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Michael Jackson accusers’ film gets standing ovation, estate rebuke
PARK CITY, Utah — It’s not uncommon for audiences at the Sundance Film Festival to give standing ovations, but the ceremonial act took on a solemn air as two men who accuse Michael Jackson of molesting them as boys walked onstage following the festival’s only screening of “Leaving Neverland,” a...
Harrisburg children’s author to visit Greensburg
Children’s author Floyd Stokes will visit the Greensburg Barnes & Noble store Tuesday evening to read and sign his books. A resident of Harrisburg. Stokes has written more than 20 books including “Say Ahh! The Teeth Book,” “Popcorn Popcorn,” “Bullying is Bad,” “AJ The Rooster,” “We Are Money Smart” and...
Preview of Pittsburgh Opera’s telling of POW’s story set at Soldiers & Sailors
In celebration of Pittsburgh Opera’s upcoming premiere of “Glory Denied,” the company will hold a musical preview at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum at 6 p.m. Jan. 31 in Oakland. “Glory Denied” tells the story of Colonel Jim Thompson, America’s longest-held prisoner of war, who spent nearly nine...
TNT, Chris Pine are the latest players to enter the serial-killer game
The bodies do pile up. As an American consumer who spends a couple of thousand hours a year looking at moving pictures, there are times when the sheer number of mutilated corpses on all those screens gets to be a bit much. How long has it been since director David...
Anne Hathaway confirms: There’s a ‘Princess Diaries 3’ in the works
You can’t keep a good princess down. For too long. Anne Hathaway, while on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, said a script for a third installment of her hit series “The Princess Diaries” exists and is being worked on right this moment. We’ll wait while you collect yourself....
From here to infinity: Refik Anadol’s art showcased during Winter Gallery Crawl
The Winter Gallery Crawl “Crawl After Dark” throughout the cultural district is from 5:30 to 10 tonight. This year marks the 15th time the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is presenting four crawls annually. These events bring one-of-kind visual arts experiences, engaging activities and performances created by community partnerships with cultural district...
Pittsburgh comedians will entertain Saturday in Derry
Three Mikes will step up to the mic Saturday as the Steel City Comedy Tour rolls into Derry. The Derry Volunteer Fire Department is presenting the evening of Pittsburgh-based comedy at the A.V. Germano Hall, 100 W. Second St., Derry. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show begins at...
Is Jeff Bridges teasing a new ‘Big Lebowski’ film?
Why is Jeff Bridges teasing a Feb. 3 announcement while dressed as cinema cult-classic icon Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski from the Coen Brothers’ 1998 film, “The Big Lebowski”? The Internet is certainly wild with speculation. February 3 is Super Bowl Sunday, and it would make perfect sense for Bridges to...
Fans of Netflix shows can take home props at 3-weekend sale in Marshall
Netflix is offloading its latest batch of leftover props and set decor in greater Pittsburgh. Fans interested in adorning their homes or businesses with props from the streaming service’s original shows have the chance to choose from thousands of items during a three-weekend liquidation sale that begins Saturday in Marshall...
Weezer covers ‘No Scrubs,’ ‘Take on Me,’ ‘Billie Jean’ in surprise new album
If you’ve ever wondered what Weezer would sound like covering R&B girl group TLC and ’80s synthpop band A-ha, you’re in luck. The rock band belts out everything from “No Scrubs” to “Take on Me” on their surprise new album of covers, “Weezer (The Teal Album),” which dropped early Thursday...
Review: Steamy ‘Serenity’ is so bad it almost parodies itselfVideo
Let it be stipulated that the movie “Serenity” is about a battered woman (Anne Hathaway) who is trying to persuade her ex-husband (Matthew McConaughey) to murder her current one (Jason Clarke). And let it also be stipulated that the movie “Serenity” is absolutely not about that. At first glance, the...
Review: ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ sends a message of hopeVideo
Do the Middle Ages hold the key to saving the world? “The Kid Who Would Be King” suggests so. This contemporary, Arthurian-themed adventure encourages kids of today to look to the legends of the past — and to the lessons of medieval chivalry — in their search for a peaceful...
Post Malone teams with Red Hot Chili Peppers for Grammy telecast
The rapper Post Malone will perform onstage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the 2019 Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy announced Thursday. The tag-team effort is the latest news on the ceremony, which will be broadcast Feb. 10 on CBS. The singer and songwriter Alicia Keys will host the...
New novel coming in April from ‘Fifty Shades’ author
NEW YORK — E L James is working up some new thrills. The author of the blockbuster “Fifty Shades” trilogy has an “erotic love story” coming out April 16, Vintage Books announced Thursday. It’s called “The Mister” and, according to Vintage, will again be a story of sex, wealth and...
W. Pa. theater, music groups set auditions for upcoming programs
These area arts groups have scheduled auditions for their upcoming programs: • “Peter Pan and Wendy,” Greensburg Civic Theatre Greasepaint Players production — 6-8:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center, 951 Old Salem Road. For the title roles, a boy or girl ages 10-16 with short...
Wiz Khalifa closes on $3.5 million L.A. home, TMZ reports
Rapper Wiz Khalifa has a new five-bedroom home near Los Angeles, TMZ reported. The Pittsburgh native closed this week on the $3.5 million, 5,832-square-foot mansion in Encino, Calif. that has seven bathrooms, a theater room, an outdoor kitchen and a pool, according to the news outlet. Photos of the home...
‘Crawl After Dark’ offers one-of-a-kind visual arts experiences
“Crawl After Dark,” the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Winter Gallery Crawl throughout the cultural district is from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Jan. 25. This year marks the 15th time the trust is presenting four annual crawls. These free events offer one-of-kind visual arts experiences, engaging activities and performances created by community...
Pittsburgh Opera director re-imagines Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’
The quality of the music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is astonishing, but so too is the volume of music he managed to write down during his 31 years of life. The complete edition of works runs to 132 volumes. He wrote many dozens of symphonies, concertos and sonatas, plus...
‘Friends! The Musical Parody’ lovingly roasts iconic ’90s sitcomVideo
Monica, Phoebe, Rachel and their guy pals are SO 1990s – and that’s part of the fun of “Friends! The Musical Parody.” The North American tour of the former off-Broadway musical that closed last July in New York is dropping in on Pittsburgh for one performance Jan. 29 at the...
Stage Right’s ‘Snow White’ turns students into fairy tale royalty
Area high school students are stepping into roles of fairy tale royalty in student company performances of Stage Right’s first full-length original musical, “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs.” Grace Rusnica of Irwin, a junior at Hempfield Area High School; Maura Rygg of Manor, a junior at Greensburg Central Catholic...
‘Dueling Pianos’ audience can sing along with pop, classic rock
While there may not be any actual dueling when “Dueling Pianos” comes to town, there will be a whole lot of fun. Keyboardists Harry Levicky and Hermie Granati promise they will see to that in their return to the Oaks Theater in Oakmont at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 “We just...
Tamburitzans’ production highlights full spectrum of cultureVideo
The Tamburitzans organization has undergone some changes in the past few years, but the troupe of young performing artists based in Pittsburgh is as devoted as ever to bringing the music, songs and dances of other lands to audiences all over the country. The heart and soul of the group...
‘Wizard of Oz’ returns to big screen for 80th-anniversary stintVideo
All the magic of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” the scary Wicked Witch of the West, those creepy flying monkeys and the adventurous Dorothy that generations of little girls dreamed of being is coming back to the big screen. Four Pittsburgh area movie theaters will be among nearly 700 nationwide that...
BlocBoy JB latest to sue Fortnite developer Epic Games
LOS ANGELES — Rapper BlocBoy JB has become the latest to sue Fortnite, saying the popular video game is using his “Shoot” dance without permission or compensation. The Memphis, Tenn.-based rapper, real name James Baker, filed a lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games in federal court Wednesday. Baker says the...
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ director Bryan Singer accused of sexual assault of minors
NEW YORK — Bryan Singer, the director of the Oscar-nominated “Bohemian Rhapsody,” has been accused of sexually assaulting minors in an expose published by the Atlantic. The Atlantic on Wednesday published a lengthy article based on a 12-month investigation. It details the stories of four alleged victims who said they...
