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Handyman magician will perform during family magic show
marieg@herald-mail.comEric Buss has something up his sleeve. It’s part of his job as a magician. But there’s more to Buss than meets the eye. He’s also an actor and comedian and admits to be pretty handy with power tools. Put all these talents together and...Tags: Entertainment, Abusive Behavior, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Arts and Culture
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Dark Knight Rises' on HBO
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 16 - 22, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Zero Hour This conspiracy-theory drama,...
Tags: Dick Cheney, White House, Luxottica Group SpA, National Security Agency, Marco Rubio
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Tori Amos inspires Orlando author
As anyone who has attended a Tori Amos concert can tell you, the experience for her fans is closer to a spiritual one than anything resembling mere pop-star adulation. "Whenever I was experiencing anything in life, I always turned to her," says Adrienne...
Tags: Social Sciences, Entertainment, Sociology, One Direction (music group), Music
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In Newport News, a doctorate-level course in comedy
NEWPORT NEWS — The Fat Doctor knows what it's like to stand on stage, tell a joke and watch an entire comedy club dissolve into raucous laughter. It's a good feeling. But The Fat Doctor is a teacher of comedy as well as a practitioner. And...
Tags: Entertainment, Heart Problems, Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse (tv program), Entertainment Events, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Alexandra Myers brings original comedy show to local stage
Petoskey High School graduate Alexandra Myers is bringing her Adrian College comedy troupe to Petoskey for a one-night show at the Crooked Tree Arts Center. Myers' original comedy show titled "(Insert Title Here)" will take the Ross Stoakes Theatre stage...
Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment, Kate Flannery, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Review: Pennsylvania Playhouse succeeds with sophisticated 'Clean House'
"The Clean House," Sarah Ruhl's frenetically paced fantasy, now on stage at Bethlehem's Pennsylvania Playhouse, opens with a joke. But the hook is that the joke is told in Portuguese by Brazilian maid Matilde, played by the enchanting Kelly-Anne Rohrbach,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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Paula Poundstone talks stand-up ahead of her Boyne City performance
BOYNE CITY -- She has been a stand-up comedian for more than three decades, is currently a panelist on NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me" where she matches wits with some of the nation's leading pundits, she was recently inducted into the Comedy Hall of...
Tags: Entertainment, Paula Poundstone, ABC (tv network), NPR, Arts and Culture
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Storytelling in Chicago is a nightly affair
As opening night glitches go, this was a good problem. The back room at Lakeview gastropub The Dog's Bollox was jammed with people squeezing in for the debut of Story Sessions, yet another yarn-spinning event to add to Chicago's already-packed...
Tags: Entertainment, Social Issues, Arts and Culture, Wicker Park, Chicago Public Schools
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Amy Schumer talks about her journey from Towson to TV and concert stardom
The Baltimore SunAmy Schumer can tell a story. Knowing how to craft a short narrative and make it pay off with a laugh has, after all, helped make her one of the hottest comedians on TV and the concert circuit these days. So, let the star of Comedy Central’s...Tags: Entertainment, Federal Hill, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Television Industry
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Muhlenberg opens summer musical season with 'Crazy for You'
When actor/dancer Frankie Grande graduated from Muhlenberg College in 2005, Muhlenberg theater director Charles Richter hoped he would return. In 2006 Grande did that, giving a stirring performance as George M. Cohan in the Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre...Tags: Music Theater, Gwyneth Paltrow, Entertainment, Allentown, Arts and Culture
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JUST FOR LAUGHS: Seeking out the hangers-on
Here's a funny thing about arts festivals: You know they're really cooking not so much by what acts are part of the official lineup but by what's tagging along. Exhibit A is the Edinburgh Festival. If that annual entertainment conflab in Scotland were...
Tags: Entertainment, Fringe Festival, Arts and Culture, Seth Meyers, Festive Events
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But then a funny thing happened
I was on my way to a stand-up comedy gig in some Godforsaken place about three hours out of Los Angeles, and I asked the headliner, who was driving and rolling a joint simultaneously, if he knew anybody who might be able to tolerate me. He'd been...Tags: Entertainment, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Alzheimer's Disease, Entertainment Events
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