One of the people in the ASAP Rocky assault case in Sweden is off the hook -- but it's not the rapper or his two American companions who have been let go.

While Rocky and the others have been behind bars in Stockholm and under investigation since early July without charges being filed, a counterclaim was filed against one of two men seen on ...Read more

Purple Mountains

"Purple Mountains"

(Drag City 1/2)

It's a big bummer that David Berman's marriage to his wife, Cassie, fell apart and that the former leader of the Silver Jews seems to be going through a midlife crisis so grim that he's written a breakup album full of songs with cheery titles such as "All My Happiness is Gone" and "Maybe I'...Read more

No one takes possession of a cultural space like Beyonce.

We saw it happen in 2016 when she easily outshone Coldplay during its own Super Bowl halftime performance. We saw it happen last year when she remade the world's most prestigious music festival as Beychella.

Now we're seeing it again with Disney's new version of "The Lion King," in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Felicity Huffman is waiting to learn whether she'll be spared or sent to prison after pleading guilty amid the college admissions scandal and admitting she paid $15,000 to fix her daughter's SAT score -- a "transgression," in her words, that "I will carry for the rest of my life."

Now, her co-stars and co-workers on a Netflix ...Read more

PASADENA, Calif. -- British actor Jack Bannon learned early on that he's a rotten salesman. While he was struggling to be an actor he worked at the Gap for seven years, from the time he was 16. "I was so bad that they used to encourage me to go into the stock room and pile things up rather than be on the shop floor because I didn't really like ...Read more

STOCKHOLM -- U.S. rapper ASAP Rocky will remain in Swedish custody following a fight in the country, a district court in Stockholm said on Friday after negotiations behind closed doors.

The rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, has already spent two weeks in a Swedish jail, following a brawl.

President Donald Trump weighed in on the news, ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Rapper Tay-K was found guilty of murder Friday for his part in a home invasion robbery that left a 21-year-old father dead and another man wounded.

Jurors also found the 19-year-old guilty of aggravated robbery in connection with the robbery and shooting of Zachary Beloate, who was wounded but survived.

Tay-K, whose real ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Calling Jussie Smollett's prosecution a "travesty of justice," the actor's attorneys on Friday laid out arguments for his innocence in the case that made him an object of widespread derision and sparked the greatest crisis of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's career.

Far from being the architect of a hoax hate crime, Smollett's...Read more

The other day, I tried an Impossible Burger, a plant-based concoction that's meant to taste like a hamburger and did, sort of.

Then I went online to read about it (note to self: next time try this first) and found that it's basically a way to deliver the same heart-stopping saturated fats we find in red meat, only through a plant pipeline.

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SAN DIEGO -- By day, Cash Branson is a mild-mannered human resources worker from Pittsburgh. But this weekend, he will transform into Iron Man, Daredevil, Grandmaster and a handful of other superheroes at San Diego Comic-Con.

Branson, whose cosplay name is Capt Cash (he's @CaptCash on Instagram), is one of the thousands of Comic-Con attendees ...Read more

The now defunct Pan American World Airways started booking flights to the moon in 1964 and approximately 100,000 passengers had signed up to take the lunar excursion before the company stopped taking reservations seven years later. Pan Am enrolled applicants in its First Moon Flights Club with each membership card getting a number based on the ...Read more

When former DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg agreed to co-host a high-wattage Hollywood fundraiser this week for Joe Biden's presidential bid, people may have assumed the former vice president was his pick for 2020.

Hollywood's key fundraiser has donated the maximum allowed, $2,800, to Biden. But he's given the same to Kamala ...Read more