Firefighters were dispatched to the home at 1101 Noyes Ave. just before 6 a.m., Assistant Chief Greg Robbins said. Several other teenagers in the home at the time of the fire were able to escape...

And now for your very favorite blog item of the week . . . CHART ROUND-UP! As per usual, things have fallen off a bit in the week after the retail bonanza that was the Xmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa push. Nonetheless, albums were, in fact, sold...

James Brown, the singer, songwriter, bandleader and dancer who indelibly transformed 20th-century music, died early yesterday in Atlanta. He was 73 and lived in Beech Island, S.C., across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Mr...

LILONGWE, Malawi (Reuters) -- Malawi human rights groups on Friday went to court to stop Madonna from adopting a one-year-old Malawian boy, saying the adoption was illegal and could amount to officially sanctioned child trafficking...

Okay class, here's the deal: I'm testing a funny daily blog called: -- with a "take no prisoners" brand of humor that unloads in Pop Cuture's face. Just some of the topics we'll smear are movies, TV, media, fashion, music, and celebs...

FIRST there was the dress made from the Welsh flag, famously sported by Shirley Bassey and copied by Welsh women across the country...

Guitar star Tom Morello is best known for intergalactic riffs and the uncanny ability to make his six-string sound like everything from scratching turntables to charging elephants, first with Rage Against the Machine and now Audioslave...