NEW YORK — MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., on Tuesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.

Answering to the title, “High Priestess of Song,” Nina Simone was one of the most provocative, as well as gifted, entertainers of the 20th century.

San Francisco Opera made its annual appearance at Lincoln Theater Sunday afternoon resulting once again in a production highly polished, musically professional and vocally engrossing.

St. Laurent is playing Napa Bowl? Wait, what year is this?

Waiting in the shadow of the 12-foot-tall letter C, I tried to look nonchalant, even though I could hardly stand still, and had been compelled to visit the bathroom twice in the previous 30 minutes.

Now there are 10. But by the end of Saturday night, just one teenage singer will claim $2,000, a notebook computer and — most precious of all — the title of Idol NV.

Breathing fresh life into an often-performed musical that is such a favorite as “South Pacific” is a challenge, but one that director Jennifer King and her cast live up to in the new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic that opened last weekend at Napa Valley College.

NEW YORK — HBO unleashed some of the industry’s best documentary filmmakers to take on the subject of addiction, a project born from the frustration of a top HBO executive whose son has struggled with alcohol and cocaine problems.

NEW YORK — Instead of guitars, there were turntables. Scratches replaced soaring riffs. An induction speech was read off a Blackberry.

The body of a young woman, her face destroyed by a gunshot, is found in her New York apartment.

I’ve been waiting for a game to really show off the PS3’s graphical powers. There’ve been some really nice ones so far, but “MotorStorm” is the first to truly impress me.

It is common enough to hear adults say they don’t understand teenagers.