My wife, our 4 year-old daughter and I enticed my parents to watch the baby and darted the luxuriously short distance to our brand new cineplex (stadium seating, all that new crap), right here in burgeoning Aurora, to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and other than my …

Toby Keith and Ted Nugent are kicking the testosterone around in Iraq as part of a USO tour. I wonder of the Dixie Chicks were invited: More than 500 soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen crowded around a stage at a U.S. installation to hear country star Toby Keith and 1970s …

Jennifer Lopez and her big butt have married Marc Anthony – no, not the Roman general, the Latin singer: Jennifer Lopez reportedly married Marc Anthony in a small ceremony at her home, less than six months after she ended her high-profile engagement to Ben Affleck. For Lopez, 34, the marriage …

Ronald Reagan has died at 93 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s – his legacy is viewed from starkly different perspectives: Ozyreaganus + The Second Faith Based Initiative Turning and turning in the widening quagmire The puppet cannot hear the puppeteer; Lies fall apart; the press releases cannot hold; Mere …

A good friend has just lost his wife, only 37, to cancer. The case is doubly heartbreaking because they had been married just 14 months and each thought they had finally found happiness. Positive stats about cancer declining and becoming more manageable are abstract comfort to the individuals – and …

The most interesting aspect of the turmoil that has beset the broadcast media, its corporate masters, the FCC, and the public in the wake of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl slip has been the philosophical arguments either for or against media content regulation. Many have taken an absolute or near-absolute …

McDonald’s is the latest non-music company (Pepsi, Starbucks) to use free music as a marketing tool: McDonald’s is partnering with Sony’s Connect download service to offer free digital music to its patrons. Through the international Big Mac Meal Tracks promotion, McDonald’s customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal …

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Clear Channel has settled with a Denver concert promoter who alleged CC radio stations wouldn’t play songs by artists not playing CC-promoted concerts: Clear Channel Communications Inc. has settled a lawsuit with a Denver promoter who sued the No. 1 radio chain over charges it threatened to keep artists off …

Did you expect her to be ugly? Nice American Beauty pose. If you are 20, a model, surfer, and choreographer, you too can be Miss Universe (unless you are a man, or don’t look like Jennifer Hawkins): Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins, a 20-year-old choreographer and avid surfer, won the Miss …