On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago. After a blast of guitar feedback, 20-year-old Kurt Cobain politely announced to the crowd at ...
LOS ANGELES — Once upon a time there were three little girls who starred as private detectives answering to a never-seen boss in a show that turned into a pop culture phenomenon called “Charlie’s Angels.” Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd reunited to mark the show’s 50th anniversary at PaleyFest LA on Monday night. They were greeted with a standing ovation and whoops and cheers from an audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The hour-long crime adventure series debuted on Sept. 22, 1976, in a pre-internet and streaming world when there were just three major ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — A decade after its previous appearance, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will return to Penn State with its 40th Anniversary Tour. Now officially middle-aged, the cheeky ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets are $56 ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Audiences will soon be swept away by the charm and timeless music of one of Broadway’s classics as the national tour of “The Music Man” online prepares to return to take the stage of Eisenhower Auditorium. At the center of this traditional production is Marian ...
With Anne Hathaway continuing to, in my opinion, dominate the big screen (her latest movies include “Mother Mary,” set to release the end of this month, and her epic return with Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” will follow soon after in May) this felt like the right time to revive my Throwback Thursday reviews. Hathaway has been in a number of movies, some of which I’ve already reviewed, but I haven’t touched on a slightly lesser known gem: “Ella Enchanted.” The movie was released in 2004, and right before the sequel to “The Princess Diaries” which ...
There are some things you might expect, even count on, in a Super Mario Galaxy movie. The introduction of the celestial Princess Rosalina? Check. A scene of her reading bedtime stories to her adorable, glowing star children Lumas? Check. A wild revenge scenario that takes Princess Peach, ...
