Music His original song “Disengage” about his struggles with depression connected with Simon Cowell. Kieran Rhodes during his audition on America’s Got Talent. Trae Patton/NBC Kieran Rhodes blew away celebrity judges on “America’s Got Talent” with a vulnerable original song and a strong vision of success. But Rhodes didn’t always want to be a musician. …
Todd Quinones has been in the news business for 28 years. As he says, “It’s the only thing I’ve ever done.” That changes Friday morning. The veteran anchor leaves ABC affiliate KTNV Channel 13. On Monday, he and former Channel 13 anchor and reporter Yasmin Hassan are launching the media consulting company HCue. The name…
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Jeff Ross, aptly nicknamed the “Roastmaster General,” always wants people to leave a roast saying, “That was so much fun.” But that is not always the case. Ross is known to toe the border of comedy and abuse, live on stage. “It’s been a lot of trial and error for me,” says Ross, performing two…
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Tune in to “MasterChef: Back to Win” on Fox on Wednesday night for a whole lot of Sin City food stylings. Noted celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Aarón Sánchez and Joe Bastianich will give mystery boxes to contestants, each featuring a specific spirit that must be highlighted in each dish. The celebrity chefs will be assisted…
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Steve Martin and Martin Short have changed their show significantly over the years, but not in ways you would readily notice. “We’ve got a new closing, we got a new encore, we’ve got some new bits, we’ve got new jokes, and I’ve got a couple of new songs,” Martin says. “But we change it incrementally….
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Entertainment By Emily Yahr, Washington Post June 21, 2022 | 9:33 AM [embedded content] CBS’s “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert didn’t wait long Monday night to discuss the bizarre topic that everyone was waiting for him to address: the fact that multiple members of his production team, including the voice behind one very famous puppet,…
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If you want to geek out with a Rush fan (and lord help you if you do), take a deep dive into “A Farewell to Kings.” The 1977 progressive-rock masterwork includes such musical tours de force as “Xanadu” and “Cygnus X-1: Book 1: The Voyage Prologue.” Both epic pieces clock at more than 10 minutes….
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Nanfu Wang speaks at the Independent Lens’s PBS Winter 2020 TCA Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP) What does it mean when people say, “I remember”? Can they be trusted? That’s the question that haunts “Mind Over Murder,” HBO’s six-part true-crime series…
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Jordan Poole committed a technical party foul at Zouk Nightclub on Saturday night. But this was an incidental, rather than intentional, violation. The Golden State Warriors guard celebrated the team’s NBA championship and his 23rd birthday by spraying champagne across the console at Zouk Nightclub’s DJ booth. Any professional DJ (and even any novice champagne…
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The show is a tricky business. Remember this while rolling in the deep with the Adele residency on the Strip. We have previously outlined how Adele won’t play the Colosseum at Caesars Palace this summer. We believe she won’t. But there is a way for her to thread the needle to perform in the venue’s…
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