Entertainment

Carrie Underwood Engaged To Hockey Player Mike Fisher

AP | CAITLIN R. KING | Posted 12.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Nhl, Engagement, Entertainment, Mike Fisher, Carrie Underwood Engaged, Carrie Underwood, Hockey, Entertainment News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Carrie Underwood is engaged to Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher, her publicist said Monday. No wedding date has been...

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Weekend Box Office Review: Avatar Defies Skeptics and Snowstorms, Earns $77 Million in Debut Weekend

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Avatar, Entertainment, Scott Mendelson, Sherlock Holmes, Titanic, Iron Man 2, Robert Downey Jr, Movies, Politics, Box Office, Up in the Air, Reviews, Princess and the Frog, James Cameron, 3d, News, Christmas Carol, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

The much anticipated and debated (amongst film nerds at least) Avatar debuted this weekend with $73 million. One thing we learned this weekend: never, ever bet against James Cameron.

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Stage Door: Fascinating Aïda -- Absolutely Miraculous!

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Dillie Keane, Musical Theater, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, New York News
Fern Siegel

Consider it the miracle on 59th Street. The hysterically funny British trio, Fascinating Aïda, is back in New York with a new show. The brilliantly satiric musical revue lives up to its name.

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A Green Art Manifesto

Brendan Smith | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Arts, Craft, Climate Change, Green Living, Entertainment, Copenhagen 2009, Green Politics, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Climate Change Art, Climate Crisis, New York News
Brendan Smith

You've seen us on the streets and farmers markets of New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta, selling our dresses sewn from recycled umbrellas and clocks milled from reclaimed wine tanks.

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Blind Spots

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 12.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment, Sitcoms, Frasier, Mary Tyler Moore, Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi, Seinfeld, Entertainment News
Earl Pomerantz

Every show has its "blind spot," the thing they never mention, because if you did, the show wouldn't work anymore.

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Mr. Heckles Wants to be Your Friend on Facebook

Kim Mance | Posted 12.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Second City, Films, Breaking Entertainment News, Entertainment, Chicago, Chicago Breaking News, Producers, Entertainment News, Chicago Entertainment, Comedy, Breaking News, Larry Hankin, Entertainment News
Kim Mance

This chat with Larry Hankin renewed my appreciation for the phenomenon of "Second City", a legendary performing arts school which teaches its students to "play the reality, not the joke."

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Stage Door: Finian's Rainbow, James Barbour, Misalliance

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Broadway, George Bernard Shaw, Off-Broadway, City Center, Entertainment, New York News
Fern Siegel

How are things in Glocca Morra? That question is asked nightly at the St. James, where the revival of Finian's Rainbow offers songs, a love story, a leprechaun and a dollop of politics.

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Singing, Crying and Whining the Blues

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 12.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Glenn Miller, The Blues, Hazel Miller, Linda Ronstadt, Entertainment, Mick Jagger, Mahalia Jackson, Pbs, Martin Scorsese, Soul, Hattie McDaniel, Music, Blues, Keith Richards, Denver, Gospel Music, Louis Armstrong, African American, Bessie Smith, George Morrison, Rolling Stone, Pat Benatar, Rock and Roll, Black Music, Jerry Wexler, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

As I scope out Denver's upcoming concerts, checking the calendar for any hint or mention of an act associated with blues, jazz, gospel or old school soul, I am left feeling a bit stranded.

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The Real Reason MTV Shouldn't Air the Jersey Shore Snooki Punch (VIDEO)

R.J. Fried | Posted 12.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Snooki, Video, Jersey Shore, Entertainment, Sucker Punch, Mtv, Snookie, Punch, Comedy News, Comedy, Mtv Jersey Shore, Comedy News
R.J. Fried

Congratulations, MTV - you completely failed to grasp the gravity of the situation. Little did you realize that you took the first step toward saving humanity. Allow me to explain...

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Stage Door: Ute Lemper's Last Tango in Berlin

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Cabaret, Ute Lemper, Entertainment, Joe's Pub, Music, Singers, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, New York News
Fern Siegel

It's the voice -- a sexy contralto that can bring you to tears in a single note. If you've heard chanteuse Ute Lemper, you cannot forget her.

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Stage Door: A Streetcar Named Desire

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Streetcar Named Desire, Theater, Tennessee Williams, Cate Blanchett, Bam, Entertainment, Liv Ullmann, New York News
Fern Siegel

Cate Blanchett's bravura performance of the fragile, overdramatic Southern belle Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' masterpiece is the real deal.

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Culture Wars: The Nation Hosts A Salon

Erica Abeel | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Vampire Frenzy, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Wally Shawn, Entertainment, Progressives, Tony Kushner, Nation Magazine Salon, Obama, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Media News
Erica Abeel

The Nation magazine recently held a "Salon" to explore the question, What Will Become of Our Culture? Too bad it didn't occur during the current New Moon juggernaut.

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Stage Door: Ragtime, My Wonderful Day

Fern Siegel | Posted 11.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Alan Ayckbourn, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, E.L. Doctorow, Emma Goldman, Evelyn Nesbit, Ayesha Antoine, Harry Houdini, New York News
Fern Siegel

Ragtime is a sweeping, ambitious revival that, with the election of Barack Obama, carries added resonance. The musical, an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel, is not to be missed.

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What Yoga Can Do For Jon Gosselin

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Balanced Life, Yoga, Living News, What Yoga Can Do, Style, Lauren Cahn, Jon-Gosselin-Girlfriend, Yoga Teacher, Jon Gosselin, Jon and Kate Divorce, Yoga Chickie, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Entertainment, Living News
Lauren Cahn

By now, we've all seen the above photo of Jon Gosselin practicing yoga, and in particular practicing Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, or as it is more commonly known, "Upward Facing Dog Pose."

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Pacquiao Lifts Boxing off the Canvas

Gordon Marino | Posted 11.16.2009 | Sports

Read More: Floyd-Mayweather-Jr, Hbo, Virtues of Boxing, Manny Pacquiao, Boxing, Pacquiao Cotto, Entertainment, Boxing News, Sports News
Gordon Marino

If boxing was down, it got off the canvas this weekend. On Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao's performance was absolutely jaw dropping, a fistic work of art.

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Stage Door: Wolves at the Window, Circumcise Me, Forbidden Broadway

Fern Siegel | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, Religion, Judaism, Comedy, Saki, New York News
Fern Siegel

Ten Saki short stories are adapted for the stage in the piercingly funny Wolves at the Window. Smartly rendered and acted, Wolves, running through Dec. 6, is a gem.

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'Leap Year' Movie Trailer Released Online, WATCH It (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Leap Year Film, Romantic Comedy, Films, Leap Year, Leap Year Trailer, Trailers, Leap Year Movie, Movies, Leap Year Movie Trailer, Entertainment, Leap Yar Video Preview, Entertainment News

The trailer for the movie 'Leap Year' hit the Web tonight. The New York Post offered one of the first reactions to the trailer, poking fun at the pre...

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Modern Warfare 2 and Digital Distribution

Theodore Bergquist | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Modern Warfare 2, Entertainment, Videogames, Digital Downloads, Call of Duty, Call-of-Duty-Modern-Warfare-2, Modern-Warefare-2-Sales, Technology, Entertainment News
Theodore Bergquist

The online retail marketplace for video games was recently shaken by the fact that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 comes included with third-party technology that includes a virtual storefront.

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Two Dreams That Changed Hollywood

Anne Hill | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dreams, Jerry Weintraub, Movies, James Cameron, The New Yorker, Elvis Presley, Vanity Fair, Creativity, Entertainment, Entertainment News
Anne Hill

Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up.

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Stage Door: Superior Donuts, The Understudy, Vamps

Fern Siegel | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Michael McKean, Broadway, Cabaret, Off-Broadway, Tracy Letts, Entertainment, Chicago, New York News
Fern Siegel

When August: Osage County drama burst on Broadway, it trumpeted the arrival of Tracy Letts, who won the Pulitzer. By contrast, his follow-up effort, Superior Donuts, is a quiet meditation.

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Dizzy Feet Foundation Benefits From 'So You Think You Can Dance' Tour (VIDEO)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: So You Think You Can Dance, Entertainment, So You Think You Can Dance Tour 2009, Dizzy Feet Foundation, Foundations, So You Think You Can Dance Tour, Impact News

The 'So You Think You Can Dance' Tour is well underway, with just a handful of West Coast cities to go before the last show on Nov. 21 in Everett, Was...

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The Pigskin Arts and Dementia

Gordon Marino | Posted 11.10.2009 | Sports

Read More: Concussions-Nfl, National Football League, Entertainment, Nfl, Sporst, Sports News
Gordon Marino

As a former high school and college coach, I have seen many players come out of games seeing stars and being disoriented, only to return to the fray a few plays later.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Jerry Falwell, Council for National Policy, Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Willis, Media, Michelle Bachman, Austin American Statesman, Rambo, Dixie Chicks, Forum on the Family, Nra, Phyllis Schlafly, Matthew Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, James Dobson, Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Austin, Barry Levinson, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Discovery Institute, Poliwood, Ed Meese, Creative Coalition, Barbra Streisand, Texas, Edwin Meese, Hollywood, Left Behind Books, Tim LaHay, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Left Behind, George Gilder, Miranda Ruling, Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Chuck Norris, Charlton Heston, New York Times, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Perkins, Politics News
Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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Stage Door: The Royal Family, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Memphis

Fern Siegel | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Neil Simon, Broadway, Entertainment, Rosemary Harris, Barrymore Family, John Barrymore, New York News
Fern Siegel

Broadway reviewed: a reminder of how wonderful revivals can be, a family story of burgeoning sexuality and a musical about the epicenter of R&B and soul.

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A City and Nation of Bystanders

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Long Beach, Billboard, Kfi, Charleskarel Bouley, Charles Karel Bouley, Radio, Kgo, Advocate, George W. Bush, Iraq, Huffingtonpost, War Crimes, National Crime Prevention Council, Bystander Syndrome, Kngy, Richmond, Comedy, Entertainment, Karel, Politics, Gay, Rape, Bernie Ward, Drew Carberry, Krxa, Genovese Syndrome, Liberal, Afghanistan, Bouley, Talk, Knx, Longbeach, Charleskarelbouley, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

How could any American, any human, stand by as another is brutally raped? How could other Americans join in, jeer, take photos and videos with their c...

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