She’s one of the most successful and powerful women in Hollywood so it’s hard to imagine Rita Wilson getting starstruck — especially not in a strip mall in suburban Nashville But inside the tiny 90-seat Bluebird Café the actress looks around a room of country music songwriters like she’s a… Source
Diamond Comics has released its sales figures for May 2014. While Marvel again knocked Batman out of his usual perch atop the best-selling comics, the divide between Marvel and DC’s market share shrunk significantly last month. Marvel claimed 34.38% retail market share and 36.46% unit share in May. DC had 30.04% retail share and 33.52% […]
Five years to the day after the release of The Beatles in Mono a box set of the group’s monaurally mixed catalog through 1968 the band is issuing a vinyl version of the box set Although the quartet put out stereo versions of their albums concurrent with the mono ones… Source
“As singers we all deal in pain” said Ray Charles “We’re all trying to push the pain through the music and make it sound pretty Jimmy Scott has more pain and prettiness in his voice than any singer anywhere” When Scott died on June 12th he left an extraordinary legacy of… Source
At 72 the Queen of Soul has been a royal mostly in repose laying low over the past decade; canceled shows and reports of ill health haven’t been encouraging But with news of a major LP nearing completion Aretha Franklin’s two-night run at Radio City Music Hall in New York… Source
In honor of the NBA Finals, Jimmy Kimmel presented another edition of “Mean Tweets,” this time featuring the likes of Kris Humphries, Jeremy Lin and Dikembe Mutombo. As usual, the denizens of Twitter had plenty of thoughtful, constructive criticism for the celebrity athletes. Watch the clip from Sunday’s special NBA edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” […]
Michael Schumacher’s manager says the Formula One great is no longer in a coma and has left a French hospital where he had been receiving treatment since a skiing accident in December. Source
Justin Bieber will be charged with criminal vandalism Monday in connection with the egging case … sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ. Source
Lately, it seems like superhero movies have become characterized by a sameness best described by Matt Zoller Seitz as “things crashing into other things.” In light of the critical mass of such films (including, for example, four movies featuring Iron Man in the span of five years), there has been a discussion as to whether […]
The queen of short shorts is back in action. Taylor Swift kept it simple but chic in a silky black romper and red lips in New York City on June 14: The 24-year-old just wrapped up the final leg of her Red Tour, but Swift shows no signs of slowing down. In a video she […]
