JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israelis are gearing up to get down at Madonna's show as the pop diva landed in the holy land ahead of her world tour which kicks off here next week.

(CNN) -- Several hundred of Donna Summer's closest friends and family crowded into a Nashville, Tennessee, church Wednesday afternoon to say goodbye to the queen of disco, who died of lung cancer last week.

Illmaculate releases his new album "Skrill Talk" with celbration in Seattle, May 31 at The Nectar Lounge and Portland, June 2 at Branx, 315 SE 3rd St.

One of the few African American clowns in the United States, Matlock performs with the Cirque Du Soleil under the Big Top at the Portland Expo Center through May 20.

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Donna Summer, the "Queen of Disco" whose hits included "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Love to Love You Baby" and "She Works Hard for the Money," has died, a representative said Thursday. She was 63.

(CNN) -- Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z announced Monday that he's headed to the City of Brotherly Love over Labor Day weekend to headline the "Budweiser Made in America" festival, which he's also curated.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bobby Brown says it took him a long time to come out with a new album because he's spent so much time trying to get his life on track.

(CNN) -- It sounds like Blue Ivy won't be an only child for long.

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- John Travolta's lawyer argued a time-stamped photograph and a restaurant receipt show the actor was in not in Los Angeles when a massage therapist claims he sexually assaulted him at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, avoided jail during sentencing Wednesday in her Michigan drunken driving case, an experience she described as "very humbling."