LeBron James will not be apologizing to Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins for tweeting about Blake Griffin‘s dunk over Perkins last week. And while he’s at it, he’s tired of getting blamed for things that he doesn’t feel are his fault.”I would never apologize about anything like that when I’m connecting to my fans,” James said of Perkins telling Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday that he was upset with the Heat forward’s public reaction to Griffin’s dunk.

Earlier Wednesday, Perkins said he was upset that James had sent out a tweet to his 3.5 million followers about Griffin’s play.

“Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I’m No. 2 now. Move over #6,” James tweeted on Jan. 30 shortly after Griffin’s soaring jam.

“Did I call him out? I mean, did you read the tweet? Did I call him out? I can see why he felt embarrassed. I don’t think I was the only one to react to the unbelievable play by Blake and that’s what it was all about,” James said after the Miami Heat‘s 102-89 loss to the Orlando Magicon Wednesday night.

Earlier Wednesday, Perkins said he was upset that James had sent out a tweet to his 3.5 million followers about Griffin’s play.

“Dunk of the Year! @blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!!! Wow! I guess I’m No. 2 now. Move over #6,” James tweeted on Jan. 30 shortly after Griffin’s soaring jam.

“Did I call him out? I mean, did you read the tweet? Did I call him out? I can see why he felt embarrassed. I don’t think I was the only one to react to the unbelievable play by Blake and that’s what it was all about,” James said after the Miami Heat‘s 102-89 loss to the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.

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Washingtonian Editor Talks Washington’s Large Population of Marijuana Smokers: MyFoxDC.com

Medical marijuana is set to arrive in Washington this summer.

The drug, however, is already a large part of upper-middle-class life in the area.

A personal and inspirational memoir from Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, focused on her amazing transformation as she embraced a healthy lifestyle and lost over eighty pounds.

Soulful and sultry, Jennifer Hudson wowed the world with her powerful voice in “American Idol”‘s third season, and then took Hollywood by storm with a star turn in “Dreamgirls” that won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But before we knew her as an American Idol standout, Jennifer was singing in her church choir in the Southside of Chicago. This uplifting memoir tells the story of Jennifer’s meteoric rise from “American Idol” to “Dreamgirls” to her amazing weight loss on the megablockbuster Weight Watchers diet plan. With the Weight Watchers brand endorsing her, Jennifer gives her fans tips for embracing a healthy lifestyle in order to lose weight and reclaim their bodies.

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Black women don’t necessarily like a song just because it’s pretty. Most of the time, we gravitate to music that has a message — whether it’s about love (the good times and the bad) or a celebration of life and its many bounties. Also, to get our attention, an artist better put their all into it. In other words, they better sangtheir hearts out.

Beyonce is back. The new mom made her first appearance post-baby at her hubby Jay-Z’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday since giving birth to the couple’s first child, Blue Ivy Carter, last month.

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At the far left tip of the first balcony at Carnegie Hall on Monday were two men losing their minds: expensive seats, beautiful suits, slicked-back hair, arms pumping enthusiastically to every song performed by the night’s headliner, Jay-Z.

Fans of disposable income — earning it, spending it, rapping about it, listening to someone rap about it — had much to cheer during this concert, the highest-profile hip-hop show ever at Carnegie Hall.

And there was also the matter of the income disposal, or in this case, donation: this concert was the first of a pair (the second was scheduled for Tuesday night) benefiting the United Way of New York City and the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation, the charity founded by Jay-Z (whose real name is Shawn Corey Carter)and whose president and chief executive is his mother, Gloria Carter. Most tickets cost several hundred dollars; on the resale market some were listed for more than $1,000.

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