LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (UPI) — Justin Timberlake won the prize for favorite male pop or rock artist at the 2007 American Music Awards show in Los Angeles Sunday. Also nominated in the category were Akon and Timbaland. Timberlake could not attend the event, but accepted his award via satellite. “This is awesome. Thank […]
At the age of 65, my grandfather the manager of a leather tannery in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, suffered a severe heart attack. He had chest pains and was rushed to the hospital. But that was in 1945, before open heart surgery, and he died a few hours later. By the time my father […]
Garth Fagan has sometimes seemed a limited modern-dance choreographer, with jagged moves and cross-stage patterns as his too familiar trademarks. There was some of that when Garth Fagan Dance opened at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday night. But this first of two programs for once suggested range and invention.
No doubt organizers of the ceremony, held in Nashville, realize that for many TV viewers, this will be the most (or the only?) country music they hear all year. So the awards presentations are minimized, to make room for performances by old favorites and new ones. Viewers who made it through Rascal Flatts’s agonizing […]
Youngstown Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m. Saturday, DeYor Performing Arts Center, 260 W. Federal St., Youngstown. Jack and the Beanstalk. Featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal double bassist, Harold Robinson. $15-$40; children under age 12, free when accompanied by an adult. Concert Conversation with Music Director Randall Craig Fleischer in the Edward W. Powers Auditorium at […]
Mazowsze 8 p.m. Tuesday, State Theatre, Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. The Mazowsze performance troupe celebrates the cultural legacy of Poland through sound and movement. $10-$45. http://www.tickets.com or 800-766-6048.
Dwight Yoakam gave a brief tribute to Porter Wagoner, the country-music legend who died on Oct. 28. “As Dolly Parton once sang, he was someone who we’ll always love,” Yoakam said. “A lot of country stars have worn rhinestone suits, but no one ever wore them as iconoclastically or with his unique and lasting […]
“The songs I’ve chosen for my debut album and this special concert engagement are all about opening up and letting love and adventure into our hearts — and our lives,” the actress explains. “Many of the songs are about finding the courage to love and be loved — all kinds of love: for lover, for […]
“Dear Mr. President, …” is based on simple movements. “What I wanted was movement to go with the emotion of the song,” Diering said. Unlike some other choreographers on the program, she decided not to dance in her piece herself. “I wanted to put my movement onto other people to see how they move in […]
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