Madonna

Justin Bieber booed at Billboard Awards, says he's no 'gimmick'

2013-05-20 11:40:00

Justin Bieber was booed big time at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. The "Beauty and the Beat" singer took the stage Sunday to accept the first-ever Milestone Award, presented to him for being the first 19-year-old with five No. 1...

Madonna sells Fernand Leger painting for $7.2 million

2013-05-08 09:49:00

A Fernand L�ger painting owned by pop star Madonna sold for $7.2 million at a New York auction Tuesday. Madonna had put the painting up for sale to benefit her charitable group, the Ray of Light Foundation. The sale, which was part of a larger Sotheby's...

2013 Met Gala: Beyonce, Kimye, SJP are a few of our fave things

2013-05-07 16:38:00

Celebs and fashionistas playing dress-up? Sign us up. A-listers turned out in droves for the Costume Institute's annual gala Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which took on a punk theme this year. Stars get the greenlight to make...

Madonna costumes on view in L.A. for one-night exhibit at Macy's

2013-04-24 11:18:00

Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” wedding dress and Jean Paul Gaultier cone-bra corset are two of the iconic costumes in rock ’n’ roll history. And they will be on display to the public in L.A. on Thursday during a one-night-only...

Madonna selling Fernand Leger painting to fund girls' education

2013-04-03 11:48:00

Pop star Madonna is selling a painting from her private collection to benefit education initiatives for girls. "Trois Femmes � la Table Rouge" (Three Women at the Red Table) by Fernand L�ger�is worth an estimated $5 million to $7 million and will be...

'American Idol' recap: Top 8 tackle Motor City music

2013-03-28 08:45:00

The "American Idol" top 8 tackled the music of Detroit on Wednesday. That turned out to mean mostly Motown, but also, incongruously, a song by Madonna -- "Michigan's own Material Girl," Ryan Seacrest reminded us – and a countrified version of it...

Pop divas are making a spectacle of themselves

2013-03-22 08:00:00

Hours before Pink's recent show at Staples Center, creative director Baz Halpin is crouched beneath the stage in the dimly lighted corridor he calls "the underworld." That night, Pink's fans would witness the star scale a giant gyroscope, somersault�...

Madonna dresses like Boy Scout at GLAAD Media Awards

2013-03-18 08:47:00

For the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday night, Madonna put together an outfit reminiscent of a Boy Scout: navy shirt with badges, shorts, neckerchief, hat. And fingerless gloves. "I wanted to be a Boy Scout and they wouldn't let me," she said. The event...

Global music sales up 0.3% in 2012, first increase in 13 years

2013-02-26 10:46:00

When is 13 a lucky number? When it’s the number of years it’s taken for the music industry to post its first yearly increase in global recorded music sales, which is what happened in 2012, according to new figures from the International...

Benedict XVI, the best-dressed pope

2013-02-17 00:00:00

I'm a Catholic, but I'll admit it (or should I say "confess" it?): When Pope Benedict XVI announced his pending resignation, my first thought wasn't religious. It was in fact downright superficial. "There goes the best-dressed pontiff ever!" During...

'Give Me Everything You Have' is stalking victim's tale

2013-02-08 08:55:00

-------------------- Give Me Everything You Have On Being Stalked James Lasdun Farrar, Straus and Giroux : 224 pp., $25 -------------------- When someone crawls over Madonna's garden wall or breaks into Brad Pitt's house, it's unpleasant but not...

Madonna, Springsteen, Roger Waters were tops on tour in 2012

2012-12-28 17:39:00

Madonna was queen of the world in 2012, at least as far as touring pop music performers, delivering the highest-grossing concert tour of the year and raking in nearly $300 million at the box office worldwide, according to Pollstar, the concert-industry...

Under the category of "and now for something completely different," Bieber hit the stage after Madonna, once again proving that as nice a voice as he has -- and he does have a very good voice -- saggy-crotch harem pants can always detract from it.

2013-05-19 19:06:00

Madonna will collect a prize as top touring act at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.

2013-05-19 12:06:00

She still has the Material Girl style. Madonna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit on Monday.

2013-05-08 11:22:00