At the Essence Fest on Sunday in the Superdome, Ralph Tresvant, Bobby Brown, Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe and Johnny Gill reconvened in matching white dinner jackets over black vests and slacks. They were obviously well-rehearsed for the first show of their latest reunion. Arrayed in a line of six microphone stands, they stepped, spun and dipped in precise unison. Their harmonies were also spot-on.

Even Bobby Brown, New Edition’s prodigal son, was on target. “I’m the crazy one out the bunch,” Brown confessed, a point not lost on viewers of his “Being Bobby Brown” reality show with equally troubled ex-wife Whitney Houston.

Brown’s solo set at the 2006 Essence-in-exile in Houston was a mess; the curtain, literally, was dropped on him, much to his displeasure. What he apparently requires is the structure and support provided by his peers; though still a loose cannon, he didn’t fire wildly.

His voice is now a rasp, but he gamely croaked his parts on “Jealous Girl,” “Mr. Telephone Man” and elsewhere, never missing a cue. The current state of his voice was better suited for “My Prerogative,” his signature solo hit.

There was some good-natured debate about the circumstances of his original departure from the group. He insisted “ya’ll gave me the boot” – an exaggerated kick emphasized his point – while the others maintained he quit. Regardless, they are reunited, and it felt so good. “I’m so glad to be back on stage with my brothers,” Brown said.

The New Edition catalog is deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness of the Essence audience; much of that audience stood and sang along for the entire set. So it went through “Cool It Now,” “Count Me Out,” Gill’s solo hit “My My My,” “When Will I See You Smile Again,” and the especially Jackson 5-like “Candy Girl.”

Gill, who joined the group after Brown’s mid-‘80s departure, briefly left the stage to the original lineup. He returned so the six voices could bind together in “Poison,” a hit for New Edition spinoff Bell Biv DeVoe.

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The Cannon’s are Clowin’!!!! Check out The Video

At least four people died Wednesday when tornadoes swept through parts of Massachusetts.

Tornadoes tore through Western and Central Massachusetts yesterday, killing at least four people, injuring an untold number and reducing schools, churches and homes to splinters along its destructive path.

Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency throughout Massachusetts and ordered up to 1,000 troops from the National Guard to help with rescue efforts. He said at least 19 communities had reported damage and he asked officials in those towns and cities to close schools and keep nonemergency personnel home today to allow work crews to clear streets.

“We are in an emergency situation,” said the Governor in a news conference at the state’s emergency management headquarters in Framingham. He said there had been reports of looting in Springfield and he described the damage from the storm as extensive.

“We are hoping and praying and working as hard as possible to keep the fatalities limited to those four already confirmed,” he said.

Two of the deaths occurred in West Springfield, one in Springfield and one in Brimfield, officials said. State Police said 33 people were injured in Springfield alone, including five seriously, in a storm that rapidly spread darkened skies across the state.

In Monson, residents described widespread damage that made the Central Massachusetts town look like it had been bombed. On some streets there appeared to be as many trees fallen as were still standing.

“There’s got to be 10 to 20 houses that are just completely gone,’’ said Heather M. Dickinson, 39, a resident who waited out the storm on her porch.

She said two churches in the small town had their steeples blown off and roofs had been torn off municipal buildings. She said the supermarket on Main Street was “wiped out’’ and several cars had been flipped over by the strong winds.

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Mike Epps was furious after being served court papers in the middle of one of his comedic routines in Texas! The comedian/actor was involved in a brawl in a Detroit nightclub last year which stemmed the lawsuit. The video shows Epps being served the papers then flipping out!

“A white b—h just threw some papers up on the m—-r f—ing stage. B—h, f–k you. This is from when I whooped that n—a’s ass in Detroit that time. ‘You are served.’ B—h, I don’t give a f–k. Suck my d–k from the back, ho. Money ain’t a problem, b—h. I got a lot of problems but money ain’t one of them. Thank you.”

Snapped!!! George James Bradley set his mother on fire on Monday May 9th then preceded to a nearby school where he held school officials hostage at knife point.

Bertha Bradley was doused in gasoline and then set ablaze by her son George, before he turned his rage on school officials at the nearby Rise Academy charter school. Mrs. Bradley was brought to the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, where she suffered third degree burns and was listed in critical condition. Tommy Torres, the victim’s next-door neighbor said “It was an awful outcry and she ran to my apartment and someone banged on my apartment and I saw she was on fire … she ran around her apartment complex looking for help from neighbors.” Torres also said that it wasn’t unusual for George to threaten his mother as he frequently did so.

Audrey Saldivar a school administrator told the Associated Press that Bradley walked into the office and told the secretary that he had killed his mother and requested that she call 911 then preceded to pull out a knife and lock the office door. “It was just random … We didn’t know what was happening” Mrs. Saldiva said. Superintendent Richard Baumgartner, founder of the school said he was walking by the office as Bradley locked the door, he says he snuck into a back door to the office when he heard the outcry of a teacher that was locked in a room with Bradley, “I heard screams, and realized someone else was still in there, so I started kicking the door open … I just reacted to an instinct. I made a split-second decision, because I knew he had a knife and there was somebody in there screaming for their life. I just thought that I had to enter that space and prevent violence being done.” Baumgartner saved and unnamed teacher from being sexually assaulted by Bradley, he says” He was more aggressive and said he would kill her. We had a stand off in the office, and he came at me with a knife. Fortunately I just got a scrape.”

What would prompt someone to set their own mother on fire and attack people? is he crazy? that remains to be seen.

Source: foxnews.com