Four finalists face off Monday on 'The Voice' finale
UNDATED -- It's finals time for "The Voice".
Entertainment
'Avengers' ups dollar power with $207.4M opening
LOS ANGELES -- "The Avengers" has extended its box-office superpowers with a record $207.4 million opening weekend domestically, an even bigger start than originally projected.
Florida library bans steamy best seller
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Bondage, seduction and sexual domination are all things you don't expect to find inside a library, but they are all inside New York Times bestseller "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Review: In praise of Clarence Birdseye's curiosity
UNDATED -- "Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man" (Doubleday), by Mark Kurlansky: The author who told us more than we ever thought there was to know about cod ("Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World") and salt ("Salt: A World History") is back with a more traditional biography.
Love, family, drugs: Gregg Allman tells it all
NASHVILLE, Tenn -- Gregg Allman thinks about his late brother Duane every day. And once in a while, he can feel his presence.
Beverly Hills Hotel marks 100 years of swank
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif -- Stand on the Beverly Hills Hotel's red carpet, leading into its chandeliered lobby, and you can't help but visualize a century's worth of celebrities, royalty, politicians, musicians and actors who have stayed there, from Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor to Madonna, Reese Witherspoon and Katy Perry.
Warren Littlefield's NBC a far different era
NEW YORK -- After being fired as NBC entertainment president toward the end of the "must see TV" period in 1998, Warren Littlefield packed photos, papers, awards and other memorabilia into a self-storage unit and turned the key.
Review: Bio details revolution in approach to food
UNDATED -- "The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance" (Free Press), by Thomas McNamee: Many of us can no longer remember what life was like before arugula and balsamic vinegar became part of the larder, celebrity chefs strutted their stuff on TV and the term "foodie" made its way into common parlance.
Sculptor known for 'LOVE' works sued by Monaco man
ROCKLAND, Maine -- An art buyer from Monaco has filed a lawsuit against Pop artist Robert Indiana, the sculptor known for his "LOVE" works.
At home with Toni Morrison
GRAND VIEW-ON-HUDSON, N.Y -- The Hudson River extends like the sun from the back of Toni Morrison's house, illuminated and infinite, undimmed by an unseasonably drab spring afternoon.
Tradition and sunshine close out Jazz Fest
NEW ORLEANS -- The Neville Brothers carried on the tradition of closing out the big stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The Funky Meters, regulars at the fest since 1989, were back, too. And festival creator George Wein played with an all-star cast at the Preservation Hall and Friends 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera
NEW YORK -- Absent from the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, Benjamin Britten's great maritime tragedy "Billy Budd" has made a brief but welcome return in the season's closing days.
Muti to conduct Vivaldi, Verdi concert for Pope
VATICAN CITY -- Riccardo Muti will be conducting a concert in the Vatican in honor of Pope Benedict XVI.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band marks 50 years at fest
NEW ORLEANS -- The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has marked its 50th anniversary with two concerts at New Orleans' Jazz Fest featuring a number of old friends.
George Lindsey, known as TV's Goober Pyle, dies
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.
Is the Vogue vow more hype than health?
NEW YORK -- Lip service or sea change? Skeptics wonder whether Vogue magazine's vow to ban models under 16 or those of any age with visible signs of eating disorders is more hype than health.
Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47
NEW YORK -- Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced rapper who helped make the Beastie Boys one of the seminal groups in hip-hop, died Friday. He was 47.
Police: No evidence Lohan hit club manager
LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors rejected filing a charge against Lindsay Lohan stemming from a March incident in which a nightclub manager claimed she struck him with her sportscar.
Kim Kardashian wants divorce to move forward
LOS ANGELES -- Kim Kardashian's attorney told a judge Friday that the reality star wants her divorce from Kris Humphries to move forward but that the case has been slowed by the NBA player's hurt feelings and his desire for an annulment.
Teen points out inaccurate map to NYC's Met museum
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map that was on exhibit. The map purported to show the Byzantine Empire at its largest size in the 6th century, but he noticed that Spain and part of Africa were missing from the depiction.
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