Read This: Carmelo Anthony, Chris Brown, Jim Traficant

Carmelo Anthony and the artist known as Midian. (Courtesy of Bill Duggan/Madams Organ)

What you missed in this weekend's paper while The Reliable Source was gone: Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets hung out at Madams Organ with the singer of the night, Midian; discussed Old Testament, according to Aaron Leitko in Names and Faces. Our new pop music critic Chris Richards listens to the new Jay-Z album, thinks he sounds like a cranky old man, and wonders if hip-hop can age gracefully. Chris Brown talks back to Oprah, which never ends well. And our colleague Mary Jordan goes to the get-out-of-jail party for Jim Traficant and suspects that he may still have "a little of the old magic under that memorable rug."