Mon May 7, 2012 9:12 AM EDT
Stand on the Beverly Hills Hotel's red carpet, leading into its chandeliered lobby, and you can't help but visualize a century's worth of celebrities, royalty, politicians, musicians and actors who have stayed there, from Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor to Madonna, Reese Witherspoon and Katy Perry.
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Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:04 AM EST
While a nearly silent, black-and-white throwback film to old Hollywood won best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards, after-parties around town celebrated present day Hollywood with explosions of color, conversation, pounding music and pure glee.
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Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:45 PM EST
Michael Davis, the bassist of influential late 1960s rock band MC5, has died of liver failure, his wife said Saturday. He was 68.
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Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:46 PM EST
As the soulful funeral of Whitney Houston played out a continent away, it was largely business as usual at the glamorous place where the singer died one week earlier. Yet from the fourth floor to the sidewalk out front, a sense of loss prevailed Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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Tue Aug 2, 2011 4:32 PM EDT
As a young teenager, before the fame, kids, paparazzi and front-row seats at fashion shows, Demi Moore regularly passed an Ann Taylor store at a local mall, taking note of the clothes.
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Mon Mar 7, 2011 2:47 PM EST
Indian designers Falguni and Shane Peacock have busted out of Bollywood straight through to Hollywood. Their champion? Britney Spears.
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Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:32 PM EST
Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Cee Lo Green, Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler. With pop stars, R&B singers and long-haired rockers galore at parties following the Academy Awards, the glam festivities felt more like the Grammys than Hollywood's biggest night honoring film.
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Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:11 AM EST
The kids of "Glee" and "The Social Network" weren't just all right after the Golden Globe Awards, they were downright giddy at several post parties, making a scene singing, dancing and celebrating their wins during one of Hollywood's most booze-and-boogie-filled nights.
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Thu May 27, 2010 8:02 PM EDT
A judge refused Friday to take temporary guardianship away from the paternal grandparents of two young children whose mother was found slain in Mexico.
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Mon Mar 8, 2010 9:36 AM EST
With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.
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Mon Feb 1, 2010 11:44 AM EST
The charity anthem "We Are the World" has been rerecorded by 80 artists who came together in the same Hollywood studio where the original was cut 25 years ago.
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Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:33 AM EST
Blasted by DJs at multiple post-Golden Globe Awards parties, Madonna's '80s anthem "Holiday" set an upbeat tone for the night despite rain, economic woes and concern over the earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:35 PM EST
Imagine if your holiday decorations were going to be seen by millions of people. That's the challenge for many TV-show set decorators as all the Christmas-themed episodes roll around.
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Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:02 AM EDT
The Swell Season, "Strict Joy" (Anti-)
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Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:07 PM EDT
Christie's auction house will offer up a portrait of Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol in New York on Nov. 10.
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Tue Oct 6, 2009 4:14 PM EDT
Gossip, "Music for Men" (Columbia)
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Mon Oct 5, 2009 2:58 PM EDT
A woman in a skimpy white bikini sashays next to a swimming pool. Onlookers gawk, men's tongues roll and music blares in the background.
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:00 AM EDT
Noisettes, "Wild Young Hearts" (Mercury)
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Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:50 PM EDT
Grammy-winning R&B diva Mary J. Blige summed up the Emmy after-parties during a soulful, sassy performance complete with a glittering golden microphone.
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Tue Sep 1, 2009 7:13 PM EDT
John Fogerty, "The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again" (Fortunate Son/Verve Forecast)
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Tue Sep 1, 2009 6:25 PM EDT
Thick black smoke hovers overhead as dozens of lions, tigers and other large cats roam actress Tippi Hedren's animal sanctuary, seemingly unfazed by a wildfire raging only a mile away.
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Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:00 AM EDT
The Tangier, Morocco, cliffside home of the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is up for sale.
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Tue Aug 4, 2009 2:51 PM EDT
Herbie Hancock has grand plans for his new position as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz.
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Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:27 PM EDT
Son Volt, "American Central Dust" (Rounder)
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Tue Jul 7, 2009 3:33 PM EDT
A cemetery that is the burial place for many celebrities was slowly returning to normal Tuesday after its latest service — a private memorial for Michael Jackson.
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