TBS/Meghan Sinclair(LOS ANGELES) — On Tuesday night, Conan O’Brien returned to TBS with a slimmed-down, 30 minute late-night show. Airing at 11 p.m. ET/PT, the revamped Conan still features sidekick Andy Richter, but the shorter, four nights-a-week format will allow O’Brien to do more of his acclaimed remote segments. “I am happy to announce that…
KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein suffered a setback on Tuesday when a judge in New York denied his request to pause a class action suit brought against him in June by 10 of his female accusers, according to court documents obtained The Hollywood Reporter. Weinstein argued there was an overlap between the civil…
Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic for HBO(NEW YORK) — Sopranos creator David Chase didn’t wander far from the tree to cast a young Tony Soprano for a new prequel film: Michael Gandolfini — the son of the late James Gandolfini, who played mob boss Tony on The Sopranos — just got the gig. Deadline reports the movie’s…
ABC/Yolanda Perez(NEW YORK) — Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar-winner and four-time host of the ceremony, is giving her take on how the Academy should open the upcoming awards show. “I would like them to open it with the guys from… Bohemian Rhapsody,” Goldberg said on The View, reacting to the Academy’s nominations announced Tuesday morning. “I think if…
Credit: Michael HelmsFormer Eagles guitarist Don Felder has started amassing a variety of North American tour dates, starting with a three-show stand in Niagara Falls, Canada, on January 31, February 1 and February 2. Felder’s itinerary also features a special charity gig on February 15 in Victoria, Texas, as well as a series March concerts…
Courtesy of Graceland LiveBoz Scaggs, Chubby Checker and Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer are among the artists performing at a recently launched concert series held near the late Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. The Graceland Live series features concerts by various well-known performers at two venues: Graceland Soundstage and the Graceland Guest House…
Polydor/UMeHere’s some news that should make James Brown fans feel good: The Godfather of Soul’s 1988 rarities compilation Motherlode will be reissued as a two-LP vinyl set on March 8. The expanded collection will include three extra tracks that were featured on a 2003 CD re-release of the album but have never appeared on vinyl…
ABC/Heidi GutmanThe members of Green Day are parting ways with a few things in their collection. The punk trio is selling more than 100 pieces of gear through the online gear marketplace Reverb.com. Among the 44 guitars frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is putting up for sale include the Harmony Stella Parlor Acoustic Guitar he used…
Kuzma/iStock(PHOENIX) — Police in Arizona have made an arrest in connection with a woman who gave birth to a baby boy while in a vegetative state.The 36-year-old suspect, Nathan Sutherland, was arrested after investigators obtained a DNA sample Tuesday, according to the Phoenix Police Department. Police said that they had determined that his DNA matched…
Chalabala/iStock(CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C.) — Authorities are urging people to help them in “an emergency search” for a missing 3-year-old boy in North Carolina.”We are doing everything we can to find this child,” Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told reporters Tuesday night. “We are utilizing all resources at our disposal.”Casey Lynn Hathaway went missing from the…
recep-bg/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — The union representing striking Los Angeles teachers reached a deal with the school district Tuesday to end the strike and increase teachers’ pay and shrink their class sizes. Teachers will head back to school on Wednesday.”This is a good agreement. This is a historic agreement,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.The mayor…
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A large storm that developed in the central U.S. is moving east on Wednesday and bringing snow, a wintry mix, severe weather and flooding rain.The storm dumped over 17 inches of snow in the mountains of Colorado, and widespread 2 to 4 inches of snow from the Colorado Plains to the…
clubfoto/iStock(NEW YORK) — A diet heavy on whole grains and plants won’t only benefit human health, it’ll benefit the planet too, according to a report published this week by a commission of dozens of experts from 16 countries.The report, published in The Lancet, attempted to determine the optimal diet for both humans and the earth,…
asiseeit/iStock(NEW YORK) — As the government shutdown stretches into its second month with no resolution in sight, how do we speak to our children about what’s happening?Families of government employees have gone over a month without a paycheck, making it difficult for some of them to afford housing, health care and food. Funding for government…
DragonImages/iStock(NEW YORK) — Charlotte Cho has made a living out of skincare.She is the co-founder, with her husband, David, of Soko Glam, a marketplace for Korean skincare, beauty trends and cosmetics.Cho, an esthetician, turned her obsession with beauty into a business idea right out of college. The California native now runs three companies, including her…
Anderson Hospital’s Pavilion for Women(MARYVILLE, Ill.) — The obstetrics unit of a small Illinois hospital only has around 80 employees.Eight of those employees — seven nurses and one nurse’s aide — gave birth to their own babies in a span of five months.“We’d go in and tell our boss and then a week later another…
