An episode of “Big Love,� the HBO series about a polygamous Mormon family has courted controversy with the Mormon church....

Fox dominated Tuesday night’s ratings as the final 12 singers competed on “American Idol,� attracting 24.2 million viewers....

“This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,� by Drew Gilpin Faust, has won the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize....

A production of a new play by Richard Bean at the National Theater in London provoked a protest in the theater on Friday, BBC News reported. The play, a comedy titled “England People Very Nice,� chronicles 300 years of immigration patterns in the London neighborhood of Bethnal Green, as the area...

As Monty Python fans will gleefully remind you, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, and for nearly 30 years, nobody in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth expected that the troupe’s 1979 film, “Life of Brian,� would be screened in the village. The movie, a satire on the life of Jesus, had been b...

A new movie version of the musical “Damn Yankees� is rounding the bases and heading for theaters....

Daptone Records, the Brooklyn soul label that releases albums by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band among others, was burglarized over the Presidents’ Day weekend, the label’s co-founder, Gabriel Roth, said in an e-mail message reported on BrooklynVegan.com. Mr. Roth wrote that nu...

At the Grammy Awards, the punk rock band Blink-182 announced that it had reunited. No tour dates or recording plans for Blink-182 were announced....