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Last year, if I had been made to guess what would become my favorite album of 2009, I would have been, in a word, wrong.

Lambert said the Indiana Welcome Center's gift shop also sells "Region Rat" T-shirts, John Dillinger memorabilia including a small replica wooden gun, and memorabilia from the South Shore Air Show in Gary.

As lead singer of The Supremes, Diana Ross was an integral part of the Sound of Young America in the '60s. As a solo artist, she was a critically acclaimed Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues in the early '70s, and multi-platinum dance diva at the dawn of the '80s. A pretty good run when you think of it.

Power 105 radio will be on-hand giving away premiums and raffling off tickets to see Mills in the "Thanksgiving Weekend Extravaganza" concert this weekend.

And last night they surprised. The two biggest winners at last night's AMAs were Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson .

Also available : "A painting of Charlie Chaplin done in the hand of Michael Jackson at the age of 9 years old," the acoustic guitar he played on the set of the The Wiz , "chocolate from Jackson's wedding to Lisa Marie Presley," and other memorabilia of the same disturbingly bodily ilk.

WHAT: Washington State University's Opera Workshop's "Love for Young and Old" with "Princess Ida" and "The Old Maid and the Thief." WHEN: 8 p.m. today Last week at the University of Idaho Kiva Theatre, the halls were filled with rich harmonies of the lyrics of "Heart and Music" as students gear up for a night of Opera and Musical Theatre Scenes at ...

A stalwart band of friends emerges in "The Wiz" at Rockland District High School.

Jennetta M. Howell is 29 years old, and has behind her just two experiences as a stage director, both of those coming in the last year.

Jazz performer Dee Dee Washington will sing tunes Billie Holiday made famous on Friday evening at the Music Center at Strathmore.

The Alliance Theatre production of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre , starring Andre De Shields and Ariel Shafir, officially opens in Atlanta Nov.

Film Festivals often provide audiences a great chance to see movies that don't make it to first run cinemas or even old movie channels.

Now THAT's scary! The Gosselins, Brangelina, Balloon Boy, Sarah Palin and Jacko are some of the celebs knocking on your door and asking for candy this Halloween.

Michael Jackson would have worked on his song, "Dirty Diana," for his 'This is It' tour on the day he died.

Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' extends its run. . The AP reports that SONY has taken in $101 million in box office for the movie so far--$68.5 internationally and $32.5 in the United States.

But while his cinematic achievements previously peaked with The Wiz , it doesn't mean that Michael Jackson didn't have ambitions for bigger film projects in the future.

"I would like some way to disappear where people don't see me anymore at some point.

Dee Dee Bridgewater lives her life with her ears open. Speaking by phone last week from her home outside Las Vegas, a reporter's typing on the other end of the line distracted her and led her to mention how she typed 120 words a minute and wrote shorthand years ago.

This Is It! premieres tonight, four months after the sudden death of pop legend Michael Jackson .

The fourth annual East End Black Film Festival hosted by the African-American Museum of the East End returns to the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton next week, with screenings on Saturday, November 7, starting at 1 p.m. Light refreshments will be served, including ethnic food by Gloria's of the Hamptons; the cost for the entire day is $5. A ...