Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean will perform a solo charity show at Hard Rock Live Orlando on Dec. 30. McLean will be billed as Johnny No-Name, a pseudonym he used for a January 2000 performance at the same venue.

Proceeds will benefit the Orlando Sentinel Santa, which provides assistance to various Central Florida charities.

A family that attended the K-Ci & Jo-Jo show in Los Angeles on Dec. 16--the show in which K-Ci reportedly exposed himself--is suing K-Ci (Cedric Hailey), sponsor KIIS-FM, Clear Channel Communications and SFX Entertainment, Billboard reported.

Charges reportedly include "infliction of emotional distress" and "negligence." Damages sought reportedly include medical expenses.

"Medical expenses"?

Peter Frampton [ tickets ] is releasing a 25th-anniversary, 2-CD, remastered version of "Frampton Comes Alive!" The album will feature four bonus tracks that weren’t included on the original release.

According to wire reports, Waylon Jennings [ tickets ] and wife Jessi Colter are moving from their Brentwood, Tenn., home to a smaller place in Arizona, and so are holding a yard sale from Thursday (12/28) to Saturday (12/30).

Living Colour [ tickets ] reunited for a set at New York club CBGB's on Thursday (12/21), MTV.com reported.

We recently read somewhere that Living Colour's guitarist Vernon Reid has been organizing a charity for refugees in Sierra Leone-- people who have been victims of rebel forces' policy of indiscriminate amputation.

While surfing around trying to find that article, we came across a page on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's website titled "The Agony of Sierra Leone," which begins:

The United Nations list of best and worst countries to live in ranks Canada first and Sierra Leone last. The latest horrors reported from the small country in West Africa explain in cataclysmic detail why: murder, rape, widespread looting, greed, mob violence, deliberate mutilations of civilians, teenage girls conscripted as sex slaves, adolescent boys as fanatic, machete-wielding soldiers.

We quote this partly because we're so disturbed by the small-town pride that manages to surface here, even in the face of cataclysm.

"Oh, you can just keep your mutilations and your sex slaves. We like it fine here in Canada."