Turns out that drummer Max Weinberg marches to the beat of a different drummer.

Sex, money and marital dysfunction: It’s all there in the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce settlement, splayed out in 58 revelatory pages that read more like a British tabloid story than a legal decision.

Cascadilla Creek cuts through one of Ithaca, New York’s famously gorgeous gorges and then moseys through residential downtown. On its northern bank, as it passes under North Aurora Street, sits a large, slate-roofed, circa-1913 house. In the 1970s it was Teen Challenge, a faith-based drug treatment center. Then, it passed into the hands of the Sherman family (including this writer), who sold it to an architect, who sold it, indirectly to the Dalai Lama.

A five-year legal fight over the use of the Beach Boys’ name has been settled amicably, paving the way for a possible reunion by the surviving members of the California surf-sound group.

An awards show, by nature, is all about competition. But this year’s Grammy Awards, set to air on Feb. 10, may decide several music industry feuds of 2007.

One of the most public battles in the rap industry this year was between 50 Cent and Kanye West, who both scheduled album releases on September 11, 2007. 50 Cent proclaimed that if he were outsold by West, he would retire as a solo artist.