JON PRATT: Pate's frontman plays one "Halfway to Memphis" on a 1929 Regal Parlor to guitar to open his new website.

VAN MORRISON is advance streaming Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue.

SUFJAN STEVENS is advance streaming Carrie & Lowell.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE is advance streaming Kintsugi.

LOWER DENS is advance streaming Escape From Evil.

MICHAEL BROWN,  a keyboardist and songwriter who at 16 was a writer of the 1966 hit “Walk Away Renee” for his band the Left Banke and composed “Pretty Ballerina” for it as well, died on Thursday at his home in Englewood, N.J. He was 65. He later performed with the group Stories, which had a hit with “Brother Louie,” before becoming a solo act. The L.A. Times has rememberances from Linda Ronstadt and Andrew Sandoval. I used to torture Friend of Pate Craig O'Neill with this song on the radio, but I think he eventually came around, perhaps due to Billy Bragg.

THE 100 GREATEST BEATLES SONGS picked by musical A-Listers for NME: Part One and Part Two.

REAL ESTATE: Martin Courtney is interviewed by Jason Schwartzman. (Thx, LHB.)

TORI AMOS talks to The A.V. Club about religion, Lauren Bacall, and latrines.

"TUTTI FRUITI": The original lyrics were far more risque.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Divergent Series: Insurgent tops the chart with 5MM, almost exactly what the original grossed in its debut. That's a bit dodgy for a sequel, esp. one thta cost 25MM more than the first. Lionsgate will be hoping for better overseas grosses (as happened with The Hunger Games) to keep the gravy flowing.  Cinderella places with 34.5MM; that's a 49 percent drop, but not bad against Insurgent, having crossed the 100MM mark in eight days.  Run All Night shows with 5.1MM on a 54 percent drop and now looks like it will not reach profit on the big screen.  The Gunman debuts in fourth with 5MM and will need extraordinary receipts overseas to reach profit against a 40MM budget. Kingsman: The Secret Service rounds out the Top 5 with 4.6MM on a leggy 26 percent drop.

ZOE SALDANA is not joining Elton John's boycott of Dolce & Gabbana.

KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN is sticking by Scott Disick in rehab.

VERNE TROYER was taken to the hospital after suffering a seizure during a fan meet and greet in Texas.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's condition is finally sinking in with her family.

JESSICA PARE (Mad Men) welcomed her first child with boyfriend John Kastner.

CHINESE state media turned to Yiddish on Saturday in the war of words over territorial disputes, criticising the United States as a "kibitzer" for what it called meddling in the South China Sea issue.

TUNISIA: A third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum is on the run, Tunisia's president said Sunday, declaring his country at war with the extremists who killed 21 people at one of North Africa's most revered cultural institutions.

NIGERIA: Around 100 bodies were found Friday in a mass grave on the edge of a town in northeast Nigeria after it was freed from Boko Haram Islamists, a Chadian army spokesman told AFP.

YEMEN: Suicide bombers attacked a pair of mosques Friday in the Yemeni capital, unleashing monstrous blasts that ripped through worshippers and killed 137 people in the deadliest assault yet targeting Shiite rebels who have taken over large parts of the rapidly fragmenting nation. At least 13 children were among the dead. About 100 U.S. Special Operations Forces have been ordered to evacuate Yemen because of a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.

IRAQ: A billboard depicting the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini now stands near the plinth where a giant statue of Saddam Hussein once stood.

TORTOISE INTERRUPTUS turns into a slow-speed chase.

THE ILI PIKA: Snapped for the first time in 30 years.

OPOSSUMS may end up saving thousands of humans from deadly snakebites each year.

AND THERE WERE CATFISH All Over The Highway.