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Steel City Con shifts summer show dates to AugustVideo
The popular Steel City Con is shifting its summer show dates to mid-August amid continued health and safety measures during the covid-19 pandemic. The show will move from June to Aug. 14-16. “We did not take this difficult decision lightly knowing that our vendors as small businesses are struggling to...
Hempfield senior wins performing arts scholarship, awardVideo
Talent is only a portion of what makes a performer successful, says Tony Marino, founder and artistic director of Stage Right School for the Performing Arts in Greensburg. It also takes hard work, discipline, attitude and integrity — all of which he says Stage Right student/performer Grace Rusnica has in...
Ex-lovers of Johnny Depp come to his defense in libel case
Two former romantic partners of actor Johnny Depp came to his defense Wednesday in his libel suit against British newspaper The Sun, dismissing claims that he was violent or abusive. Actresses Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder offered supportive statements for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star, who is suing the...
U2’s Bono marks 60th birthday with ’60 Songs That Saved My Life’Video
U2 front man Bono celebrated his 60th birthday by releasing a playlist of “60 Songs That Saved My Life.” On the band’s website, Bono calls the songs “(the) ones I couldn’t have lived without … the ones that got me from there to here, zero to 60 … through all...
Russell Crowe’s new movie will be first to screen after coronavirus. Will audiences show?Video
In recent weeks, Hollywood studios and movie theater chains have held out hope that cinemas will be back in business in July, and that audiences will be eager to return. Veteran film producer Mark Gill is betting the launch of his new studio on whether or not that dream becomes...
‘Bombshell’ concert stream will reunite cast of ‘Smash’Video
The cast of “Bombshell,” the fictional Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe, is coming together again to aid those confronting the coronavirus. Actors including Katharine McPhee, Debra Messing and Megan Hilty will reunite May 20 to present a stream of the one-night-only 2015 Broadway concert of the musical within the TV...
Review: A grotesque, inglorious look at Capone’s last yearVideo
Al Capone lived out his final years on a grand estate in Palm Island, Florida, with his wife, Mae, by his side and grandchildren running around the property. It sounds like a pretty nice end for the notorious Chicago gangster, until you realize that he spent those post Alcatraz years...
Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, like fans, looks forward to return of live musicVideo
David Grohl misses the shows, too. With concerts still on hold across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, Grohl, of the Foo Fighters (and Nirvana), penned an essay about looking forward to the return of live music. In a piece titled “The Day the Live Concert Returns,” published Monday to...
Broadway shutdown extended until at least Labor Day
The shutdown on Broadway due to coronavirus concerns has been extended again — until at least early September. Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Sept. 6. “While all Broadway...
How sweaters became scene-stealers on ABC’s ‘The Goldbergs’
The character Beverly Goldberg on ABC’s hit comedy series “The Goldbergs” can elicit laughter before she even speaks, thanks to the over-the-top outfits that are a love letter to the mother of the show’s creator and to 1980s fashion. “No dialogue necessary,” laughs “Goldbergs” star Wendi McClendon-Covey, who plays the...
WWE’s Becky Lynch announces pregnancy, ‘going away for awhile’Video
One of the biggest current stars in WWE is set to add another title to her collection: mom. Becky Lynch announced her pregnancy at the opening of “Monday Night Raw” on Monday. Before making the big announcement, an emotional Lynch recounted her start in WWE, coming to the U.S. while...
The Westmoreland plans online gift box photo album workshop
Editor’s note: This event is now at maximum capacity. Another Pop-Up Studio is set for June 24, with a project to be announced. The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will host its first digital Pop-Up Studio on May 27, inviting participants to create their own explosion gift box photo albums....
Oprah Winfrey to launch live virtual experience on wellness during the pandemic
Oprah Winfrey, who visited arenas last year on a wellness tour, is bringing the idea to living rooms while people are homebound due to the coronavirus pandemic. The media mogul on Tuesday announced “Oprah’s Your Life in Focus: A Vision Forward — Live Virtual Experience,” a free and interactive four-week...
Independent movie theaters struggle to stay afloat during coronavirus pandemicVideo
Most of Southwestern Pennsylvania is set to see some coronavirus-related restrictions eased as it moves Friday into the yellow phase of reopening. But many businesses that rely on gatherings of people, such as movie theaters and concert venues, are ordered to remain closed. Brian Mendelssohn, owner of Row House Cinema...
Jonas Brothers to thank health care workers with SiriusXM sessionVideo
The Jonas Brothers will interact with an audience of frontline health care workers and their families at noon Friday on SiriusXM Hits 1’s Celebrity Session on SiriusXM radio channel 2 and on the SiriusXM app. The brothers will answer questions about their music, including their upcoming single “X,” featuring Karol...
Have a weird talent to share? Yinzfest is looking for you
Do you have an unusual, eclectic or downright weird talent that you’d like to share? Yinzfest 2020, coming Aug. 15 to Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale, could be just the place for you. “The mission of the festival has always been to book interesting and different talent in Pittsburgh that...
Jeannette gallery seeks applicants for online artist showcase
You Are Here gallery in Jeannette is seeking applications for its artist of the week program. The new website feature is designed to introduce artists to the community and to help them promote their work during the coronavirus-related shutdown. “For many artists, unless they have a side gig, their artwork...
‘Masked Singer,’ Kim Cattrall soap on Fox’s fall schedule
“The Masked Singer,” an artificial-intelligence thriller and a prime-time soap opera starring Kim Cattrall will be part of Fox’s fall lineup, the network said Monday as it unveiled its schedule amid the pandemic’s disruption of the TV industry. Cattrall’s “Filthy Rich,” about a Southern family’s inheritance fight, and the AI...
Comedian, actor Jerry Stiller dies at 92
Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. He died of natural causes, his son — a...
Reports paint unflattering picture of ‘Tiger King’ zoo’s reopening
The animal park made famous — or infamous — by a well-timed Netflix documentary series is reaping the benefits of the show’s popularity, available as it is while many Americans are a captive audience amid the covid-19 pandemic. But the attraction featured in “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” —...
Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87
NASHVILLE — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday. He was 87. Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard’s, told The Associated Press that...
Taylor Swift ‘Lover’ concert coming to ABC, Hulu, Disney+Video
A concert event is coming soon that should make Swifties happy. Taylor Swift announced Friday that her concert from Paris in September will be shown on ABC. The event, dubbed the “City of Lover Concert,” will make it’s way to TV at 10 p.m. May 17. Excited to announce the...
Queen’s Brian May hurts buttocks in freak gardening accidentVideo
Talk about a pain in the … Let’s just say that Queen guitarist Brian May hasn’t just been lounging about during his time sequestered during the coronavirus pandemic. Nope, he’s been active. Almost too active, he says. He recently landed himself in the hospital after a gardening accident. May shared...
Buju Banton calls new single with John Legend ‘special’Video
It’s been over a decade since reggae king Buju Banton and R&B star John Legend collaborated on a song, and the Grammy winners have reunited for a new track. Banton and Legend released the easygoing love song “Memories” on Friday. It is the first single from Banton’s upcoming album “Upside...
Billie Eilish and her cool dad to host Apple Music radio show
If you’re quarantined at home with your parents right now, count your blessings if you can have as nice a time as Billie Eilish and her dad seem to be enjoying. Eilish announced a new Apple Music program, “me & dad radio,” featuring her and her father, Patrick O’Connell, an...
