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Gwyneth Paltrow: I'm helping Madonna over split (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2008 05:32 AM CDT

U.S. actress Gwyneth Paltrow arrives for The Times BFI London Film Festival screening of 'Two Lovers' in London, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/MJ Kim)AP - Gwyneth Paltrow is helping her friend Madonna through breakup of her marriage.


No verdict reached yet in Spears trial (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 07:37 PM CDT

In this Sept. 7, 2008 file photo, Britney Spears is seen at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards held at Paramount Pictures Studio Lot in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - A second day of deliberations ended without a verdict Monday in Britney Spears' driving-without-a-license case.


L.A. man pleads innocent in Guns N' Roses piracy (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 07:28 PM CDT

Axel Rose, lead singer for the band Guns N' Roses, performs during a concert in Budapest June 1, 2006. (Karoly Arvai/Reuters)Reuters - A man accused of placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by the rock band Guns N' Roses pleaded innocent on Monday in federal court.


Blind Aborigine shines at Australia music awards (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 06:42 PM CDT

Reuters - A blind Aboriginal man hailed as the greatest voice Australia has ever recorded, was honored at the country's top music awards on Sunday, even though few of his countrymen understand his lyrics.

Lil Wayne helper says he saw pot, gun on tour bus (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 05:14 PM CDT

Lil Wayne, left, holds up his Lyricist of the Year award during the BET Hip Hop Awards '08, Saturday Oct. 18, 2008, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Lil Wayne's assistant says he occasionally saw a handgun and people smoking marijuana on the award-winning rapper's tour bus.


Jury selection begins for Phil Spector retrial (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 04:35 PM CDT

Music producer Phil Spector, left, and his wife Rachelle Spector arrive at Los Angeles County Superior Court Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, for the start of jury selection in his murder re-trial. Spector is charged with second-degree murder in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, at his Alhambra mansion. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Jury selection began Monday for the murder retrial of music producer Phil Spector, who is accused of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion five years ago.


Guns N' Roses Leaker Pleads Innocent (E! Online)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 03:43 PM CDT

Guns N' Roses Leaker Pleads Innocent(E! Online)E! Online - Welcome to the legal jungle.


Eanet named Juilliard Quartet 1st violinist (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 03:31 PM CDT

In this undated image released by The Juilliard School, Nick Eanet, co-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, is shown. Eanet, co-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has been appointed first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, the Juilliard School said Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/The Juilliard School)AP - Nick Eanet, co-concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has been appointed first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, the Juilliard School said Monday.


The way he is: Eminem tells all in his new memoir (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 02:47 PM CDT

In this image released by Dutton Books, a memoir by rapper Eminem, also known as Marshall Mathers, 'The Way I Am,' is shown. Eminem's re-emergence comes four years after his last studio album, three years after he was treated for a sleep medication dependency and two since the violent death of his best friend and the collapse of a second marriage to his childhood sweetheart. He sets the record straight about a few lingering controversies and questions in his memoir, released Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Dutton Books)AP - Guess who's back?


Sony delays videogame over offensive music (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 02:14 PM CDT

A version of box art for the widely anticipated videogame 'LittleBigPlanet' in an image courtesy of Sony. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Sony Corp has delayed sales of "LittleBigPlanet," one of its most widely anticipated videogames, by at least one week in the United States after finding potentially offensive background music in the game.


Angus is new music director for Glimmerglass Opera (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 01:11 PM CDT

AP - David Angus will become music director at Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York on November 1.

Honeck extends tradition of Pittsburgh maestros (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 12:51 PM CDT

Manfred Honeck conducts a piece by Mahler during a rehearsal with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - The contract to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra was on Manfred Honeck's desk when he got another offer: to be music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.


No. 1 Pink leaves X-Factor in shade on UK charts (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 10:53 AM CDT

Singer Pink poses for photographers as she arrives at the 22nd annual Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Awards in Sydney, October 19, 2008. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. singer Pink held on to the top spot for a third week with her single "So What" holding off the challenge of comedian Peter Kay's spoof X-Factor release, the Official UK Charts Company said this week.


Lloyd Webber to compose UK 2009 Eurovision entry (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 11:14 AM CDT

Composer and Kennedy Center Honoree Andrew Lloyd Webber speaks to reporters as he arrives at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, December 3, 2006. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)Reuters - Musical impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is to compose Britain's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest next year in a bid to improve the country's recent miserable record in the competition.


Nelly Furtado Comes Clean on Secret Marriage (E! Online)

Posted: 17 Oct 2008 12:55 PM CDT

Nelly Furtado Comes Clean on Secret Marriage(E! Online)E! Online - Whoa, Nelly. Now that's some good secret-keeping.


Eminem Ready for Relapse (E! Online)

Posted: 16 Oct 2008 04:18 PM CDT

Eminem Ready for Relapse(E! Online)E! Online - Eminem's done the rehab. Now it's time for the Relapse.


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