Topic “entertainment”

By Rick Bentley (McClatchy Newspapers)

LOS ANGELES — Motherhood didn’t start so great for actress/singer Jennifer Lopez.

She was in such pain after having a Caesarean section to deliver her twins in 2008, Lopez couldn’t hold the newborns. Despite all the pain, she turned down all offers of painkillers.

When the pain got so bad, a crying Lopez told her then-husband,...

By Patrick Kevin Day (Los Angeles Times/MCT)

This fall, Ellen DeGeneres will join Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, George Carlin and Will Ferrell in a very exclusive comedy club: recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The Emmy-winning host of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” is being honored for her stand-up work, her daytime show, her various...

By Tamara Lush (The Associated Press)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Public libraries in several states are pulling the racy romance trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” from shelves or deciding not to order the best-seller at all, saying it’s too steamy or too poorly written.

Even in the age of e-books and tablets, banning a book from a public library still carries weight because...

By Becky Cairns (Standard-Examiner staff)

Read more: Michelle Tanner's life combines medicine, music

The Ogden Music Festival returns to its home at Fort Buenaventura for this year’s June 1-3 event.

Flooding at the fort in 2011 prompted a move to North...

By Linda East Brady (Standard-Examiner music writer)

Blame Sally

“Live At KVIE Studios: A Concert for Public Television Volume 1”

The Berkeley, Calif., Americana band Blame Sally has been around for a good decade, but broke through in a big way with the 2011 release “Speeding Ticket and a Valentine.”

That CD debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard...