The Rolling Stones are staying put this year, Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, leaving fans to look forward instead to a major documentary marking the rock band's 50th anniversary.

"Basically, we're just not ready" for a fresh concert tour, guitarist Keith Richards told the pop culture magazine, adding that 2013 was the group's "more realistic" target for hitting the road.

A judge dismissed Tuesday a claim of battery by a former "Desperate Housewives" actress who said she was struck by the creator of the hit TV series about lust and scandal in Wisteria Lane.

Nicollette Sheridan claims she was fired for complaining that the show's creator, Marc Cherry, slapped her on the head during rehearsals for a scene in September 2008.

A horse was injured and euthanized Tuesday during production of the cable television racetrack drama "Luck," the third death in connection with the series, and HBO agreed to suspend filming with horses while the accident is investigated.

The humane group that oversees Hollywood productions had issued an immediate demand "that all production involving horses shut down."

Whether reggae, soft rock, hardcore punk or power pop, the music of the '70s is playing again at South By Southwest.

Several of the many music documentaries at this year's SXSW revisit acts from the decade, a time often skipped over in pop culture history. But for that same reason, the '70s left a number of stories ripe for rediscovery or more thorough examination.

Authorities in the capital of Mexico's most violent state, Chihuahua, have indefinitely banned popular music group Los Tigres del Norte for playing drug ballads at a concert.

Songs glorifying drug traffickers, known as narcocorridos, have attracted a growing following in recent years from Mexico City to Los Angeles.

Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but getting to the venue isn't one.

The rapper brought the beat to South By Southwest, but not before he needed a police escort to make it from the airport to the show, which started 40 minutes late.

The soul-jazz singer Sade had the biggest U.S. earnings of any British musician last year with $16.4 million, beating multi-Grammy-winning sensation Adele.

Nigerian-born Sade, 53, who shot to fame in the 1980s and is best known for "Smooth Operator", came sixth out of all the musicians in the 2011 annual rankings by industry paper Billboard, released on Monday.

Country star Taylor Swift racked up the biggest U.S. earnings last year, followed by Irish rockers U2 -- while British sensation Adele made it into the top 10 despite her health woes.

The Grammy-winning Swift made a cool $35.7 million from all sources of U.S. income, including touring and music sales, according to annual 2011 rankings in industry paper Billboard.

French actor Olivier Martinez has confirmed that he and Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry are engaged to marry, a report said.

"Yes, of course it's true," Martinez told the Miami Herald over the weekend when he was in town for the opening of his new restaurant Villa Azur.

Sunday was "fun day" for Beyonce and Jay-Z: The new parents enjoyed a concert by R&B singer The-Dream in New York.

The couple jammed to the singer-songwriter in the VIP section of SOB's, a small club that houses a few hundred people.