BUFFALO — It’s a season of giving and, for some entertainers, that means a special tour stop for a good cause. That’s just what violinist and dancer, Lindsey Stirling brought to the stage of Shea’s Theater, Dec. 15, performing a show in the middle of her “Wanderland” tour to ...
By now you should have good ideas you want to commit to the blank page or screen. Some people still use typewriters, and some people write out in longhand before typing. Any way you can get words to the page is half the battle. Some people I have talked with say they have ideas, but getting ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Penny Marshall, the trailblazing director of smash-hit big-screen comedies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own” who first indelibly starred in the top-rated sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died. She was 75. Michelle Bega, a spokeswoman for the Marshall ...
By The Associated Press John Mellencamp, “Other People’s Stuff” (Republic Records) In his youth John Mellencamp was known to be cocky. That brashness carried him to the big stage, where he became a stadium-scale rocker with an adventurous spirit. He mostly fell short of the stature attained by contemporaries named Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, but he sometimes took bigger risks. Mellencamp’s fearlessness is well-represented on his latest album, “Other People’s Stuff,” a collection of cover songs, some of them American classics, from four decades of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — To director Thom Zimny, the key element in his filmed version of Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show was in the star’s eyes. The Netflix documentary makes its first appearance on the service early in the morning of Dec. 16, hours after the singer’s 236th and last performance of “Springsteen on Broadway” at the Walter Kerr Theater. A soundtrack is being released Friday. “I wanted to capture Bruce’s eyes in a way that you don’t get from being in the theater,” he said. “It’s another sense of intimacy, another sense of the performance.” That ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Female-led films have consistently outperform male-led movies at the box office, according to a study initiated by Time’s Up, the organization formed by prominent women in the entertainment industry to promote gender equality. The study analyzed the 350 top-grossing films ...
