Freddie Mercury

Hello and welcome back to America’s Got Talent. This is Chris in KS, here once again to bring you all the action from tonight’s “faux” finals. All during the last two weeks we were led to believe that this week......

2 stars (out of 4) The prolific Kevin Barnes, the Athens, Ga., songwriter prone to appearing in outrageous costumes on stage (or sometimes wearing nothing at all), brings a blast of much-needed flamboyance to frequently staid, self-serious indie rock....

He's entirely too tall.  And he probably can't sing nearly well enough to pull that off without lip-syncing. But Sacha Baron Cohen certainly looks enough like the late rock icon Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) to play the guy on the big screen....

Leave it to Charlyne Yi to go from “Knocked Up” to would-be Freddie Mercury. The comedienne, best known for a brief but memorable role in the Judd Apatow comedy and a star turn in “Paper Heart,” a 2009 semi-documentary about her are...

Rating: 2 stars (out of 4) As Lee DeWyze discovers on his first album after winning “American Idol,” his career is no longer entirely his own. That’s the case with every would-be artist who survives the annual popularity contest. They......

It’s still unclear what the producers of “American Idol” are attempting to teach contestants on group night. Maybe it is supposed to remind them of those dreaded group projects in high school, where the final grade depended on the...

Much like last night's DWTS finale, after two hours, we will eventually discover who the winner is on this final show of the American Idol season. Scotty or Lauren? Lauren or Scotty?But first, there are all sorts of musical performances......

THEATER REVIEW: "Alien Queen" ★★½ Through Dec. 18 at Circuit Nightclub, 3641 N. Halsted St.; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $15-$25 at 800-838-3006 or www.scootyjojo.com. You might not see an immediate connection between the greatest hits...

Debbie Harry. David Bowie. Freddie Mercury. Photographer Mick Rock captured these and other rock legends in indelible images throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Now the British lens man has mounted a show of some of his most memorable photos......

Check out those racist Disney characters for yourself....

The rise and fall of the Go-Go's is well known — and well televised. One month after the single "Our Lips Are Sealed" came out in 1981, MTV was launched and songs from the double-platinum "Beauty and the Beat" were soon in constant video rotation....

Theater critic Charles McNulty and pop music critic Ann Powers began their conversation about the changing sound of the Broadway musical in the lobby of the Sam S. Shubert Theatre in New York, where they ran into each other at a Sunday matinee of...