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Queen Latifah is selling her “palace” in the Jersey town of Colts Neck for $ 2.14 million. Queen Latifah is leaving her castle — but only for a princely sum. The Grammy-winning singer and actor has just listed her six-bedroom New Jersey estate for $ 2.4 million. Keith Bedford/The New York Daily News Queen Latifah said she has great memories ...

Few guitarists’ fingers move faster than Johnny Winter’s. But however blistering his leads, they never sacrifice their deep, bluesy feeling. Winter retains that balance even as he approaches a daunting birthday. On Feb. 23, he’ll turn 70. “Better old than dead,” he says with a laugh. The milestone won’t go unmarked. Leading up to the big day, Winter will begin ...

James Keivom/New York Daily News Bono and the rest of U2 will return with a new album in 2014. New year, new sounds. While 2013 seemed to have blown music’s wad by crowding so many superstar releases into the Fall – shoving in Beyonce and Justin Bieber in just the last few weeks – that clears the deck for some ...

MPNC/MPNC/AKM-GSI School of Seven Bells guitarist Benjamin Curtis, pictured in a January event at the Union Square Doc Marten store, died of cancer Monday. DALLAS — Benjamin Curtis, guitarist and co-founder of the popular indie-rock band School of Seven Bells, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 35. Brady Brock with New York-based GoldVE Entertainment, which co-manages ...

Ian Gavan/Getty Images for MTV Miley Cyrus assumes the position to twerk during the MTV Europe Music Awards, held in Amsterdam in November. Good thing the Lake Superior University ban is on the use of the word and not on demonstrating it. At the risk of running afoul of the word police, Miley Cyrus better not take a selfie of ...

Kevin Mazur/AMA2013/WireImage R. Kelly and Lady Gaga performed onstage during the 2013 American Music Awards on November 24, 2013. Lady Gaga is proving she can do what she wants for 2014. At the stroke of midnight the pop diva will drop a new version of her single “Do What U Want” with newfound bestie Christina Aguilera, reports Time. NBC/Trae Patton/NBC ...

beyonceVEVO Beyonce’s new song, ‘XO,’ isn’t going over well with family members of the astronauts killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. One of Beyonce‘s new songs has struck the wrong chord with family of the victims of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The pop star’s new song, “XO,” opens with a six-second audio sample that originally was ...

YouTube Chuck Patterson broke ground for African-American actors on Broadway. Chuck Patterson, who helped pave the way for other talented African-American actors trying to make it on Broadway, died two days before Christmas. He was 68 and lived in Harlem. Patterson was cast back in 1975 by actor/director George C. Scott in his Tony-nominated production of “Death of a Salesman” ...

infusla-52/Karl Larsen/INFphoto.com Former pop princess Britney Spears’ awkward-looking ab’ wasn’t the talked of her first show in her two-year Las Vegas run, it was her onstage lip-syncing. Oops, she did it again. Britney Spears has been busted lip-syncing her way through her much-hyped Vegas residency. RELATED: BRITNEY SPEARS KICKS OFF LAS VEGAS RESIDENCY WITH STAR-STUDDED AUDIENCE Confidenti@l revealed in September ...

VLAD TV Glenn Thomas, known as Doe B., was shot and killed at The Rose, a Montgomery, Alabama, night club with a history or violence. A young rapper that was a member of T.I.’s Grand Hustle was killed in a shooting at a bar in Montgomery, Ala., Saturday morning. Doe B, born Glenn Thomas, and Kimberle Johnson, 21, also of ...