Michaels’ guitar is gone

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) – Former Poison singer Bret Michaels has asked fans to help him find his custom-made guitar, which was apparently stolen at the end of a recent concert.

Michaels’ red-and-white Holden six-string electric guitar with a picture of a skull wearing a top hat disappeared during a Nov. 12 concert at McCool’s bar in Valparaiso, according to Michaels’ Web site.

The Porter County Crime Stoppers program has offered a reward of up to $1,000 for information about the theft.

A photo of Michaels with the guitar was posted on the singer’s Web site. A message said: “This guitar has a lot of sentimental value to Bret and we just want to get it back.”

TLC takes search to UPN

How could you possibly replace Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes? The singer, whose raps gave TLC just that right attitude, died two years ago in a car crash. But the show must go on, and the other members of the band formed in Atlanta, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, are replacing Lopes the “new-fashioned way”: via reality show. “R U the Girl With T-Boz & Chilli,” to be shown on UPN, will be an eight-episode reality-show-talent-search whose winner will try to fill the void left by Lopes.