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Tom Petty - Bio, News, Photos
The last thing Petty told him was if he'd be willing to do it again, which was a thrill to Stapleton. He said in the interview he planned "to stop working for a time," but the band had no plans to stop performing or recording. → Read More
Bryan Adams - Bio, News, Photos
Switching gears, Mr. Adams said he was seeking out a "special" lady from the audience. Adams said in a statement Sunday night that he was canceling a show Thursday at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. → Read More
Bruce Springsteen
He said he would share details on his future plans by late January or early February. Springsteen performs 15 songs during the show and tells stories about growing up. → Read More
Aaron Sorkin, ‘West Wing’ creator and director of ‘Molly’s Game,’ calls D.C. a great place to film
Aaron Sorkin has a bit of a history with the nation's capital. The creator of "The West Wing" and writer who adapted his play "A Few Good Men" into an award-winning 1992 film extols Washington, D.C., as a terrific -- though logistically difficult -- place to make a film. "Molly's Game" might at first seem a bit outside his typical gravitation to politics, but it certainly adheres to Mr. Sorkin's… → Read More
Galena, Illinois, distillery Blaum Brothers populates tasting room with pop culture
Distilling can now be found on the Illinois banks of the Mississippi. For here, in Galena, the onetime home of Ulysses S. Grant, brothers Matthew and Mike Blaum are distilling gin, vodka, bourbon and something called “Hellfyre” because, well, “a bad ass spirit like this deserved a rogue letter here and there,” the Blaums say on their website. → Read More
Darley Newman, host/producer of ‘Travels with Darley,’ on bucking trends in male-dominated industry
Darley Newman realized she would have do it herself. As the host of "Travels With Darley" and "Equitrekking" on PBS, the D.C.-based host and filmmaker acts as her own writer, producer and editor -- delivering a finished product to PBS of her journeys the world over. Even with a support staff, it's still basically a one-woman show. → Read More
New Orleans’ 300th anniversary will highlight Catholicism’s impact on city, women’s contributions
New Orleans will not be ringing in its tricentennial quietly. The city famous for its Mardi Gras parties, hurricane rum drinks and nightly bacchanal has a year of events planned to mark the 300th anniversary of the city's founding in 1718 by French explorers. As important to the Big Easy's history has been the influence of the Catholic Church. → Read More
Terry McAuliffe to give opening speech at Pocahontas Reframed Native American film festival
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will deliver the opening night address at the Pocahontas Reframed Native American Storytellers Film Festival Friday evening. The festival, part of the legacy project of Virginia's American Evolution 2019 Commemoration, includes films by American Indian filmmakers as well as narratives and documentaries about their contributions to early and ongoing American culture. → Read More
'Wonder' film adapted from book explores bullying and good kids making tough decisions
One day author R.J. Palacio sat outside a New York ice cream parlor with her son when a young girl sat down beside her. However, unlike other girls her age, this one had pronounced facial scars and deformities. Her manuscript, “Wonder,” was published in 2012, and followed a fictional boy named Auggie who, due to a difficult birth, bears many of the deformities Ms. Palacio observed on that… → Read More
Richmond, Virginia, shows history from colonial times through Civil War to contemporary foodie city
Richmond is many things: history and contemporary, scarred and renewed, close and far (thanks to I-95 traffic). But of all of these, this city of 200,000 can be best described in a single word: fascinating. → Read More
Sen Dog of Cypress Hill believes band is at least partly responsible for pot’s acceptance
Cypress Hill has never precisely been subtle about their stance on marijuana. In fact, member Sen Dog says the hip-hop group is at least partly responsible for pot becoming more acceptable in the culture than ever before. → Read More
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jigsaw' a worthy, not obligatory, addition to 'Saw' universe
The Jigsaw killer may be the most undead movie murderer in the history of horror given that even though the character was killed in “Saw III,” Jigsaw returned via flashbacks in four subsequent “Saw” entries up until “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter” in 2010. → Read More
TRAVEL: Detroit history, automobile museums, baseball and music abide in Michigan city
While Detroit has often been cited as a punchline for urban blight, what I discovered over a weekend in Motor City made me rethink many of my own preconceptions about this often maligned, most misunderstood of American urbanities. → Read More
‘Thank You for Your Service’ filmmakers, subject discuss PTSD, ‘American Sniper’ legacy
Adam Schumman returned from Iraq a changed man. His story caught the interest of Washington Post reporter David Finkel, who wrote a nonfiction account of Mr. Schumann’s and his platoon mates’ return home in a book called “Thank You for Your Service.” That book is now a major motion picture starring Miles Teller (“Whiplash,” “Divergent”) and written and directed by Jason Hall, whose previous… → Read More
‘Going Clear’ director Alex Gibney to screen new doc ‘No Stone Unturned’ at Double Exposure
Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium is hosting a series of 11 documentaries in the nation's capital through Sunday to highlight investigative journalism. → Read More
TRAVEL: Wyoming, Montana wonders Devils Tower, Little Bighorn bear history of U.S., American Indians
In the West there is no such thing as a short drive. Thankfully, interstates turn excursions that once took days or weeks into hourslong treks, allowing one to take in several states within one day — even some of the larger states like those here at the edge of the upper Midwest where the Great Plains give way mountainous countryside. → Read More
Menopause documentary ‘Love Sweat & Tears’ seeks to debunk myths about the change of life
They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But for half the population, a third discomfort can be added. → Read More
Breast Cancer Awareness Month sees Outer Banks resort give free massages
The Sanderling Resort, located in North Carolina’s scenic Outer Banks between Currituck Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, is participating in Breast Cancer Awareness Month with its “Passion for Pink” spa promotion. Every Tuesday through October, the Spa at Sanderling will offer free treatments to Outer Banks residents who are fighting breast cancer or have done so in the past. → Read More
Ernest Hemingway grave, memorial and home to be found in Ketchum, Idaho
Ketchum, Idaho, is also where many of Hollywood’s elite have second or third (or however many in the ordinal list) homes. You drive for three hours from Boise, through largely empty high desert country, to come to the place where Ernest Hemingway spent his final years, and where, on July 2, 1961, he chose to silence the demons forever. → Read More
Disabled veterans honored at National Day of Honor in D.C.
Disabled veterans were honored Thursday at the Inaugural Commemoration of the National Day of Honor for American Veterans Disabled for Life, held at the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. Speakers included Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, the Illinois Democrat who lost her legs and the partial use of her right arm when a helicopter she was… → Read More