Sideshow: Is there a Kim + Kanye sex tape?

In the most significant news since her world-historical wedding, America's proudest cultural icon, Kim Kardashian, has hinted that she may have made a sex tape with husband Kanye West.

Kim, 33, broaches the topic during a chat with British GQ about the infamous sex tape she made with Ray J., on the back of which she won her initial fame. "Listen, it was years ago," Kim says. "I was 22 years old. You know when you are young, you do things with your boyfriend. . . . Lots of people I know have done it and are doing it."

Now, lest we fixate on Ray J., Kim assured the world that "My husband, Kanye, and I have an amazing sex life." (Phew! I was worried.) She adds, "So far as the sex tape is concerned, whether or not we've made another . . . if we have, it's never something I want to go public." Just as she had vowed not to use her baby, North, to score P.R. points.

Irish rockers U2 did Beyoncé one better. They not only surprise-released their new album, Songs of Innocence, on Tuesday, but also released it for free to every iTunes customer in the world. That's more than 500 million copies, people. Bono and the boys made the announcement at the Apple iPhone 6 launch event in Cupertino, Calif. The album is exclusive to all iTunes users until the official release Oct. 14. No need to download it. Just look in your music library. It's already there, in the iCloud.

At the event, Bono told Apple chief Tim Cook: "We are the blood in your machines, oh Zen Master Tim Cook." - Dan DeLuca

Conductor Rossen Milanov is a former associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. And he has a long-standing position at the Camden-based Symphony in C and is music director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias in Spain. Now he has added another orchestra: the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony. After guest appearances in 2012 and earlier this year, he is being named music director, with a four-year contract. As for all those other positions - he has no plans, at the moment, to give them up.

- David Patrick Stearns

In a reversal of an earlier decision by theater execs not to salute her passing, Broadway's marquees were set to be dimmed at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday for one minute in remembrance of the late comic Joan Rivers.