Jessica Simpson to market Stampede Lite beer Jessica Simpson is now selling beer. The singer and actress has signed on as spokeswoman for Stampede Light Plus, made by Dallas' ...

Vintage Video - Ben Folds Five We can pretty much guarantee this is the best song about abortion you'll hear all day.

Video - The Verve The Verve has a video to whet your appetite for its new album.

New Dillinger Four Album This Fall The Dillinger Four's set a release date for its long-awaited next album.

RIAA Takes Down Muxtape Gee ... who would have thought, an obviously copyright-infringing web service is offline after a run-in with the Recording Industry Association of America.

Pete Doherty, Babyshambles Banned from Festival Pete Doherty and his band are officially a threat to public safety.

Lightspeed Champion Gives It a Rest How does a solo artist go on hiatus exactly?

Kid Quits School to Play Guitar Hero Professionally You're probably pretty far deficient in your parenting skills if you're cool with the idea of your 16-year-old son dropping out of high school to become a professional Guitar Hero player.

Against Me Taps Tegan Quin for Video Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara is returning to her collaboration with Against Me for a music video.

Makeup Artist To Movie Stars Paul Starr Found Dead Paul Starr, a makeup artist famous among the stars, was found dead in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Brad Pitt And Keira Knightley Among Big Names Confirmed For T.O. Film Fest There will be more stars in Toronto next month than there are in Hollywood.

LeRoi Moore, Saxophonist And Founding Member Of The Dave Matthews Band, Dies At 46 Dave Matthews Band founding member and saxophonist LeRoi Moore has died of complications from his June ATV accident on Tuesday. He was 46.

Lavigne's Malaysian concert cancelled Canadian singer Avril Lavigne has cancelled her forthcoming concert in Malaysia following protests from a political party which claims the pop star is "too sexy" to perform in the Muslim country.

Gary Glitter fakes illness in Bangkok to miss UK flight Shamed rocker Gary Glitter was stuck at Bangkok airport on Wednesday after faking illness to avoid boarding a flight to Britain following his release from a Vietnamese prison for child sex abuse,......

Drum lessons to promote Irish Aid at festival The Government will be offering free drumming lessons to attract revellers to its Irish Aid stand at the Electric Picnic music festival.

Chris Kattan And Sunshine Tutt Seperate After Just Eight Weeks Only after eight weeks of marriage, "Saturday Night Live" funnyman Chris Kattan and his wife Sunshine Tutt have called it quits.

Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore Dies Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore dead. LeRoi Moore, injured in a June all-terrain vehicle accident, died Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, the Dave Matthews Band's Web site said....

Glitter stuck in transit as he refuses to fly to UK Paedophile rock star Gary Glitter was in limbo today after he failed to board a second flight to the UK following his release from a Vietnamese prison.

Lennon killer 'ashamed' Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, has admitted shame for the murder, but has been denied parole for the 1980 crime.

Liz Taylor back home Oscar-winning film star Elizabeth Taylor is back home and doing well following a recent stay of several weeks in a Los Angeles-area hospital.

Tom Cruise eyes comeback Tom Cruise is eyeing a comic book adaptation as one of three new films he hopes will turn around his stalling career.

Video: Christina Applegate double mastectomy but cancer free "Samantha Who?" star Christina Applegate, 36, is free of cancer after having both breasts removed to combat the disease, the actress told a U.S. television news show on Tuesday....

Glover slams 'racist' Hollywood Actor Danny Glover has branded Hollywood studio bosses racist after failing to secure financial backers for a biopic of revolutionary Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Brown sued by lawyers Bobby Brown's lawyers are suing the singer for $90,000 they claim he owes them in unpaid fees.

Fishburne will replace Petersen on 'CSI' LOS ANGELES – “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has solved the mystery of who will replace departing CBS star William Petersen: It’s Laurence Fishburne.

Glitter fakes illness in Bangkok to miss UK flight BANGKOK (Reuters) - Shamed rocker Gary Glitter was stuck at Bangkok airport on Wednesday after faking illness to avoid boarding a flight to Britain following his release from a Vietnamese prison for child sex abuse, Thai police said.

Fan fury over festival 'rip-off' Hundreds of music fans are angry and out of pocket after their tickets for the V Festival at the weekend failed to turn up.

Goody back home for cancer tests Reality TV star Jade Goody is back in the UK for tests and treatment after being told she has cervical cancer.

Glitter in limbo after refusing to board UK flight Shamed rock star Gary Glitter was in limbo today after refusing to board a flight to the UK following his release from a Vietnamese prison.

Dave Matthews sax player dies from accident injuries LeRoi Moore, saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, has died from injuries he received in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle, it was announced today.

Fiction review: 'The Little Book' has brio The Little Book By Selden Edwards Dutton; 405 pages; $25.95 Slow train coming: Selden Edwards began writing "The Little Book" in 1974 and finished it 33 years later. One might expect its dramatically delayed arrival to overshadow the work itself, but this...

Review: 'Rocker' For those who miss "The Gilmore Girls," you can not only catch Alexis Bedel in "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," but now you can also revisit one of the former TV series' subplots in Peter Cattaneo's "The Rocker." The opening date of the film was shifted...

'Traffic' author Tom Vanderbilt on driving Driving in America can make a person crazy. The jerk in the SUV cuts in front of you and blocks your vision. The ditz on the cell phone doesn't bother to signal when slowing down for a right turn. And then there's that slick car with the windows tinted so...

Tough times force merger of film groups Film Arts Foundation, the 32-year-old multimedia nonprofit that has been a leading force in teaching, funding and building a community around Bay Area film, has died. But long live the Film Arts Foundation, albeit in an altered form. The 51-year-old San...

Les miserables, G.O.P.-style Vacationing in the Chesapeake Bay area, Marsha Monro Wright discovered that both Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld live on Misery Lane in St. Michael's, leading to her observation, "Misery loves company." Historic misery: The blacklisting of the Hollywood 10 is...

Saw a movie the other night called "Man on Wire." I had to go online to find... Saw a movie the other night called "Man on Wire." I had to go online to find the times because Landmark Theatres has no longer consented to pay the money required by The Chronicle to get into the Movie Guide. I think the listings are a public service and...

Letters to Datebook: Landmark Theatre Editor - About a week ago, The Chronicle stopped carrying the Landmark Theatres movie listings in Alameda County. Can you please explain why? This lack of information is a significant inconvenience. AARON MARCUS Berkeley The San Francisco and Bay Area movie...

Happy day in Milwaukee as the Fonz is cast in bronze - actors at unveiling They're giving two thumbs up to the bronze Fonz in Milwaukee. Dozens of people lining the Milwaukee River downtown cheered as a bronze statue of the "Happy Days" character was unveiled Tuesday. Actor Henry Winkler stroked his hair and smiled as he inspected...

Christina Applegate loses both breasts Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services.

R-rated comedies move to the head of the class in Hollywood In comedy, Hollywood has learned that raunch sells. Studios prefer their funny flicks in the benign PG-13 mold, a rating that keeps the...