Note to major league baseball teams: Do not invite guitarist Carlos Santana to accept a Beacon of Change award at your ballpark the same day your state governor passes a controversial immigration law. During a ceremony before the Braves-Phillies game at Atlanta's Turner Field on Sunday, Santana used his acceptance speech as an opportunity to lambaste baseball fans for simply living in Georgia. "I represent the human race. The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves," Santana told the crowd. Thankfully, Morgan Freeman managed to not offend anyone with his acceptance speech.

The Mexican-born Santana's issues with the people of Georgia and Arizona stems from the fact that both states have recently passed laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration that require employers to check the immigration status of their new hires. Georgia ranks seventh nationally with 425,000 illegal immigrants, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes, so this

Maya Arulpragasam, the rapper known as M.I.A., has been called some unflattering things in her time -- a terrorist, a truffle-fry eater, a friend of Chris Brown. But in England she may now be known simply as the daughter of the seamstress who sewed the stunning blue sash Prince William wore to the Wedding of the Century.

"my mum jus told me she made the blue sash for prince william's wedding !!!!!!!!! she made it!" M.I.A. tweeted two weeks after the big day (comments left below the accompanying Twitpic include "ur mom is the best sash maker" and "omg you both are so talented!") Fans of M.I.A.'s music know her mom has played a huge role in her life -- the rapper's second album Kala was named for her mother, and her mom's occupation has influenced Maya's interesting assortment of stage outfits.

M.I.A. doesn't seem to have actually attended the royal wedding, which is probably for the best -- Prince Harry might have gotten pretty nervous.

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CBGB, the iconic, filthy punk-rock venue with the most iconic, filthiest bathroom in punk-rock history, no longer stands on the Bowery in lower Manhattan (but if you'd like a nice $800 topcoat, you can step in the John Varvatos store that sits in its empty shell). Its owner, the colorful downtown personality Hilly Kristal, passed away in 2007, a year after he lost the club to a rent dispute, from lung cancer. You can read about the club's history in books like Legs McNeil's Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and still purchase shirts emblazoned with its famous logo. And in a year or two, for better or for worse (we have to imagine for worse), you'll be able to see its history played out on the big screen: CBGB is becoming a movie. That means somebody's gonna be cast as Joey Ramone and Patti Smith -- start making your wishlists now!

Documentaries aside, Hollywood has traditionally not done great things for punk rock, though Floria Sigismondi's take on The Runaways was

"Booyah. That's a rap word." The sad controversy and debate over rapper Common's invitation to the White House for a poetry reading soldiered on last night on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor as Daily Show host Jon Stewart played the role of voice of reason against Bill O'Reilly's voice of ignorance. Gawker has the highlights of the debate, and guess who won...

Despite conservatives' attempts to paint Common as a card-carrying member of N.W.A or Compton's Most Wanted, The Amp has already pointed out that Common is pretty benign compared to the majority of the hip-hop world. Folks like O'Reilly must have finally received the "Common ain't gangsta" memo since now their main objection to Common visiting the White House is the rapper's affiliation with Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and convicted cop killer who is currently receiving political asylum in Cuba. Common visited Shakur during a stop in Cuba, and that has O'Reilly all angry.

Stewart counters that many of the musicians who have