Rev. Al Sharpton, center, gestures toward Linzell Vaughn, left, father of Rutgers sophomore basketball center Kia Vaughn outside CBS headquarters in New York yesterday. Oprah didn t ask the one question I wanted to hear...

SHANGHAI, China - China's Culture Ministry has nixed a concert this month by rap artist Jay-Z at Shanghai's Hongkou Stadium, citing a need to protect local hip-hop fans from nasty lyrics, a report said Wednesday...

Here's a batch of newly released DVDs, spanning a variety of genres. "Gridiron Gang" (Columbia, 2006, PG-13, $28.95)...

In the late eighties, two teen-age skateboarders, Camilo (Chino) Moreno and Stephen Carpenter, met in Sacramento and began talking about music...

BASIC INSTINCT 2 Sharon Stone reprises her star-making role as seductive novelist Catherine Tramell in a sequel that begins where the ice pick left off...

Edited by Harry Maurer In a chockablock week, private equity continued its rampage. On Nov. 19, Blackstone Group agreed to buy Sam Zell's commercial real estate unit, Equity Office Properties Trust ( ), for $36 billion including debt...

A global mix of British stars, Hispanic ingenues, hip-hop royalty, politicos and Oscar winners united under one language at this year's Academy Awards parties: glamour...