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Chick Corea, jazz great with 23 Grammy Awards, dies at 79Video
NEW YORK — Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79. Corea died Tuesday of a rare form of cancer, his team posted on his website....
U.K. judge rules that newspaper invaded Meghan’s privacy
A British judge ruled Thursday that a newspaper invaded Duchess of Sussex’s privacy by publishing personal letter to her estranged father. Judge Mark Warby said Associated Newspapers misused the duchess’s private information in five February 2019 articles in the Mail on Sunday and on the MailOnline website, which published portions...
Taylor Swift has finished redoing sophomore album ‘Fearless’Video
NEW YORK — Last year, Taylor Swift gave us a lot of new music. This year it will be old — the pop star has announced she’s dropping the first of her re-recorded albums. Swift said online Thursday that “Fearless: Taylor’s Version” is finished and “will be with you soon,”...
Quantum Theatre’s ‘Far Away’ presents cautionary tale of a dark future
Quantum Theatre’s upcoming production is “a surreal portrait of a descent into a hyper-partisan future we hope will never come to pass, but which has disturbing echoes of the present day,” the theater company says. That production is “Far Away,” a 2000 work by British playwright Caryl Churchill, which Quantum...
Gina Carano fired from ‘Mandalorian’ after social media post
LOS ANGELES — Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer a part of “The Mandalorian” cast after many online called for her firing over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the U.S. political climate. A spokesperson with the production company said in...
Morgan Wallen tells fans not to defend his racist language
Country star Morgan Wallen asked fans not to downplay the racist language he was caught saying on camera and said that he accepted the punishments he faced. TMZ posted a video last week of Wallen saying a racial slur and Wallen apologized at the time. Wallen posted a five-minute Instagram...
TV Talk: ‘Young Rock’ pumps up NBC; ‘It’s a Sin’ will leave viewers sobbingVideo
Over the next seven days, NBC premieres two comedies, Starz debuts a road show and HBO Max introduces an excellent British drama. ‘Young Rock,’ ‘Kenan’ Of NBC’s two new single-camera, laugh-track-free comedies, “Young Rock” (8 p.m. Tuesday, WPXI-TV) proves funnier and altogether better than “Kenan” (8:30 p.m. Tuesday). There’s a...
Lincoln Highway museum to have free admission Friday, seeks donations for new roof
The Lincoln Highway Experience is celebrating Lincoln’s birthday with free admission on Friday. At the same time, the nonprofit that runs the transportation-oriented Route 30 museum is seeking contributions toward a roof replacement for the oldest section, a stone house dating from 1815. It’s time to update the Unity museum’s...
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt dies at 78
LOS ANGELES — Porn purveyor Larry Flynt, who built Hustler magazine into an adult entertainment empire while championing First Amendment rights, died Wednesday. He was 78. Flynt had been in frail health and died of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, said his nephew, Jimmy Flynt Jr. From his...
Britney Spears reminds us of the ‘person living behind the lens’ amid film dramaVideo
After FX’s buzzy Britney Spears documentary exposed the toxic ways in which the media circus descended on her as a rising pop star, Spears delivered a poignant message on Instagram about fame. On Tuesday afternoon, the singer posted three-year-old footage of herself performing her hit single “Toxic” and offered an...
You Are Here’s ‘Portraits of Jeannette’ pays tribute to familiar city faces
Photographer John Howard is a familiar face around Jeannette, as he documents people, places and events for the local historical society and various publications. Now, Howard will pay tribute to some other familiar Jeannette residents in an exhibit opening Feb. 20 at You Are Here. “Portraits of Jeannette” will run...
Springsteen charged with drunken driving; Jeep ad on pause
HIGHLANDS, N.J. — Bruce Springsteen is facing a drunken driving charge in New Jersey, prompting Jeep to put on pause the Super Bowl television commercial that features him. Springsteen was arrested Nov. 14 in a part of the Gateway National Recreation Area on the New Jersey coast, a spokesperson for...
Westmoreland Symphony’s Young Artist Competition winners to hit virtual stage
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra and its Academy of Music will present its 2021 Young Artists Competition winners’ recital as a virtual event this year. The program will premiere at 3 p.m. Feb. 21 on the symphony’s YouTube channel. The young artist competition is open to students who reside or take...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announces 2021 class nomineesVideo
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for its 2021 induction Wednesday morning. Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, Mary J. Blige and Iron Maiden were among the nominees. The full nominee list is: • Mary J. Blige • Kate Bush • Devo • Foo...
Student artwork at Ligonier museum created in unusual circumstances
The artwork in the annual “Artists of the 21st Century” student exhibition is always impressive, said Kristin Miller, site coordinator of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art-Ligonier Valley, where the show opens on Friday. The circumstances under which it was created this year make it even more so. “I give...
Things to do in Western Pa.: Feb. 10, 2021
The doldrums of February is a good time to hunker down at home and watch a movie. The Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival, Row House Cinema and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust have at-home streaming options, ranging from serious to silly. Also coming up are music livestreams, art and theater happenings and...
TV Q&A: How are ratings for KDKA’s 7:30 p.m. newscast?
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: How have the ratings been for KDKA’s 7:30 p.m. news broadcast compared to the show it replaced, “Extra”? — Lucas via email Rob: Looking at...
Fox News leader signs new contract, no ‘pivot’ planned
NEW YORK — Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott signed a new contract Tuesday and the company said it will continue its “center right” programming mix despite a recent ratings slump and legal fight against its flagship Fox News Channel. The affirmation of Scott’s leadership came a day after Fox...
Netflix to film part of ‘The Chair’ in Sewickley in March
Sewickley officials have given the green light to a Netflix project to be filmed in the borough. Council voted Feb. 9 to approve a request for roving closures of several streets and the use of five police officers on March 15. Crews are expected to be working from at least...
Digital series connects music lovers to Pittsburgh Symphony
On a warm fall night in Downtown Pittsburgh, members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed in the Heinz Hall garden. Principal oboist Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida complemented the symphony’s strings ensemble for Ennio Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe” with a sound that resonated, a memorial to the composer who died in July. Port...
Story of pioneering Pittsburgh Black reporter inspires new documentary
When protesters seeking voting rights for Black Americans made the 54-mile trek from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, a Pittsburgh reporter was there. It didn’t matter to KDKA radio newsman George Barbour that his boss considered it too dangerous for a news outlet to send a Black reporter to...
Mary Wilson, longest-reigning original Supreme, dies at 76Video
LAS VEGAS — Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning original Supreme, has died at 76 years old. Wilson died Monday night at her home in Las Vegas and the cause was not immediately clear, said publicist Jay Schwartz. Wilson, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard made up the first successful configuration of The...
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art reopens with new exhibits, precautions in place
Voices and inquisitive eyes are filling the galleries once again at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art after a two-month closure. With timed tickets and plenty of space, it’s like visitors have the Greensburg museum all to themselves, said Barbara Jones, chief curator. “It’s a great opportunity to come inside...
TV Talk: CBS’s ‘Silence of the Lambs’ sequel ‘Clarice’ is no ‘Hannibal’Video
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. There’s an easy way to figure out if CBS’s “Silence of the Lambs” sequel series, “Clarice,” is for you: If you were a fan of the 1991 Jonathan Demme-directed “Lambs,” partially filmed in Pittsburgh, and...
Westmoreland Museum gets grant for 2022 exhibition ‘Stephen Towns: Declaration and Resistance’
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art has received an $8,000 grant to help support an exhibition opening next January that explores American history and the experiences of Black Americans over the past 300 years. The Homestead-based Rivers of Steel grant will help the Greensburg museum present Stephen Towns’ solo exhibition,...
