MTV’s “Hope for Haiti” television special will air commercial-free this Friday, January 22nd at 8pm on MTV, CNN, VH1 and most every other major network.  Jay-Z, Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay are among the 100-plus stars who will appear on the show.

If on a winter’s night you’d like to lose that pesky holiday party cheer, I highly recommend this album. Here Sting reaches for a piece of the winter sales pie chart with a collection of holiday classics straight from the British Isles. And I mean classics, as in 14th century carols and ballads that bring to life the joy and cheer of, say, serfdom.
The aptly titled “Now Winter Comes Slowly” begins “Now winter comes slowly, pale, meager and old.” You’ll find all 16 tracks come that way. Lyrically, Sting can’t …