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John Mayer has revealed that he was tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time in less than two months.

The Andy Warhol Diaries, which charts the late artist’s life, has landed.The six-part Netflix series from executive producer Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) and director Andrew Rossi uses AI technology to recreate Warhol’s voice to read his own diaries.Warhol’s voice was created using a text-to-speech algorithm that incorporated his Pittsburgh accent. Actor Bill Irwin then recorded the lines, with his performance and the AI digital voice combined to create the voice that you hear in the documentary series.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Rossi said: “Andy Warhol was famously guarded about his personal thoughts and opinions.

Beach House kicked off their US tour in Pittsburgh last night (February 18), and they gave live debuts to a number of tracks from new LP ‘Once Twice Melody’.The Baltimore duo – comprised of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally – released the follow-up to 2018’s ‘7’ in four separate parts, with the final instalment arriving yesterday.Beach House’s show at Pittsburgh’s Stage AE saw them give multiple songs from the album –  ‘Pink Funeral’, ‘Superstar’, ‘Masquerade’, ‘New Romance’ and the title track – their live debut.You can check out some clips from the show below:‘Once Twice Melody’ (Live debut)‘Silver Soul’‘Dark Spring’‘PPP’‘Pink Funeral’ (Live debut)‘Lazuli’‘Beyond Love’‘Superstar’ (Live debut)‘Bluebird’‘Masquerade’ (Live debut)‘Myth’‘Drunk In LA’‘Take Care’‘New Romance’ (Live debut)‘Somewhere Tonight’‘Girl Of The Year’‘Space Song’‘Lemon Glow’Beach House will kick off a UK and European tour in May; the stint includes a headline performance at the O2 Academy Brixton in London – remaining tickets can he found here.The full schedule is as follows:MAY 202121 – The National Stadium, Dublin23 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow24 – Manchester Academy, Manchester26 – O2 Academy Brixton, London28 – De Roma, Antwerp30 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels31 – L’Olympia, ParisJUNE 20212 – Paloma, Nimes4 – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona7 – Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne8 – Columbiahalle, Berlin9 – Falkoner Centre, CopenhagenSpeaking in a recent interview with NME, Beach House singer Victoria Legrand described ‘Once Twice Melody’ as “the most all-consuming album that we’ve ever worked on”.“We became so fully submerged in this universe,” she explained.

ABC has ordered a drama pilot about a group of therapists in Philadelphia from This Is Us writer/director Kay Oyegun.

NEW YORK -- Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and ‘70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis’ landmark fusion of jazz and more contemporary sounds, has died at age 77.Davis died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to Danielle Maggio, a singer, adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and associate producer of the 2017 documentary “Betty: They Say I’m Different." Davis spent part of her childhood in Pittsburgh and settled there during the second half of her life.Sometimes referred to as “Madonna before Madonna,” Davis was the rare woman to make funk albums in the 1970s, and her three albums from that time were showcases for her fearless personality and sexuality and insistence on control of her material and her image. Davis producer Greg Errico, former drummer for Sly and the Family Stone, would call her style “down and dirty funk." Her records sold modestly at the time, but their impact has been cited often in the decades following.“The reach of her influence & sonic lineage is immense,” the author and critic Hanif Abdurraqib tweeted Wednesday.

Zack Sharf Billie Eilish put the well-being of a fan front and center during her Saturday, Feb. 5 concert at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The Grammy winner stopped the second night of her “Happier Than Ever” world tour mid-way during the concert after seeing a distressed fan in the audience.

NEW YORK -- When the Irish dance troupe Riverdance kicks off its 25th anniversary North American tour later this year, someone special will be in its high-stepping cast: the troupe's first Black female dancer.Virginia-born Morgan Bullock, who says she's been mesmerized by the dance style since she first saw it at age 10, will be making her professional U.S. stage debut in the production.

Gene Clines was an outfielder who was part of Major League Baseball’s first all-minority lineup and who won the 1971 World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Gene Clines was a speedy line-drive hitting outfielder who helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1971 World Series championship. He played center field for the Pirates on September 1, 1971, when they fielded the first all-minority lineup in Major League Baseball history featuring players of Black and Latino descent.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Don’t Let Me Keep You,” Tuesday’s episode of “This Is Us.”While there are many loose ends that “This Is Us” still has left to tie up for fans almost halfway through its sixth and final season, the fate of Milo Ventimiglia’s Jack Pearson has been a firm knot for years now. However, this week’s episode of the NBC family drama revealed one heartbreaking still-untold story about the now-deceased family patriarch: How his own mother, whom he had moved to Ohio help her escape his abusive father, died before he ever ever got to really know her.“Looking at Jack’s arc from Season 1 to 2 to 3, there’s a lot that we’re learning about him, good and bad,” Ventimiglia told Variety ahead of Tuesday’s episode of “This Is Us,” titled “Don’t Let Me Keep You.” “The things that he struggles with, the things that he’s really great at, the father he is, the husband he is, the individual.

By It's a few minutes past 3 P.M. when Denée Benton calls with an apology. “You are my last interview of a long two press days,” she says.

football championship gathered millions of people in front of their television sets on a cold winter weekend.An average of 30.5 million people watched the NFL's wild card games on television and digitally over the weekend, which the league said was up 21% over the same games in 2021.Meanwhile, Georgia's victory over Alabama for the NCAA football championship last week reached 22.3 million viewers, the Nielsen company said. That allowed the NCAA to rebound from the lackluster ratings of the New Year's Eve semifinals, which featured two non-competitive games.Boosted by their wild card games, CBS averaged 10 million viewers and NBC had 6.8 million in prime time last week. ABC averaged 2.7 million, Fox had 1.7 million, Univision had 1.6 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo had 900,000.ESPN averaged 3.69 million viewers in prime time, Fox News Channel had 2.24 million, MSNBC had 1.2 million, HGTV had 1.08 million and Hallmark had 978,000.ABC's “World News Tonight” won the evening news race, averaging 9 million viewers.

Celine Dion has canceled the remaining shows on the North American leg of her “Courage World Tour,” citing her ongoing recovery from “severe and persistent muscle spasms” that she’s suffered from of late, with the tour’s European leg still to kick off in Birmingham, England on May 25.

Evanescence have postponed the remainder of their 2021 tour dates after members of their touring crew tested positive for COVID.The rock outfit were set to play five more US shows as part of their tour with Halestorm, in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Newark, Camden and Worcester, but have pushed these back to January next year.“We’re going to have to pick up these last few shows in January.

Miller McCormick, 32, has reportedly struck up a romance with Cazzie David, 27. A source close to the couple revealed that the pair, consisting of late-rapper Mac Miller’s brother and comedy icon Larry David‘s daughter, had been dating for over the year, according to Page Six.

Kim Cattrall is taking on a new role!

Dr. Freddie Fu was an orthopaedic surgeon who pioneered new techniques for more successful ACR repair surgery.Born in Hong Kong, Fu came to the U.S.

19 cities total in both red and blue states includes: Phoenix, Denver, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Raleigh-Durham, Northern New Jersey (to include Elizabethland Highland Park), Las Vegas, Buffalo, Cleveland, Portland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Salt Lake City.Tucker looked at the list and said: “You may notice that these communities include an awful lot of swing districts in swing states all over the United States.

Joe Walton was the head coach of the New York Jets in the 1980s and went on to build a football program at Robert Morris College.Morris played college football at the University of Pittsburgh, making appearances with the Panthers in the 1956 Sugar Bowl and Gator Bowl. He was named an All-American in 1955 and ’56.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe Dakota Johnson indie “Cha Cha Real Smooth” has added seven stars to its supporting cast, as production kicks off Thursday in Pittsburgh.Leslie Mann, Brad Garrett, Raúl Castillo, Odeya Rush, Vanessa Burghardt, Evan Assante and Colton Osorio have all joined the film project from writer-director-star Cooper Raiff.“Cha Cha Real Smooth” follows a directionless college grad embarking on a relationship with a young mom and her teenage daughter, all while learning

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Rolling Stones have announced rescheduled dates for their “No Filter” tour, which was originally slated for 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic.The 2021 dates are set to kick off September 26 in St.

Ethan Shanfeld WWE announced that SummerSlam will take place on Aug. 21.The venue, described as a “summer destination location,” will be revealed on June 5 during NBC’s 2021 Belmont Stakes’ pre-race show.

Charles Grodin, the comic, scene-stealing actor of such films as The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run and Beethoven who later established himself as a curmudgeonly talk show guest without rival, died today at his home in Wilton, Conn. He was 86.

Peacock has handed Stephen Dunn’s reboot of British drama Queer As Folk a series order.

Owen Simon, a former marketing executive with Group W Productions and The Mike Douglas Show, died Friday in Los Angeles, his family said. He was 93.

Sandra Oh gave an impassioned speech at a Stop Asian Hate march yesterday (March 20), telling the crowd that she was “proud to be Asian”.The protest was held in Pittsburgh after eight people – many of whom were Asian – were killed in Atlanta last week (March 18) and as cases of hate crimes against Asian people continue to rise worldwide.The Killing Eve actor addressed the crowd at the march with a megaphone, saying: “For many of us in our community, this is the first time we are even able to

Actress Sandra Oh has stepped up as part of the nationwide protests this weekend decrying hate and violence against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime’s forthcoming American Rust has added Mark Pellegrino (Dexter) as a series regular. He joins Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney in the drama series which is scheduled to begin production in Pittsburgh in late March.

stars Conner Trott and Mackenzie Dipman have called it quits.The pair released a joint statement on Saturday to share the news with fans who «have been wondering about us and our relationship,» according to the statement posted to both Trott and Dipman's Instagram stories.«We are both young and in the early stages of careers, and sadly those careers are keeping us in two different places.

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Wife alum Dallas Roberts, Clea Lewis (The Americans) and Nicole Chanel Williams (Boomerang) are set for recurring roles in Showtime drama series American Rust, starring Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. The series is scheduled to begin production in Pittsburgh in late March.

Anne Feeney, a folk singer who collaborated with Pete Seeger, John Prine and Peter, Paul and Mary and an impassioned activist who fought for workers' and women's rights, died Wednesday in Pittsburgh of COVID-19 complications. She was 69.

Joanne Rogers, the widow of TV legend Fred Rodgers, died today from heart issues at her home in Pittsburgh at age 92. Fred Rogers Productions announced her passing on Twitter.

PITTSBURGH -- Joanne Rogers, an an accomplished concert pianist who celebrated and protected the legacy of her husband, the beloved children's TV host Mister Rogers, has died in Pittsburgh. She was 92.Rogers died Thursday, according to the Fred Rogers Center.

campaigned for Biden during the election — has been confirmed to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the swearing-in ceremony next Wednesday, the inaugural committee told Variety.Fellow New Yorker Jennifer Lopez is another star name involved, although details of her performance were not revealed.Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, has long backed Biden, and even hit the campaign trail for him in Pittsburgh in November, saying, “Vote for Joe.

Sunday’s primetime was dominated by NFL’s wildcard playoff matchup that saw the Cleveland Browns beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 48-37. The game smashed out a 6.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and drew 20.8 million viewers in fast affiliate Nielsen Live+Same Day numbers, which likely will be adjusted later today.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are feuding after Republicans refused to seat Democratic Sen. Jim Brewster of Allegheny County, whose win is being contested over a small number of undated ballots.

Verizon and Hearst Television struck a deal overnight that will keep nine Hearst owned-and-operated stations including in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and the Boston area from going dark on Verizon Fios systems. No details were disclosed Friday on the new retransmission contract, which replaces the old one that was set to expire December 31.