Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Natalie Cole poses backstage at the 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP) (Updated 1/1/2016) LOS ANGELES (AP) —  Natalie Cole, the Grammy-winning daughter of Nat “King” Cole” who carried on her late father’s musical legacy and, through […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Weight Watchers is getting another boost from Oprah Winfrey. In this Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015 file photo, Oprah Winfrey attends the premiere of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s (OWN) documentary series “Belief” at The TimesCenter in New York. Weight Watchers is getting another boost from Winfrey. The weight loss company’s shares are […]

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is helped as he arrives for a court appearance, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby was arrested and charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in January 2004. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) Elkins Park, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby was arrested in the twilight […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bertolt Brecht’s epic play “Mother Courage and Her Children” may be about the horrors of war, but a new off-Broadway production is revealing real conflict offstage, too. In this Aug. 5, 2014 file photo, actress Tonya Pinkins attends the opening night of “King Lear,” in New York. Bertolt Brecht’s epic play […]

American comedian, actor, author, educator and activist Bill Cosby poses for a portrait, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP) NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal charges brought against the comedian out […]

Bill Cosby (left) and accuser Renita Hill (right). (AP Photos) PITTSBURGH (AP) — Attorneys for a western Pennsylvania woman who contends Bill Cosby repeatedly drugged and had sex with her in the 1980s have filed a response to Cosby’s attempt to have a federal judge dismiss her defamation lawsuit against him. Cosby’s attorneys last week […]

In this Dec. 31, 2104 file photo, counterterrorism officers, foreground, armed with an explosives detection device, far right, watch as other police officers inspect revelers entering a cordoned off area in Times Square in New York, on New Year’s Eve. On Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015 New York City officials sought to assure potential revelers that […]

Gladys Knight LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gladys Knight is asking God to look after one of her beloved band members who has died. Knight and her brother, Merald “Bubba” Knight, released a statement Sunday about Pips member William Guest, who died last week at 74 of congestive heart failure. “We have lost many along the […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There are two questions Ruth Fine has heard repeatedly from visitors emerging from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ comprehensive retrospective of work by artist Norman Lewis. A woman views the exhibit titled, “Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis,” Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Guest, a member of Gladys Knight and the Pips, has died. He was 74. In this Jan. 17, 1996, file photo, Gladys Knight, center, William Guest, left, and Merald Knight take the stage as they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during ceremonies in New York. […]

Bobby Hill (Photo by Racha Penrice) Fourteen-year-old Bobby Hill is ending 2015 on a high note. Since blowing away Pope Francis and the world with his impassioned rendition of “Pie Jesu” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1985 “Requiem” during September’s 2015 Festival of Families in Philadelphia, Hill has found himself in heavy demand. December has been […]

Recording artist Trey Songz poses for a portrait. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen) (Updated 12/24/2015) PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer Trey Songz delivered shoes and gift cards to dozens of needy children in his hometown of Petersburg. The Progress-Index (http://bit.ly/1J6I408) reports that the entertainer surprised 68 children Wednesday with the early Christmas presents, including gift cards. […]