One Offs

Aretha Franklin broke her left toe when she stepped on a Jimmy Choo designer shoe in a Dallas hotel room, leaving her in a hospital boot but able to continue her tour …

The Los Angeles Times admonished the L.A. City Council to “quit dawdling” and approve a memorandum of understanding with AEG to build a downtown football stadium in a June 19 editorial …

U2 guitarist The Edge’s proposal to build five mansions on a ridge overlooking Malibu, Calif., was rejected by the California Coastal Commission June 16 …

More than $2 million was raised by the June 14 Bama Rising benefit at Birminghan’s Civic Complex for tornado victims, led by organizer Ali Harnell of The Messina Group …

A Broadway Beatles tribute reaches the end of its long and winding road as “Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway” prepares for its final perfomance Sept. 4 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in NYC …

Sean Kingston has been released from a hospital and is recovering at home nearly a month after crashing his watercraft into a Miami bridge …

The North Dakota State Fair will go on as planned in late July despite the Minot, N.D., grounds under threat of flooding at press time.