NEW YORK - The falsetto-voiced boys from Jersey and the high-spirited lads from Britain are now the new princes of Broadway.

It'll be a Jersey kind of night around MTV.

NEW YORK — There’s no other sight like this in sports: An elegant old performance hall, packed with bellowing fans in every color.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - In a global series of concerts featuring aboriginal dancing, imitation chimpanzee cries and a lot of reunited rock bands, musicians and celebrities called for fans to take action against global warming.

Legend has it that when a scruffy, skinny kid from New Jersey named Bruce Springsteen walked into the Columbia Records offices in Manhattan with an acoustic guitar to audition for John Hammond — who had signed Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan earlier in his illustrious career — Springsteen played "It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City," and Hammond knew after 15 seconds that he was going to sign him.

The Jonas Brothers are on the phone and getting a little testy about questions regarding the current tour’s jump in ticket prices from $47.50 to $89.50.

Picking through all of the albums of 2005 and coming up with a Top 10 list of the best discs of the year is a daunting task for any music fan. Tossing out the bad stuff is easy, but with so many great records coming out this year, how can anybody narrow it down to just 10?

Skirt-chasing playboy ninnies have feelings, too. Thus it is deemed in “Just Friends,” a semi-earnest sex comedy done in the Farrelly Bros. style: a bit of raunch, a bit of mawkishness and — it must be said — a modest landfill of silly, low-brow laughs.

 Last year the first day of the Tempe Music Festival featured headliner Lifehouse, a mainstream alt-rock band that had much in common with Saturday’s headliner, The Fray.

Gerry Cullity, founder and artistic director of Desert Stages Theatre, wiped the dried plaster from his hand before offering a handshake.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — When most singers make the leap from recording artist to movie star, it's usually a well-calculated career maneuver that requires show-business acumen from an army of agents, acting coaches, managers and publicists. However, for bubbly sixth season "American Idol" champion Jordin Sparks, the jump from stage to screen just, well, kinda happened.

Why does Bon Jovi crank out an unending string of relentlessly upbeat, unavoidably catchy songs in the style that made the Jersey boys famous 30 years ago and kept them there 'till now?

New Yorkers gathering to watch the famous Waterford crystal ball drop in Times Square don’t have a thing on Arizona’s high country.

“The River” (9 p.m. EST Tuesday, ABC) — a sprawling new sci-fi mystery set against the backdrop of the Amazon River — looks to be this season’s answer to “The X-Files” and “Lost.”

ATHENS – Georgia’s offensive line will look different when the Bulldogs take the field Saturday, but head coach Mark Richt insists the changes won’t be drastic.

Wyatt and Zia Rogers skateboard around their Tempe neighborhood. Otis Clyne and twin siblings Lily and Rusty are regular concertgoers. Tate Zall loves sushi, while younger sister Morgan is more into spicy foods. And none is older than 6.

RUMSON, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen has a Halloween treat for his fans.

From fashion to music, vintage is “in” these days. “Memphis,” the Tony Award-winning musical on stage this week at ASU Gammage, taps into that vibe.

NEW YORK - "The Drowsy Chaperone," a daffy musical about one fan's favorite 1920s show, took 13 Tony nominations Tuesday, including for best musical.

NEW YORK — "The Addams Family" musical has found a home on Broadway.

As drummer in a forgotten New Jersey band in the 1960s, David Chase never got close — never even got close to close — to making it in music. Yet from a sound check of his rock-infused HBO series "The Sopranos," it's clear the music never faded away.