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Crooner Barry Manilow is officially off the market.

Los Angeles motorists are used to confusing parking regulations, but a few signs recently posted around town probably upset some reality TV fans.

Under the plan, 135 of the state’s biggest water-using communities–including Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Palos Verdes–will be forced to cut use by 35 percent to comply with Gov. Jerry Brown’s executive order to cut statewide use by 25 percent this year, according to the New York Times.

Sir Elton John and REM singer Michael Stipe issued a joint statement Tuesday calling for the protection of transgender inmates in the Georgia prison system.

Usually, when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shows up to protest a movie, the filmmakers and animal trainers politely smile and nod, aware that there’s nothing they can say or do to satisfy the animal rights crusaders.

A couple of days after Rihanna premiered her new single “American Oxygen” at the March Madness Music Festival in Indianapolis, the music video for the song debuted.

California attorney general Kamala Harris (D) on Monday reported raising $2.5 million in her bid for outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat in 2016.

Rihanna headlined the March Madness Music Festival in Indianapolis on Saturday, where she debuted her long-awaited new song “American Oxygen” and unloaded with both barrels on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

Miley Cyrus just won’t quit trolling Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK).

Azealia Banks may want to steer clear of First Lady Michelle Obama for a little while; in a new interview for her Billboard cover this month, the rapper revealed that she wants to have sex with the President.

Miley Cyrus took to her Twitter account Thursday afternoon to urge her nearly 20 million followers to call Sen. Tom Cotton in response to the freshman Republican’s support of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Phelim McAleer, writer and producer of the upcoming Ferguson theatrical play, is firing back at criticism from writer Kevin O’Keeffe, who contended in a blog post this week that the playwright’s stage adaptation of the shooting of Michael Brown will “reignite racial tensions.”

Funny or Die, the online comedy outlet co-created by funnyman Will Ferrell, has hired a former Obama administration official to manage a new office it will open in Washington, D.C.

On Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order introducing new mandatory water restrictions in an effort to cut statewide water use by 25 percent.

California Gov. Jerry Brown finally pulled the trigger Wednesday, ordering mandatory statewide water restrictions for the first time in state history. While Brown has been criticized for his slow, “lame” response to California’s water problem, the fact is, we are

Parents in Essex, England were shocked to learn that an American pornography company shot a racy film aboard a historic steam train attraction that has long been popular with the area’s children.

A New Jersey university cancelled rapper Common as graduation speaker just hours after his selection when police expressed concerns about a song the rapper wrote that appears to sympathize with a convicted cop-killer.

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Wednesday mandating a 25 percent cut in statewide water use, the first mandatory water restrictions in state history.

Tom Hanks’ rapper son Chester, aka Chet Haze, took to Twitter to threaten radio shock jock Howard Stern this week after Stern questioned Haze’s gangsta credentials as the son of a famous Hollywood celebrity.

In a lengthy interview with the Daily Beast’s Marlow Stern, astrophysicist and TV personality Neil DeGrasse Tyson offered up a defense of Scientology, criticized Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and disputed Stern’s claim that President George W. Bush’s administration waged a war on science and global warming.

Celebrities have flocked to Twitter to make their displeasure about Indiana’s new religious freedom law known. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed Senate Bill 101 into law last week, a law which prohibits state and federal government from limiting a person’s ability to exercise their religion. Critics on the left have argued that the bill is anti-gay.

In what’s become something of an annual tradition, Google has unveiled a new online doo-dad on the first of April. This year, it’s a fully playable version of Pac-Man built into Google Maps.

Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is already a commercial hit for the network.

A number of celebrities who defected from the Church of Scientology have praised the new HBO exposé Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, after the film made its cable debut Sunday night.

Documentarian Alex Gibney’s new HBO exposé Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief has raised new questions about the church’s classification as a nonprofit organization and its resultant tax-exempt status.

Alex Gibney’s new film, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, debuted on HBO Sunday night.

Deadline co-editor-in-chief Mike Fleming Jr. apologized Sunday for his outlet’s publishing of a much-maligned piece that suggested television pilots’ increased casting of minority actors in the 2015 season represented “too much of a good thing.”

The California State Assembly transportation committee voted unanimously last week to name a San Francisco tunnel after the late Robin Williams.

The director of a new exposé on Scientology claims that former church members who participated in his documentary have been threatened with violence and blackmail by church officials.

Twitter wasn’t laughing after Jamie Foxx cracked a joke at the expense of TV star and former Olympian Bruce Jenner. Foxx, the host of Sunday’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, made the joke during his opening monologue: “We’ve got some groundbreaking performances here,

Selfie sticks—long, handheld poles used to capture that perfect photo of oneself—are among the list of items banned at some of this year’s most popular music festivals, including Coachella and Lollapalooza.

The play, written by journalist, producer and documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer, will be the first to explore the controversial shooting of African-American teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri last summer.

The first trailer for Starz’s upcoming Patrick Stewart-led show Blunt Talk premiered online this weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLBPSSVVOe4 Blunt Talk, created by Bored to Death‘s Jonathan Ames and executive produced by Family Guy heavyweight Seth MacFarlane, centers on Walter Blunt, a British

The amount of water frozen in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains fell to just eight percent of the historic average this week, as the state struggles through a devastating fourth year of drought.

Television producer Rob Long sat down with Variety’s PopPolitics radio show this week to offer up a number of theories as to why the entertainment industry–and Hollywood in general–is overwhelmingly liberal, and what the Republican Party can do to make headway among the Tinseltown crowd.

Angeline Jolie took home the orange blimp for “Favorite Villain” at Saturday’s Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for her role as a wicked witch in last year’s Maleficent. In her acceptance speech, Jolie told her young audience not to be afraid