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During rehearsals for his outlandish American Music Awards performance, amid a thundercloud of throbbing theater lights and special-effects fog, Adam Lambert effortlessly governs the sprawling stage while gripping a microphone in his gloved hands and donning a tight T-shirt slathered with an image of David Bowie's face.
Dealing with kids’ weight is one of the most delicate dances of parenthood. We want to make sure our children are well nourished and have a positive relationship with food. We don’t want to damage their self-esteem by calling undue attention to their weight and we don’t want to alienate them by constantly reminding them to cut snacks and get their butts off of the couch.
The vampire romance "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" sucked up $140.7 million in its first three days and pulled in a total of $258.8 million worldwide, according to studio estimates Sunday.
An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 - plus tax - on Saturday.
Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty - the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has set a box-office record for midnight screenings.
The driver of a Miley Cyrus tour bus was killed Friday when the bus overturned, but the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star wasn't on board, Virginia State Police said.
New York designer Irina Shabayeva's collection took the gold in "Project Runway," winning $100,000 toward her line, an agent and a trip to Paris.
Revengers formed from the ashes of local alt-hip-hop crew Biznautics in 2007.
CHICAGO – “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey’s production company said Thursday night.
Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road.
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momentum that “The Proposal” gave her and that “All About Steve” threatened to kill with “The Blind Side,” a surprisingly smart and moving drama about a Memphis steel magnolia who doesn’t truly bloom until she takes in a homeless teen and gives him a life.
Invariably funny and inexpressibly moving in the way it looks at a young girl’s journey from innocence to experience, “An Education” does so many things so well, it’s difficult to know where to begin when cataloging its virtues.
Tacoma's Revengers aren't your typical hip-hop group. Check out clips of up-and-coming Tacoma band talking about their new "Scraps on the Badlands" CD, playing new cuts and doing their best Weezer impression before their all-ages CD release part Saturday (Nov. 21) at Hell's Kitchen.
Nicole Richie has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital and is being treated for pneumonia. Her representative says she's doing well.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Co. for Nov. 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
Sarah Palin will reportedly spend Thanksgiving Day in Richland at the home of her aunt Katie Johnson.
Ken Ober, who hosted the 1980s MTV game show "Remote Control" and helped produce the shows "Mind of Mencia" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine," has died. He was 52.
Elton John says he's back on his feet after being sidelined for the flu and an E. coli bacterial infection.
"American Idol" contestants should be thankful that they have caring, sharing Ellen DeGeneres on the panel now and not Katy Perry.
If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.
Somewhere in the universe of TV viewers, there's got to be a person who actually likes those pop-up, on-screen promotions.
The 26-year-old man charged with trying to extort $100,000 (euro67,258) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford has surrendered, German prosecutors said Tuesday.
Viacom Inc. says it has won exclusive rights in the U.S. to air "Michael Jackson's This Is It" on its MTV and BET cable networks starting in 2011.
The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.
No wizards named Harry, no lords chasing rings, no hunters of national treasures, no nights at a museum. Not even Bond is showing up.
Reality TV personalities Heidi and Spencer Pratt said Monday they want to branch out from MTV's "The Hills" and star in their own reality show to give viewers a bigger peek into their lives.
Edward Woodward, the star of films including "Breaker Morant" and "The Wicker Man," died Monday. He was 79.
Courteney Cox isn't done running from masked serial killers.
Kris Allen knows he's not garnering as much attention as Adam Lambert - and that's OK with him.
Talk about using pain as your muse.
What: Art Slam
A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a TV series.
German police said Sunday that they had searched a home in connection with an alleged extortion scheme targeting former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her family.
Sarah Palin says she didn't know her daughter Bristol was sexually active before she learned the teenager was pregnant.
For anyone who’s tempted to think a conductor just stands on the podium and gives the beat, Saturday night’s concert by the Northwest Sinfonietta set the record straight. As part of a two-concert festival (the other concert is next Sunday, featuring the Tacoma Symphony), the chamber orchestra played a Beethoven overture and Mozart piano concerto under the Symphony’s conductor Harvey Felder, followed by a Mozart overture and symphony under their own conductor Christophe Chagnard. The difference between the first and second halves was like night and day, highlighting not just the musical styles of each Tacoma conductor but also the effect they have on the same players.
You might call it moldy garbage. Or you might call it highly conceptual sculpture. You could see it as an echo of ancient ruins, or a fantastical play fort. Richard Tracy’s Art Yard in historic Centralia is all these things – the prolific 26-year outpouring of a mind that works very differently than most.
Tacoma blues picker James “Curley” Cooke hopes to play with not one, not two but all three of his popular bands at today’s Blues Vespers concert.
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