Singer CeeLo Green reveals he's been engaged for 1 year
NEW YORK (AP) — Recording a new album isn’t the only thing CeeLo Green has done in the last year: The singer revealed that he also proposed to his longtime girlfriend.
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Injured but energetic Fetty Wap performs from seat at show
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (AP) — “Trap Queen” rapper Fetty Wap was a bit of a trapped king at a concert Thursday night: The performer, who is recovering from a motorcycle accident, performed sitting from a throne in New York with his foot held up.
Peek behind bars: Inmate art show depicts life on death row
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ndume Olatushani jokes that he “couldn’t even draw a crooked line straight” when he arrived on death row almost 30 years ago.
Australian pop-punksters 5 Seconds of Summer go global
Australian pop-punk sensation 5 Seconds of Summer have gone from YouTube fame to a world tour, with a follow-up to their hit debut album out Friday. The four young men from Sydney, who reject any comparison to the British boy band One Direction, say they are going for a darker, deeper sound in their new album “Sounds Good Feels Good”. Anyone from Queen, INXS, endless rock bands and classic rock,”
Keith Richards joins all-star gathering at Apollo Theater
NEW YORK (AP) — From Keith Richards saluting vocalist Merry Clayton of “Gimme Shelter” fame to an all-star gathering of jazz musicians paying tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the stage of the Apollo Theater was a showcase for friends stepping up on behalf of honored and absent guests.
13 museums named recipients of art conservation grants
NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen museums in seven countries have been named recipients of Bank of America grants for the conservation of artworks ranging from an Edouard Manet painting to a colossal ancient Chinese Buddha.
Olympic Skier Gus Kenworthy Comes Out as Gay: ''I Couldn't Be More Proud to Tell You the Truth''
Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy has come out as gay. The 24-year-old athlete, who won a silver medal in Men’s freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, penned a…
Years after CBS scandal, answers to Bush questions elusive
NEW YORK (AP) — Rushing to meet a deadline proved to be the downfall of Dan Rather and his CBS News team when their story questioning former President George W. Bush’s military record collapsed in 2004, a media scandal that is the basis of the current film “Truth.”
Sanders, Burton, Shepp named 2016 NEA Jazz Masters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp and vibraphonist Gary Burton are the newest recipients of the nation’s highest jazz honor.
Fox torn over Cubs prediction in 'Back to the Future II'
NEW YORK (AP) — While some of the predictions made in “Back to the Future Part II” eventually came true, like Skype and fingerprint scanners, one of them did not: The Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.