Entertainment category, Page 307
5 things to do in Westmoreland County this weekend: Jan. 24-26Video
Desk jockeys are in the home stretch now, and the weekend looms. It’s a busy one, indoors and out, from antiques to music, culture to sculpture, to food. Enjoy. All that glitters Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce will host its 29th annual Ligonier Ice Fest Jan. 25-26, with ice sculptures...
‘The Bachelorette’ contestant Tyler G. dead at 29Video
Former “The Bachelorette” contestant Tyler Gwozdz, who appeared on season 15 of the series has died. He was 29. Gwozdz competed on the show when Hannah Brown was The Bachelorette. According to TMZ, Gwozdz died Wednesday. Boca Raton police said emergency responders rushed Gwozdz from a home to a hospital...
Billie Eilish releases self-directed ‘everything i wanted’ videoVideo
Billie Eilish is back with a self-directed video. The 18-year-old music star put out a music video Thursday afternoon for her single “everything i wanted.” The video starts with a message that reads “finneas is my brother and my best friend. no matter the circumstance, we always have and always...
Jim Lehrer of the ‘MacNeil-Lehrer Report’ dies at 85Video
NEW YORK — Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85. Lehner died “peacefully in his sleep,” according to PBS. He had suffered a heart attack in 1983 and...
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to open ‘Not a Drill’ tour in PittsburghVideo
Roger Waters is set to kick off his North American “This Is Not a Drill” tour in Pittsburgh. The show is scheduled for July 8 in PPG Paints Arena. “It’ll be a new show. It will be no-holds-barred,” Waters told Rolling Stone in September. “My work is to think, ‘Well,...
New Juice WRLD music coming, label says
Juice WRLD’s label has announced some things his fans will be interested in. Grade A Productions took to social media to thanks fans for their support of Jarad Higgins (Juice WRLD’s real name). They also also announced plans for a tribute and release of music Juice WRLD was working on....
Review: ‘The Turning’ refuses to answer enduring horror questionVideo
At the end of Floria Sigismondi’s “The Turning,” after all the credits had rolled, male members of the audience at a press screening were visibly and vocally upset. They were seemingly enraged at the film’s unwillingness to offer up a single definitive answer about the perceived haunting in this take...
James Taylor bringing ‘American Standard’ tour to PittsburghVideo
Legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor will follow up the Feb. 28 release of his new album, “American Standard,” with a series of summer concert dates. Taylor will perform June 16 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. The 26-city tour, with special guest Jackson Browne, kicks off May 15 in New Orleans...
Ousted Grammy chief suggests awards are tainted
The ousted head of the Grammy Awards says that music’s biggest awards are tainted because of conflicts of interest that infect how certain songs and artists are nominated. Nevertheless, Deborah Dugan said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that she plans to watch the Grammys this...
Review: Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’ is stale pint of aleVideo
Guy Ritchie’s honor-among-thieves meta-caper “The Gentlemen,” with Matthew McConaughey, has all the tailored tweed suits and smoky atmosphere of a handsome scotch commercial. “The Gentlemen” might not be an ad, but Ritchie’s film is most assuredly selling something. It’s selling a vision in which “real men” handle their business with...
Mr. Peanut is dead — long live Mr. PeanutVideo
Aw, nuts! Mr. Peanut, the mascot of the Planters Peanut Co., is dead. He was 104. The Planters’ mascot died a noble death: Sacrificing himself so that actors Matt Walsh and Wesley Snipes could live on. We’re devastated to confirm that Mr. Peanut is gone. He died doing what he...
Entertainment planner: Jan. 23-Feb. 5
Thursday Jan. 23 “Nicole Renee Ryan: Land of Little Thoughts and No Worries,” The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. Through Feb. 16. 724-837-1500 or thewestmoreland.org Friday Jan. 24 Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh. Also Jan. 26. 412-392-4900 or pittsburghsymphony.org Doc Brown, with Deadline, Club Cafe, Pittsburgh...
‘Dancing with the Stars’ brings all the moves to the BenedumVideo
Professional dancer Alan Bersten said he never imagined that he and his celebrity partner, “The Bachelorette” star Hannah Brown, would be among the finalists and the ultimate winner of ABC-TV’s “Dancing with the Stars” reality show, earning the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy. “Not until they called our names did we...
‘Fidelio’ highlight of Pittsburgh Symphony’s tribute to Beethoven
Performances can transform musical anniversaries from historical facts to the vibrant experiences that reminds us why the occasion is worth celebrating. The Pittsburgh Symphony’s tributes to Ludwig van Beethoven on the 250th anniversary of his birth will reach a predictable high point this weekend when it performs his only opera,...
‘Cinderella’ kicks off Stage Right’s new year
A large cast featuring three princesses and 75 students ages 6-18 from 12 different school districts will give a fairy tale start to the New Year for Stage Right School for the Performing Arts. Stage Right Artistic Director Tony Marino will direct Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s musical version...
World of Wheels roars into Pittsburgh for annual stop
Like many little kids, Aaron Kaufman of Grand Prairie, Texas, loved playing with cars — and dump trucks, bulldozers, tractors and just about anything else with wheels. He credits his grandfather, who ran a mill near his home working on parts for aircrafts, and his father, a maintenance man with...
Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer sues to rejoin band for Grammy honors
BOSTON — Aerosmith’s drummer, Joey Kramer, is suing his bandmates because they won’t let him play as the band is set to perform and be honored at Grammy events this week. Kramer, a founding member of the band launched in Boston, said in a lawsuit filed this month in Massachusetts...
Radio host Ira Glass to speak at Pittsburgh Humanities Festival
Ira Glass, host and creator of the popular public radio program “This American Life,” will be among featured speakers at the upcoming Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University, the fifth festival will take place March 20-22 at locations throughout...
Everyone invited: ‘Great Gatsby’ copyright to end in 2021
NEW YORK — For decades, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and other characters from “The Great Gatsby” have been as real to millions of readers as people in their own lives, exemplars and victims of the American pursuit of wealth and status. Starting next January, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age...
Dave Matthews Band coming to Burgettstown on summer tourVideo
The Dave Matthews Band 2020 North American summer tour includes a July 3 date at S&T Bank Music Park in Burgettstown. The tour launches June 16-17 with a two-night stand in Uncasville, Conn., and wraps Sept. 23 in Southaven, Miss. Dates will include the band’s traditional three-night Labor Day run,...
Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77
LONDON — Terry Jones, a founding member of the anarchic Monty Python troupe who was hailed by colleagues as “the complete Renaissance comedian” and “a man of endless enthusiasms,” has died at age 77 after suffering from dementia. Jones’s family said he died Tuesday evening at his home in London...
The Tubes bring ‘theatrical’ stage show back to Pittsburgh
In the early days of MTV, some of the most alluring, eye-catching videos were created by The Tubes, a band with a penchant for performing elaborate stage shows well before their songs became hits. But the hits would come, starting in 1981 with the release of “The Completion Backward Principle,”...
Catch Pittsburgh Opera’s new take on Handel’s ‘Alcina’
Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate style of the Baroque era in which composer George Frideric Handel thrived. Pittsburgh Opera will present four fully staged performances...
Grammys CEO says she was ousted after reporting harassment
LOS ANGELES — The ousted Grammys CEO fired back at the Recording Academy on Tuesday, alleging that she was removed after complaining about sexual harassment and pay disparities and for calling out conflicts of interest in the nomination process for music’s most prestigious awards. Lawyers for Deborah Dugan, who was...
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to host winter gallery crawl
Since 2004, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has been producing quarterly gallery crawls through the city’s cultural district. The winter edition is set for 5:30-10 p.m. Jan. 24, with free exhibits, entertainment and activities for all ages. About 30,000 visitors annually are drawn to what the Trust calls an immersive artistic...
