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Plenty of good seats still available: Lions game against Rams blacked out in local TV markets

Lions game against Rams blacked out on local TV

Chrysler to offer live TV service in vehicles _ up to 20 channels starting in December

Oprah on the road? Chrysler offers live TV service

The sun hasn’t shone on a World Series game since 1984 as baseball goes prime time to draw TVs

World Series hasn’t been played in sun in 25 years

Housing freeze: Project to encase vacant Detroit home in ice to highlight foreclosure crisis

Artists plan to encase vacant Detroit home in ice

Soupy Sales, pie-splattered comedian who won hearts in early TV days, dead at 83

DETROIT — Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

Bon Jovi Tour Dates 2010

Popular Rock band Bon Jovi announced plans on Thursday for a new world tour in 2010-2011. The two-year tour begins Feb. 19 2010 in Seattle and includes a May 26 show at New Jersey’s new $1.6 billion Meadowlands football stadium, which will be home to the New York Giants and Jets. It will feature 135 shows in 30 countries. The first leg of the tour in 2010 covers USA and Canada.

Organizers say ArtPrize will come back to Grand Rapids next year

GRAND RAPID, Mich. — A new art festival held this fall in Grand Rapids was so successful that organizers say they’ll do it again next year and maybe even make it an annual event.

Former Wisconsin Rep. Johnson, who spent 32 years in TV journalism, headed US Mint, dies at 66

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Former Wisconsin Rep. Jay Johnson, who spent three decades as a television journalist before jumping into politics and heading the U.S. Mint, has died. He was 66.

Ex-Michigan State hoops star Cleaves orders up a full-court press behind Flint rapper’s career

GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Athletics wasn’t Jon Connor’s thing growing up.

List of 10 winners of ArtPrize art competition taking place in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich.

The winners of ArtPrize, a new art competition in Grand Rapids, Mich., were announced Thursday. The event offers one of the world’s biggest art prizes: $250,000 for first place.

Brooklyn, NY, artist wins $250K top prize in new Mich. art competition

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A surfing enthusiast whose entry in a new art competition expresses his love of the sea won the $250,000 top prize on Thursday.

Borders hooks up with author for ‘Mitch Albom Live,’ weekly, 30-minute entertainment webisodes

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Mitch Albom interviews people for a living.

Eminem’s music publisher settles lawsuit with Apple over digital rights to rapper’s songs

DETROIT — Apple Inc. and the music publisher for Eminem have settled a lawsuit over the digital downloading rights to many of the Detroit rapper’s songs.

Va. professor tried to work through daughter’s obsession with macabre music before 4 killings

FARMVILLE, Va. — A criminal justice professor and her daughter, who police say were slain by a horrorcore rapper, were in counseling over the teenager’s obsession with the macabre music, and the mother took her daughter to the concerts to keep an eye on her, a family friend said Wednesday.

Bad record, worse economy a tough combo for Lions to sell winless club to fans

DETROIT — Unemployment in the city and its suburbs is twice the national average.

Picture this: New art competition in Mich. offers $250K for the top prize, public picks winner

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A school of glimmering, silvery-white fish wriggle high above a downtown river. A few blocks away on a Michigan sidewalk, four stark red piranhas have taken large bites out of a running man’s briefcase and rear end. A purple, 10-foot-tall jelly bean stands outside a nearby castle.

Gospel star Vickie Winans is ‘getting over’ with a new CD, record label and boutique

LATHRUP VILLAGE, Mich. — If James Brown was the hardest-working man in show business, Vickie Winans should at least merit some consideration for the title of hardest-working woman.

Bill Cosby tells Detroit students and parents to fix what ails their city and schools

DETROIT — Bill Cosby says Detroit residents must take responsibility for improving their city and schools.

Oprah Winfrey’s fans gather for talk show taping as Chicago’s Michigan Avenue shut down

CHICAGO — Thousands of Oprah Winfrey’s fans gathered on Michigan Avenue to help the talk show host celebrate the 24th season of her show with a public taping Tuesday that included performances from the Black Eyed Peas and Jennifer Hudson.

Oprah Winfrey to launch season with Black Eyed Peas, taping show on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue

CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey is taking over the Magnificent Mile.

Yesterday, today, forever: 50 years after Motown Records is born, the famous ’sound’ endures

DETROIT — On Jan. 12, 1959, Elvis Presley was in the Army. The Beatles were a little-known group called The Quarrymen casting about for gigs in Liverpool. The nascent rock ‘n’ roll world was a few weeks away from “the day the music died” — when a single-engine plane crash claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens.

Longtime Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell, who is 91 years old, has cancer

DETROIT — Ernie Harwell, the 91-year-old Baseball Hall of Fame honoree and longtime broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers, said Friday that he has inoperable cancer.

Barrymore to host free roller skating in Detroit area in support of upcoming movie ‘Whip It’

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — Drew Barrymore wants all movie and/or roller skating fans to join her in suburban Detroit next week for a get-together in support of her new movie.

Comedian Bill Cosby lends name, encouragement to help boost Detroit schools enrollment

DETROIT — Bill Cosby had heard about the tough-as-nails, uncompromising man tackling fraud and improving education throughout the Detroit’s public schools, and wanted to help.

Picture This: Detroit Institute of Arts shows off collection of rare, early photos in exhibit

DETROIT — Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that allowed an image to be fixed onto photosensitive paper.