USHER SAYS HE 'RETIRED' NOT 'FIRED' HIS MAMA: Singer says he let her go last year to be a full-time grandma. *Usher wants to make it clear that he did not fire his mother as his manager just days before Mother's Day last year. He simply "retired her," the singer says in Vibe magazine's July issue.
Groovy chick rock stars have to come from someplace. Dayton, Ohio is as good a place as any. Dayton-born twins Kim and Kelley Deal were among the coolest sex symbols of the post-Nirvana mid-1990s.
The early catalog by ragtag greats the Replacements has just been reissued. The band is (in an early 1980s photo), Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, Chris Mars and Paul Westerberg.
Tonight.Double feature. The Denver Art Museum's savvy film series "Take Two" offers a resonant double-bill: "Detour" and "Blood Simple," noir classics of the B and A variety.