Sideshow: Chill and Philly get cool

Local hip-hop artist Chill Moody is teaming up with the folks at Ben & Jerry's to create a Philadelphia flavor called - wait for it - CHILLadelphia. He'll be testing flavors this week and next. Moody, 30, isn't sure what the flavor will be yet, but he says "it's got to be Philly, something synonymous with Philadelphia." He'll preview the ice cream at the Made In America festival here in September. - Sofiya Ballin

Manhattan-born composer and singer Carole King, 73, pop act the Eagles, and Star Wars director George Lucas, 71, are among the artists to be fêted at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors Dec. 6 in Washington.

Among the nation's highest cultural honors, the awards recognize artists as history-makers "who defy both convention and category," the org said. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend. Other honorees include Broadway legend Cicely Tyson; classical music director Seiji Ozawa, who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years; and veteran Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno, star of the film West Side Story.

Maybe all authors should wait 55 years between books! Harper Lee's new/old novel, Go Set a Watchman, her first since her 1960 debut To Kill a Mockingbird electrified the nation, set a first-day sales record at Barnes & Noble, breaking the 2009 record set by Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. It's also the nation's top-selling book on Amazon.com, Fortune.com reports.

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