Daily Blog Buzz Feed 06.27.09

The Los Angeles plastic surgeon who operated on rap star Kanye West's mother before she died last year was arrested in Solano County early Thursday on suspicion of drunk driving and driving on a suspended license.Continue reading.... "WANTED" straddles the line between the delightfully absurd and the merely ridiculous. As its heroes race through the city at barely subsonic speeds, they execute the kind of maneuvers that are normally performed only by 8-year-olds making "vroom vroom" noises. As digital effects approach seamless integration with live-action footage, what dazzles is not the sophistication of the technology but the audacity of the ideas, and "Wanted" has audacity to burn.Continue reading...MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Obama and Clinton head for the town of Unity, It has all the makings of a B movie: Once-fierce antagonists meet at midday to seal their carefully negotiated political alliance so they can go forth and rout their common enemy.Continue reading.... Power surge comes from the PAC-10 in the NBA draft, Five of the first 11 picks were from the conference. Continue reading... The U.S. Supreme Court's historic ruling Thursday for individual gun rights is expected to trigger a spray of new legal challenges to the stiffest gun control laws across the country, with San Francisco among the first cities targeted by the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. Continue reading.... East Oakland shows signs of being epicenter of foreclosure crisis, but neighbors have plans..Read more Hayward pot raid a blockbuster, Police on Thursday arrested an unidentified man and teen while busing one of Hayward's biggest and most sophisticated known marijuana growing operations, authorities said. Read more..... Dellums disappoints, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums has shown little in the way of leadership since taking office in 2007, but at least he could follow the advise of the experts he has surrounded himself with. Read more..... Bay Area residents can expect to remain mired in a smoky haze this weekend as nearly 1,100 wildfires chew up 250 square miles of land around Northern California. For those most sensitive, the foul air could pose health risks, pollution regulators and meteorologists said Thursday. Continue reading.... NEW YORK :Grammy-winning singer India.Arie will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf."Continue reading... The serious hatin’ on Barack Obama is in full force among racists in cyberspace and has spread to countless computers in homes across America. Continue reading.... (NEW YORK) Rev. Al Sharpton sent an open letter to consumer activistand independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader today followingcomments he made about Sen. Barack Obama, in which Nader claimed Obama"talks white" and ignores issues of poverty. Continue reading..... Members of the Rio de Paz organization lined up 4,000 red balloons and a cross at the beach in Copacabana today to protest the number of murders predicted to happen in the next six months in Rio. Continue reading.... OMAHA -- Bob Bowman, the innovative and hard-driving swim coach overseeing the push toward the Olympic podium of Michael Phelps, Erik Vendt, Peter Vanderkaay, Kaitlin Sandeno and others, was practically chortling. Continue reading...