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Kanye West sneakers fetch record $1.8M at private sale
NEW YORK — A pair of prototype Nikes worn by Kanye West during his performances of “Hey Mama” and “Stronger” at the Grammy Awards in 2008 has shattered the record for a pair of sneakers ever sold. Sotheby’s announced Monday that West’s so-called “Grammy Worn” Nike Air Yeezy 1 fetched...
Anthony Hopkins honors Chadwick Boseman after Oscar winVideo
LOS ANGELES — Anthony Hopkins has honored the late Chadwick Boseman after winning the best actor Oscar, hailing his fellow performer as a man “taken from us far too early.” The 83-year-old Hopkins took the award for his performance in “The Father,” becoming the oldest actor or actress to win...
TV Talk: Worst Oscars ever?
It’s tough to remember Oscars ceremonies from one year to the next, but the 2021 Academy Awards telecast may stand the test of time for all the wrong reasons. It was bad. Really bad. Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh decided to eschew so many of the regular...
List of Oscar winners includes Emerald Fennell and H.E.R.
LOS ANGELES — Final winners at the 93rd Academy Awards: Best picture: “Nomadland” Best actress: Frances McDormand, “Nomadland” Best actor: Anthony Hopkins, “The Father” Original screenplay: “Promising Young Woman,” Emerald Fennell Adapted screenplay: Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, “The Father” International film: “Another Round,” Denmark Best supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya,...
Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao, ‘Nomadland’ take home Oscars
Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color. The “Nomadland” victory, while widely...
Embattled producer Scott Rudin resigns from Broadway League
NEW YORK — Film and theater producer Scott Rudin is resigning from the powerful Broadway League as he faces allegations of decades of abusive and violent behavior. “I know apologizing is not, by any means, enough,” Rudin, whose credits include “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Book of Mormon” and a...
California (Pa.) University dance ensemble more than takes the stage to help Tarentum’s HOPE CenterVideo
The dance is about more than choreographed steps on a stage. It’s a performance created to encourage people to take action. The Dance Ensemble from California University of Pennsylvania in Washington County creates dances that focus on the art of movement and advocacy for topics such as autism awareness, suicide...
Pittsburgh jazz legend Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines to receive historical marker in DuquesneVideo
James Johnson, who runs the Afro-American Institute of Music in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, said it would be tough for any jazz piano player to go through life without being influenced — consciously or not — by the legacy of Earl “Fatha” Hines. Born in 1903 in Duquesne, Earl Kenneth Hines...
Pittsburgh CLO taking shows outside — at Heinz Field
Talk about performances at Heinz Field taking center stage. The Pittsburgh CLO is partnering with the Pittsburgh Steelers on a two-show “Summer Under the Stars” season in July that will feature “The Wizard of Oz” and an original musical revue, “A Broadway Musical Celebration.” “There’s no place like home, or...
Oscars pit 2 Pittsburgh natives in production design raceVideo
In her long career, Diana Stoughton has worked on some 50 film and TV productions. With “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” she could tell it was special. “I think it was something magical about this show,” said Stoughton, who lives in Bloomfield. “I think the Karma gods were with us, and...
TV Talk: ‘Good Doctor’ star Paige Spara auditioned from her family’s bathroom in Washington, Pa.
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. On ABC’s “The Good Doctor” (10 p.m. Monday, WTAE-TV), Washington, Pa., native Paige Spara stars as Lea, girlfriend of Shaun (Freddie Highmore, “Bates Motel”), the show’s title character. Spara has played Lea since midway through...
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to reopen galleries in June
After being closed for more than a year because of the pandemic, the galleries and visual arts spaces of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will reopen on June 4. The first installation, “We Are The Global Majority,” will appear in the Space Gallery on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. It will...
Rapper Shock G of Digital Underground found dead in FloridaVideo
Rapper Shock G, who was famous for the hit single “The Humpty Dance,” died Thursday night, according to Digital Underground co-founder Chopmaster J. He was 57. A report from TMZ said that Shock G, named Gregory Jacobs by birth, died at a hotel in Tampa, Fla. RIP to Hip Hop...
Les McKeown, who fronted the Bay City Rollers, dies at 65Video
LONDON — Les McKeown, the former lead singer of the 1970s Scottish pop sensation Bay City Rollers, has died suddenly at the age of 65, his family said Thursday. A statement from his family posted on social media said: “It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of...
Dave Matthews Band reschedules tour, pushes Star Lake show to August
The Dave Matthews Band has pushed back its touring plans by a few months because of lingering covid-19 concerns. That means their show at the Pavilion at Star Lake, originally scheduled for June 12, will move to Aug. 27. Tickets for the original show are still good, or ticketholders have...
Oscar slate holds ‘firsts’ for Asian actors, filmmakers
It may be hard to believe that there are still many “firsts” left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there were a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers. Steven Yeun (“Minari”) became the first Asian American actor to be nominated for best...
ScareHouse opens for special event this weekend at Pittsburgh Mills
Call it an early Halloween present. Anyone who missed out on their fill of Halloween frights at the ScareHouse at the Pittsburgh Mills mall last fall will have an opportunity to make up for it this weekend. The ScareHouse said it is holding an encore presentation of its Halloween experience...
Artists paint in great outdoors for Latrobe Art Center showVideo
Latrobe Art Center had a Paint-Out this week, with about a dozen artists scheduled to work “en plein air” around the community. Their paintings will be shown and sold at the center from Monday through May 1. With snow forecast on Wednesday and cold temperatures lingering through the rest of...
Prince fans pay respects at Paisley Park 5 years after deathVideo
CHANHASSEN, Minn. — Paisley Park, where Prince lived and worked, welcomed back select fans Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of his death from inside his creative sanctuary. Some wore custom Prince clothes and shoes and left flowers and other mementos as tributes to the late superstar. The sprawling studio’s...
TV Talk: Western Pa. ‘Worst Cooks’ contestant returns for all-star editionVideo
If you’re invited to be on an all-star edition of Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America” (9 p.m. Sunday), does that make you among the best of the worst or the worst of the worst? “Definitely the worst of the worst,” says “Worst Cooks” contestant Sadie Manda, a Canonsburg native...
LeVar Burton, Joe Buck among new ‘Jeopardy!’ guest hosts
The final group of “Jeopardy!” guest hosts for the show’s current season were announced Tuesday. Their episodes will air in the summer and the group of new guest hosts for the NBC game show include: -LeVar Burton, actor and former host of “Reading Rainbow” -Joe Buck, Fox sportscaster -Robin Roberts,...
After death, DMX scores highest-charting Billboard position with ‘Ruff Ryders Anthem’ resurgence
A little over a week after his death at age 50, DMX has scored his highest position on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart. After several of late rapper’s albums reappeared on the Billboard 200 chart after news of his passing broke on April 9, three of his songs have now...
TV Talk: ‘A League of Their Own’ series will film in Pittsburgh
A streaming series based on the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” about the first female professional baseball league, will film in Western Pennsylvania. Stars attached to the series include Abbi Jacobson (“Broad City”), D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”) and Chante Adams (“Bad Hair”). Pittsburgh Film Office director Dawn...
Things to do in Western Pa.: April 21, 2021
Carnegie Science Center is celebrating Earth Week with both on-site and virtual programming, with topics including the crisis of ocean plastics. On a lighter note, there’s a pop-up drive-in movie coming to Pittsburgh Zoo and a slate of Oscar-nominated films at Pittsburgh-area Cinemark theaters. Other events cater to aspiring actors,...
Michael Keaton to reprise Batman role in new film
Michael Keaton famously once said, “I’m Batman.” Well, he’ll be Batman again in a new movie that has already begun shooting. The Wrap reports ICM Partners, Keaton’s talent agency, has confirmed the Pittsburgh native will don the black suit in “The Flash,” which launched its production Monday in London with...
