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01/07/2009 01:03 PM
Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe "there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can" of the country's java.
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01/07/2009 01:28 PM
Betty Freeman, patron to such contemporary musical masters as John Cage, Philip Glass and Pierre Boulez, has died. She was 87.
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01/07/2009 03:43 PM
Add writing to Batman's bag of tricks. "The Dark Knight" earned a nomination Wednesday for best adapted screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.
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01/07/2009 03:08 PM
The Kabbalah. Hot college students. An abandoned mental institution. Gary Oldman. Jogging. Twins. Nazi scientists. A suicidal mother. A lost blue mitten.
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01/07/2009 03:18 PM
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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01/07/2009 05:58 PM
ABC, CBS and NBC haven't sent their top news anchors to the Middle East to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas, even though each network did so in 2006 when Israel fought a war with Hezbollah.
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01/07/2009 06:08 PM
CBS is giving a juicy post-championship game time slot to its new hit series, "The Mentalist."
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01/07/2009 08:18 PM
Taylor Lautner will be back to morph into the monstrous Jacob Black in the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon."
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01/07/2009 07:08 AM
The Hong Kong government has agreed to preserve a former home of late martial arts legend Bruce Lee and turn it into a tourist attraction, an official said Wednesday.
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01/07/2009 09:53 AM
Rapper T.I. went to court and promptly paid an $8,000 overdue lawyer bill for the mother of two of his sons, telling a judge the debt was an oversight.
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01/07/2009 12:43 PM
Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson are all multitasking for the NAACP Image Awards, earning nominations Wednesday in both music and film categories.
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01/07/2009 01:13 PM
Batman is angling for top honors from the American Society of Cinematographers.
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01/07/2009 04:23 PM
The cliched comedy "Bride Wars" tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging the bouquet at her single girlfriends.
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01/06/2009 05:23 PM
Divorced from his longtime co-host Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes was adopted by Stephen Colbert - for a day, at least. On Monday's "The Colbert Report," Colbert introduced the Fox News commentator as his new co-host.
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01/06/2009 12:06 PM
Florian Schneider, a co-founder of Kraftwerk, the German band that built the foundation for electro-pop and scored a chart-topping global hit with "Autobahn" in 1974, has left the group, its label said Tuesday.
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01/06/2009 03:13 PM
An industry trade association says overall Broadway grosses and attendance in 2008 were a bit higher than the box-office take and attendance of the previous year.
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01/06/2009 03:58 PM
One of the digital wizards behind such cartoon smashes as "WALL-E," "Ratatouille" and "Finding Nemo" is getting an Academy Award.
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01/06/2009 07:48 PM
Authorities say the former judge who presided in the dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's remains has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
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01/06/2009 02:38 AM
Want to hear Cameron Crowe's thoughts on winning an Oscar or see how king-sized movie posters are assembled? How about a sneak peek at some of the exclusive exhibitions held at the film academy's Beverly Hills headquarters?
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01/06/2009 07:54 AM
Fans of Germany's renowned Berlin Philharmonic can now follow the orchestra's performances from anywhere in the world through a new "digital concert hall" accessible via the Internet.