The two-hour finale to Fox’s 24 tonight promises to be a ripper with a nuclear warhead sent flying to an unknown eastern U.S. city by terrorists with Jack Bauer hot on its tail like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. We, and primarily Jeff Kouba, have been following the sequential show …

I am digging pretty hard on an edited version of rising Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane’s “I’m Icy” on the Big Cat website: a slow, Southern-electro rap with a slight reggae vibe and a killer melodic chorus about being all “icy” and whatnot. Ironically, Mane is joined by rapper Young Jeezy …

This week is the grand finale for American Idol – will it be Bo or Carrie, or should I say “Carrie or Bo”? We are subtly and not so subtly influenced by any number of factors in our preferences and since American Idol is decided by viewer voting, such influences …

Just to make sure he didn’t think it was cool missing another entire season in a career that has been flying in reverse after it had barely begun, Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. was charged Friday with operating his motorcycle in willful or wanton disregard of safety by …

Van’s Warped Tour wheels out version number 11 this year beginning June 18 in Columbus, Ohio, with a lineup of 85 punk bands spanning about four generations (more, when you consider Billy Idol is guesting on select dates), spread over six stages: The Offspring Transplants Fall Out Boy My Chemical …

Paris Hilton wriggles in a one-piece black Shay Todd swimsuit with a Carl’s Jr. Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger in her hot little hand while washing a Bentley in a shot from a new 30-second TV spot debuting May 19. The woman has integrated herself into American popular culture with …

“Sound In Motion Pictures,” two programs dedicated to motion picture sound, will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on June 9 and June 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Open to the public, the evenings will feature unique audio …

Ground-breaking bluegrass guitarist and singer Jimmy Martin died Saturday at the age of 77 in a Nashville hospice. Martin was diagnosed with bladder cancer over a year ago. “People have told me they enjoy the way I play bluegrass music and it makes me real happy. You know, there’s two …

The latest mainstream media scandal flourishes as Newsweek retracts story alleging American Guantanamo Koran abuse – Michael Jackson nowhere in sight. Various views: The Newsweek Debacle and Religious Ignorance By now, everyone has heard about the Newsweek story that claimed that some of the U.S. interrogators at Gitmo flushed a …

If an artist claiming he was duped out of a fortune by one or more trusted advisors isn’t the oldest story in the world, it is one of them. And it is so common as to be a cliche: the “creative” personality focused on translating impulse into reality, the attentive …