You know it’s a recession when Beyonce starts giving concert tickets away for next to nothing. The singer has joined the likes of No Doubt, U2, and Dave Matthews Band in offering her fans discounted tickets to her upcoming summer tour.

According to her label, B will be selling the last 2000 tickets to each North American show for just $20 a pop. It’s not like she needs much money these days – have you see her engagement ring? In addition to scoring cheap seats, fans will have the opportunity to help others with a food drive at each concert, created by Beyonce and Hamburger Helper. But Beyonce fans who aren’t currently strapped for cash can still spend big bucks to see the star – her “meet & greet” package on Ticketmaster is currently going for $1000 a ticket.

Tom Cruise and more celebs were spotted at the Lakers semi-finals game on Thursday night. The actor was spotted courtside, along with his teen son Connor, at Game Two of the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Denver Nuggets. Other celebs who were seen at the game included Jake Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell, Teri Hatcher, John Lithgow and Maria Shriver.

Reality TV star Kate Gosselin is spotted venturing out with her eight kids to a local party store in Reading, Pa. The kids helped carry party supplies including balloons and pinatas.   Her husband Jon — the other star of Tlc’s “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ — did not go on the outing.   This past week, Kate spoke out about the couple’s alleged matrial troubles and opend up about the possibility of splitting with Jon.

Kate Gosselin took a beach vacation this week – if that’s what you call taking eight kids to North Carolina without help from her husband while cameras rolled for their reality show.

Gosselin spent time with her 8-year-old twins and her sextuplets, who turned 5 on May 5, on Bald Head Island, N.C., a resort town that features upscale cottages, a golf course and lighthouse with the only modes of transportation being golf carts and bicycles. The brood, along with a nanny, stayed in a rental cottage while they shot scenes for their reality show.

Arriving on a ferry earlier in the week, the Gosselins were hard to miss with all eight kids, local resident Brittani Reynolds, 20, tells PEOPLE.

Kate, in big sunglasses, looked “like a movie star,” according to Reynolds. “She had a manicure and looked really like she takes care of herself. She didn’t seem unhappy. She actually seemed to be in a good mood; she was making jokes with everyone,” she tells PEOPLE. “She was talking loud to the kids, things like, ‘Don’t stand over there. Don’t touch that.’ She sounded like a mom.”

On Wednesday, Gosselin and the kids spent a few hours on the beach flanked by a camera crew and several security guards. “The kids seemed really lighthearted,” says Mari Leathers, 40, who is vacationing on the island from Wytheville, Va. “Of course they stand out because there are so many of them, but they are really happy looking. One of the girls had a little meltdown because she had misplaced a shovel, but otherwise it looked just fine.”

Leathers says she didn’t see the children swim, but they did play in the sand, making sand castles and digging holes.

“It was a production, that’s for sure,” she says. “It wasn’t a relaxing beach time because they were definitely filming. But the kids seemed happy enough.”

On Thursday, twins Cara and Madelyn – along with a bodyguard and a nanny – stopped at Riverside Adventure Co., a gift shop on the island, where the local newspaper, The Star-News, reports that they girls bought two shark’s teeth and silly putty.

“They looked content enough, and the kids in particular looked really happy,” a local resident who saw them out Thursday says. “They were just being kids. [Kate] seemed frazzled, but that was probably more because she was dealing with eight kids.”

Britney Spears took a break in the middle of her 44-date world tour by relaxing poolside in Miami with sons Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2.

But father Jamie has clamped down on the tour party, firing three dancers for suspected drug use in a bid to keep the star away from temptation.

The mother of two and her entourage chilled out on the latest stop of the Circus tour, before heading for the next show in New York.

Dressed in a turquoise bikini, and with her hair loosely tied above her head, the singer enjoyed the heat after the gruelling shows which have left her heavily bruised.

Relaxed: Britney chills out poolside in Miami enjoying some downtime after her show in Tampa, Florida – while her dad sacked three dancers for alleged drug useIn stark contrast to her wild party days, a mellowed Britney looked healthy as she managed to combine a spot of sunbathing with some quality time with her sons who along with their father have joined her on tour.

But conditions on the tour are ‘beyond strict’, say sources, as the actions of Britney’s father show.