NANCY SINATRA: "These Boots Are Made For Walking." Are you ready?

RATBOYS played "The Window," "It's Alive," and "Morning Zoo" a CBS Saturday Session.

BOB BOILEN playlisted his favorite albums of 2023 on Spotify and Apple Music.

CHAKA KHAN, on her musical legacy, surviving addiction, her Kanye beef, and more.

THE CLIENTELE's James Hornsey tells us about his Top 10 albums of 2023.

33 GREAT 2023 ALBUMS from indie / alternative legends.

TAYLOR SWIFT surpassed Elvis Presley for most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart by a solo artist, tho this is more a comment on the charts in the internet age.

THE NUMBER ONES looks back at Gotye and Kimbra's "Somebody That I Used To Know," a leftfield smash that became the biggest hit of 2012.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Wonka won the holiday weekend with 30MM. Aquaman 2 placed with 26.3MM.  Migration showed with 17MM.  I saw Poor Things, which was eleventh, which might be Yorgos Lanthimos's best-directed film, and well acted all-round, though most of the attention will go to Emma Stone's star turn as a sort of feminist Bride of Frankenstein. The production design and costuming are also dazzling. The film's philosophy will bother some... and it bothers me to at least the degree that it is so sure of its persepctive that it passes up some opportuniies for, well, drama.

TOM WILKINSON, an admired performer on the British stage who in middle age became a skillful character actor and supporting star in a range of movies that gained popularity and acclaim in the United States, including “The Full Monty,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Shakespeare in Love,” died on Saturday. He was 75.  The tributes rolled in.

SHECKY GREENE, the legendary standup comedian known for his long tenure as a Las Vegas headliner and for working with Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, died Dec. 31 at his home in the city. He was 97.

LEE SUN-KYUN, best known for his roles in films such as Parasite and A Hard Day, had a private funeral.

PAULA ABDUL alleged in a lawsuit on Friday that she was twice sexually assaulted by Nigel Lythgoe, the executive producer of “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance.” 

JOHN WILLIAMS walks back his retirement plans.

IAN ZIERING got into a street brawl with a Los Angeles biker gang Sunday.

JEREMY RENNER, one year after the snowplow accident that nearly killed him.

GAME OF THRONES: George R.R. Martin says there are three animated spin-offs in the works, in case you thought he was ever going to finish the books.

TIM BURTON wanted to make an 18MM black-and-white Catwoman movie.

RED-TAILED HAWK VS KITTEN: Who You Got?

A DOG AND PIG, playing ball.

SPOT the Imposter.

MOSQUITOES are driving these birds to extinction.