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Whitesnake’s Greensburg show is calm before the stormVideo
For hard rockers Whitesnake, it’s the calm before the storm. With legendary song stylist David Coverdale at the helm and guitarist/music director (and Pittsburgh native) Reb Beach as first mate, the band is ready to embark on its “Flesh and Blood World Tour.” The tour will introduce some of the...
EQT kids’ theater festival draws talent from around the globeVideo
Cyril Lancelin, an artist and architect from Lyon, France, is known for using random shapes in exaggerated proportions to create unique immersive installations. The world premiere of his “circle circle circle,” a colorful 15-foot-tall cube of oversized rings creating a maze to walk through, will be located on Penn Avenue...
Peter Max art on exhibit, for sale, at Pittsburgh galleryVideo
Peter Max’s artwork may conjure up memories of the “psychedelic era” — neon pops of color on college dorm walls and album covers, beginning in the 1960s. His fans know his creativity also has shown up on a postage stamp, Grammy posters, New York City’s Yellow Pages covers, clocks and...
Westmoreland Symphony closes season with movie music program
Think of prolific composer John Williams’ blockbuster movie scores and you probably think of “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Jurrasic Park.” Maybe even “Harry Potter.” Williams also wrote the oh-so-cool jazz score for “Catch Me If You Can,” Steven Spielberg’s 2002 flick starring Leonardo DeCaprio as a...
Experience ‘King Lear’ at the Carrie FurnaceVideo
The Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark is definitely not your typical stage, but it’s the perfect setting for a play with a very rich history. The Swissvale site, part of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, will be the setting for Quantum Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s “King...
Entertainment planner: May 9-22
Friday May 10 “Andre,” Throughline Theatre Company production, Aftershock Theatre, Lawrenceville. Through May 18. throughlinetheatre.org Art on Tap 2.0 — Salsa Night, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. 724-837-1500 or thewestmoreland.org Brooke Annibale, Club Cafe, Pittsburgh. 866-468-3401 or ticketweb.com/clubcafe Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, works by Beethoven and Mahler, Heinz Hall,...
Tyra Banks returns to the cover of Sports Illustrated, and she has a message for everyone
She’s 45? Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’s 2019 edition hit newsstands Wednesday and Tyra Banks’ tweet of her gracing the cover shows that age really “ain’t nothin’ but a number.” As if Banks’ alluring gaze isn’t enough, the superstar is clad in a yellow string bikini while twirling her hair. The image...
‘Sleeping Beauty’ concludes Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre season
Dreams can come true, and not only in fairy tales. Amanda Cochrane has known “The Sleeping Beauty” story since she was a little girl growing up in Spokane, Wash., and admits she was obsessed with Disney’s animated film adaptation. She was 18 when she first performed in it with her...
Sit back and enjoy all 10 shows at Apple Hill Playhouse
Apple Hill Playhouse wants its audiences to sit back and enjoy the shows — all 10 of them — as the Delmont community theater gets ready to open its 37th season. Two musicals, five plays and three children’s shows comprise the lineup of productions to be presented from May through...
Air Supply celebrates 4 decades of making music
Air Supply’s soothing ballads have a way of lifting spirits, like they did for a local musician and his wife at a concert one summer. Chip DiMonick, leader of the eponymous Pittsburgh hard-rock band, and his wife, Sharon, attended an Air Supply acoustic show in South Park while she was...
Fox shares first promo as it revives 90210 as BH90210
The cast of 90210 is getting back together to deliver some sort of update about themselves. It’s not exactly clear what BH90210 will be like but the promo video released Wednesday by Fox shows the whole clan apparently happy to see each other. The video shows original 90210 stars Gabrielle...
Wiz Khalifa joins cast of Fox animated comedy ‘Duncanville’
Rapper Wiz Khalifa is going from the weed farm to the schoolhouse. The Pittsburgh-area native has joined the cast of “Duncanville,” an animated primetime comedy set to debut on Fox in the 2019-20 season. Khalifa will voice Mr. Mitch, “the cool teacher/guidance counselor, occasional gym coach and nurse” at the...
R. Kelly judgment withdrawn after lawyers say he can’t read
CHICAGO — A judge who ordered a default judgment against R. Kelly after the singer failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by one of his alleged victims now says the suit can proceed. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cook County Judge Moira Johnson on Wednesday reinstated the lawsuit after...
Pittsburgh Symphony announces fellowship recipient
Shantanique Moore will be playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The flute player is the recipient of the symphony’s two-year fellowship designed to place one young African American musician on an orchestral career path. Moore, of Redford Township, Mich., will be the eighth person awarded the opportunity which is part...
Ryan Reynolds trolls perfectly with fake ‘Detective Pikachu’ leak
Ryan Reynolds continues to play things perfectly. As if his handsome looks and genuine good-guy persona isn’t frustrating enough for some of us (ahem), the actor trolled fans by leaking the full version of his upcoming film, “Detective Pikachu.” Only it’s not really. Um.... Attn @DetPikachuMovie @warnerbros Ryan Reynolds...
Monroeville artist paints on, plans show, despite challenges
Jeanne Werner is a primarily self-taught artist, whose lack of formal instruction does not keep her from the painting she loves. Nor do a 1980 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and more recent cancer challenges, her family members say. Werner, 76, of Monroeville, is one of two artists whose work will...
Billy Bush to host new TV show, first gig since Trump scandal
Billy Bush appears headed back to TV this fall. People is reporting that Bush will host “Extra Extra,” a new version of the current syndicated entertainment show, “Extra,” currently hosted by Mario Lopez. (Lopez is rumored to be headed to another entertainment show.) “We all have to be able to...
Ed Asner discusses Holocaust play in Pittsburgh, Tree of Life, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’Video
Actor and activist Ed Asner has been in Pittsburgh this week playing a Nazi concentration camp survivor in the stage play “The Soap Myth.” Asner’s character Milton Saltzman swears that he is a witness to the Nazis manufacturing of soap made from the corpses of murdered Jews. Not everyone believes...
MTV fires ‘Teen Mom 2’ star Jenelle Evans after husband fatally shoots dog
MTV fired “Teen Mom 2” star Jenelle Evans after her husband shot and killed their French bulldog, USA Today reported. USA Today reported MTV cut ties with the 27-year-old Evans after her husband, David Eason, 30, shot and killed her dog, Nugget, last week after he said it nipped their...
Meghan, Harry name baby son Archie HarrisonVideo
LONDON — Prince Harry and Meghan have named their son Archie. Buckingham Palace says that the baby’s full name is Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. The palace made the announcement hours after the couple posed with the two-day-old for the media. He also met his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, for the first...
Barack Obama’s book not expected to be released in 2019
Former President Barack Obama’s post-White House memoir isn’t expected to be released this year, setting up the likelihood that the highly anticipated book will drop during the 2020 campaign. Publisher Penguin Random House started alerting foreign partners and others about the status of Obama’s book on Tuesday. The former president...
High school band to kick off Ligonier Diamond concerts
Ligonier Valley High School’s Concert and Jazz Bands and Percussion Ensemble are scheduled to perform May 26 in Ligonier’s Diamond Park, kicking off the town’s 70th Annual Summer Band Concert Series. Sponsored by the Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce, the concerts are held at 7 p.m. Sundays at the park’s...
Snarky Puppy plays hard-to-define music ‘for booty and brain’
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the 18th-century German writer and politician, once said we should try to “hear a little music” every day in order to stay in touch with life’s beauties. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but there is nothing little about Snarky Puppy’s sound —...
‘Game of Thrones’: Breaking down ‘The Last of the Starks’Video
***WARNING: SPOILERS THROUGH SEASON 8, EPISODE 4 OF ‘GAMES OF THRONES,’ AND MILD BOOK SPOILERS*** Opinions were sharply divided among the “Thrones’n’at” panel regarding “The Last of the Starks.” With two episodes to go, the show jumped back into political intrigue, tense throne-room conversation and characters not knowing who their...
Bushy Run Market opens season with new format
Bushy Run Battlefield Heritage Society Inc. will resume its open air market on May 25, continuing each fourth Saturday of the month through Sept. 28. The Bushy Run Market will host a variety of artisans and vendors, while encouraging those attending to visit the grounds of the battlefield, site of...
