When we do this, we’ll create jobs in our own neighborhoods for both entry-level workers and experienced professionals. This means jobs for people like construction workers, electricians, architects and engineers. It means that African-American entrepreneurs will have new opportunities to capitalize on a clean energy economy. We have to stop sending our jobs overseas and start creating new clean energy jobs in America.

And it’s time to stop the air pollution that is making us sick; pollution that is especially hazardous for children and the elderly. Old and outdated power plants are a leading cause of global warming, which is making too many of our neighborhoods inhospitable places to live. The future of our young people depends on our resolve to change the way we use energy. Fortunately, we can take action now to build new industries in America and make life better for future generations.

It’s also time to improve our quality of life. Energy efficiency solutions can the reduce the costs of heating and electricity, which ends up making winters like this one hard for working families.
A clean energy economy will produce new businesses that can revitalize our communities and make our streets safer. Even if we take simple steps, like planting more trees and switching out our light bulbs, we can reduce pollution, make our neighborhoods greener and save money on electricity bills.
We need to tell our leaders that this is a priority. And we need to tell them now. All of us, young and old, are hopeful that we can build a prosperous future. We can do it, and we don’t have any time to lose.

The show airs tonight (Thursday) at 10pm ET/PT on MTV. This week is Music Video Challenge week! The crews will be performing to the following songs:

SALTARE – Metro Station “Shake It”
JUNGLE BOOGIE – Shakira ft. Lil Wayne “Give It Up To Me”
BLUEPRINT CRU – Omarion ft. Gucci Mane “I Get It In”
HYPE 5-0 – Britney Spears “3″
HEAVY IMPACT – Colby O’Donis “What You Got”
ROYAL FLUSH – Cascada “Evacuate The Dance Floor”
POREOTIX – Rihanna ft. Jay-Z “Umbrella”
STATIC NOYZE – Little Boots “New In Town”

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By Shannon Nystedt
MovieSet.com

From Lionsgate Home Entertainment comes the Wrong Side of Town on DVD and Blu-ray February 23rd, 2010.

Wrong Side of Town follows former Navy Seal turned landscapest Bobby Kalinowskias as he is forced to use his training to escape LA after a massive bounty is put on his head. Now, Bobby’s only hope will be to enlist the help of his old friend, Ronnie, in retaliation efforts.  However, first he’ll have to repair the falling-out they had years ago.

Extras will include 3 featurettes (“Set Life with Ron Van Dam”, “Interviews with the stars”, “Stunts with Ron Van Dam”), and a Kali training video with David Bautista, Marrese Crump and Oscar Lugo.

Directed by David DeFalco, Wrong Side of Town stars Rob Van Dam, Dave Batista and Ja Rule.

Accepting an invitation from their new neighbors to visit the city’s hottest nightspot, Bobby Kalinowski (Rob Van Dam) and wife Dawn (Lara Grice) are eager to hit the club, run by vicious crime boss Seth (Jerry Katz). When Dawn is nearly sexually assaulted by Seth’s coked-out younger brother, Bobby steps in to save the day, inadvertently killing the young stooge. Enraged, Seth orders a $100,000 reward for Bobby’s capture, encouraging local gangs (including Ja Rule, Omarion, and David DeFalco) to run down the beefy suburban dad and return him to headquarters for punishment. Bobby, forced to fight his way out of the city, turns to an old military buddy, Big Ronnie (David Bautista), for help.

I saw the movie, and it was off the hook!! Omarion did a great job, ofcourse i made some screen caps and a lil video of Omarion’s appearance in the movie, have fun!

Allhiphop.com – It must be an Ollusion, singer Omarion has grown before us bringing hits and dance moves that are imitiated in clubs and dance competitions. He has moved from the cloud of former boy band member to successful artist, dancer, writer and until recently judge on America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC).

His latest album Ollusion dropped January 12 and he says this is his best work.  “Up until my last solo album it was a kind of a struggle between the label and myself because they envisioned me one way and I envisioned myself the other way,” he tells AllHipHop.com. “Musically, I have pretty good songs, the influence on the album has been in two parts, and this work on my third solo project is completely me.” He is moving forward, continuing to work harder, and bringing a “won’t stop…can’t stop” attitude along the way.

AllHipHop.com: The tracks that caught my ear off your new album were Kinkos, What Do You Say and Wet–where are you taking the fans next with songs such as these?

Omarion: Well, really those creative concepts, like Wet and those others you named are directed at my fans like Icebox, these little titles are interesting which people could say hmm—I wonder what that is about.

AllHipHop.com: In the album credits you wrote and co-produced the album, how does it feel to have such artistic liberties and freedoms?

Omarion: It feels like a new pair of shoes. Like a new pair of Jordan’s, something classic like Jordan IV’s brand-new out the box. You really don’t want to get too close to anybody, because you don’t want them to step on your shoes. I am super happy. I am excited because, Omarion will forever stay around and will forever grow as an artist.

AllHipHop.com: You have own label imprint–Starworld Entertainment tell me about the concept behind it, how long was in the works, and what other ventures or ideas are coming next from the label?

Omarion: Starworld is an idea I had. When I look at shows like the Grammy’s and different things on TV; everything has become so political. It’s about your publicist making sure you’re at the right place, at the right time around the right party. It’s not about what it was built on back in the day and that was respect, creativity and individuality. It’s like you hear the radio and people keep creating songs that have already been created. I feel like I want to teach what my teachers have taught me and that is to have individuality, that’s to be creative and be yourself and there are only a handful of artists out there who actually have a voice. The idea (record label) came very fast. It’s kind of one of those things you write out and you have the patience going towards those things. The label situation seems like it happened overnight. It came about as a thought. It wasn’t that long, it was barely a month. The deal was everyone knew the Young Money situation, the opportunity came up that I could have my own label. I’ve always had a passion for teaching and giving my knowledge. When the idea came about it was like—WOW!!! Now I get the opportunity to have my own chance, my own company and for people to see what I am thinking and the artists I see fit for the industry. It was quick, that’s the deal let’s do it!