No matter how well Chinese Democracy ultimately fares upon release today, one thing seems almost certain: W. Axl Rose will not be satisfied.

"It's just television," Kiefer Sutherland scoffs at the notion that 24 's fictional black president may have helped pave the way for Barack Obama.

Now the truth is out. Not only did Angie steal Jen's man, ruin her marriage and take all hope away, she also tortures the poor, sad girl.

Web diversions for a lazy Sunday.

Ask Dennis Lehane why Richard Price is worth reading, and he'll tell you, "He's the best dialogue writer alive in my opinion. He's the best urban novelist out there."

"Good tasting and good for you," the ad slicks like to tell us. At last the slogan comes to a cocktail.

A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All is funny and stuffed with music, featuring tuneful visits from Feist, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, John Legend, Willie Nelson and Jon Stewart. And don't miss Stephen Colbert's duet near the end with his eternal nemesis. (Comedy at 10)

Historian Niall Ferguson offers no apologies to disapproving colleagues and other naysayers who insist that he should keep his formidable and wide-ranging intellect fixed firmly on the past.

This week: A drunken romp through the stacks exposes some forgotten CanCon treasures.

Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.

Punk musician Travis Barker has sued over the South Carolina plane crash that injured him and killed two friends.

It's rare that the entertainment gods allow both partners in a marriage to step into the spotlight at the same time, but that's just what's happening this coming week to Colm and Donna Feore, the "first couple of Canadian show business."

Depending on your perspective, Cole Train is either the baddest badass in Gears of War 2 or just another stereotypical character to grace a pixelated screen.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia ...Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick's tell-all book of post-fame depravity is a whopper.

It took director 15 years to get slain gay politician's story into theatres.

After the wedding in a Scottish castle, the mansion on a green English estate and the drinks in their own pub, Madonna and Guy Ritchie's eight-year marriage ended yesterday in a dreary London courtroom.

It's the rrrroll up the rrrrim of the art world.

A Visa Infinite card's throw from the tony rue Saint-Honoré in Paris is a side street inscribed "rue du Chevalier de Saint-Georges, 1739-1799, Musicien et Chef d'Orchestre, Colonel de la Garde Nationale" (musician, conductor and colonel of the National Guard).

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Just when it seems the absolute last word has been written on Andy Warhol, along comes "Warhol Live" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to suggest that many more chapters have yet to come.