Jennifer Hudson to sing with Sandy Hook chorus

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jennifer Hudson will join the chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing "America the Beautiful" before Sunday's Super Bowl game. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Thursday that the Grammy and Oscar-winning singer would join the Sandy Hook chorus. It features 26 children from the school in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first-graders and six adults were killed in ...

Gov. Christie appearing Monday with Letterman

NEW YORK (AP) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will soon be crossing the Hudson River to appear on "Late Show with David Letterman." CBS says the colorful, outspoken Christie will make his first appearance with Letterman on Monday. The guest shot follows numerous jokes by Letterman at the expense of Christie and his ample girth. <p style="line-height: ...

'30 Rock' ends 7-season run of mirth

Depression glass show this weekend in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO - The 42nd anniversary Sacramento International Depression Glass Club's Glass, China and Pottery Show and Sale is this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Feb. 2-3, at the Sacramento Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, Sacramento. Admission is $6. Founded over 40 years ...

'How I Met Your Mother' to end run, mystery

LOS ANGELES (AP) - CBS says the big reveal is coming for "How I Met Your Mother." The network said Wednesday the sitcom will air its ninth and final season next fall. And CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler promised that TV's "most mysterious mother" will be unveiled as the show wraps up. That would ...

25th annual Delicato Fine Art Show awards ceremony on Saturday in wine tasting room

Delicato 25th Annual Fine Art Show is awards ceremony is Saturday, Feb. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the wine tasting room. Over 200 fine art entries were received by Delicato. Last year over 10% of the art on exhibit was sold to visitors from all over the country. All ...

Barbra Streisand will sing at the Oscars

NEW YORK (AP) - Barbra Streisand will perform at the Oscars next month, the first time she's performed during an Academy Awards broadcast in 36 years. Streisand won the Academy Award for best original song for "Evergreen" in 1977. She also sang the theme from "A Star Is Born" that night. She won the Oscar for best actress ...

Animals in Clay first show of 2013 at Tracy’s Grand Theatre Center for Arts

TRACY - The first exhibition of 2013 at Tracy's Grand Theatre Center for the Arts features animals in clay. The show features Bill Abright, Evan Hobart, Maile Iwanaga, Monica Van den Dool and Wesley T. Wright from Feb. 2 through March 9. The exhibition opens on Saturday, Feb. 2, from noon ...

Singer Ke$ha to debut MTV reality series in April

NEW YORK (AP) - "Jersey Shore" might have ended, but another partygoer is lending her wild life to MTV: Ke$ha. MTV announced late Tuesday that the pop singer will debut a documentary series, "Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life," in April. The show highlights Ke$ha's life over the last two years, including recording music and traveling. MTV says the ...

Randy Travis to enter drunken-driving plea while he was naked

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) - Country music star Randy Travis is expected to enter a guilty plea this week in a drunken-driving case in North Texas, where he was arrested over the summer naked after crashing his Pontiac Trans Am. Details of the plea agreement will be released following Travis' court appearance Thursday in Sherman, Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown said Monday. ...

Taylor Swift talks sexier look, new tour for music

TV news veteran developing news music show for Fuse

Lucasfilm pushes pause on 3-D 'Star Wars' prequels

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The force isn't with the 3-D versions of the "Star Wars" prequels. Lucasfilm said in a statement Monday that it's postponing the scheduled 3-D releases of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones" and "Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" this fall to instead focus its efforts on "Star Wars: Episode VII." <p style="line-height: 18pt; ...

Australian radio show behind royal hoax that led to nurse’s suicide canceled

SYDNEY (AP) - The Australian radio show behind a hoax phone call to the London hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was being treated has been officially canceled. The show and the two DJs behind the prank in December were widely condemned after the death of a nurse who answered the phone and helped the DJs get confidential information about the ...

A request to Brown's publicist for comment was not immediately returned Monday.

So why can’t we just let dogs be dogs?

DEAR DIDI: What is the point of having a dog if you have to keep it on a leash or in a crate all of the time? Can't we just let them be dogs? -Manteca Citizen