Power duo Rihanna, Brown keep private lives quiet
Paige Wiser: Professionally, Rihanna and Chris Brown couldn't be more high-profile. She has just been named Billboard's Top Female Artist of the Year, and he earned both Top Male Artist and Top Artist of the Year. The 19-year-old Brown helped write her hit "Disturbia," and during her recent tour of Australia and New Zealand, he joined Rihanna nightly onstage for "Umbrella."

NBC's move means death of drama at 9 p.m.?
NBC’s decision to give Jay Leno a show each weeknight leaves CBS and ABC the only major broadcasters still in the business of making scripted dramas for the last hour of prime-time. Let’s pause here for a moment of silence and remember the fall of 1994, when the three networks aired “ER,” “Chicago Hope,” “Law & Order,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “NYPD Blue” and “Northern Exposure” at 9 p.m.

Second City's got news for you, darkly
Hedy Weiss: "These are scary times in America," said a mock-ghoulish Michael Patrick O'Brien as he welcomed Sunday's opening-night audience to the Second City's new mainstage revue, "America: All Better!" He then proceeded to draw us into his "theater of the macabre," a series of dark, playful, sometimes inspired, occasionally shrill sketches that at many points took some real risks as it tore down that "fourth wall" -- that imaginary boundary separating actors and audience.