Sheryl Crow: Single, Singing & Cancer-Free

It's old acts clinging to relevance, and new ones aping them: Critic

(NEWSER) - How dire is the state of mainstream rock? So dire that “Sublime With Rome,” a band with no higher ambition than mimicking Sublime, has had a song on the Billboard charts every week since May. “2011 may well be remembered as the most numbing year for mainstream rock in music history,” declares New York Times critic Jon Caramanica. “Declaring a genre dead is the worst, least imaginative sort of proclamation, so let’s call it zombified.” More»

Breast cancer fight not over yet for the E! host

(NEWSER) - Less than two months after undergoing a double lumpectomy, breast cancer battler and E! host Giuliana Rancic announced she will go back under the knife for a double mastectomy. She went public in part because "I would like to take the stigma away," she says. "'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago." She also wants to encourage women to "get checked out." She is scared, she admits, but says she'll come out of the experience "a better woman." Click for more on her decision . More»

Family drama gets a little more dramatic

(NEWSER) - And the plot thickens... Mindy McCready today explained that she won't be able to comply with a judge's orders that she bring her 5-year-old son back to Florida by 5pm tomorrow. Because she's in Nashville. And pregnant. With twins. Speaking to the AP , McCready says she is almost seven months along ( People, however, says McCready's rep pegs her at just five months); no word on the identity of father. The country singer says she and her mother have had a long custody battle over Zander, and today told Access Hollywood , 'I did not steal my child, as it would be impossible for me to kidnap what already belongs to me!" Click for more on the family drama . More»

'I feel great,' she tells co-host Ryan Seacrest

(NEWSER) - Just one week after announcing her breast cancer diagnosis , Giuliana Rancic was back to work at E! News last night. “I've got to say, I feel great. My surgery went very, very well,” she at the open of the show. “I still do have a bit of a road ahead of me, but it's nothing I can't handle ... and it's going to be good!” Rancic underwent a double lumpectomy late last week, E! adds, and she will start radiation in about a month. More»

Many of them became advocates after diagnosis

(NEWSER) - Support has been pouring in for Giuliana Rancic ever since she announced she has breast cancer , and celebrity breast cancer survivor Christina Applegate says she will be there for the E! News host. “I know that journey so well,” Applegate tells E! . “I get what she’s going through.” The Washington Post rounds up 18 more famous ladies who have survived:

• Sheryl Crow: The singer started advocating for yearly mammograms after being diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2006.
• Robin Roberts: The Good Morning America anchor kept appearing on TV as she underwent chemotherapy in 2007.
• Melissa Etheridge: Following her 2004 diagnosis, she has been an advocate and has worked with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.