http://www.post-gazette.com/ Articles from all entertainment categories en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:44:25 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014873-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A gala launch of "The Art Institute of Pittsburgh," an illustrated history of the 88-year old college, will be held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of historic photographs, films, art and artifacts at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Institute, 420 Blvd. of the Allies, Downtown. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014877-34.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Robyn Gioia, a fifth-grade teacher at Bolles School, a private school north of St. Augustine, has a mission: Spread the word about the nation's first Thanksgiving. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014897-74.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Thousands are buying "Going Rogue" because they believe Sarah Palin is Ronald Reagan returned to Earth in a dress. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014872-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society presents the Brentano String Quartet in a program of Schubert's "Quartettsatz" and his String Quartet in G-Major, with Britten's String Quartet in G-Major. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014896-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Stephen King's "Under the Dome" is so richly detailed -- some will say overly detailed at nearly 1,100 pages -- that you come to know the people of Chester's Mill, Maine, the way you know an Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014899-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Franklin Roosevelt probably engendered more words about his career than any other 20th-century president, but I wager Woodrow Wilson isn't far behind. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014774-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014875-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Terverius Black believes in hip-hop gospel so much he sold his first home to get the money needed to start his Christian-themed entertainment company. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014894-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml 1. The "Lacuna." Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $26.99. 2. "The Help." Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95. 3. "Under the Dome." Stephen King, Scribner, $35. 4. "The Lost Symbol." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1012276-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml They're almost like an endangered species: The elusive male TV watcher. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014869-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml In "2012," doomsday is the draw. In "The Road," the post-apocalyptic world is simply the canvas to see how people behave. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014898-148.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml As readers of John Irving know, terrible things happen to his characters; not just terrible things but comically far-fetched terrible things. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015471-176.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. That had to wait for Addie Witt, who drove east Friday night from Ohio's Otterbein College to join her father, Kerry Witt, on a chilly parking lot sleepover next to the cinder block wall of a Sam's Club in Washington County. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015069-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml ABC says the final season of "Lost" will begin in February with a night devoted to the drama. An hourlong special recounting the story line so far will air at 8 p.m. Feb. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015083-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Financiers in handcuffs, millions in bonuses to executives of bankrupt companies, mortgages foreclosed, hunger and unemployment on the rise. It's the economy, stupid. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015147-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Former Pittsburgh TV news anchor Don Cannon was expected to be released from police custody in California yesterday, according to his attorney, Patrick J. Thomassey. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015274-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Oprah Winfrey yesterday announced that she is ending her daytime talk show because "it's time to leave." Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015071-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led to her decision. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015074-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml When the "Beatles" took the stage at Heinz Hall on Thursday night, it turned a lot of '60-somethings into teenagers in an instant. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015116-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900" By Domenic Bradbury with photographs by Richard Powers Thames & Hudson, $65 The world's most influential houses are in this Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014890-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Believe the hype. Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe is deserving of all the attention, and comedian Mo'Nique belongs on Oscar's list of supporting actress nominees. Or winners. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014888-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml I'm not a Twi-hard. Or a Twi-hater. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014829-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml T.J. Lubinsky, the former WQED producer who created the doo-wop-themed pledge specials that proved enormously popular for PBS stations nationwide, has continued to create several PBS programs each Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014883-121.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective: Rated: PG-13. Suitable for: Mature tweens and up. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014884-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Hollywood serves up a heaping of hope in the days before Thanksgiving although one comes in a palatable PG-13 package and the other with a provocative, harrowing R. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014830-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml For reasons still unfathomable six months later, Adam Lambert finished second in this year's "American Idol" competition to Kris Allen. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014866-348.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml In any case, TLC's reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" will end its spectacular but stormy run Monday at 9 p.m. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014867-369.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sara Pennypacker, a New York Times best-selling author of 11 books for children. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014889-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "Planet 51" is a victim of bad timing. It arrives in a year when it is one of 20 animated movies submitted for possible Oscar consideration. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014882-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml If you're an adult, your Spidey sense tingles when David (Peter Sarsgaard) rolls up to rescue a school girl from the rain in "An Education." Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014887-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "I am continual motion." -- Dziga Vertov "Man With a Movie Camera" is breathlessly brilliant proof of it. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014987-455.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Oh, to be Bella Swan. Duquesne University freshman Carly Schlegel has the petite build, the chestnut hair and the alabaster skin. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014779-238.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about "V," "Scrubs" and baby birthdays on KDKA's morning news. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014885-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "The Blind Side" arrives as vampires and global destruction occupy most multiplex screens. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014891-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Actor Kellan Lutz has learned to be careful what "Twilight" fans wish for -- especially when handcuffs are involved. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014911-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey's television talk show will end in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, her production company said yesterday. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014446-298.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Plays have been a mainstay each spring at local high schools, but fall productions are becoming more commonplace -- and complex. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014637-58.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml It is a measure of Sarah Palin's popularity that her appearance Saturday at a Sam's Club in South Strabane needs no advertising. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014501-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A new beer aims to be as cool as Donnie Iris. In fact, the local rocker is part of the business that's marketing the brew, which takes on his "King of Cool" nickname: King Cool Light. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014496-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Mark Willson thinks Pittsburgh's best days are ahead, but he's not talking about Luke Ravenstahl relentlessly promoting the city as a medical and high-tech giant. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014519-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml 'star trek' Call it "Star Trek 2.0." Director J.J. Abrams' new take on the classic science-fiction franchise offers an action-packed space romp with some changes made to the storied mythology. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014460-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The women of prime-time drama would have a field day with some of the dialogue in "The Queens," a play that defies conventions despite its hints of Shakespeare and history, although strictly of Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014511-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml By now you may have seen billboards around town for TobyMac's Winter Wonder Slam at Mellon Arena and wondered to yourself: Who is TobyMac and how is he headlining the arena? Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014524-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is the second time around for most of the cast but the first "Twilight" experience for director Chris Weitz, who took over for Catherine Hardwicke in a dispute over Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014594-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Jay Reatard started banging out punk rock songs in his bedroom when he was 15, and 14 years later, his mode of operation hasn't changed. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014596-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml 'The Vanished Empire' Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014459-325.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Plaid is back in fashion, but "Forever Plaid" has never gone out of style. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014497-60.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml By Adrian McCoy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" looks like an elaborate sci-fi adventure filled with bizarre alien life forms and mind-bending special effects. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014595-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of recommended things to do this weekend. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014598-437.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml A list of things to do this weekend. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014510-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Lohio regroups with EP Pittsburgh rock band Lohio has a lot of things going for it, but stability isn't one of them. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014597-120.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Procrastinators, your time has come. This is the final weekend of the 28th annual Three Rivers Film Festival. Movies are being shown at three locations: Regent Square Theater, 1035 S. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014667-44.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml The board of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh said yesterday that it would be willing to place a moratorium on the planned closure of several library branches, contingent on getting short-term and long-term funding commitments in place before its next board meeting on Dec. 14. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014680-67.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Former TV news anchor Don Cannon has been arrested in California for failure to report for his sentence of house arrest in two separate cases of driving under the influence. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500