The video is painful to watch, an artistic train wreck for all to see. The question is what Amy Winehouse is going to do next.
The five-time Grammy Award winner, whose battles with alcohol and drug abuse have long overshadowed her music career, had a very public meltdown on stage Saturday night in Belgrade, the first stop of her European summer concert tour.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Even though rapper Rick Ross lacked a father figure growing up, he found guidance through many of Tupac Shakur's songs that taught him how to approach life as a young man.
So when Ross was asked to perform at Shakur's 40th birthday concert celebration Thursday night, he didn't hesitate to take the stage to pay homage to the slain rapper he calls his role model.
"Tupac played father for a lot of dudes like me," Ross told a crowd of about 500 at the Atlanta Symphony Hall after he and Meek Mills performed their single "Tupac Back."

Negrodamus, known to the entertainment, comedy and present world as comedian, actor, writer and ringmaster (whose ever heard of a Black ringmaster?) Paul Mooney is coming to Portland for 6 shows in four nights.  And trust me, you are going to want to get to at least two of those shows. 

NEW YORK (AP) -- The first time Stevie Wonder performed at the Apollo, he was just a child, and he remembers being so nervous, he dropped his bongos on the stage floor.
Wonder had no such butterflies Monday night as he was honored during the famed theater's spring gala with induction into the Legends Hall of Fame, which includes Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald and James Brown.
Though Wonder was the main attraction, the audience was also wowed as he collaborated with a cast of friends and admirers including Tony Bennett, Chick Corea, Paul Shaffer and Doug E. Fresh.

Musicians and friends of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra have joined together for two chamber-style concerts this weekend. These concerts will directly benefit the VSO and help meet financial goals and needs to hopefully carry the organization through the summer and into the 2011-2012 season.
The concerts will be performed Friday, June 10 at 7 pm & Sunday, June 12 at 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 W 39th St. in Vancouver.

Half concert flick, half historical documentary, Rejoice and Shout is an unabashed celebration of glorious Gospel music. The picture traces the genre's roots all the way back to when slaves first began mixing Christianity with African culture and their desire for salvation from their plight.

Legendary 11 time Grammy winning CeCe Winans is making her first appearance in Portland  for the Freedom Day Celebration in honor of Juneteenth.

CHICAGO (AP) -- The violin isn't pretty, but its scratched frame has been well-loved by the girl who cradles it now, and those who played it before her. Her mother calls it her daughter's "soul mate."
The instrument doesn't belong to Nidalis Burgos. It is on loan from her school, where the seventh-grader packs it up each weekday to bring it home.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Donasia Gray likes to lose herself in the soothing sound of classical violin music, not a typical escape for a child growing up in the inner city.
And Donasia, 11, not only listens to the music, she makes it.
Donasia is one of 51 city students who participate in Music Haven, a nonprofit that gives at-risk kids stringed instruments and teaches them to play -- all for free.

SEATTLE (AP) -- A music and popular culture museum in Seattle is banking on fans of the Oscar-winning film "Avatar" to take in a new exhibit on how director James Cameron brought Pandora and its inhabitants to the big screen.
The exhibit at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame opens at noon Saturday after a Friday event featuring Cameron, some of the movie actors and Richie Baneham, who won the Academy Award for best visual effects.