Entertainment category, Page 218
5 things to do in Westmoreland County: July 16-18
A good laugh Latrobe Elks will offer its first-ever comedy show at 8 p.m. Friday at the Elks golf club, off Route 981 in Derry Township. “Sips N Giggles Comedy Night” will feature Pittsburgh-based comedians Mike Travers and Derrick Knopsnyder, who have been performing their show across the country since...
TV Talk: CMU grad Patina Miller stars in ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’Video
On TV, 2006 Carnegie Mellon University musical theater grad Patina Miller is best known for playing a press secretary on CBS’s “Madam Secretary.” On Broadway, she won the Tony for lead actress in a musical in 2013 for a revival of “Pippin.” In Starz’s “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” (8...
Ricki Wertz, star of WTAE-TV’s ‘Ricki and Copper,’ diesVideo
Ricki Wertz, one of the original stars of Pittsburgh TV as the host of WTAE-TV’s “Ricki and Copper” and “Junior High Quiz,” died Wednesday in Chicago. She was 86. The cause of death was not immediately available. A Wilkes-Barre native, Ruth Elizabeth Wertz Bordenkircher came to Pittsburgh to study acting....
Chip and Joanna Gaines step up to help lead a new TV networkVideo
Chip and Joanna Gaines made a name for themselves thanks to their knack for renovating homes. Now they’re ready to put their skills to work on building an entire TV network. The couple known for restoring old homes and buildings into styles varying from industrial to farmhouse are making the...
Apple’n Arts organizers discuss 2021 festival options with Delmont council
Apple’n Arts Festival organizers will present a scaled-down version of the annual fall event after being asked by Delmont council members to offer a proposal for 2021. “We haven’t yet sent out applications for vendors,” organizing committee member Brandy Walters said. “What we’re hearing is that a lot of craft...
Celine Dion reschedules Pittsburgh show to 2022Video
Celine Dion’s Courage World tour is moving to 2022, including a Pittsburgh show at PPG Paints Arena. The famed singer will now perform in Pittsburgh on April 20, 2022. The show had originally been scheduled for Nov. 16, 2020, before being moved to Sept. 22, 2021, because of the covid-19...
Wiz Khalifa tweets that he has covid
Hip hop megastar Wiz Khalifa revealed in a tweet that he has tested positive for covid-19 in a Tweet on Wednesday. “Okay loved ones….sooo…..Ya boy got covid. No symptoms. Just stay away from me for a lil while,” the musician wrote on Twitter. He said he plans to use the...
Jeff LaBar, guitarist for rock band Cinderella, dead at 58Video
Longtime guitarist Jeff LaBar, whose decades of performing included massive success with the rock group Cinderella, died Wednesday at age 58. “It’s unimaginable that one of our band brothers has left us,” his fellow Cinderella rockers said in a statement, according to Rolling Stone. “We’re sending his wife Debinique, his...
Pittsburgh Festival Opera concert series to host contemporary opera legends
As part of its expanded season of programming, Pittsburgh Festival Opera will offer “something that Pittsburgh hasn’t had for a long, long time,” said Artistic Director Marianne Cornetti. The opera will present four stars of contemporary opera in its concert series at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. “‘Legends in the...
Prime Stage Theatre going ‘beyond imagination’ for 25th anniversary seasonVideo
During the pandemic, Prime Stage Theatre employed imagination to reach audiences, resulting in viewers tuning in to livestream performances from as far away as Rwanda and South Africa. With live audiences back in the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh’s North Side, the company will lend its ingenuity and originality to...
‘Loki’ season finale breaks the Marvel multiverse wide open
Editor’s note: “Loki” spoilers through season 1, episode 6. For all time. Always. “All time” is now on the table following the season finale of “Loki” on Disney+. Marvel head Kevin Feige wasn’t kidding around when he said that this series would forever alter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After battling...
Comedian Steve Trevino to bring laughs to the Pittsburgh ImprovVideo
Steve Trevino speaks “wife.” The comedian from Texas likes to incorporate his real life as a husband — and father – into his routine. Here’s an example: “When my wife asks me ‘How many Crown Royals have you had?’ and I tell her, ‘I don’t know, but apparently this is...
TV Talk: Apple TV+’s ‘Schmigadoon!’ offers a joyful ode to and send-up of musicalsVideo
Fans of Broadway musicals and the TV series “Pushing Daisies” and “Galavant” unite: Apple TV+’s “Schmigadoon” is the musical comedy series you didn’t know you need. A joyfully silly fantasy, “Schmigadoon!” begins by showing viewers how two doctors, Melissa (a game Cecily Strong, “Saturday Night Live”) and Josh (the equally...
Ricki Wertz, star of WTAE-TV’s ‘Ricki and Copper,’ diesVideo
Ricki Wertz, one of the original stars of Pittsburgh TV as the host of WTAE-TV’s “Ricki and Copper” and “Junior High Quiz,” died Wednesday in Chicago. She was 86. The cause of death was not immediately available. A Wilkes-Barre native, Ruth Elizabeth Wertz Bordenkircher came to Pittsburgh to study acting....
Fort Allen Antique Farm Equipment Association to host Ice Cream Festival this weekend
The Fort Allen Antique Farm Equipment Association will host its annual Ice Cream Festival this weekend after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The association, located near Scottdale, is a nonprofit that focuses on the education, restoration and preservation regarding antique farm equipment. President Wilbur Weaver said...
Britney Spears can hire own lawyer in conservatorship case
LOS ANGELES — A new attorney has been appointed to represent Britney Spears in her conservatorship after a hearing in which the singer tearfully spoke about the case’s impact on her life. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny on Wednesday approved Spears hiring former federal prosecutor Mathew Rosengart to...
Court orders shorter sentence for ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic
DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison...
The Westmoreland plans major exhibition of Depression-era artist Doris Lee
The work of Doris Lee, a painter known for her Depression-era murals and depictions of everyday life, will be on exhibit Sept. 26-Jan. 9 in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. “Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee” will feature 77 of the artist’s most notable works, along...
Pittsburgh’s City Theatre plans live season with 3 world premieres
City Theatre Company will reopen its doors in Pittsburgh’s South Side for a 47th season including six live and in-person productions featuring collaborations with local and national theater companies, community partners and first-time and returning artists. Three of the productions will be world premieres, including one that explores immigration in...
Val Kilmer on a life in illusion and the new doc ‘Val’Video
CANNES, France — Val Kilmer was in movies he wasn’t in. The new documentary “Val,” bursting with footage Kilmer shot himself over his 61 years, includes home videos and backstage glimpses, as you might expect. But the most remarkable thing is seeing Kilmer’s own audition tapes of himself. It’s not...
TV Q&A: What happened to QVC and HSN over the air?
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: Why are QVC and HSN no longer on Channel 16.5 and 16.4 over the air? I don’t have cable. Is there somewhere else I can...
TV Talk: Susan Koeppen returns to anchor new WPXI-TV newscast
Because the ratings for “Ellen” have been terrible in Pittsburgh for several years, it was unsurprising this month when WTAE-TV announced a 4 p.m. newscast. Similarly, with original episodes of “Judge Judy” ending on broadcast TV — she’ll have a new, similar show on free, ad-supported streamer IMDbTV in late...
North Huntingdon artist part of 5th annual chalk art festival
Everyone can be an artist July 24-25 in Somerset as the annual Chalk the Block festival returns for its fifth year. Art will cover the sidewalks of Uptown Somerset, courtesy of professional chalk artists, competitions for emerging and youth artists, a mini-mural from Laurel Arts and an open art-making space...
Paris Hilton to star on Netflix cooking show
Paris Hilton and Netflix are serving up a new cooking show. “Cooking With Paris” will star Hilton in what the streaming service says will not be a standard culinary program. “She’s not a trained chef and she’s not trying to be,” Netflix said about Hilton in a show announcement Monday....
‘Crown,’ ‘Mandalorian’ top Emmy nominations with 24 each
LOS ANGELES — “The Crown” tied with “The Mandalorian” for the most Emmy nominations Tuesday with 24 apiece, but the Marvel universe also got bragging rights with runner-up “WandaVision.” Emmy nominees with local ties include Pittsburgh native Billy Porter (lead actor in a drama) for “Pose,” which also received nominations...
