Rihanna and Lady Gaga announced concert dates at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul in 2013. Rihanna took top honors at the MTV Video Music Awards Thursday night for her hit single "We Found Love."

The Pioneer Press points out some, um, creative if unintentional product placement in the latest Lady Gaga video.

Lady Gaga will perform during this year's Super Bowl 51 halftime show in Houston, Texas.

The University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs analyzed the speeches at the party conventions, looking at considerations such as sentence length and polysyllabic words. First Lady Michelle Obama's speech came in at a 12th grade level. That was by far the highest among presidential candidate's spouses since they started giving convention speeches 20 years ago. Higher than her husband's eighth-grade level State of the Union speeches, too.

Boat-sharing businesses are booming, in part because women are becoming more comfortable piloting their own watercraft without the hassles of ownership, the Star Tribune reports. Ladies-only outings -- including book clubs, wine tastings and networking lunches -- have become a familiar sight on local lakes.

The human rights organization says all of the songs will be new or previously unreleased versions. The disc is being released to commemorate Amnesty International's 50th birthday.

The reclusive former frontman for The Replacements has quietly released a new piano ballad called "My Road," but there is no word on whether there's more to come.