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CBS rejects Super Bowl ad for medical marijuana
The Super Bowl isn’t ready for medical marijuana. Acreage Holdings, the multi-state cannabis company backed by John Boehner, says CBS rejected a television advertisement that calls for the legalization of medical marijuana. The network, which is airing the game on Feb. 3, nixed the proposed spot after seeing a rough...
‘Free Solo,’ the Oscar-nominated documentary, showing at Carnegie Science Center, AMC Waterfront
“Perfection or death.” That’s the standard set by Alex Honnold’s free solo climb up the 3,000-foot granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 2017. You probably shouldn’t try such a climb on your own, but you can watch Honnold make the journey — without a rope or...
WQED’s Rick Sebak gets ‘Nebby’ in ‘That Kennywood Summer’Video
The fifth program in Rick Sebak’s kickstarted “Nebby” series, “That Kennywood Summer,” will premiere at 8 p.m. Jan. 24 on WQED-TV. The 30-minute documentary was created with footage Sebak and his WQED crew shot in 1988 while gathering material for his program “Kennywood Memories.” That documentary remains one of WQED’s...
Watch live: Oscar nominations presentation
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. —The reading of this year’s Oscar nominations has begun. Tracee Ellis Ross and Kumail Nanjiani are announcing nominees in 24 categories highlighting everything from the best picture and acting performances to production and costume design. The announcement began at 8:20 a.m. ET. The entire announcement can also...
‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ lead Oscar nomination with 10 nods
NEW YORK — Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” led all films with 10 nominations each to the 91st Academy Awards, while Netflix and Marvel each scored their first best picture nomination. The nominees for best picture are: “A Star Is Born,” ”Roma,” ”Green Book,” ”The Favourite,” ”Black...
Megaticket sale coming for 7 country shows at KeyBank Pavilion
Sales for the 2019 Country Megaticket, including seven country music shows at KeyBank Pavilion in Burgettstown, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 25. The date for the Rascall Flatts concert, announced Jan. 21 as Aug. 16, has been changed to Sept. 21. The updated schedule includes: June 7...
Make your bed, learn to act: Alabaster children’s theater teaches bothVideo
What does making your bed have to do with theater arts? Kids who participate in Mary McCormack’s Alabaster Children’s Neighborhood Theatre find out right from the start. At a Jan. 7 introductory session for an upcoming class series on “The Little Mermaid,” McCormack asked participants who had made their beds...
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ is No. 1 with $40.6M debut
NEW YORK — M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” didn’t live up to expectations but it still easily dominated the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend at the box office, debuting with an estimated $40.6 million in ticket sales. Universal Pictures is estimating that “Glass” will make about $47 million over the four-day...
Founder of Dead Poets Society is published, posthumously
PORTLAND, Maine — The late founder of the Dead Poets Society of America can be inducted to the society of fallen bards now that he’s now a published poet. Walter Skold visited the gravesites of more than 600 poets, and one of his criteria was that the subjects had to...
State grants help preserve records at Bethlen Home, Heinz History Center
Bethlen Communities’ Heritage Center in Ligonier and the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh have received state grants for preserving and organizing historical records in their possession. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently awarded an $11,600 Historical and Archival Records Care grant to Bethlen Home of the Hungarian...
Study of Leonardo’s 1st landscape finds he had 2nd thoughts
ROME — The first-ever scientific study of the oldest known drawing by Leonardo da Vinci has found that he added details to an earlier sketch of a countryside landscape, said the Uffizi Galleries, whose collections include the fragile work. The Galleries said the 1473 “Landscape Drawing for Santa Maria della...
Netflix has no plans to cut ‘Bird Box’ scene despite outcry
NEW YORK — Netflix’s post-apocalyptic survival film “Bird Box” is drawing criticism for using footage of a real fiery train disaster but the streaming giant has no plans to remove it. The footage concerns a 2013 tragedy in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic when an unattended train carrying crude oil...
Cirque Du Soleil awes Pittsburgh with ‘Corteo’Video
Take in the sights and sounds from behind the scenes of Cirque Du Soleil’s latest show in Pittsburgh. Cirque Du Soleil allowed access to the Tribune-Review as it made its final preparations ahead of its performance of “Corteo” at PPG Paints Arena. “Corteo” first premiered in Cirque du Soleil’s home...
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver dies at 83
NEW YORK — Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection, has died. She was 83. Bill Reichblum, Oliver’s literary executor, said she died Thursday at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida. The cause of death was...
Stage Right stages ‘Snow White’ musical, 2 locations set
Stage Right will present its first full-length original musical, “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs,” with performances set at the Lamp Theatre in Irwin and at Westmoreland County Community College near Youngwood. The show is a musical re-telling of the “Snow White” story as created by the Brothers Grimm in...
Review: Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ both frustrates and underwhelmsVideo
Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price, or Mr. Glass, as he prefers to be called, was by far the most compelling part of M. Night Shyamalan’s slow-burn comic book send-up “Unbreakable.” A brilliant, tortured manipulator and superhero enthusiast suffering from osteogenesis imperfecta (i.e. brittle bone disease), Glass is that kind of...
‘Space Barons’ book discussions slated at Westmoreland libraries
Readers are invited to explore a modern-day space race by registering for the One Book, One Westmoreland book discussion series at a participating library. Sponsored by the Westmoreland Library Network, the program focuses on “The Space Barons,” the story of billionaire entrepreneurs — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard...
Steve Carell, ‘Office’ producers reteam for ‘Space Force’ comedy
LOS ANGELES — Steve Carell is starring in a new workplace comedy that could be out of this world. Netflix said Wednesday that Carell is re-teaming with “The Office” producers Greg Daniels and Howard Klein on the series “Space Force.” It’s about the people assigned to create a sixth branch...
Metallica, Miley Cyrus perform at Chris Cornell tribute
LOS ANGELES — Many from Metallica and the Foo Fighters rocked on with electrifying performances as family members gave heartfelt speeches in memory of the late Chris Cornell. Cornell’s wife, Vickey, stepped onstage struggling to speak at first. But after gathering herself, she eventually thanked everyone for their support and...
Entertainment planner: Jan. 17-30
Thursday Jan. 17 Aries Spears, Pittsburgh Improv, Homestead. Through Jan. 20. 412-462-5233 or improv.com/pittsburgh Cirque du Soleil “Corteo,” PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh. Through Jan. 20. 833-215-5121 or arenapittsburgh.org Rufus Wainwright, Byham Theater, Pittsburgh. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org Solo exhibitions by Lauren Semivan and Trisha Holt, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh....
‘Snow Queen and the Goblin’ comes to The Theatre Factory in Trafford
It certainly is a fitting time of year for a children’s story about a snow queen living in an ice palace. Throw in a goblin who’s the queen’s minion and you have the makings of The Theatre Factory’s Kidworks production of Martha Bennett King’s play, “Snow Queen and the Goblin,”...
Keller Williams brings ‘Pettygrass’ to Byham TheaterVideo
When Tom Petty died suddenly on Oct. 2, 2017, singer Keller Williams was in the studio recording his latest album, “Sans.” “I couldn’t really focus,” says Williams, a multi-genre-crossing singer who is performing at the Byham Theater on Jan. 20. “It was definitely a shock. … He was very much...
Get The Led Out back for annual shows at The Palace Theatre
Paul Sinclair comes from a line of opera singers in Madrid, Spain, and he believes singing is literally in his DNA. “I’ve had an unstoppable, burning passion to scream from the mountaintops since I entered this world,” he says. When he began pursuing music as a serious career he never...
Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda send Puerto Rico a ‘Hamilton’ love letter
Coinciding with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” performances in Puerto Rico, Jimmy Fallon took “The Tonight Show” to the island for Tuesday night’s episode. Miranda and the musical’s cast opened the episode with a parody of the show’s “The Story of Tonight,” updated with lyrics for “The Tonight Show” and complete with...
Matthew McConaughey, Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde films added to SXSW Film Festival lineup
The past few years have been especially strong for the South By Southwest Film Festival. Having established itself as a home for breakout comedies including “Bridesmaids” and “Knocked Up,” SXSW expanded its hit-making track record last year as the launching pad for “A Quiet Place” and “Ready Player One.” But...
