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Dana Falconberry's debut long-player gets "Fluorescent"

Paula Nelson will kick your ass

Making the rounds for the third annual HAAM Benefit Day, while the Black Angels walk with a zombie

Death Magnetic

Rubber Repertory's Casket of Passing Fancy makes you 500 offers you can't reuse

Q&A with Rubber Repertory's Matt Hislope and Josh Meyer

The Austin playwright unearths the inspiration for her spooky new play

Two different trios of African-American sopranos sing in Austin in two weeks

Acting great Charles Dutton closes out BAM, and Cap City holds a comedy caucus

John McCain choppered into hostile territory tonight. The GOP presidential candidate, who famously angered David Letterman when he skipped out on a Late Show appearance for a Katie...

Britney Spears hasn't been in court but, other than a few disparaging remarks made by potential jurors, she hasn't missed much. Testimony concluded Thursday afternoon in the...

Looks like "Little J" is getting some big face-sucking time on Gossip Girl . The photo to the left is the second saucy shot of J herself, Jenny (Taylor Momsen), canoodling with...

• Robert Pattinson took our advice and got himself out on to a red carpet at the Sex Drive premiere. Look at that hair. How is it even possible? • David Beckham...

J.J. Abrams and William Shatnerstill aren't on the same hailing frequency.  This time in the maddening, media-enabled relationship between the Star Trek reinventor and the Star...

OneindiaAngelina Jolie's child supportChina Daily - 21 minutes agoActress Angelina Jolie arrives for the New York Film Festival premiere of "Changeling" in New York, October 4, 2008. [Agencies] Angelina Jolie has joined an organisation to help immigrant children in the US.Why a seventh kid may be t. […]

Washington PostJohn McCain to David Letterman: 'I Screwed Up'People Magazine - 50 minutes agoJohn McCain made an apologetic appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, blaming nobody but himself for his much-ridiculed cancellation last month.Video: McCain On "The Late Show" CBSMcCain tells CB. […]

New York TimesStripping and Other Noble PursuitsNew York Times - 53 minutes agoBy MANOHLA DARGIS Pop go the dialectics in “Filth and Wisdom,” a tale of bumping and grinding your way to happiness from the hardest-working hard body in show business, that precision sex-and-beat machine turned firs. […]

Los Angeles TimesViolent 'Max Payne' misfires, painfully soUSA Today - 1 hour agoBy Claudia Puig, USA TODAY Max Payne couldn't be more appropriately named. Sitting through this stylish-looking but derivative, vacuous and bullet-riddled movie inflicts maximum pain.Review: 'Max Payne' Los Angeles Tim. […]

Seattle Post IntelligencerNational search for boy taken by police impostorsThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoLAS VEGAS (AP) - Two men posing as police officers kidnapped a 6-year-old boy in a drug dispute after entering his family's home and tying up his mother and her boyfriend, police said Thursda. […]

Steve Brodersen reported from Hollywood: HAYDEN PANETTIERE - The Heroes star got a new hair-do at a West Hollywood salon. She left the salon and smiled to the cameras on the way to her car. The last time Steve ran into the starlet, when she got her hair done, he graciously paid…

Cindy Crawford and her husband restaurateur Rande Gerber was also at Mr. Chow. On her way out the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model signed autographs and posed for a couple of photos before Rande whisked them away. See the rest of Steve’s day here

Hottie Billy Zane had dinner at Mr. Chow, by himself, on the same night he also went to the Christian Audigier Presents American Lord show at Smashbox. The charming star, who has 5 movies coming out, signed autographs, posed, and chatted with his fans before leaving the Beverly Hills eatery,…

Miley Cryus went to the Christian Audigier, L.A. Fashion Week event at Smashbox, and sat in the front row with her mom Leticia. Audigier presented American Lord on a runway lined with real grass. The Disney star was their to support her boyfriend, Justin Gaston, who was walking the runway. See…

Steve Reports: Hayden Panettiere - The Heroes star got a new hair-do at a West Hollywood salon. She left the salon and smiled to the cameras on the way to her car. Good thing she didn’t get ticket, like the last time she went to get her hair done. See the rest of…