Tag: entertainment
StarDome’s Bruce Ayers gave Rickey Smiley, Sinbad, Steve Harvey and others...
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
Bruce Ayers remembers the blizzard of 1993 for reasons different than most.
The Super Storm dumped 13 inches of snow on...
George Braziller, literary publisher, dead at 101
By Hillel Italie
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - George Braziller, an independent and self-taught publisher for more than 50 years who supported early novels...
People, Places and Things by Gwen DeRu
TODAY
LIVE BAND KARAOKE, 7:30 p.m. at Perfect Note.
COMEDIAN BURPIE at the StarDome, 7 p.m.
LIVE BAND KARAOKE JAM SESSIONS, 7 – 11 p.m. at the...
Chuck Berry’s influence on rock n’ roll was incalculable
By Hillel Italie
Associated Press
Rock n' roll was more than a new kind of music, but a new story to tell, one for kids with...
J. Anthony Brown goes into detail about his departure from The...
By Monique Jones
The Birmingham Times
J. Anthony Brown is not a newcomer to The StarDome Comedy Club in Hoover; in fact, he’s one of its...
‘Hamilton’s Jordan Fisher coming back to Birmingham for Red Mountain Theatre...
By Alec Harvey
Alabama NewsCenter
The way Jordan Fisher sees it, his career is just about right on schedule.
“They say it takes 10 years to be...
Chance the Rapper gives $1 million to Chicago schools, blasts governor
By Sophia Tareen
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Chance the Rapper's unusual intervention into Chicago Public Schools' funding crisis took an even more curious turn Monday...
People, Places and Things by Gwen DeRu
TODAY
COMEDIAN CASIO KID at the StarDome, 7 p.m.
LIVE BAND KARAOKE JAM SESSIONS, 7 – 11 p.m. at the Perfect Note.
OLIVIA’S HAPPY HOUR, every Thursday...
Tony Roberts performs this weekend at the StarDome, promises one-of-a-kind show
By Ariel Worthy
The Birmingham Times
Comedian Tony Roberts remembers when “the struggle was real.”
“I was poor. I was living off my sister, and dating girls...
Film puts spotlight on the two-faced horrors of racism
By Jake Coyle
AP Film Writer
Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date’s liberal family in “Guess Who’s Coming...
