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UNITED CENTER When you're in a town competing against the likes of Ozzie Guillen, Lou Piniella, Lovie Smith and Vinny Del Negro, it's easy to understand why you could fly under the radar.

The gala featured cocktails, live and silent auction, sit-down dinner and entertainment by the Grammy Award winning R & B band The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards.

"It is arguably the single most powerful antiwar act in American history," Martin Sheen once recounted about the May 17, 1968 burning of draft files in Catonsville, Md., by nine unusual suspects to protest the Vietnam War.

Robin Williams has signed up to star in a comedy father and daughter pilot for CBS from David E. Kelley , titled "Crazy Ones." CBS' lineup includes four new sitcoms, plus a familiar face returns to the tube, and so do a few others: Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn, Margo Martindale, Beau Bridges, Toni Collette.

"Pilot" -- CBSa s new single camera comedy WE ARE MEN is about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love.

Today, the CBS announced its Prime Time Schedule for 2013-4. Below, get a first look at new comedies WE ARE MEN, MOM, THE MILLERS and THE CRAZY ONES and new dramas HOSTAGES and INTELLIGENCE! Official synopsis of the series follows: WE ARE MEN is a single-camera comedy about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly ... (more)

CBS Wednesday unveiled its new 2013-2014 schedule, featuring eight new series - five comedies and three dramas - to build on the strength of America's top-rated network.

CBS ' fall schedule features five new series. After considering expanding its Thursday comedy block to two hours last years, the network did it this year, with The Big Bang Theory and Two A Half Men flanking newbies The Millers starring Will Arnett and The Crazy Ones starring Robin Williams.

The Department of Justice's seizure of two months' worth of Associated Press phone records stinks.

As Madison Avenue buyers packed into the Beacon Theatre on Monday, they were greeted with Fox's annual dose of star power -- and 90 minutes devoted to cutting through in a changing landscape.

Pistol Annies, the country music trio comprised of Grammy Award-winning artist Miranda Lambert and singer-songwriter pals Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe, will perform their television debut of "Unhappily Married" off their new album, Annie Up, on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Tuesday, May 14 on the CBS Television Network.

You knew the mainstream media was biased, but this is incredible. It was revealed today that CBS News President David Rhodes' brother is Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in rewriting the Benghazi talking points.

When " The Mentalist " first launched in 2008, the series was introduced as a procedural featuring a main character who could "read between the lies." Haunted by the one mystery he couldn't solve , Patrick Jane would use every trick in the book to bring guilty parties to justice, no matter what ethical lines he may cross in the process.

Jamie Foxx poses with the MTV generation award backstage at the MTV Movie Awards in Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver City, Calif.

Two piano and duet selections of classical composers such as Piazzolla , Barber and Ravel will be presented by pianists Jeeyoon Kim and DJ Smith in a program of dance music that will include tango, waltz and samba.

Saturday evening, C-SPAN broadcasts coverage of the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner , featuring the event's entertainment, comic Conan O'Brien, along with remarks from President Obama; CNN's coverage starts at 9. Lifetime Original Movie "A Sister's Revenge" doesn't tell us why this woman wants revenge, but it starts with her ... (more)

"That's an undergrad," second-year MBA student Tom Lundstedt said, pointing across the Uris Hall lobby at a dress-and-Keds-clad girl making her way into Watson Library.

Newcomers to Indianapolis who attended "Spotlight 2013: Seeing Red," Monday at Clowes Memorial Hall on the campus of Butler University, surely must have come away impressed with the deep well and variety of talent - not to mention generosity - that exists in our city.