Back in the '70s, there used to be an ad on TV that said, "Parents, it's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"

Ding! Ding! That's the sound of the final round, American Idol fans. Kate Ward and Mandi Bierly are here to guide you through the biggest showdown in showbiz history, the fight of the century, the moment — stretched out over...

Greetings, stargazers, and welcome to the almost-summer edition of Noise! We find the climate unseasonably hot in world of celebrity news. My oh my. For the most part, it’s the ladies who are generating the heat — though the...

Read Mandi Bierly and Kate Ward's thoughts on the last show of the season -- and share your own

Idol's season 7 runner-up discusses his desire to make a debut album that's a little closer to Sarah Bareilles than, say, Dan Fogelberg, and also reveals his ongoing obsession with Billboard's international charts. Enjoy!

As if the life of independent musicians isn’t already difficult enough, DC-area reggae band JohnStone is forced to play the role of teacher and cultural ambassador at every show. They try to explain the history and social relevance of their music to audiences that all too often think that owning a copy of Legend is reason enough to list reggae in the “favorite music” section of a ...

Here's a short history of the evolution of gay playwrights in America. First, there was Tennessee Williams , the theatrical titan who created historic dramas like "A Streetcar Named Desire" but never wrote a play with an "out" gay character.

Five years later, the Cali mall-punks return with more mildly catchy doomsaying (By Jeanne Fury)

The look at young people in a changing China is stale and is unfocused with too many subjects. Early in “Young & Restless in China, " an ambitious "Frontline" look at several young Chinese over a four-year span, we meet Wang Xiaolei, who has a neck tattoo and a passion for rap music.