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Metal icon, mate, and spawn back for second season: MTV’s hugely anticipated second season of The Osbournes will premiere just two days before Thanksgiving, on November 26 at 10:30 p.m., Sharon Osbourne confirmed to E! News Live. There has been much speculation that MTV might push back the debut episode …

Piano great’s songwriting claim against Chuck Berry tossed: So it goes in St. Louis, where a federal judge has tossed a royalties lawsuit filed against the rock icon by former sideman Johnnie Johnson, the pianist immortalized in Berry’s classic “Johnnie B. Goode.” Johnson sued Berry in 2000 claiming to have …

Network to continue documentary probing links between swelling and retardation: “The Anna Nicole Show” will return to E! for a second season next year, the network said Thursday. Despite condemnation from critics and a sharp decrease in viewers after its highly rated premiere, “Anna” emerged as a solid performer for …

Microsoft – a law unto itself? Microsoft Corp. apologized to New York City for blanketing public property with hundreds of butterfly decals used to promote the company’s new MSN 8 Internet service. “We apologize to the City of New York and the people of New York City,” Yusuf Mehdi, the …

Grass roots work-arounds are popping up all around the music biz. It isn’t just the major labels that are failing the needs of many music fans: At the end of a tree-lined cul-de-sac in Falls Church, I park and make my way up the winding brick path to the front …

Is skipping commercials “stealing“? ReplayTV lawsuit against Hollywood: A federal court today [October 15, 2002] affirmed the right of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to represent ReplayTV owners in their lawsuit against 28 motion picture and television industry companies. Craig Newmark of craigslist.org and four other ReplayTV customers are suing …

Art Garfunkel writes songs for the first time at 60: Now, the 60-year-old performer is trying to break out of that image as he makes his songwriting debut on his new album, “Everything Waits to Be Noticed.” “We have an image of ourselves, and we carry ourselves all through life …

The Observer has an ongoing series on Kurt Cobain’s diaries, including images of the actual journals, and Barney Hoskyns’ essay on his importance: “There’s something wrong with that boy…” noted William Burroughs when, in 1993, Kurt Cobain dropped in to pay his respects in Lawrence, Kansas. ‘He frowns for no …

Steve Earle's Jerusalem.

AOL Time Warner to Build $483 Million Movie Studio in China.