BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The scene outside Assembly Hall Sunday looked more like a tailgate party before a football game than a concert.

PITTSBURGH — In “Smart People,” the Wetherhold family, a particularly hapless crew after Mrs. Wetherhold passes away, holds itself together with awkward dinners and disgruntled poetry.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Thousands of students anxiously lined Washington Street outside Sen. Barack Obama’s Bloomington campaign office and the Indiana Memorial Union Wednesday night and all day Thursday to get their hands on free Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds concert tickets.

The court ruled that individuals who make music available through peer-to-peer networks may not necessarily be found guilty of copyright infringement, citing the difference between making music available online and actually copying it. Attempts to obtain the names of people using a particular Internet protocol address — a unique number assigned by a network to its users — may violate privacy expectations, the court ruled.

ATLANTA — New concert film “Shine a Light” combines the forces of two behemoths: the meticulous film director Martin Scorsese and the rambunctious gods of rock ‘n’ roll the Rolling Stones.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Former Kentucky basketball player Ramel Bradley is releasing the first single from his new album Tuesday. “Smooth Operator” will be featured on the album “Do You Know,” which is scheduled for release in two weeks.