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Bob Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495K

BOSTON — A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter’s musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for $495,000. Boston-based R.R. Auction said Friday the collection privately held by the late American blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan friend and confidante, was sold...
James Taylor on how he takes a song and makes it his ownVideo

Something happens when James Taylor covers a song. It gets all James Taylor-y. “People often tell me, ‘It sounds like you wrote that song’ or ‘That sounds like a James Taylor song.’ And that’s because basically it’s been translated into my language,” the singer-songwriter told The Associated Press in an...
Pittsburgh Carnegie Science Center’s Buhl Planetarium reopensVideo

See craters on the moon in a much clearer picture. That’s just one of the close-ups you can view inside the Carnegie Science Center’s updated Buhl Planetarium on Pittsburgh’s North Side. A multi-million dollar renovation was unveiled Tuesday. The attraction — the country’s fifth-oldest planetarium — will show more realistic...
TV Talk: Thanksgiving parade telecasts altered by pandemicVideo

With covid-19 upending holiday plans worldwide, even traditions like the “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” have to change, but the show will go on, at least on TV. “You have to have it on in the background while you’re making your gravy,” teased Hoda Kotb, who will again host the telecast...
Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison in college bribery case

BOSTON — Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters’ way into college, officials said. Giannulli’s wife, “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin, is already behind bars for her role in the college admissions bribery scheme involving prominent parents and...
Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity

The Lincoln Highway Experience museum on Route 30 in Unity has joined forces with a community farther east on the historic highway to provide visitors a glimpse of Civil War-era life “On the Home Front.” The exhibit, on loan from the Bedford County Historical Society through Jan. 18, features a...
‘Letterkenny’ season 9 release date announcedVideo

Christmas will bring a new season of a great Canadian show this year. Season nine of “Letterkenny” will be released Dec. 26 via Hulu in the U.S. and Dec. 25 via Crave in Canada. The show features creators Jared Keeso and Jacob Tierney, as well as Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett,...
Drag queen art critics return for The Westmoreland’s online program

Drag performers know a thing or two about fashion, hair and makeup. Some of them also know a thing or two about fine art. Through their lush false eyelashes, Pittsburgh-based performers Alora Chateaux and Tootsie Snyder will take a look at works from The Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s permanent...
TV Talk: ‘Saved by the Bell’ enrolls a new classVideo

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” revival has elements of a nostalgia play with multiple original series cast members popping in here and there. But in three episodes sent for review, the new series proves itself...
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

NEW YORK — Former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. The first-day sales, a record for Penguin Random House, includes pre-orders, e-books...
Dolly Parton adds pandemic hero to list of accomplishmentsVideo

BOSTON — Dolly Parton is being celebrated in song — a rewritten version of her own “Jolene” — for her contribution to an experimental coronavirus vaccine. Northeastern University associate English professor Ryan Cordell posted a video on Twitter of himself performing a tweaked version of Parton’s signature song, renamed “Vaccine,”...
Charlie Brown specials to air on TV, after all, in PBS deal

NEW YORK — The “Great Pumpkin” never showed on broadcast television this year, but after a deal with PBS, the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Christmas specials will return to the air. Last month, Apple TV+ became the new home to the beloved Peanuts holiday specials. That sparked an outcry from...
Stage Right plans 3 online versions of musical ‘Annie’

Mounting a theatrical production is complicated enough with one actor in the lead role. Stage Right is tripling the challenge by casting three Annies in an upcoming online production of the beloved Broadway staple. “Annie” is scheduled to stream nightly from Nov. 27 to 29 through the Showtix4u live-stream service....
TV Q&A: Which Hallmark Christmas movies filmed in America?

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: What Hallmark Christmas movies that will premiere in 2020 were filmed in the United States? — Chris Fiegler, Latham, N.Y. Rob: While the bulk of...
Carnegie Science Center unveils latest model for its miniature railroadVideo

Dr. Earl Douglas Childs recalled visiting the Carnegie Science Center’s Miniature Railroad & Village as a young boy, when it was located at the Buhl Planetarium. The trains mesmerized him. On Tuesday, the grown man was drawn to something else. The miniature model of his childhood home was unveiled at...
‘Jazz Road Tours’ grants support artists hoping to launch short 2021 tours

New York City jazz musician Jon Irabagon was in the process of stringing together dates for an April 2021 tour with a brand-new ensemble when the coronavirus pandemic hit. Luckily for him, as he was setting up potential touring dates, he also heard about the Jazz Road Tours grant program...

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