Hip-hop is in his blood and listening to Eric B and Rakim and other hip-hop made him feel like this is right where he was supposed to be. The hip-hop culture is good and he appreciates being a part of it. The music is starting to wake up because hip-hop music was in a depressed time, said Lindsey King, 28, who learned a great deal growing up in a tough neighborhood in the Hill District on Whiteside Road.

LINDSEY KING

The son of a mother who is a poet and a hard working father, music is in his blood. He is also the great nephew of acclaimed jazz great, Stanley Turrentine, who was a great influence on his career.

Thursday 5

Cabaret series

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents its Late Night Cabaret Series with the Pittsburgh Improv Comedy Jam at 10 p.m. at the Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Cultural District. Every Thursday until Sept. 23, the city’s best improv performances will take the stage. It’s fast, funny and sophisticated. Tickets are $5 and the event is for individuals 21 years and older. For more information, call Randy Kirk at 412-325-6766 or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)—Ellen DeGeneres couldn’t be talked into staying with “American Idol,” a Fox executive said, creating a second opening for change in the show’s 10th season.

Who will fill her judge’s chair and the one vacated by Simon Cowell were questions left unanswered by Peter Rice, chairman of entertainment for the Fox Networks Group.

RANDY JACKSON is the only original judge left, and he may be replaced.

“There are no deals signed on either side of the camera” with newcomers, Rice told a meeting of the Television Critics Association.

Who said relationships were easy? Whoever he was, he was wrong.

Your beloved has good traits and bad, which mesh with yours only sometimes. There’s give in a relationship and there’s take, and it’s balanced if you’re lucky. Some days, love fills you up and other days, you wonder what you were thinking when you chose that man. Oh, it’s so complicated.

Now throw scads of money and power into the mix, stir with a little revenge, and watch what happens in the new novel “Gone Too Far” by Angela Winters.