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Prince Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Audio and Spotify ‘mutually’ end partnership
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s podcasting endeavor at Spotify has come to an end. Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan’s production company, Archewell Audio, has “mutually agreed” to part ways with the audio streaming platform, a representative for Spotify confirmed Friday. “We are proud of the series we made...
TGIS summer concert series returns to Palace Theatre courtyard
Westmoreland Cultural Trust’s TGIS concerts are returning to the courtyard of The Palace Theatre in downtown Greensburg, after three years of socially distanced events at the Greensburg Garden & Civic Center. Now in its 18th year, the free weekly summer music series kicks off at 6 p.m. Thursday with Shiva...
Ticket prices to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour drop — slightly
Swifties take note: If you are still in need of seats for Saturday’s Acrisure Stadium concert, you might not have to fork over an arm and a leg for tickets. Just an arm seems like it will suffice. Swift’s “Eras Tour” shows have been setting records across the country —...
TV Talk: TV’s most memorable fathers
Just as TV seared decades of TV moms into our pop culture memories, so too do we remember TV’s most memorable dads. Let’s hop in Mr. Peabody and Sherman’s Wayback Machine and revisit some favorites, good and bad, via superlatives: Wisest dad Widower and single dad Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith)...
Review: Country star Hardy rocks hard for sold-out Pittsburgh concert
As country music star Hardy wrapped up his show at Pittsburgh’s Stage AE, he pointed to Acrisure Stadium just off in the distance: “We’ll see you at that stadium in a few years maybe.” If Hardy keeps putting on shows like he did Thursday night, that “maybe” will turn into...
‘Abbott Elementary’ star Chris Perfetti feels at home with ‘King James’
NEW YORK — Chances are you won’t find Chris Perfetti fiercely debating on social media if LeBron James is indeed the GOAT, nor will you find him waiting hours outside of hotels, hoping to get an autograph or selfie from the basketball legend — but you wouldn’t know it from...
Taylor Swift fans line up early for merchandise outside Acrisure Stadium
There was no “midnight rain,” but one fan arrived pretty early to stake out the first and second spot for official Swiftie merch. Taylor Swift fans started lining up Thursday to pick up merchandise at the official Swift trailer parked outside Acrisure Stadium on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. Madison, 11, arrived...
TV Talk: WQED hires new CEO
WQED Multimedia named Jason Jedlinski, most recently general manager of The Hill, a digital political news operation in Washington, D.C., as its new CEO. In an interview Thursday morning, Jedlinski said he has been tasked by the WQED board to “usher in a new era of enhanced service that meets...
2-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who mixed acting with politics, dies at 87Video
LONDON — Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87. Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short...
TV Talk: ‘Walking Dead’ takes Manhattan; W. Pa. native offers psychic reading on ‘Big Freedia’Video
Following in the footsteps of the Muppets and Jason Voorhees, it’s now the walking dead’s turn to take Manhattan in AMC’s latest spin-off, the six-episode first season of “The Walking Dead: Dead City” (now streaming on AMC+; 9 p.m. Sunday on linear AMC). McCandless native Greg Nicotero, a “TWD” mainstay,...
Garth Brooks responds to those triggered over his Bud Light stance
Ever since Garth Brooks dared to say in a recent interview that he would serve Bud Light in his bar, folks have been losing their minds on social media. There are plenty of people on Twitter who swear they are burning CDs, deleting downloads and will never listen to the...
TV Talk: Marvel-ous ‘Secret Invasion’ showcases Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick FuryVideo
Two things about Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” can be true at once: Where Disney’s superhero franchise once had an easy-to-follow heroes-versus-villains plot, it has become a convoluted, labyrinthine ongoing story that requires a Ph.D. in Marvel (and viewing of all Marvel filmed entertainment) to completely understand. And yet, this latest Disney+...
Movie Review: Americana, told Wes Anderson-style, in star-filled ‘Asteroid City’
Wes Anderson gets back to the heart of things in “Asteroid City,” a film about grief, performance, storytelling, the cosmos and, well, everything. Or, as one character, a playwright played by Edward Norton, says when asked what his work is about: “It’s about infinity and I don’t know what else.”...
Taylor Swift fans seeing red over Eras Tour ticket prices
Forget a blank space. You darn near need a blank check to work your way into either of this week’s Taylor Swift concerts at Acrisure Stadium. Ticket prices are soaring days before the most-anticipated concert stop of the year. Swift’s Eras Tour hits the stadium Friday and Saturday. On Wednesday,...
Here’s how to score Taylor Swift merchandise at Acrisure Stadium
Don’t want to wait in line Friday or Saturday at The Eras Tour show to score Taylor Swift merch at Acrisure Stadium? You’re in luck. You can wait in line Thursday instead! Early merchandise sales open at noon Thursday at a Taylor Swift Merch truck on Art Rooney Avenue and...
How rare are Taylor Swift’s 2 sellouts? Promoter Rich Engler has never seen it before
The Taylor Swift Eras Tour, a journey through the musical eras of Swift’s career, is set to hit Acrisure Stadium. The shows Friday and Saturday are sold out at the 68,400-seat facility. So how rare is that? Concert promoter Rich Engler, who has worked in the industry for 53 years,...
Taylor Swift concert: What to know before you go
The Taylor Swift concerts are just days away, and Swifties are making friendship bracelets to trade and adding final touches to their outfits for The Eras Tour shows Friday and Saturday at Acrisure Stadium. Here are five things to know before going: 1. Plan for parking The North Shore will...
TV Q&A: Will late-night shows come back like they did during the last writers’ strike?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: During the 2007 writers’ strike, late-night talk shows (“The Daily Show,” “Colbert Report,” “Tonight Show,” etc.) resumed producing “scriptless” new shows (except “The Late Show...
Cormac McCarthy, author of ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘Blood Meridian,’ dies at 89
Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed fiction writer whose books were regarded as American masterpieces by critics and legions of fans but who refused to offer insight into what had inspired them or what they might mean, has died. Widely regard as one of America’s greatest living writers, McCarthy died on Tuesday...
Aubrey Burchell stars in Scottdale theater’s production of ‘Heathers’
The pressure to behave badly can be overwhelming if it means being accepted by the cool clique. That theme is explored in the darkly comic “Heathers,” a musical based on the cult classic 1988 film of the same name, running Thursday through Sunday at the Geyer Performing Arts Center in...
Pride Prom brings dance party, fashion promenade to The Westmoreland
Pride Prom at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is an opportunity for “people to come and be themselves and be comfortable doing so,” said events manager Hannah Vincent. An annual event since 2019, Pride Prom is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday in the facility at 221 N....
Grammys add new categories, including for pop dance, African music
LOS ANGELES — More change is afoot at the Grammys. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that three new categories will be added to the awards show in 2024: best pop dance recording, best African music performance, and best alternative jazz album. In addition, two existing categories have been moved to...
Tina Turner musical on national tour gains new meaning in the wake of the rock icon’s death
NEW YORK — The national tour of Broadway’s “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” makes its California debut this week, arriving as a poignant, posthumous celebration following the rock music icon’s death last month. “Tina” opens in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Wednesday, steps away from her...
Movie review: Ezra Miller speeds back to the future in ‘The Flash,’ fueled by calories and cameos
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous ’70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in “The Flash” — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios offering — that it’s Father Time one musn’t cross. Because trying to change the past can really mess you up when you...
How popular is Taylor Swift? It’s the 2023 version of Beatlemania
Taylor Swift is the biggest thing going in the entertainment industry. Turn on the TV or radio, scroll social media, listen to talk on the street, and there she is. Her ongoing Eras Tour is on track to become the highest-grossing tour ever by a female artist, with Billboard Boxscore...
