Entertainment category, Page 295
Review: A grotesque, inglorious look at Capone’s last yearVideo
Al Capone lived out his final years on a grand estate in Palm Island, Florida, with his wife, Mae, by his side and grandchildren running around the property. It sounds like a pretty nice end for the notorious Chicago gangster, until you realize that he spent those post Alcatraz years...
Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, like fans, looks forward to return of live musicVideo
David Grohl misses the shows, too. With concerts still on hold across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, Grohl, of the Foo Fighters (and Nirvana), penned an essay about looking forward to the return of live music. In a piece titled “The Day the Live Concert Returns,” published Monday to...
Broadway shutdown extended until at least Labor Day
The shutdown on Broadway due to coronavirus concerns has been extended again — until at least early September. Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Sept. 6. “While all Broadway...
How sweaters became scene-stealers on ABC’s ‘The Goldbergs’
The character Beverly Goldberg on ABC’s hit comedy series “The Goldbergs” can elicit laughter before she even speaks, thanks to the over-the-top outfits that are a love letter to the mother of the show’s creator and to 1980s fashion. “No dialogue necessary,” laughs “Goldbergs” star Wendi McClendon-Covey, who plays the...
WWE’s Becky Lynch announces pregnancy, ‘going away for awhile’Video
One of the biggest current stars in WWE is set to add another title to her collection: mom. Becky Lynch announced her pregnancy at the opening of “Monday Night Raw” on Monday. Before making the big announcement, an emotional Lynch recounted her start in WWE, coming to the U.S. while...
The Westmoreland plans online gift box photo album workshop
Editor’s note: This event is now at maximum capacity. Another Pop-Up Studio is set for June 24, with a project to be announced. The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will host its first digital Pop-Up Studio on May 27, inviting participants to create their own explosion gift box photo albums....
Oprah Winfrey to launch live virtual experience on wellness during the pandemic
Oprah Winfrey, who visited arenas last year on a wellness tour, is bringing the idea to living rooms while people are homebound due to the coronavirus pandemic. The media mogul on Tuesday announced “Oprah’s Your Life in Focus: A Vision Forward — Live Virtual Experience,” a free and interactive four-week...
Independent movie theaters struggle to stay afloat during coronavirus pandemicVideo
Most of Southwestern Pennsylvania is set to see some coronavirus-related restrictions eased as it moves Friday into the yellow phase of reopening. But many businesses that rely on gatherings of people, such as movie theaters and concert venues, are ordered to remain closed. Brian Mendelssohn, owner of Row House Cinema...
Jonas Brothers to thank health care workers with SiriusXM sessionVideo
The Jonas Brothers will interact with an audience of frontline health care workers and their families at noon Friday on SiriusXM Hits 1’s Celebrity Session on SiriusXM radio channel 2 and on the SiriusXM app. The brothers will answer questions about their music, including their upcoming single “X,” featuring Karol...
Have a weird talent to share? Yinzfest is looking for you
Do you have an unusual, eclectic or downright weird talent that you’d like to share? Yinzfest 2020, coming Aug. 15 to Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale, could be just the place for you. “The mission of the festival has always been to book interesting and different talent in Pittsburgh that...
Jeannette gallery seeks applicants for online artist showcase
You Are Here gallery in Jeannette is seeking applications for its artist of the week program. The new website feature is designed to introduce artists to the community and to help them promote their work during the coronavirus-related shutdown. “For many artists, unless they have a side gig, their artwork...
‘Masked Singer,’ Kim Cattrall soap on Fox’s fall schedule
“The Masked Singer,” an artificial-intelligence thriller and a prime-time soap opera starring Kim Cattrall will be part of Fox’s fall lineup, the network said Monday as it unveiled its schedule amid the pandemic’s disruption of the TV industry. Cattrall’s “Filthy Rich,” about a Southern family’s inheritance fight, and the AI...
Comedian, actor Jerry Stiller dies at 92
Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. He died of natural causes, his son — a...
Reports paint unflattering picture of ‘Tiger King’ zoo’s reopening
The animal park made famous — or infamous — by a well-timed Netflix documentary series is reaping the benefits of the show’s popularity, available as it is while many Americans are a captive audience amid the covid-19 pandemic. But the attraction featured in “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” —...
Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87
NASHVILLE — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday. He was 87. Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard’s, told The Associated Press that...
Taylor Swift ‘Lover’ concert coming to ABC, Hulu, Disney+Video
A concert event is coming soon that should make Swifties happy. Taylor Swift announced Friday that her concert from Paris in September will be shown on ABC. The event, dubbed the “City of Lover Concert,” will make it’s way to TV at 10 p.m. May 17. Excited to announce the...
Queen’s Brian May hurts buttocks in freak gardening accidentVideo
Talk about a pain in the … Let’s just say that Queen guitarist Brian May hasn’t just been lounging about during his time sequestered during the coronavirus pandemic. Nope, he’s been active. Almost too active, he says. He recently landed himself in the hospital after a gardening accident. May shared...
Buju Banton calls new single with John Legend ‘special’Video
It’s been over a decade since reggae king Buju Banton and R&B star John Legend collaborated on a song, and the Grammy winners have reunited for a new track. Banton and Legend released the easygoing love song “Memories” on Friday. It is the first single from Banton’s upcoming album “Upside...
Billie Eilish and her cool dad to host Apple Music radio show
If you’re quarantined at home with your parents right now, count your blessings if you can have as nice a time as Billie Eilish and her dad seem to be enjoying. Eilish announced a new Apple Music program, “me & dad radio,” featuring her and her father, Patrick O’Connell, an...
Weezer to debut new song on ‘The Simpsons’Video
If you’re younger than 31, “The Simpsons” has been doing musician cameos since before you were born. According to Billboard, the first was way back in Season 1, which began airing in 1989, when the late Ron Taylor — who played the man-eating plant in an off-Broadway production of “Little...
Barry Farber dies at 90; conservative radio host ran for NYC mayor
NEW YORK — Pioneering radio host Barry Farber, who hosted a conservative talk show for decades in New York City and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1977, has died. Farber died of natural causes Wednesday at home in New York, a day after his 90th birthday, his daughter, Celia Farber,...
Westmoreland Museum offers free face coverings, pen pal program
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art has developed two new outreach programs, one to supply face coverings to community members and another to to keep in touch with senior citizens during the covid-19 quarantine. Several staff members applied their sewing talents to the Free Face Coverings Project, creating masksfor people...
‘Let’s Make a Deal’ asks frontline staff to join its special
Wayne Brady and the folks at “Let’s Make a Deal” want to honor those fighting the coronavirus — and they don’t have to wear their capes if they don’t want to. The CBS daytime game show that usually has a studio audience in zany costumes is asking front-line workers to...
Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival canceled
The Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival, scheduled for July 2-5 in Twin Lakes Park, has been canceled. “It was a difficult decision for the board to make, and we waited as long as we possible could,” said Executive Director Diane Shrader. “But public safety has to come first, and there...
New Banksy art unveiled at British hospital to thank doctors, nurses
A new work by the elusive street artist Banksy, honoring health workers, has been unveiled at a British hospital. The framed picture, titled “Game Changer,” depicts a young boy sitting on the floor playing with a nurse superhero toy. Batman and Spiderman action figure toys lie in a wastepaper basket...
