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Latrobe Art Center classes help youngsters unlock creativity
Latrobe Art Center will offer various fall art classes for young people, from first grade through high-school. All class sizes at the center at 819 Ligonier St. are limited to no more than eight participants. Staff members will meet all required safety guidelines and all in-person students will need to...
City of Asylum’s jazz poetry festival stars international performersVideo
City of Asylum’s 16th annual Jazz Poetry Festival will go virtual this year, with free concerts and readings from eight national jazz ensembles and 10 poets from nine different countries. The festival will kick off at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 with classically trained clarinetist and composer Waclaw Zimpel collaborating with...
Lady Gaga dominates at MTV VMAs, The Weeknd wins top award
NEW YORK — Lady Gaga cleaned house at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, while The Weeknd took home the top prize — and both pop stars sent important messages to viewers about the current state of the world: “Wear a mask” and “Justice for Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor.”...
TV Talk: NBC imports Canadian medical drama ‘Transplant’
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Broadcast network series are slowly getting back into production this month following pandemic shutdowns. Other programs won’t start filming new episodes until September. In a normal year, many broadcast dramas and comedies are back in...
ABC to air ‘Black Panther’ as tribute to Chadwick Boseman
NEW YORK — ABC will air “Black Panther” commercial-free Sunday as a prime-time tribute to Chadwick Boseman. The film will be followed by an ABC News Special, “Chadwick Bosmeman: A Tribute for a King.” Disney said the special “will celebrate Boseman’s storied life, legacy and career” and “shine a light...
Western Pa. veterans create art for virtual exhibit
The pieces of art were created by heroes. Twelve veterans from the Southwestern Veterans Center are part of the exhibit, “We Are Beautiful Art!” An opening was planned for March at the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Downtown, but was canceled because of the pandemic. The 35-piece collection can be viewed...
Shock, grief, and gratitude after death of Chadwick Boseman
“He was a gentle soul and a brilliant artist, who will stay with us for eternity through his iconic performances over his short yet illustrious career. God bless Chadwick Boseman.” — Denzel Washington, via a statement. “Chadwick…..no words to express my devastation of losing you. Your talent, your spirit, your...
‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43
LOS ANGELES — Chadwick Boseman, who played Black American icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown with searing intensity before inspiring audiences worldwide as the regal Black Panther in Marvel’s blockbuster movie franchise, died Friday of cancer. He was 43. Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with...
Everything you need to know about the 2020 MTV Video Music AwardsVideo
This year, the VMAs are the Virtual Music Awards. MTV’s Video Music Awards are set to take place Sunday throughout New York City, but don’t expect to see the same types of the shocking performances or wild interactions between stars that we’ve witnessed at past ceremonies. After all, memorable moments...
How the team behind ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ assembled a band that could save the universeVideo
Ever since the 1989 cult comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” sent them traveling through time in a cosmic phone booth, slacker friends Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winters) have explored some profound historical and philosophical questions. For example, what would Genghis Khan do...
Frick Pittsburgh opens some of its exhibits, grounds
Portions of The Frick Pittsburgh have reopened. The East End museum is operating with limited hours and is opening in phases. Not everything is available because of social distancing constraints inside the Clayton House, the cafe and the greenhouse, said Frick spokesman Greg Langel. The Car and Carriage museum and...
Review: The Olympics are postponed, but ‘Rising Phoenix’ spotlights athletes of the ParalympicsVideo
Days before the close of the 2012 London Olympics, banners appeared around the city bearing the logo of the soon-to-follow Paralympic Games and proclaiming, “Thanks for the warm-up.” That cheeky, irreverent attitude permeates the new Netflix documentary “Rising Phoenix,” written and directed by Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui. The film,...
Review: Saving the world, backward, makes for an uneven ‘Tenet’Video
“Tenet” is about saving the world, backward and in heels. Off-screen, Christopher Nolan’s quarter-billion-dollar palindrome shoulders a ridiculous load of covid-defying, multiplex-rescuing, world-saving expectations. A few days ago, Warner Bros. released a new trailer for “Tenet,” one that begins with a shot of John David Washington of “BlacKkKlansman” sporting a...
TV Q&A: Will WQED-TV ever boost its signal?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions Wednesdays at TribLIVE.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Please try and find out if WQED-TV has any plans to increase its transmitting power so those of us using antennas can watch their channel again....
Wiz Khalifa bringing delivery-only restaurant to Pittsburgh
A macaroni and cheese dish called “Mac and Yellow,” a “Taylor Gang turkey burger” and “blazed ends” brisket meal — all homemade dishes designed by Pittsburgh’s own Wiz Khalifa. And they’ll be available Oct. 1 when the multi-platinum recording artist opens Hotbox by Wiz, a chain of delivery-only restaurants coming...
Ligonier museum plans garden tour, plein air painting weekend
The natural beauty of the Ligonier area is the focus of two September programs scheduled at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley. • The museum’s head gardener, Anne Clark, will lead a tour of the gardens on the museum grounds at 1 p.m. Sept. 18. “This tour...
Katy Perry gives birth to a baby girl named Daisy
Katy Perry has given birth to a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom. The pop superstar and her partner, actor Orlando Bloom, got UNICEF to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both Perry and Bloom are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children. View this post...
TV Talk: Western Pa. natives compete on reality TV
Auditor Connor Trott, a former Pine-Richland High School student and Duquesne University grad, acquitted himself well this week in early episodes of CBS’s dating competition series “Love Island,” which airs at 9 p.m. nightly (with some exceptions) on KDKA-TV. The 23-year-old from Gibsonia came off as shy, old-fashioned and not...
TV Talk: Pittsburgh-filmed series ‘Manhunt: Deadly Games’ premiering on CBS
The series “Manhunt: Deadly Games,” which filmed in Pittsburgh from June to October 2019, will finally be available for local viewers to watch when it advances to its second window of distribution, premiering at 10 p.m. Sept. 21 on CBS’s KDKA-TV. “Manhunt: Deadly Games” was produced for Spectrum Originals, which...
Pittsburgh Camerata prepares for both live and virtual performances
The Pittsburgh Camerata’s upcoming season will include four programs, the first of which will be available exclusively for online viewing. The following three programs will be presented live in front of an audience, if possible, or as virtual performances to be viewed online, or as both. “During this time of...
Brandy emerges from her cocoon, conquers her demons on ‘B7’Video
When Brandy began crafting her newest album nearly three years ago, her intent was both benevolent and selfish. She wanted to give R&B fans the timeless music she’s been synonymous with, while also gain liberation from emotional bondage. She achieved her goal with “B7” — but she wasn’t prepared for...
What to stream: Fraudster filmsVideo
On Sunday, the draw-dropping docuseries “Love Fraud” drops on Showtime, following the exploits of one dirty, dirty john, a notorious con artist and prolific bigamist named Richard Scott Smith, or Scott, or Mickey. Smith combined dating websites and a charm offensive to swindle women all around the Kansas City area,...
Roman Polanski’s request to restore film academy membership denied
A judge on Tuesday denied Roman Polanski’s request to restore his membership in the organization that bestows the Academy Awards two years after he was expelled from it for raping a minor. The fugitive film director sued in April 2019, asking the court to compel the Academy of Motion Picture...
Police: Justin Townes Earle’s death was probable overdose
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville police said a preliminary investigation into the death of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle shows his death was a probable drug overdose. Police spokesman Don Aaron said officers did a welfare check at Earle’s home on Sunday where he was found dead. A friend called police after...
Inclusive theater troupe will hold holiday-play auditions in September
Auditions for a holiday play by inclusive theater group Acting Up will be at the First Presbyterian Church pavilion, 3202 North Hills Road in Murrysville. It is not an open casting call due to health and safety regulations. All potential participants must call or email to make an audition appointment....
