By now, you've probably heard a lot about Lana Del Rey and, until you saw her perform on SNL over the weekend, may have been wondering why all the indie kids have felt compelled to discuss her for months. A lot of what you're hearing may be hard to reconcile. She's gorgeous! She's trashy! She's the next big thing in pop music! She was the worst musical guest in "Saturday Night Live" history!

Don't sweat it, it actually all makes sense when you put it together. So here, for the initiated and uninitiated alike, is your one-stop guide into the crazy, contradictory world of a brand new singer who's already one of the most buzzed about acts of 2012 and hasn't even released an album. More»

Covering Lana del Rey's sucky SNL performance, Solange Knowles new album, Beyonce and Jay-Z's out-of-this-world music video, the SXSW line up, Lil Wayne's memoir, and more in today's music news round up! More»

• Los Angeles Film School suspends letter protesting the farmers market city permit application, allowing the Hollywood Farmers Market to maintain its Ivar location for at least a year. [LATimes]
• BBC employees ordered to abide by the corporation's new rules regarding their personal Tweets, such as "don't do anything stupid." [Telegraph]
• "Mad Men", "Boardwalk Empire", "Mildred Pierce", "Modern Family", "Saturday Night Live" sweep this year's Emmy nominations. [KABC]
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña end up at the scene of a gang shooting in South L.A. last night while researching roles as cops for their film End of Watch. [KTLA]
• Mark your calendars! Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are reportedly getting married on August 20 with a fleet a of Maybachs and Rolls Phantoms to keep it classy and sophisticated, ya know. [HuffPo]

The East Hampton John Varvatos store opened their doors for their Memorial Day Weekend event this weekend. Custumers enjoyed cocktails, shopping and having their portrait snapped by famous SNL photographer Mary Ellen Matthews. Mary Ellen has been photographing the musicians, celebrities, and special guests of Saturday Night Live for the past two decades. With her pictures hanging from the walls, shoppers enjoyed mingling and giving back. 10% of the days sales were donated to The Animal Rescue Fund of The Hamptons. You know it is a fun time when my future husband Alec Baldwin swings by. More»

• As part of "Glee's" steady takeover of the world, Lea Michele will perform with Christina Aguilera in a diva showdown at the Super Bowl [PE]
• The cop who claims he was shot outside El Camino Real High School last week, leading to a five-hour lockdown of 9 nearby schools, was lying and the whole thing was a hoax [LATimes]
• The streets of Cairo are overrun with violence as police combat protesters demanding Egypt's authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak be deposed from his 30-year reign [HuffPo]
• Will Mark Zuckerberg make a not-so-surprise cameo alongside guest host Jesse Eisenberg this week on "Saturday Night Live"? [Post]
• Charlie Sheen released after being hospitalized yesterday morning for a hernia at the end of an alleged 36-hour bender involving a briefcase of blow and porn stars at his house [TMZ]

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Everyone's favorite grandmother (and SNL host) Betty White partied it up for her 89th birthday with a fun-spirited blowout at Le Cirque. Big name White admirers showed up, including Ana Gasteyer, Hoda Kotb, Kyle MacLachlan, and Arianna Huffington. Not to mention TV Land as a whole, who presented Betty with quite the birthday cake. More»