EURYTHMICS'. Dave Stewart declares "Christmas is For Lovers".

NEW RELEASES: None this holiday week.

ELVIS COSTELLO picked influential songs for Theft of the Dial.

THE SUBURBS share "Social Style Lush."

SLEAFORD MODS cover Yazoo's "Don't Go."

HOW JIM MORRISON's final sessions with the Doors produced an L.A. classic out of chaos.

DAVID BOWIE: The long tail of Hunky Dory.

ROD STEWART and his son plead guilty to battery in 2019 Florida altercation case.

ROSALIE TROMBLEY, who as music director for CKLW furthered the careers of Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, the Temptations and many others, has passed at 82.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Mariah Carey's "Emotions," a disco-house jam full of insane high notes.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Spider-Man: No Way Home debuts with a chart-busting 253MM domestic; that's the best December domestic opening, best ever for Sony, 3rd best ever among all films beating 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens domestic opening.  It has a rare A+ CinemaScore and little competition for weeks. Spidey's world-wide web netted 587.2MM without China. Encanto remains in the second slot with another 6.5MM.  Spielberg's West Side Story skids into third with 3.4MM on a dreadful 68 percent drop.

CHRIS NOTH faces a third accusation of sexual assault.

SAM WATERSTON is returning to "Law & Order." 

OSCAR ISSAC, on how ‘Inside Llewyn Davis' led to ‘Star Wars' and more.

OLIVIA MUNN & JOHN MULLANEY welcomed a baby boy.

JENNIFER LOPEZ says she's not mad at Ben Affleck's comments about his marriage  to Jennifer Garner.

JACLYN SMITH has a portrait in her attic.

THE BATMAN: Robert Pattinson's take on Bruce Wayne is isnpired by... Kurt Cobain?

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON's feature films, ranked at Uproxx.

A DOGGO referees a dispute over the remote.

A DEER, scoring a goal and celebrating.

A HUNTSMAN SPIDER interrupts an Australian Covid press briefing.

A PELICAN intrudes on the picnic.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, with crab.