Whitney Houston

'The Voice' recap: The top 5 compete in the semifinals

2013-06-11 07:49:00

"The Voice" will send two of its top�five singers home on Tuesday night, eliminating them ahead of next week's season finale. But on Monday's semifinal performance show, which Usher kicked off by taking the stage with his new song "Twisted," it actually...

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi buy Montecito mansion

2013-05-31 21:19:00

Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, have bought a 13-acre estate in Montecito that had been listed at $26.5 million. The purchase price has not yet appeared in the public record. The restored Tuscan-style villa and...

Flight diverted to toss passenger who won't stop singing Whitney Houston

2013-05-14 11:37:00

Singing on a commercial flight is not illegal but apparently it can get you thrown off a plane if you refuse to stop. That was the lesson learned by a woman on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York last week. The flight was diverted...

Reporter's Notebook: How five girls won 'American Idol'

2013-05-16 15:37:00

For those following “American Idol,” most of the focus has shifted toward incendiary headlines on sagging ratings, bitter rivalries and the likely mass exodus of the judges panel. It’s a shame, really, considering the aging competition...

Herald Examiner photographers reflect on the good ol' days

2013-05-12 20:05:00

Nick Souza doesn't remember developing the film of what he considers his most noteworthy front-page photo. He doesn't even recall printing the image. What he does remember is "standing on a giant ladder in the middle of Broadway" to photograph co-...

Bandleader Rickey Minor asks $4.95 million for Hollywood Hills home

2013-05-14 07:00:00

“The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” bandleader Rickey Minor and his wife, Karen, have listed their Hollywood Hills compound at $4.95 million. The gated more than half-quarter acre site contains a main house, a detached guest house, a sports...

Jenni Rivera, public and private, seen at the Grammy Museum

2013-05-11 06:00:00

The high-heeled ostrich-skin boots belonged to an ambitious and gifted young singer, one of many similar pairs she owned in the days before she could afford designer labels. The silky couture evening gown was a totem of that same woman's meteoric rise...

RIAA adds gold, platinum awards for digital music streams

2013-05-09 14:52:00

Sales are no longer the only path to gold and platinum in the music business. The Recording Industry Assn. of America, the music business trade association that certifies and issues the storied gold and platinum awards, will now hand out precious metal...

Carole King honored with Gershwin Prize

2013-05-23 10:06:00

Carole King has amassed some impressive accolades in her storied five-decade career. Now she can add the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to her mantle. The prolific singer-songwriter was feted with the songwriting award — named...

Review: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' is robotic with heart

2013-05-18 08:00:00

For a sense of the random oddities that dot Daft Punk's strange, funky, cosmic new album, "Random Access Memories," consider a partial discography of the musicians employed by the two Frenchmen in service of its creation. The duo, Thomas Bangalter and...

'The Voice' recap: Teams Adam and Usher take it live

2013-05-07 09:38:00

"The Voice" stepped out for its first live show of the season on Monday night, when the members of Teams Adam and Usher took the stage to compete for next week's top 12. Viewers will vote to put through two singers from each team of four, then each...

Bobby Brown wearing ankle monitor for DUI sentence

2013-03-22 08:33:44

The spare video is sort of hard to watch now, given Houston's death. But there's the voice. Always, the voice.

2013-04-16 13:00:00

One of Whitney Houston's early magazine modeling spreads is on display at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, California.

2013-03-15 00:00:00

Whitney Houston photographed before an audition at a record label in 1982.

2013-03-01 10:30:00