
Geneva auction sells huge diamond for $26.7M
A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana commanded an unearthly price of $26.7 million from Christie's auction house Wednesday amid the spring ritual of ...

Usher to curate music for July 4th fireworks show
Usher will be the spark for Macy's 4th of July fireworks show. The Grammy-winning singer will collaborate with Macy's to curate the concept, music and ...

'Young and Restless' star Jeanne Cooper dies at 84
Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on "The Young and the Restless," has ...

Jurors deliberate Arias fate amid spectacle
It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the ...

Country superstar George Jones dead at 81
When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice. Other great singers have come and gone, but this fact remained inviolate until Jones ...
LA's storied Gibson Amphitheatre closing in Sept.
Concert promoter Live Nation announced Wednesday that a landmark Los Angeles music venue where Bob Marley, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra performed ...

Friars Club to honor Don Rickles for comedy career
The Friars Club is honoring Don Rickles with a lifetime achievement award. The entertainers' group said Wednesday it will celebrate the 86-year-old ...

Arias sells art for money, profits from notoriety
Jodi Arias is apparently profiting from the notoriety she has received since killing her one-time boyfriend, selling drawings from jail on a website ...

Quotes on Phil Ramone from luminaries
Reactions to Phil Ramone's death: ___ "A friend, a musical genius and the most lovable person. It was a thrill for me to have worked with Phil, and ...

Sign says 'For Sale,' but Newtons intend to stay
The sign may read "For Sale" outside the sprawling southeast Las Vegas estate that Wayne Newton dubbed "Casa de Shenandoah." But Newton's wife, ...

Quincy Jones launches music education application
Quincy Jones says he has co-created the music version of Rosetta Stone. The 79-year-old composer-producer launched a new music education application ...

Library of Congress has plan for saving recordings
The Library of Congress unveiled an extensive plan Wednesday to help libraries and archives nationwide preserve recorded sound to guard against losing ...

Acapulco rape case overshadows peak tourist season
The tourism world turned its eyes on Mexico after six Spanish women were raped by masked gunmen during a vacation in the long-troubled Pacific coast ...

Armed gang rapes 6 Spanish tourists in Mexico
Six Spanish tourists were raped by a gang of armed, masked men in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished ...

Ed Koch's coffin exits to 'New York, New York'
Ed Koch couldn't have chosen a more appropriate final farewell to New York City. An organist played "New York, New York," the iconic ballad made ...
Kitty Kelley writing book on women in Congress
Kitty Kelley's next book will be short on celebrity gossip and long on gender and politics. Kelley has a deal with Grand Central Publishing for a book ...

Mayer's 'Rigoletto,' set in Vegas, opens at Met
For all the bright lights and razzle-dazzle of the Las Vegas locale, the most illuminating stretches in Michael Mayer's showy new production of ...

Round 2 for Sloppy Joe's bar, a Havana original
A half-century later, Jose Rafa Malem remembers the balmy breezes blowing through the bar's arching porticos, the grain of the tall wood stools, the ...

Sin City Duke: Met moves 'Rigoletto' to Las Vegas
Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto" would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of ...

Items from famed nightclub Studio 54 go to auction
A trove of memorabilia from Studio 54 is going up for bid in an auction that is resurrecting those long-ago nights at the iconic 1970s clubhouse with ...
Court in NYC upholds geriatric gangster conviction
A 95-year-old mob boss who authorities say boasted about killing 60 people in a lifetime of crime must serve his eight-year prison sentence after his ...

Expect 16 perspectives on stars at Golden Globes
It's a few days before the Golden Globes, and the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom is having a little work done. Crystal chandeliers are being ...

FBI removes many redactions in Marilyn Monroe file
FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and re-issued, revealing the names of some of the movie star's ...

Andy Williams' Navajo blankets set for NYC auction
The late American crooner Andy Williams, famous for easy-listening hits such as "Moon River" and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from his ...