DARLENE LOVE's final "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" for Letterman.

YO LA TENGO hit the Velvet Underground covers hard on night six of their Hannukah run.

THE LAST DINNER PARTY plays World Cafe.

JASON ISBELL plays "Cover Me Up" on Colbert.

MICHAEL McDONALD will publish a memoir next year... co-written by Paul Reiser?

PATTI SMITH is in good health after hospitalization for a sudden illness in Italy.

SHANE MacGOWAN's“last request” was to have €10,000 left behind the bar at a VIP wake after his funeral last week.

THE BEST SINGER/SONGWRITER LPs of 2023, according to Magnet.

KUNG FU PANDA 4 has a trailer online.

CIVIL WAR: Alex Garland's latest has a trailer online.

HOME ALONE, “12 Years a Slave,”“The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” were among the movies added to the National Film Registry.

THE CRITICS CHOICE nominations went to these folks, mostly Barbie.

GLEN POWELL says he "almost died" filming nude scene with Sydney Sweeney.

THE WOLF MAN: Christopher Abbott is replacing Ryan Gosling.

GEORGE CLOONEY, on The Boys in the Boat, and maybe Danny Ocean.

DOGGO in Christmas camo.

A FOX acting like a doggo.

A PUP wants to be picked up.