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It's no secret that the Grammy Awards telecast is more about the performances than it is about the awards themselves. The night's broadcast featured a mere 11 award presentations over the course of a three-and-a-half hour program.

You may know Ed Sheeran as the velvet voice cooing with Taylor Swift in the song “Everything Has Changed” from her most recent album, Red, but this 22-year-old English singer-songwriter is much more than T-Swift’s backup singer; his debut album features “Give Me Love,” the popular radio hit “The A Team,” and other songs of a similar acoustic style that will keep you satisfied for hours.

The British are coming! The British are coming!

When I heard that Barnes & Noble was closing some of its stores, I panicked. How could they be going out of business? Why were they closing their stores to the book nerds of the world? I don’t know about you, but I’d rather spend all of my money there than at American Eagle any day. I began my research and found out that not all of the Barnes & Noble stores were closing. Whew! Crisis averted.

Tegan and Sara are in a great place right now. They’re enjoying their radio hit with the relentlessly replayable "Closer," they're competing for their first Grammy (in the Long Form Music Video category), and they're about to get their first top ten album ranking on the all-authoritative Billboard 200 chart with their seventh offering, Heartthrob.