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EXCLUSIVE: Martin Kaszubowski’s feature film Earlybird has been acquired by Good Deed Entertainment for worldwide rights.

Veteran ESPN SportsCenter anchor John Anderson said today that he will retire from the show at the end of June.

Summerfest’s jaw-dropping 2024 lineup.Set to take place over three warm weekends — June 20-22, June 27-29 and July 4-6 — the annual Milwaukee fest went above and beyond once again booking some of the biggest names in the biz to headline this year.On the first weekend, Kane Brown, Mötley Crüe, Goo Goo Dolls, Taking Back Sunday and Chelsea Cutler will take the stage along with a yet-to-be announced surprise act.Tyler Childers, Keith Urban, Illenium, MUNA and REO Speedwagon top the second three-day weekend’s bill.Finally, Maroon 5, Lil Uzi Vert, AJR, Ivan Cornejo and Bryson Tiller will take Summerfest home over July 4 weekend.In total, we counted 175 acts on this year’s lineup.And if you want to get in on the genre-hopping action, tickets are available for select shows as of today.Clicking into the American Family Insurance Amphitheater or BMO Harris Pavilion venue pages on Vivid Seats will take you to a number of shows to choose from — not just for Summerfest but all year long.Want to know more about the expansive extravaganza coming to Milwaukee this June and July?Keep reading, music fans.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about Summerfest 2024 below.A complete breakdown of all the events we could find taking place at Summerfest this year — including dates, artists and links to their performer pages to buy tickets — can be found here:Hoping for a closer look at this year’s sprawling list of performers?Feel free to sneak a peek and check out the 2024 Summerfest poster below.Hope you find a favorite or three of yours (personally, we can’t wait to see R.E.M.

Kristen Kish is talking Padma Lakshmi and hosting Top Chef.

The brackets for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — aka “March Madness” — were revealed today, bringing joy and tears in equal amounts to teams selected and shunned.

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign will be airing its recently introduced spot “For You” on ABC affiliates in battleground markets during tonight’s Oscarcast.

Bleachers have announced their biggest headlining show at Madison Square Garden in New York.The show, titled ‘From The Studio To The Stage’, will see Jack Antonoff and co. play the iconic arena on Friday, October 4.

Diego Ramos Bechara editor David Bordwell, an influential film scholar and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Feb. 29 after battling a “long illness,” according to the university.

The Guardian in a 2015 interview.“At that time you could ride the whole subway system for a nickel, so each week I would take a different section of New York — Chinatown, Yorkville, Harlem, Greenwich Village,” she told the outlet.She continued, “And I really fell in love with the Village. The Village was where I started to poke around antique shops and become enchanted with all this old junk.”Apfel studied art history at New York University before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

and air vacuums ready, Phans.Legendary jam band Phish announced they’ll be hitting the road this summer for a nationwide tour from July through September.That includes three back-to-back-to-back gigs at Bethel, NY’s Bethel Woods Center For The Arts on Aug. 9-11.Multi-day stints at venues aren’t an anomaly for this tour; based on our findings, Trey Anastasio and co.

Charles Dierkop, best known for his roles in The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Police Woman, died Sunday at a Sherman Oaks Hospital. He was 87.

The National and The War On Drugs have announced details of a joint tour across the US. Find ticket details below.Announced today (February 26), the upcoming ‘Zen Diagram’ tour is set to kick off later this year, and will see both bands touring across the US for the first time.The dates comprise of 19 live shows across the country, launching with an opening night at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion on September 12 and continuing the following day with a stop at Forest Hills Stadium in New York.From there, more shows are lined up for the remainder of the month, including slots in Philadelphia (17), Chicago (24) and Madison, Wisconsin (26).

Thania Garcia Los Angeles-based duo the Driver Era is hitting the road for a 17-city tour across North America. With over three albums to date, brothers Ross and Rocky Lynch will again begin touring on April 2 in Pittsburgh’s Roxian Theatre and hit venues in New York, New Jersey, Quebec and more before wrapping in Toronto on May 8.

The search for a missing 3-year-old boy has taken a dark turn as police have now started looking in landfills and rivers. Early Tuesday morning the caretaker of

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced details of an extensive new North American tour to take place this summer.The tour will be titled ‘Can’t Let Go’, and will kick off on June 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and run for 30 dates, wrapping up in Vail, Colorado on September 1, with some more dates also expected to still be added. See below for full details.Tickets for the shows went on pre-sale today (February 14), with the general sale taking place at 10am local time on Friday (February 16) here.The duo last toured together in 2022, which itself was their first complete tour in 12 years.

Despite growing up on a humble farm in Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey said she “always knew she was destined for greatness”. Describing her hugely successful career as a talk-show host, actress, philanthropist and author as something of a “calling”, the star had a feeling that her life would end up being miles away from where she grew up, both literally and metaphorically.This self-belief from such a young age is all the more remarkable when you consider that Oprah, who is set to celebrate her 70th birthday on 29 January, had something of a traumatic childhood and start in life.

, President Biden announced new measures to support access to , and Vice President Harris kicked off a months-long Fight For Reproductive Freedoms tour in Wisconsin. She will travel around the country sharing her commitment to protecting reproductive freedoms, and hearing from patients, healthcare providers, faith leaders, students, and voters.“On this day and every day, Vice President Harris and I are fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom,” Biden said in a statement.

The Last Dinner Party have announced a tour across North America for 2024.The UK baroque-pop band will be heading across the pond in March, April, July and August in support of their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy‘, which is out February 2.The group will begin the 20-date stint at Lunario in Mexico City on March 19, making stops in Boston, New York, Toronto, Portland, San Francisco and more, before they wrap up at The Complex in Salt Lake City on August 7. Miss Grit will also perform as support across select dates.Pre-sale starts Tuesday (January 23) at 10am ET, ahead of general sale Friday (January 26) at 10am ET from here.A post shared by THE LAST DINNER PARTY (@thelastdinnerparty)“North America Dinner Guests!!! We are thrilled to unveil that we will be gracing your beauteous towns and charming cities from March, with support from @miss_grit,” the band shared on Instagram.“Chime the bells, flare the beacons, and signal the alarms to secure thy tickets swiftly!”MARCH19 – Mexico City, MX, Lunario21 – Austin, TX, Scoot Inn22 – Dallas, TX, The Studio at The Factory 24 – Boston, MA, Royale Boston*26 – New York, NY, Webster Hall*27 – Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Steel* 29 – Montreal, QC, Le Studio TD*30 – Toronto, ON, The Concert Hall*31 – Detroit, MI, The Majestic Theatre*APRIL2 – Columbus, OH, Newport Music Hall*4 – Minneapolis, MN, First Avenue*5 – Milwaukee, WI, Turner Hall Ballroom*9 – Portland, OR, McMenamins Crystal Ballroom*10 – Vancouver, BC, Hollywood Theatre*11 – Seattle, WA, The Showbox*14 – Phoenix, AZ, Crescent Ballroom*16 – San Francisco, CA, Bimbo’s 365 Club*JULY 31 – Kansas City, MO at The TrumanAUGUST2 – St. Charles, IA, Hinterland Festival6 – Englewood, CO, Gothic Theatre7 – Salt Lake City, UT, The Complex*with

Apparently, some people do not want this show to go on! Those behind a tribute act to Michael Jackson in Las Vegas claimed the late singer’s estate has been trying to cancel their show — so they’re taking them to court to battle it out now!

One of Hollywood’s best known boutique law firms is undergoing a touch up, in more ways than one.

The British Film Institute has revealed the list of TV, film, and animation companies that have won funding from its latest £3.3M ($4.2M) Global Screen Fund payout.

Nicki Minaj has announced new UK, European and US dates for her ‘Pink Friday 2‘ 2024 world tour – see the full list of shows below.The first leg of the tour – featuring US, UK and European gigs – was announced last year and will kick off on March 1 in California.The existing dates run until early June, but new shows have now been added to the lengthy tour.New shows will take place in Glasgow, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago and more.See the full list of ‘Pink Friday 2’ tour dates below, with newly added gigs in bold. Tickets for the new dates go on sale at 9am local time on Friday, January 19.

CBS sitcom The Honeymooners, has died at the age of 99.According to Associated Press, Randolph’s son and only surviving family member Randolph Charles conveyed in a statement that she died of natural causes while in her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Saturday evening (January 13).The stage and television actress was most well-known for her role as Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners, starring in an ensemble cast that included Jackie Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden, Audrey Meadows as Kramden’s witty and tenacious wife Alice, and Art Carney as Ed Norton, a dimwitted-yet-buoyant sewer worker and husband to Randolph’s character.The sitcom, which was also created by Gleason and loosely based on his childhood, aired on CBS between 1955 and 1956. Lasting one season consisting of 39 episodes, The Honeymooners followed the foursome in their daily lives as residents of New York City.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In “Poor Things,” Willem Dafoe plays God, bringing his devilish grin to the role of an ethically unbound surgeon who grafts body parts from one creature onto another, blending ducks and geese with dogs and goats — and, in the case of Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter, implanting a spare brain in the corpse of a drowned woman. The Dr. Frankenstein-like character is just the latest leap of faith for an actor who spoke to Variety, apropos of receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Tisa Farrow, a former actor born, like sister Mia Farrow, to show business parents Maureen O’Sullivan and John Farrow, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning. She was 72.

So often, when regional rap scenes blow up nationally, they’re treated too much as a passing novelty: a city has its moment in the sun, and then it’s on to the next one. Just as frequently, the popularity of regionally-specific sounds doesn’t actually benefit artists from those areas very much.

Joe Biden‘s campaign unveiled a new 60-second ad on Thursday, their first of 2024, that signals a primary campaign theme: Donald Trump‘s threat to the republic.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s no better way to kick off 2024 than with a New Year’s Day tradition: college football. College football fans surely know about the so-called “New Year’s Six,” a series of six major Division 1 bowl games hat occur on or around New Year’s Day.

Hulu and HBO, has been released early from prison.She had pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Dee Dee Blanchard in Missouri in 2015.She plotted with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mother following years of abuse. Godejohn had stabbed Dee Dee Blanchard to death with a knife her daughter had given him.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s no better way to kick off 2024 than with a New Year’s Day tradition: college football. January 1 marks the end of the NCAA football bowl season, and this year, there are five bowl games taking place on Monday.

WISN 12 in Milwaukee, where Rivers earned the distinction of being the city’s first Black film critic on television in 1979, announced his death on Wednesday.The announcement applauded the Marquette University graduate for contributing “segments for the nationally syndicated PM Magazine, which he said helped Milwaukee go beyond stereotypes.”His sister, Betsy Rivers, later confirmed his death on Facebook.“Bobby passed away last night and is no longer in any pain,” she wrote on Wednesday.A cause of death has not been announced.The Post has reached out to Rivers’ reps for comment.Heralded as “Milwaukee’s Black, queer media pioneer” by Wisconsin LGBTQ news outlet Our Lives Wisconsin, Rivers worked as a VJ on VH1 in 1985 alongside Rosie O’Donnell. In 1988, he went on to host his own celebrity talk show on the cable music channel, “Watch Bobby Rivers.” He later hosted the late-night dating show “Bedroom Buddies.”In the early 2000s, Rivers hosted Food Network’s short-lived series “Top 5.”But fame was not without its drawbacks, and Rivers often received racist and homophobic attacks.“Nobody really knew this, but I did receive a lot of hate mail,” Rivers said in a July 2023 interview with Our Lives Wisconsin.

Bobby Rivers, an entertainment reporter and television personality on the Food Network and VH1, has died. He was 70.

Caroline Brew editor Bobby Rivers, who hosted Food Network’s “Top 5” and VH1’s celebrity talk show “Watch Bobby Rivers,” died at 70 on Tuesday in Minneapolis, according to WISN. His sister Betsy Rivers also posted on Facebook, “Bobby passed away last night and is no longer in any pain.” Many journalists and critics paid tribute to him on social media. Michael Musto wrote, “Bobby Rivers was an openly gay trailblazer.

Pete Davidson won’t be performing on stage for the next few weeks!

Travis Scott has explained why he recently played his song ‘FE!N’ 10 times in a row at a show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.The rapper said in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the energy he was receiving from the audience on December 19 took him to a place where he wanted to keep ramping things up further.“Man, I have the best fans in the world,” he said. “I go off the energy they give me.