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Bon Jovi posts highest grossing concert tour of the year
Movie review: 'Blue Valentine' is an unsettling portrait of love
Clooney, Google, UN join forces to monitor north-south Sudan border to avert new civil war
DJ Earworm releases his annual United State of Pop mashup
Andrew Dawson helped Kanye West engineer a success in 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'
Reese Witherspoon engaged to agent Jim Toth
KCET-TV announces children's programming, digital lineup changes
Rihanna and Dodgers' Matt Kemp call it quits, split
Univision demonstrates its ratings steel

Bon Jovi posts highest grossing concert tour of the year

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 07:59 PM PST

The band, which topped $200 million, is followed by AC/DC, U2, Lady Gaga and Metallica.

Movie review: 'Blue Valentine' is an unsettling portrait of love

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

The white-hot and the chilly gray of love are poignantly explored in a film that gives Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling room to behave like the rest of us.

Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine," starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, is a beginning and an ending, an intensely intimate rendering of love that limits itself to that first falling in and that last falling out.

Clooney, Google, UN join forces to monitor north-south Sudan border to avert new civil war

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 04:28 AM PST

A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month.

DJ Earworm releases his annual United State of Pop mashup

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:24 AM PST

DJ Earworm's annual collection of the year's biggest hits, mashed up into one catchy (synthetic, faux-rave) hit.

Andrew Dawson helped Kanye West engineer a success in 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 07:07 PM PST

Dawson's take on the recording process unearths some fresh perspective that you won't find in the liner notes of "Fantasy."

Dawson's take on the recording process unearths some fresh perspective that you won't find in the liner notes of "Fantasy."

Reese Witherspoon engaged to agent Jim Toth

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 04:43 PM PST

The two join a laundry list of high-profile names slated to be wed in the new year.

KCET-TV announces children's programming, digital lineup changes

Posted: 29 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

The station adds some shows to replace lost PBS kids programming and will launch KCET Kids & Family Channel and MHz Worldview.

KCET-TV has already made clear that it will no longer be telling children how to get to "Sesame Street." But that's not the only kiddie fare that the public- television station is relinquishing once it assumes its new guise as an independent channel on Saturday.

Rihanna and Dodgers' Matt Kemp call it quits, split

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:16 PM PST

The couple, who were together for almost a year, called it quits in recent weeks due to geographical incompatibility and because, well, she "basically was just over it."