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The Hollywood writers strike is over after guild leaders approve contract with studios
LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the screenwriters union declared their nearly five-month-old strike over Tuesday after board members approved a contract agreement with studios, bringing Hollywood at least partly back from a historic halt in production. The governing boards of the eastern and western branches of the Writers Guild of...
Blues legend Buddy Guy reschedules stop at Greensburg’s Palace Theatre
Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy will have to wait a little longer to say “Damn Right Farewell” to Westmoreland County, after announcing that his Sept. 28 show will be rescheduled to April 7, 2024. “My medical team has advised me to reschedule some of my upcoming shows,” Guy, 87, said...
‘Dancing with the Stars’ premiere on track amid WGA’s tentative dealVideo
LOS ANGELES — The latest season of “Dancing with the Stars” will debut as originally planned, following months of tension and uncertainty amid the monthslong writers’ strike. ABC confirmed to the L.A. Times on Monday that the star-studded dance competition will premiere Tuesday at 8 p.m. Pacific, just days after...
Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick in New York
NEW YORK — A dozen years ago, Barkley L. Hendricks, the pioneering portrait artist known for vivid, stylish paintings of Black men and women, stood outside the Frick Collection in Manhattan, known for its works by European Old Masters. He was explaining his love for Rembrandt. “It’s like good music,”...
Record-breaking ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ film now a worldwide ‘theatrical event’
The already record-breaking “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film “is going global,” according to AMC Theatres. AMC said the movie will screen Oct. 13, 2023, in more than 100 countries around the world. Tickets for international shows go on sale today. The film is already scheduled to play in more...
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce exited Chiefs stadium in convertible ‘getaway car’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were seen leaving GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium Sunday in a convertible car after the Chiefs dominated the Chicago Bears with the pop singer watching from Kelce’s private suite. After the game, Chiefs fans flooded the corridor outside the suite hoping...
David McCallum, star of hit TV series ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘NCIS,’ dies at 90
LOS ANGELES — Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the popular “NCIS” 40 years later, has died. He was 90. McCallum died Monday of natural causes surrounded by family at...
Book Review: ‘American Gun’ is haunting look at AR-15’s role in our violent era
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A decade before the school shooting at Columbine and more than two decades before the massacre at Uvalde, a man armed with an AK-47 fired his rifle at a crowded elementary playground in California, killing five children and injuring 31 others. The 1989 Stockton shooting, recounted...
Tim McGraw adds Pittsburgh date for Standing Room Only tour
Country music star Tim McGraw is bringing his Standing Room Only tour to Pittsburgh next spring. A three-time Grammy Award winner, McGraw will be joined by fellow Grammy winner Carly Pearce on April 27, 2024, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. McGraw’s latest album, “Standing Room Only,” was released Aug....
Pittsburgh Pop podcast: Talking Penguins’ Willie O’Ree Academy on WQED-TV, ‘Smackdown’ on the move, fall TV
In this episode of the “Pittsburgh Pop” podcast, host Tim Benz and TV Talk columnist Rob Owen discuss Pittsburgh pop culture news of the moment, including WQED-TV’s new 30-minute documentary “Equity on Ice: The Willie O’Ree Academy” (8 p.m. Oct. 5, Channel 13), produced by Beth Dolinar and Dave Forstate...
Ratboys singer Julia Steiner on ‘The Window,’ processing loss and her Steelers fandomVideo
Forgive Julia Steiner if she’s been a little nervous or scanning her phone for new global catastrophes in recent weeks. Steiner, who sings and plays guitar, spoke recently as her Chicago-based indie band Ratboys was getting ready to embark upon their first headline tour. Ratboys were supposed to go on...
Probe shines new light on old claims that Carnegie Museum of Art’s $1M Schiele was plundered by Nazis
Decade after decade, a modest 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele, one of Austria’s most famous artists, graced the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, occasionally being displayed with little fanfare. That changed this month when the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office executed a search warrant on the Oakland museum and...
Tentative deal reached to end the Hollywood writers strike. No deal yet for actors
LOS ANGELES — Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday to end a historic screenwriters strike after nearly five months, though no deal is yet in the works for striking actors. The Writers Guild of America announced the deal in a statement. The three-year contract agreement —...
‘Expend4bles’ opens with epic flop while ‘Nun 2’ claims top spot again at the box office
LOS ANGELES — Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham weren’t enough to save ” Expend4bles ” from a debut box office flop. The fourth installment suffered the action-packed franchise’s worst opening weekend while ” The Nun 2 ” took home the top spot for a third straight week, Comscore reported on...
Usher to headline 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas
LOS ANGELES — Usher has a new confession: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in Las Vegas. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Usher would lead the halftime festivities from Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 11. The music megastar, who has...
Review: Peter Gabriel serves up show for 21st century at PPG Paints Arena
A concert that opens with a gracious, well-mannered monologue is bound to be far removed from the archetypal rock show. Tell that to the audience member who felt compelled to interrupt proceedings by shouting a song request that reverberated through PPG Paints Arena: “Games Without Frontiers!” Fortunately, two-time Rock and...
‘Silence of the Lambs’ actress meets fans, returns to the well at restored film location in Fayette County
The first time actress Brooke Smith’s character Catherine Martin spent time inside the ominous “Buffalo Bill” house in the 1991 thriller “The Silence of the Lambs,” she was trapped in a dingy basement well at the mercy of a deranged serial killer. This weekend, Smith ventured back into the basement...
Greer Cabaret Theater hosts its 1st performance with change of scenery
The Greer Cabaret Theater is in character, dressed up and ready for opening night. After being closed for more than a year and getting a re-fresh, the venue will host Pittsburgh CLO’s “tick, tick…BOOM!” It’s an autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning composer of “RENT.”...
Rapper NF to play PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh in MayVideo
Rapper NF will visit Pittsburgh on the second leg of his Hope Tour, which kicks off in Australia and New Zealand before hitting the United States. NF, who has been dubbed “one of the world’s biggest rappers,” will play May 15, 2024, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. His latest...
5 things to do in Westmoreland: Sept. 22-24
It’s forecast to be a beautiful weekend — the first one of fall. Here are some fun ways you can spend it. Mount Pleasant Glass & Ethnic Festival Starting at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 22, the annual three-day Glass & Ethnic Festival in Mt. Pleasant will showcase the area’s heritage...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Sept. 21-23
It’s the weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. The Richard S. Caliguiri City of Pittsburgh Great Race is Sunday so with road closures from Squirrel Hill to Oakland and through Uptown to Downtown, plan accordingly. Haunted tour Dark History PGH is hosting haunted walking tours of Carnegie and...
Ford City native and country music star Bob Corbin and his wife die in the same week
Their love spanned five decades, and Bob and Edana Corbin died the same week. The music world is mourning both of their losses — Bob Corbin of the Corbin/Hanner Band, and his wife, an author and freelance writer for a country music magazine. Bob Corbin and Dave Hanner wrote hits...
Puerto Rican rapper Farruko postpones show set for PPG Paints Arena
Puerto Rican rapper Farruko won’t be headlining Pittsburgh’s second annual Hispanic Heritage Festival on Sept. 30. According to a posting on PPG Paints Arena’s website, the show has been postponed with no date yet rescheduled. The Pittsburgh appearance was supposed to be Farruko’s only third North American appearance of the...
Rupert Murdoch, whose creation of Fox News made him a force in American politics, is stepping down
NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old Australian media magnate whose creation of Fox News made him a force in American politics, is stepping down as leader of both Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings. Fox said Thursday that Murdoch would become chairman emeritus of both companies,...
Bob Ross’ 1st TV painting, done in a half hour, goes on sale for nearly $10M
MINNEAPOLIS — What would Bob Ross think? The artist who brought painting to the people, with works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half-hour with little more than a large bristle brush, putty knife and plenty of encouragement, certainly wouldn’t have envisioned one of his works going up...
