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‘Jazz Road Tours’ grants support artists hoping to launch short 2021 tours
New York City jazz musician Jon Irabagon was in the process of stringing together dates for an April 2021 tour with a brand-new ensemble when the coronavirus pandemic hit. Luckily for him, as he was setting up potential touring dates, he also heard about the Jazz Road Tours grant program...
Pittsburgh artist Ellen Chisdes Neuberg mulls life in Westmoreland exhibit
Are you puzzled by the state of the world? You’re not the only one. Artist Ellen Chisdes Neuberg turned her “lack of understanding about what’s going on in the world” into an exhibition opening Friday in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. “Living a Life … A Puzzlement,”...
Pittsburgh Opera holding ‘online Holiday Bazaar’ in lieu of in-person gala
The Pittsburgh Opera was hoping to have one of its festive in-person fundraising galas this fall, but coronavirus made it impossible. However, the Opera still needed to come up with a way to raise money to support its acclaimed Resident Artists program. So, next month, it will hold what it’s...
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces plans for virtual First Night
Ring in 2021 at the place where you’ve spent most of 2020. At home. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust on Monday announced its First Night celebration as: “Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2021 at Home.” The annual New Year’s Eve celebration on Dec. 31 can be viewed on KDKA-TV. The station’s “Pittsburgh...
Police: Man accused of punching Rick Moranis attacked others
NEW YORK — Prosecutors say the man accused of punching actor Rick Moranis is a suspect in multiple other unprovoked attacks on people in New York City. At a Manhattan Criminal Court hearing on Sunday, prosecutors said Marquis Ventura, 35, is charged in five assaults on strangers that took place...
One half of the ‘Property Brothers’ praises solar in documentary
NEW YORK — As half of HGTV’s “Property Brothers,” Jonathan Scott is all about transforming interior spaces. Now he’s revealing a massive space he’d like to transform — the Earth. “Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip” is his new documentary about solar power and why this clean, renewable source of energy is...
PSO’s online Front Row series includes sensory friendly holiday concert
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will take its online audience to Heinz Hall, The Andy Warhol Museum and Fallingwater for the next episode of its fall digital series, “Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.” “Originators and Disrupters (Part 1)” will premieres at 7:30 p.m. Friday, with guest concertmaster and leader Alexi...
‘Iron Man’ Robert Downey Jr. cheers Cam Heyward, SteelersVideo
Looks like Iron Man is a Steelers fan. Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Cam Heyward posted a video from Robert Downey Jr. - aka Iron Man from the Marvel movies - to his Instagram this weekend. In the video Downey thanks Heyward for a game jersey and asks for win No....
‘All Screwed Up’ aims to untangle the legacy of DJ Screw
NEW YORK — When DJ Screw started trending in August, it wasn’t because of newly discovered music or a coordinated effort by his devoted fans. The chatter surrounded a TikTok video that quickly went viral for all the wrong reasons: a teen attempting to explain a “new” music trend called...
‘The Mandalorian’ finds new allies, and some surprising backstory
**WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD THROUGH SEASON 2, EPISODE 3 OF ‘THE MANDALORIAN’** This week, we learned that there are least two ideologically-opposed sects of Mandalorians, that Silas Adams has upped his villain game and gotten promoted from Gem Saloon muscle to Imperial commander, and that Admiral Ackbar’s brethren are apparently the...
Documentary ‘Crutch’ about Pittsburgh native Bill Shannon has success in first weekVideo
“Crutch,” the documentary about Pittsburgh’s Bill Shannon, made the Top 10 list in the Arts & Culture category at DOC NYC, a documentary film festival. “We are so excited,” said Sachi Cunningham, the film’s co-director. “Tickets are selling fast.” Twenty years in the making, the 98-minute film premiered Wednesday. It...
This week’s ‘Mandalorian’ side-quest gets cold and creepy
**WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD THROUGH SEASON 2, EPISODE 2 OF ‘THE MANDALORIAN’** I’m just gonna come out and say it: does anyone else think the “ice spiders” in this episode were a little jab at HBO’s “Game of Thrones”? Longtime “Thrones” fans had a lot of high hopes dashed during the...
Will Smith reunites with ‘Fresh Prince’ cast for HBO Max specialVideo
After 30 years, it’s high time for a family reunion. Actor Will Smith announced today that the Banks family will come together for “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion,” premiering Nov. 19 on HBO Max. “These are the people who made me the man I am today,” Smith said in...
5 Things to do this weekend in and around Pittsburgh
Looking for weekends plans? Here are a few fun things to do in Pittsburgh: Fall Foliage Yoga Hike with Elevate Yoga Pittsburgh Elevate Yoga Pittsburgh is hosting a hiking and yoga event at Settlers Cabin Park in Collier, North Fayette and Robinson at 12 p.m. on Saturday. The Fall Foliage...
TV Talk: Western Pa. native shepherds HBO’s ‘Murder on Middle Beach’Video
True crime docu-series continue to proliferate and the latest comes with a more personal touch. HBO’s four-part “Murder on Middle Beach” (10 p.m. Sunday) is directed by and stars young filmmaker Madison Hamburg as he investigates the 2010 murder of his mother, interviewing potential suspects within his family. Western Pennsylvania...
Thomas Solich is the piano man at the Pittsburgh Opera’s saleVideo
Thomas Solich learned to play the piano by reading Braille, a system of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or who have low vision. He can’t see the more than 100 stunning instruments in the room as they sit idle, waiting for...
Southwestern Pa. juried art exhibition opens at Ligonier museum
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Council for the Arts celebrates a milestone, with the opening of its 25th regional juried exhibition on Friday at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art-Ligonier Valley. Featuring 60 works by artists from 19 counties in the southwest region of the state, the exhibition will continue through Jan....
Chadwick Boseman, ‘First Cow’ among Gotham Award nominees
NEW YORK — Awards season, such as it is this year, got formally underway Thursday with the first notable film nominations yet announced in a pandemic-marred movie year. The Gotham Awards, presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, put forward five films, all directed by women, for best feature film, and...
TV Talk: Holiday TV movies rev up as ‘Christmas on Wheels’ rolls onto Lifetime
Again this year Hallmark Channel and Lifetime started televising Christmas movies the weekend before Halloween and Netflix dropped its first holiday-themed rom-com a few days later. Ambridge native Marita Grabiak directed Lifetime’s “Christmas on Wheels” (8 p.m. Saturday), the story of a woman (Tiya Sircar, “The Good Place”) who...
New Yorker fires writer Jeffrey Toobin after Zoom incident
NEW YORK — The New Yorker has fired longtime staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom conference last month. He had already been on suspension and is also on leave from CNN, where he is chief legal analyst. “I was fired today by NewYorker after...
‘A Taffeta Christmas’ bringing holiday cheer to The Lamplighter in Delmont
Four singing sisters take a break from their national tour to return to their hometown of Muncie, Ind., for the holidays. While there, they visit a local television show to perform some ‘50s favorites and holiday classics. That’s the premise of “A Taffeta Christmas,” which the Orchard Performing Arts Company...
TV Q&A: Where is PBS’s ‘The Trouble with Maggie Cole’ filmed?
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I began watching the “The Trouble with Maggie Cole” on PBS (8 p.m. Sunday, WQED-TV) and it seems to me that where they are filming...
TV Talk: Eleanor Schano pioneered roles for women in Pittsburgh TV news
Pioneering Pittsburgh broadcaster Eleanor Schano accumulated many firsts – Pittsburgh’s first female commercial announcer and weathercaster at what is now KDKA-TV in 1952; the city’s first female general assignment news reporter at WTAE-TV in 1959 and first solo woman anchor at what is now WPXI-TV in 1970 – and she...
Rolling with it, Keith Richards is chilling in the garden
NEW YORK — Keith Richards is so old-school that when he does his interviews — he’ll do so from a landline. The Rolling Stones icon isn’t a fan of technology. Years ago he admitted to not owning an iPod when the device was most popular. He’s one of the few...
Review: Bromance ‘The Climb’ a triumph of quirky filmmaking
Three-quarters through “The Climb” comes a scene we’ve all come to expect in a romantic comedy: A wedding is interrupted by the best man who rushes into a church during a marriage ceremony and screams “I object!” He turns to the shocked bride and groom kneeling at the altar and...
