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Madonna will visit Malawi on Sunday to lay the foundation stone of a multi-million dollar girls’ school she is building, her charity Raising Malawi told Reuters.

The singer, who has adopted two children from the southern African country, is due to arrive on Sunday and attend a brick-laying ceremony in Lilongwe on Monday. The school is expected to cost about $15 million.

“She plans to meet the President Bingu wa Mutharika and together lay a foundation stone for her multi-million dollar girls school,” a staffer at the charity, who declined to be named, said on Thursday.

An AIDS epidemic has left over a million children orphaned in the impoverished country of 13 million.

source: reuters

Madonna has given “Glee” the rights to her catalog and an all-Madonna-music episode is in the works for early next year. The hit series has been building an audience and filling the iTunes charts with its cover songs, and Madonna’s involvement is a testament to how big the show is getting.

source: ew

from ELLE UK:

Rumours have been swirling all day that Madonna is set to be the next face of Dolce and Gabbana’s menswear line, but ELLE can put an end to speculation and tell you that it’s sadly not true.

While the Queen of pop’s boyfriend, model Jesus Luz, is this season’s face of the Italian brand, and the design duo has created costumes for the star on several occasions, it seems that Madonna is content with her roll as muse rather than model. For now at least…

Following the release of Madonna’s highly anticipated best of “Celebration,” Sunset Media presents “Queen Celebration”, a book showing the glorious musical career of the queen of pop.

Limited collector edition: 1000 copies only; Printed on glossy paper (24 x 34cm), 68 pages, 100 pictures

Avaliable for pre-order now on www.sunset-media.net and will be available only at Lucky Records (from November 28th 2009)

Special Offer: “Celebration” DVD (zone2) to win every 50th order ! (offer ends on November 10th)

Part of the benefits of “Queen Celebration” will be donated to the Sidaction foundation.

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Puffin
Release date: December 24, 2009
ISBN: 978-0142411292
Amazon

The final installment to the chapter book series featuring Madonna’s bestselling characters, the English Roses!

The English Roses’ number-one teacher, Miss Fluffernutter, is getting married —to Binah’s father! The Roses couldn’t be happier for their beloved teacher, or for Binah, whose own mother died when she was just a baby. And Binah is thrilled at the idea of having a stepmother like Miss F —that is, until she realizes that a new woman in her father’s life means less time for Binah. Binah misses her father terribly. And it doesn’t help that Charlotte is driving everyone nuts trying to plan the perfect wedding. Can the English Roses save this walk down the aisle from going totally awry?

The 51-year-old singer took the top spot ahead of Lady Ga Ga’s Poker Face and Wannabe by the Spice Girls in the online poll.

Other videos voted into the “least sexy” top ten included Never Gonna Give You Up by 1980s crooner Rick Astley, and Michael Jackson’s You Are Not Alone, which featured the singer naked with Lisa Marie Presley.

Britney Spears won the sexiest video vote for her 2004 single Toxic, with Shakira in second place with She Wolf and boy band JLS in third with Beat Again.

The recently reformed boy band Take That appeared in both the sexiest and least sexy top tens, for Pray and Do What You Like respectively.

The rankings were decided by users of the music video website Muzu.tv.

Ten Least Sexy Music Videos:
1. Madonna – Hung up
2. Lady Ga Ga – Poker Face
3. Spice Girls – Wannabe
4. Pink – Get the Party Started
5. Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
6. Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone
7. Take That – Do What You Like
8. Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart
9. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
10. David Hasslehoff – Jump In My Car

Top Ten Most Sexy Videos:
1. Britney – Toxic
2. Shakira – She Wolf
3. JLS – Beat Again
4. Girls Aloud – Untouchable
5. Kylie – Spinning Around
6. Rihanna – Umbrella
7. Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake – Love, Sex and Magic
8. Take That – Pray
9. Beyonce – Single Ladies
10. Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love

source: telegraph uk

Limited Taiwanese only collection features the same tracks as the US 2 CD set but includes a bonus 100-page notebook,(5-inch x 4.8 inches) which includes a 2010 calendar. Also included is a bonus fold-out poster of the artwork and a bonus English lyric booklet which was not included in the US/EU pressings! Packaged in an old-school long box style case.

Now available at Amazon.com

One of Madonna’s New York neighbors says the superstar’s loud music and frequent dance sessions are causing a commotion.

Karen George, of Manhattan, lives above Madonna in a building on Central Park.

She said in a lawsuit filed Friday against the building’s co-op board that the Material Girl is using her apartment as a rehearsal studio, forcing neighbors to endure “blaring music, stomping and shaking walls,” for up to three hours each day.

George complained about “unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music” and vibrations pouring through walls, ceilings and radiators.

The building’s board says it has already threatened to evict Madonna.

Madonna’s representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

source: ap

Madonna, U2 and AC/DC are among the finalists for the 2009 Billboard Touring Awards, which will be handed out at a special reception in New York on Nov. 5. The awards are based on global box office numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore from Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2009.

The finalists for the Top Tour and Top Draw awards, which acknowledge the top grossing and ticket selling tours, respectively, are the same three global treks: U2’s 360 tour, Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour, and AC/DC’s Black Ice tour.

source: billboard

Rolling Stone, Issue 1090, October 29 2009