What exactly Alicia Keys is now free from isn't clear, despite the portentousness of the album's title and its spoken intro. What her freedom has allowed her to do, presumably, is to securely strap on the pop straitjacket she wore a bit more loosely on 2007's "As I Am." ...more

December 17, 2009

They donated, they came, and they had great seats to President Barack Obama's inauguration. ...more

January 21, 2009

Here comes "American Idols Live," aka America's largest cover group. Since the tour kicked off on July 1, the 10 finalists from the show's seventh season have been on the road, playing venues large and small, singing established songs that fit their various strengths and styles. ...more

August 15, 2008

Alicia Keys' show Saturday night featured all the bells and whistles - troupes of dancers, an elaborate, multi-tiered stage, costume changes, even an introductory film starring Cedric the Entertainer as a minister preaching to a young Keys who is "about to go on a journey." ...more

May 25, 2008

Tom Petty didn't sing a single note. His Heartbreakers didn't strike a single chord. Not so much as a rim shot was heard Thursday from the band that will perform during the halftime show at this year's Super Bowl. ...more

February 1, 2008

New York WR Plaxico Burress has caught 16 passes for 197 yards in the postseason, but his bold prediction is receiving a lot more attention than his on-field performance. ...more

January 30, 2008

No longer content with being the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige now has her sights set on being, well, Queen. ...more

January 10, 2008

With her third album, Alicia Keys has created her most successful combination of neo-soul, contemporary R&B and pop-rock yet. And that's a little scary. ...more

November 23, 2007

If nautical nonsense be something you wish, it helps to be patient. When SpongeBob SquarePants unleashes "Atlantis SquarePantis," another of his periodic special episodes tonight, it will have been a long time coming: more than a year from the time the animators at Nickelodeon's Nicktoons studios in Burbank sat down to sketch the outlines of a story about SpongeBob's quest to the lost city of Atlantis until the episode was delivered to the network. ...more

November 12, 2007