Billionaire, Opel heir, philanthropist and renowned art collector Gunter Sachs shot himself in the head on Saturday in Gstaad, Switzerland.
This week's new music is built for time travel. Feel the flashbacks and step into the future. 
In true New Orleans fashion, the food was exceptional, especially by festival standards, offering local staples and fair ground oddities like soft shell crab po' boys, boiled crawfish and muffulettas.
Though Spencer Susser's dark comedy hangs in there for about half of its running time, it eventually runs out of ideas and goes soft, when it's been hard-edged from the jump.
When MTV first started airing 16 and Pregnant, I was riveted -- until Teen Mom came along.
History is repeating itself on Broadway. Ben Stiller made an auspicious Broadway debut in a revival of The House Of Blue Leaves 15 years ago. Almost to the day, he stars in a new mounting of John Guare's blackly comic play.
The Airborne Toxic Event has sort of a magical thing going on. You can identify with most of their songs, and on Friday, an NY crowd ranging from tweens to older men sporting port bellies surely did.
This weekend's release reflects the industry's increasing reliance on that forbidden joy of my childhood -- the comic book -- to justify its existence. But many of the nation's critics readily drank the Thor Kool-Aid.
There is a new generation of women bluegrass musicians, inspired by and grateful to the trailblazers that went before.
Brandi: My greatest piece of advice -- and it's not taking a shot at individualism -- is to band together with other artists, and to completely abandon the idea of the competitive nature of music.
Though Armenian singer singer Emmy never tells us what her lover's kiss is actually like, the video implies it's as powerful as a punch delivered by a boxer wearing silver stilettos and black spandex.
Countless numbers of bands have been supported by the introduction of the internet, however hundreds of others have faded into the fast paced world of the internet, never to be clicked on.
The stars came out at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 30, 2011. The black tie affair was the place where politicians, news correspondents and Hollywood types all came together.
It's kinda scary how accurately we can now predict opening weekend grosses just based on the midnight number, but the math once again worked.
Do not fret, boys and girls, because summer school is back in session at Drag U and Professor Luzon will be transforming everyday women and inspiring them to unleash their inner divas.
Is Thor the film that will bring a Shakespearean gravitas to comic book drama, or is it just table setting for the impending The Avengers movie?
Sometimes good moms get short shrift in the media. So this Mother's Day, MomsRising wants to celebrate a few of our favorite moms of the silver screen!
Burst Apart is a soulful soundtrack to the aftermath: floating calmly and inevitably away from something, and, maybe, toward something else.
Come on guys! You knew your sister was dating Prince William for eight years, if you had any clue at all, Pippa, you wouldn't have danced in your bra and James, you wouldn't have been photographed naked.
Shawn Amos, 2011.05.10
