E! Online - DMX is making a point of getting to know the bars everywhere he goes.

AP - Designer Alessandra Facchinetti on Wednesday dispelled any doubts about her ability to fill legendary designer Valentino's shoes, drawing warm applause for her first-ever haute couture collection for the Italian label.

Reuters - Tennis Channel president Ken Solomon was sitting in his office on the grounds of the French Open in Paris six weeks ago when, rifling through some press coverage of the network, he proudly showed a blurb from a story that proclaimed the network "the future of television."

Reuters - An online network formed by professional TV and film scribes during the Hollywood writers' strike earlier this year unveiled a slate Wednesday featuring contributions from the minds behind the likes of "The Office" and "Die Hard."

AP - Celebrities turned out Wednesday to donate to Darfur charities — and to show their fellow stars just who the real card sharks were.

AP - Live from Newport: it's Chevy Chase. Chase, the comic actor and original cast member of "Saturday Night Live" will host the Newport Jazz Festival for the second year in a row.

AP - On-location movie shoots are on the rise in Los Angeles, despite repeated warnings from Hollywood studios that the possibility of an actors strike had stalled moviemaking, a permitting group said Wednesday.

AP - CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A $300,000 payoff to a teenage mistress. Thousands of dollars worth of online porn. Extramarital trysts in the office and his supermodel wife's Hamptons homes.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

Fashion Wire Daily - Giorgio Armani calls his haute couture collection Armani Prive, but maybe he might consider renaming it Armani Red Carpet.