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Arts/Entertainment

Best Director

NEW YORK (AP) — Spike Lee watched the Oscar nominations Tuesday morning on television from his bed, with his wife, Tonya, his two grown children, Satchel and Jackson, and their dog, Ginger. Screaming ensued . Lee landed his first directing Academy Award nomination for ...

Write Now: Geddy Lee Releases Bass Book

Over the years the Canadian band Rush has influenced many musicians. I am one of them. The members, bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart, are incredible performers, but I don’t have to say it because it is a well-known fact. Although the band has stopped touring, ...

Jimmy Page’s Dragon Guitar Re-Emerges After 50 Years

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After five decades, Jimmy Page’s dragon has re-emerged from its lair. Fender instruments on Wednesday gave the public its first look at its recreation of a Telecaster guitar that Page once painted with a dragon, a long-lost piece of six-string history that marked the ...

Unseen J.D. Salinger Photos For ‘Catcher’ On Display

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The University of New Hampshire is celebrating J.D. Salinger’s centennial year with an exhibit he likely would have loathed: a display of previously unseen photos of the famously reclusive author. Salinger, who was born Jan. 1, 1919, and died in 2010, spent the last ...

In Review: Michaels Rocks Casino

SALAMANCA — Some music is just timeless. The artist that created the piece is right on. The atmosphere is solid, and the musicianship is spot-on. That was the case for nearly the entire show when Bret Michaels and his band took the stage at the Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino, Saturday, ...

Video Games: An Evolving Industry

Ask any technology buff about what pushes the entertainment industry forward, and he is likely to tell you that video games have made the most amount of changes in the shortest amount of time. While literature, theatre, film, and music have been around for decades or centuries, with only the ...