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Cast-iron vs. nonstick skillets: How to choose the right pan
Cast iron is often called the original nonstick pan. And it makes sense. Well-seasoned cast-iron skillets have a naturally formed coating that is created when fats are heated to a certain point that causes them to reorganize into something resembling a plastic coating and bond to the metal. For centuries,...
Lincoln Park Performing Arts student competes on ‘American Ninja Warrior Junior’
A Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School freshman will compete on “American Ninja Warrior Junior,” a Universal Kids Network television show, at 7 p.m. March 2. Dance major Abby Richert, 14, of Bethel Park, will take part in the next-generation competition, which puts young contestants through a timed course of...
Rotten Tomatoes shuts down trolls targeting female-led blockbusters
A blockbuster is set to open with a lead who is not male and not white. People are excited about the film, but trolls hijack the conversation, sometimes targeting the movie’s stars. What should have been a good time instead becomes an internet maelstrom in which a movie and its...
Altoona native Jimmy Mowery joins Team Adam on ‘The Voice’
If you like to feel a connection to the singer you root for on “The Voice,” here’s one with western Pennsylvania roots. Altoona native Jimmy Mowery went through blind auditions on the Feb. 25 return of the NBC singing competition and ultimately ended up choosing Adam Levine as his coach....
Brie Larson meets young girl dressed as Captain Marvel at U.K. premiere
Brie Larson took to the red carpet for the U.K. premiere of Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” Wednesday night in London and shared a moment with a young girl dressed as the super-heroine. Larson spoke with 8-year-old Illie, who attended the premiere at The Curzon Mayfair with nonprofit organization The Female...
Pittsburgh man set to appear on ‘American Idol’ season
A Pittsburgh man is set to appear on “American Idol,” according to a post on the show’s social media accounts. Nate Walker will be a contestant on the singing competition which airs March 10 on ABC. “I really got inspired to do American Idol after I saw somebody else from...
Review: ‘Greta’ is both tremendously silly and kind of a blast
Imagine you’re a 20-something living in New York City and you spot a particularly nice and structured green leather handbag on the subway. Do you report it to the MTA? Ignore it and move on? Claim it and its contents for yourself? Return to the owner? For Chloe Grace Moretz’s...
‘The Masked Singer’: T-Pain flies under the radar to grab Golden Mask
And “The Masked Singer” is … T-Pain?! Much to everyone’s surprise, the rapper was revealed to be the voice behind the Monster mask on last night’s season finale on the Fox singing competition in which celebrity contestants concealed their identities under elaborate costumes. Nobody was more surprised than the Florida-born...
Broadcasters aren’t succumbing to Netflix era
PASADENA, Calif. — If there is a high point to Netflix’s status as the “cool kids” taking over television, it may be remembered as an emotional Chuck Lorre accepting a best comedy Golden Globe last month for “The Kominsky Method,” his show on the streaming service. Lorre is one of...
A year after Frances McDormand’s Oscars speech, are inclusion riders making progress?
“I have two words to leave you with tonight, ladies and gentlemen,” said Frances McDormand in her Oscars acceptance speech last year. “Inclusion rider.” Just like that, the little-known industry term was instantly catapulted into the public sphere. Actors, directors and producers began tweeting their pledges to adopt the inclusion...
Gotta catch Ryan Reynolds explaining ‘Detective Pikachu’ method acting
When the 2020 Oscars roll around, the Los Angeles Times says we probably won’t be talking about the first live-action Pokemon movie, “Pokemon Detective Pikachu,” opening on May 10. Unless actor Ryan Reynolds — who voices the yellow title character with the thunderbolt tail — has something to say about...
After Oscar win, ‘Free Solo’ documentary again screens in Pittsburgh
Fresh off its Oscar win for best feature documentary, the movie “Free Solo” is returning to the screen of the Rangos Giant Cinema at the Carnegie Science Center this weekend. The movie tracks Alex Honnold’s free solo climb up the 3,000-foot granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park...
‘The Sopranos’ creators look back at a TV show that slayed
NEW YORK — Back in 1997, then-up-and-coming actor Michael Imperioli was mulling two work offers: a cable TV show pilot and a small role in a Woody Allen film. The script for the TV show didn’t initially seem so special to him. “I was not blown away by the pilot,”...
NBC appoints Jenna Bush Hager co-host on ‘Today’
NEW YORK — Jenna Bush Hager better get her wine glass ready. NBC appointed her Tuesday as co-host of the “Today” show’s fourth hour with Hoda Kotb, and she’ll replace Kathie Lee Gifford in that role in April. Kotb and Gifford were successful pioneers in expanding “Today,” with an irreverent...
8 movies we’ll be talking about at next year’s Oscars
If Democratic presidential candidates are criss-crossing New Hampshire and buying vintage sequined jackets in South Carolina to boost their bona fides for the 2020 election, then it can’t be too early to talk about next year’s Oscars, right? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course, it’s too soon. But that’s not...
Oscar winner Ruth E. Carter brought costume collection to Pittsburgh last yearVideo
Ruth E. Carter made history by becoming the first African American woman to win an Oscar for costume design. There was talk of Carter’s immense talent in August when she visited Pittsburgh to introduce part of her vast collection at the Senator John Heinz History Center—the first museum to showcase...
Judge allows Smollett to travel to meet with attorneys
CHICAGO — A Chicago judge says “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett can travel out-of-state to meet his lawyers while he’s free on bond on charges he falsely reported being attacked by two masked men. Anne Kavanagh is a spokeswoman for Smollett’s attorneys, who say he’s innocent. Kavanagh says attorney Mark Geragos,...
Some stars snubbed from ‘In Memoriam’ at Oscars
Several actors and movie stars did not make the cut for the Oscars “In Memoriam” montage. While the Academy did acknowledge the passing of actors and icons like Penny Marshall, Burt Reynolds, Marvel’s Stan Lee, and “Superman” star Margot Kidder, several familiar faces were left off the list. The among...
‘Green Book’ best picture Oscar provokes backlash from film’s detractors
Given the fraught topic of race and racism in America, it should surprise no one that the best picture Oscar for “Green Book” is now surrounded by controversy. The movie about an Italian-American bouncer who chauffeurs an African-American pianist around the Jim Crow South — based on a true story...
The final list of winners at the 91st Academy Awards
The final list of the winners at the 91st Academy Awards: Best picture: “Green Book” Best actress: Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” Best actor: Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” Best director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Roma” Best supporting actress: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” Best supporting actor: Mahershala Ali, “Green Book” Foreign...
Mt. Lebanon native Jay Hart takes Oscar for production design
Jay Hart, a Mt. Lebanon native, won the Oscar for production design for the big-budget, super-hero movie “Black Panther” Sunday night at the Academy Awards. He shared the award with Hannah Beachler, who together worked on the film. Beachler took the microphone first on stage and spoke, but Hart didn’t...
In an upset, ‘Green Book’ wins best picture at Oscars
LOS ANGELES — The segregation-era road-trip drama “Green Book” was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a film seen as a feel-good throwback by some and ridiculed as an outdated inversion of “Driving Miss Daisy” by others. In a year where...
‘How to Train Your Dragon’ tops Oscar weekend with $55.5M
LOS ANGELES — “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” breathed some fire into a slumping box office with a franchise-best $55.5 million debut over Oscar weekend. Writer-director Dean DeBlois’ third and supposedly final installment in the “How to Train Your Dragon” series notched the best opening of the...
Quiz: Test your Oscar smarts
The 91st annual Academy Awards will be held Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Here’s a quick test of your brain power when it comes to the golden statue that Hollywood bestows on the best the year’s best films....
Pittsburgh region looks to add to its Oscars cache
Need a rooting interest to get into the 2019 Academy Awards? Think local. Some household names with ties to Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania have won Oscars for their on-screen performances, including Michael Keaton (Robinson), Holly Hunter (Carnegie Mellon University graduate), Shirley Jones (Charleroi-born, Smithton-raised), Frances McDormand (Monessen) and Jimmy Stewart...
