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New Constellation in city's entertainment galaxy
In less than a month, a new performing arts center will open its doors in Chicago. Or perhaps it's best to call it a new/old venue, its novel concept taking root in a familiar building. Come April 1, the noted Chicago jazz drummer and impresario...
Tags: Music Industry, Festive Events, Green Mill (club), Concerts, Pitchfork Music Festival
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'Savages,' 'Bourne' crash Deauville: Nichols' 'Mud' to open fest
VarietyPARIS -- Oliver Stone's "Savages," starring Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, "The Bourne Legacy," with Jeremy Renner, and Kirsten Dunst starrer "Bachelorette" are among high-profile titles getting their Gallic premiere at the Deauville American...Tags: Sandrine Bonnaire, Movies, Jeremy Renner, Ryan Gosling, Schindler's List (movie)
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Baadasssss birthday: Bash for Melvin Van Peebles takes place Aug. 21
VarietyGotham's Film Forum is throwing what is sure to be a badass 80th birthday bash for Melvin Van Peebles on Aug. 21. The event will feature numerous guests and clips from the pioneering hyphenate's long career, which ignited with the 1971 release of his...Tags: Movies
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Stephen King on TV, from 'Salem's Lot' to 'Bag of Bones'
Show TrackerOn Sunday, the two-part miniseries “Bag of Bones” premieres on A&E, the latest in a very long line of efforts to bring Stephen King’s unique vision to TV. Mick Garris, the director and King's most established TV collaborator, discusses... -
A poet with soul: The ballads of Gil Scott-Heron
Pop & HissThe late Gil Scott-Heron was many things -- poet, activist, icon, cipher -- but it’s easy to forget: He could sing, too. Following his passing on May 27, a parade of accolades have lauded his achievements as a cultural figure,...... -
Free stories Wednesday morning in Brooklyn
Jacket CopyOn Wednesday morning, as part of the lead-up to Sunday's Brooklyn Book Festival, One Story magazine will be handing out free stories at Brooklyn subway stops. Commuters heading into Manhattan from 7:30 a.m. t 9 a. m. may find their...... -
African American activists, including Jeremiah Wright and Cornel West, blast Cuba on racism
Top of the TicketBlack luminaries, including Cornel West, Ruby Dee and Melvin Van Peebles, are condemning persistent racism in Cuban society, prompting a rebuke from the Havana government.... -
Celebrating Fela Kuti's 'The '69 Los Angeles Sessions' reissue [Updated]
Pop & HissThose lucky enough to catch the musical "FELA!" on Broadway know that a transformative scene takes place in Los Angeles in 1969. It's here that the Nigerian bandleader and singer Fela Ransome Kuti, known for the creation of what he...... -
PEN World Voices announces lineup
Jacket CopyThe 2010 PEN World Voices literary festival will feature 150 writers from 40 countries. The festival's lineup includes literary fiction heavyweights Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Salman Rushdie, Sherman Alexie, Elias Khoury, Roddy Doyle and Aleksander... -
American Swing: 4 of 5 stars
Sentinel Staff WriterHere's a documentary about a piece of history many won't believe ever happened. In the late 1970s through the mid-'80s, there was a much ballyhooed club for "swingers" in Manhattan, a place where the beautiful and the buzzed, the homely and promiscuous,...Tags: Movies, Manhattan (New York City), Documentary (genre), Minority Groups, Roger Moore
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Theater Preview
South Florida Sun-SentinelSubscriptions are still the primary currency of theater programs, with all sorts of "flex" options to hook patrons into returning. But what if the shows you want most to see in 2007-'08 are spread all over the map? This handy guide, geared to the...Tags: Florida Stage, August Wilson, Festive Events, Awards and Prizes, Broadway Theater
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Mario Van Peebles Gets Soapy
Zap2It.comWe're not sure what route, exactly, takes you from "New Jack City" to "All My Children," but Mario Van Peebles has traveled it. Van Peebles is joining the cast of the ABC soap opera later this month. It's his second foray into daytime drama; one of his...Tags: Crown Heights, Susan Lucci, Vehicles, Damages (tv program), Children
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