Portland Hip Hop Artist Luck-One will be celebrating the release of his "Outtakes" EP with a show at Backspace, 115 NW 5^th Ave. on Saturday, Nov. 20.

In March, one of Portland's newest dance crews will be traveling to New York City to perform on BET's "106 and Park" show to compete with other dancers from across the nation for a $5,000 prize.

Tinsel and spotlights; costumes and sparkles: this is what dreams are made of. For little girls who long to be superstars, landing a part in a Christmas show is a dream come true. Aliemah Bradley is the envy of those budding actors this Christmas.

Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay-Z, wasn't always a cultural icon married to Beyonce' who had parlayed his success as a rap artist into a multi-millionaire empire with a host of diverse holdings ranging from a record label to a music publishing company to a clothing line to a nightclub chain to an NBA team.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Do you want to know when Jay-Z and Beyonce plan to have children? Those behind-the-scenes moments hanging out with Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow? And what really happened between Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella co-founder Damon Dash?

Tinsel and spotlights; costumes and sparkles: this is what dreams are made of. For little girls who long to be superstars, landing a part in a Christmas show is a dream come true. Aliemah Bradley is the envy of those budding actors this Christmas. The 11-year-old novice auditioned for a part with Portland Center Stage's A Christmas Story, and was rewarded with two understudy roles and a part in the ensemble cast.

Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun for movies opening Nov.12, 2010

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was born in Brooklyn to a Puerto Rican mother and a father of Haitian extraction. Blessed with a rebellious nature, he ran away from home a lot during adolescence, finally leaving for good at 17. Moving to Manhattan, he dropped out of school to fritter away his days spray-painting his alias "Samo" all over the city, because as he put it, "The whole object of doing graffiti is fame."

Set inside a bar in the Congo, where music, drink and sex provide a respite from the long-running war, Ruined won a 2009 Pulitzer prize. This year the play was a hit at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where it was part of the 2010 season.  If that's a surprise to you, you might not know that Oregon Shakespeare Festival does a lot more than present classic Shakespeare plays ...

Michael Jackson's record label released a new single over the weekend. "Breaking News" is available for free and many people are speculating whether the late pop star is actually the one singing or not.