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"Dumb & Dumber" : It's just one of Jim Carrey's string of 1994 comedies. The actor crafted a standout favorite alongside Jeff Daniels in this movie about two idiotic but lovable friends.

Patty Griffin's musical career has been a slow and steady climb. Now widely acclaimed as a songwriter, she's risen from humble beginnings as a singing waitress to win the Americana Music Association 's Album of the Year award for her 2007 release, Children Running Through.

Draped in sequin-coated suits of armor and exploding with provocative, rollicking humor, three drag queens from Australia set out to conquer the Australian Outback.

Amanda Bynes is set to receive a helping hand from hip-hop veteran Wyclef Jean as she prepares to launch herself as a rap star.

Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo. A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Paul McCartney wrapped his arms around his signature Hofner bass and surveyed a crowd of 80,000 adoring fans.

While you're waiting for Jason Mraz to release some new music, you can check him out this week in an unexpected place: a new album by country star Hunter Hayes , best known for his hit "Wanted."

Legendary rock band The Boomtown Rats are to play Doncaster - during their first live tour for more than quarter of a century.

Riverbend 2013 has come and gone, yet my semi-famous Riverbend Report Card is anxiously awaited by those that care about humanity, world peace, and the posi-traction rear axle.

Rigsby and the Rising Damp cast get to know Gucci the cat at Norwich Theatre Royal.

MODERN FAMILY star MATT PROKOP is the latest celebrity to be drawn into an online feud with troubled actress AMANDA BYNES.

Daisy Wyatt has newly joined the Independent online team as an arts and entertainment writer.

In this Sunday, June 9, 2013 file photo, actor Neil Patrick Harris performs on stage at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, in New York.

Paul McCartney made his debut at the Bonnaroo Music Festival over the weekend and Rolling Stone Magazine praised his performance , calling it, "Dazzling" and, "the single greatest Bonnaroo headlining performance in the festival's 12-year history."

Days blend together, sound memories clash and surface. Hipster moustaches made from pink glow sticks haunt your dreams.

Reality TV star KIM KARDASHIAN and rapper KANYE WEST are celebrating the birth of their first child after the baby arrived five weeks early on Saturday morning , according to reports.

What really got me while watching "I Am Divine" was the way producer-director Jeffrey Schwarz so deftly mixed the celebratory aspects of the career of Divine with the personal agony of Glenn Milstead.

The piano is a very popular musical instrument to play and to listen to, and with good reason.

The irony is multi-layered, considering the object of Jaffe's efforts was the New Orleans landmark of traditional jazz, Preservation Hall .

The ponytailed, unassuming director of the Eastman School of Music's New Jazz Ensemble was Ryan Truesdell's right-hand man in developing Truesdell's Grammy-winning Gil Evans Centennial Project.

NEW ORLEANS -- Think of New Orleans and flying beads and bare bosoms may come to mind.