Fans and friends remember Don Cornelius at memorial service

Jerry Butler sings, Merri Dee reflects on the “Soul Train” host and Jesse Jackson asks: Why not a statue?

Joffrey Ballet unveils its ‘Maverick’ 2012-13 season

The Chicago company will dance a world premiere and revive works by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp and Lar Lubovitch.

• Situation to Snooki and JWoww: Stop hinting that I’m gay

  BILL ZWECKER: The “Jersey Shore” hunk worries that their musings about his sexuality will hurt his brand appeal with straight men.

• Green Day concert spectacle overwhelms ‘American Idiot’ story

  HEDY WEISS: It’s difficult to feel much of anything in “American Idiot” except the pulse of the music, and if you’re coming for a rock concert you won’t be disappointed.