The pop music world was a very different place in September 1991, the last time Guns N' Roses released new material. The albums - Use Your Illusion I and II , issued simultaneously - debuted atop the charts and would eventually sell more than 14 ...
23 Nov 2008
Al Pacino , Oliver Stone , Brian De Palma , they just don't get it. A quarter century since its December 1983 release, Scarface remains a towering pop-cult phenom, a hyperactive gangster pic embraced by hip-hop artists, gangsta rappers, frat boys ...
22 Nov 2008
One big play, one championship victory -- that's how it shook out for Clairton yesterday. The explosive Bears offense, bottled up for almost all of the WPIAL Class A championship game against Monaca at Heinz Field, connected on a 71-yard touchdown ...
22 Nov 2008
Uh-oh. Kanye sings! That's sort of like hearing that Michael Jordan wants to play baseball, or Elvis is going to take up acting—and we know how those ventures turned out. Kanye West 's ego trips have been well documented. He has trouble with anger ...
22 Nov 2008
Last week's conviction of State Sen. Wayne Bryant in New Jersey for corruption prompts today's look at local political scandals. 1. Abscam was an FBI investigation begun in 1978 in which agents posed as Arab sheikhs or their representatives and ...
22 Nov 2008
In his debut novel, Chuck Klosterman makes all the mistakes you'd expect of a best-selling pop culture critic who describes his own work as "philosophy for shallow people." He overwrites, for instance. Within the first 15 pages, we are subjected to a ...
22 Nov 2008
Though Fleet Foxes are worlds away from Nirvana and the 90s grunge launched by Sub Pop, the indie label that signed them, the Seattle-based group is wooing unlikely critics worldwide with its unique pastoral folk sound.
23 Nov 2008
Culinary snafus pop up throughout Thanksgiving Debacle of 1991
22 Nov 2008
When the "pop, pop, pop" of gunfire sounded on a recent night, residents in the 3300 block of Walters Lane in Forestville said they knew better than to step outside. Instead, one man paced the worn carpet of his apartment, fiddled with the sword and shotgun he keeps propped inside the front door,...
22 Nov 2008
Belgian pop artist Guy Peellaert, whose surreal pictures for the 1972 cult book "Rock Dreams" brought him worldwide attention and led him to design album covers for the Rolling Stones and David Bowie, has died. He was 74.
22 Nov 2008
The Chili Lions and Southside Cyclones will play for the Pop Warner Football Eastern Region championships today in New Jersey.
22 Nov 2008
Our Central Virginia Pop Warner JM Chiefs could never have advanced so far without the leadership of Trevor Henry.
21 Nov 2008
He's Just Not That Into You, based on the New York Times Bestseller of the same name, opens in theaters February 6, 2009.
22 Nov 2008
Today, we look at how pop music copes (and even thrives) with death. We're joined by Graeme Thomson, author of the self-explanatory book, "I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death By Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, ...
22 Nov 2008
1730 Garnet Ave. San Diego (858) 483-2600 (Next to VONS in Pacific Plaza) Many of my longtime readers know that I harbor a deep and abiding affinity for the working class hero of the sandwich world, the cheese steak. I...
22 Nov 2008
She's glad radio is supporting pop artists again.
22 Nov 2008
Bendable circuitry has been demonstrated before, but now stretchable and severely twisted electronics are possible.
22 Nov 2008
Up to the minute breaking news from the world of music, from the editors of Rolling Stone.
21 Nov 2008