
2012 styles that made our heads turn
Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on — and consumers respond to — is buzz. Here are ...

Transgenders break into Brazil's modeling sector
Walking the catwalk in a Brazilian bikini is a nerve-racking experience for even the most seasoned of models, but for Felipa Tavares it's nothing ...
Dog bite sidelines 'Dirty Dozen' trumpeter Towns
Dirty Dozen Brass Band trumpeter Efrem Towns is recovering at home in New Orleans from a vicious attack by a Rottweiler at an Atlanta motel. He missed ...

Review: Box sets from Cash, Kiss, Jackson, others
Select box set reviews from The Associated Press: Johnny Cash, "The Complete Columbia Album Collection" (Columbia/Legacy) If you're under 40, you ...
Acclaimed session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan dies
Acclaimed session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who played on dozens of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 71.

US, EU approve Universal takeover of EMI
Universal Music Group won approval Friday from American and European regulators to buy the famed British music company EMI, including the hugely ...

Review: 'Wallflower' a thoughtful teen tale
Football games and awkward dances, late-night gabfests at the local diner and tentative first kisses — they're all there over the course of a school ...

Lady Gaga gets live tattoo at perfume launch
Lady Gaga launched her debut perfume while being inside a giant-sized perfume bottle. The avant garde pop star was in a large bottle — a replica of ...

Black, white and printed all over at Fashion Week
The story of New York Fashion Week has been told in mostly black and white — making it that much harder to ignore all the unusual prints on the ...
London museum to open David Bowie exhibition
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit will be among some 300 items shown at a London exhibition that traces the singer's career through five decades.

'Spirit in Motion' gala opens London's Paralympics
"Enlightenment" was the theme, physicist Stephen Hawking the guide and Olympic Stadium the venue Wednesday night as London welcomed 4,200 athletes ...

Tony Scott: A man of action films, pure and simple
No one ever mistook Tony Scott for a great dramatist. He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story.

Gold, sneakers, models? Fashion's Olympic moment
Who were those gowned women? Models had their moment at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, with the likes of Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell ...

The Who, One Direction in all-ages Olympic closer
"I'm talking 'bout my generation," sang The Who, capping a raucous, rock 'n' roll Olympic closing ceremony But which generation? When the band members ...

London games get an Olympian musical soundtrack
At the London Olympics, Adele is served with tennis, Beyonce bounces around the basketball court and Queen's "We Will Rock You" spikes up beach ...

Britain makes history on Olympic 'Super Saturday'
In one unforgettable night for a nation, the Olympic Games and host Britain were the best they can be. Three British athletes winning three gold ...

Rule, Britannia!: Ennis and Co. seize Olympic gold
When Jessica Ennis slumped to the track, so happy she was sobbing, the stadium announcer proudly informed an ecstatic crowd that her heptathlon title ...

Olympic Viewing: NBC's parent cams
American gymnast Aly Raisman earned a gold medal for her athletic prowess in London. It's her mom who's gone viral. NBC's video of Lynn Raisman ...

Olympics ceremony album tops download charts
Enjoyed the music-packed Olympics opening ceremony? Now you can buy the album — and thousands have. The soundtrack album, which went on sale as a ...

Opening ceremony gives Olympics a rocking start
Shaken and stirred. James Bond and the queen teamed to give London a wild Olympic opening like no other. And creative genius Danny Boyle turned ...

Olympic opener showed music is best of British
It's not a concert, Danny Boyle stressed. It's about the athletes. In a very real way, though, the director of the Olympic opening ceremony was wrong.