Jim Carroll, punk poet and author of The Basketball Diaries, died on Sept. 11th of a heart attack in his NYC home. He was 60.

Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Mary Travers , one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years.

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Kanye West has told Jay Leno that he's going to take some time off for reflection after ruining Taylor Swift's night at the MTV Video Music Awards. West said Monday that he knew he was wrong as soon as he handed the microphone back to Swift. He had interrupted Swift on Sunday night as she accepted a best female video award to argue that Beyonce was more deserving. West told Leno: "It was rude, period." Obama called Kanye a "jackass" off the record.

MARCY, N.Y. - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the Charles Manson follower convicted in 1975 of pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford, is moving to upstate New York, local officials said Tuesday. Oneida County Undersheriff Peter Paravati and state police spokesman Lt. Glenn Miner said federal authorities notified their offices about Fromme moving into the area. District Attorney Scott McNamara said he was notified by state police that the 60-year-old Fromme was moving to Marcy following her release last month after serving 34 years in federal prison.

Jennifer Aniston says that her boobs are real and all boob job rumors are total BS

The Beatles made U.K. music chart history this week, breaking a record for having the most albums by a single artist in the top 60 positions at one time. The Beatles have 16 albums in the top 60, breaking the record of 14 set by Elvis Presley in 1977.

American Idiot, the new musical borrowing characters and songs from Green Day's hit punk-rock concept album of the same name, opened this week after previews from Sept. 4 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California.

WNTI and Black Potatoe, Inc. are proud to announce Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles. Tickets are now on sale for Sarah Borges at Centenary College, on 11.06 at 8:00pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- County music star Toby Keith has been voted songwriter/artist of the decade by the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Keith will be honored at a ceremony on Oct. 18

CBS veteran soap opera "Guiding Light" faded to black yesterday -- after an astonishing 72 years on radio and TV.

Sales of The Beatles: Rock Band video game have exceeded expectations to the point that Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says one of the most expensive versions of the game may be sold out before Christmas. According to Dauman, stock of the $250 "Limited Edition Premium Bundle" version of the game may run out by November.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jay Leno's new prime-time chat and comedy TV show lost more than 7 million viewers on its second night after a slew of bad reviews but was still the No. 1 U.S. network show of the night, audience ratings figures showed on Wednesday. "The Jay Leno Show" was watched by 10.7 million Americans on Tuesday night, compared to a revised 18.4 million on its Monday debut, according to Nielsen Media Research.

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