UPH Hosts Ninth Annual Celebrity Bartending Fundraiser at Saratoga National
Join UPH for their Ninth Annual Celebrity Bartending Fundraiser at Saratoga National. A night of fun, drinks, and fundraising for a good causeUniversal Preservation Hall has announced the Shaken and Stirred celebrity bartender party, an annual fundraising event to help bring family programming to our stages through the Collaborative School of the Arts.
Rose Tattoo Unleash OUTLAWS Album March 6
Rose Tattoo are extraordinarily proud to announce the release of “Outlaws”, the album, on March 6. A re-recording of the famed first and iconic “Rock N Roll Outlaw”, spawning classics like “Nice Boys” (Don't Play Rock 'n' Roll), “Rock N' Roll Outlaw”, “One Of The Boys” and, “Bad Boy For Love” these songs have etched their way into the music landscape over the last 40+ years. The magik with a 'k' is that they've included three bonus tracks from the very early days, songs that were demoed and never made the final cut, being a 'love song' “Rosetta” written back in 1975 by Anderson and Rilens, “Snow Queen” and “Sweet Love Rock and Roll” penned by Ian Rilens.
ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, May 21, 2018 on PBS
For 40 years, the controversial community organizing group ACORN sought to empower marginalized communities. Its critics, though, believed ACORN exemplified everything wrong with liberal ideals, promoting government waste and ineffective activism. These competing perceptions exploded on the national stage in 2009, just as Barack Obama became president. Fueled by a YouTube video made by undercover journalists, ACORN's very existence would be challenged. Produced and directed by Reuben Atlas and Sam Pollard, ACORN and the Firestorm goes beyond the 24-hour news cycle and cuts to the heart of the great political divide. The film premieres on Independent Lens Monday, May 21, 2018, 10:00-11:30 PM (check local listings) on PBS.
Wonkybot Studios Releases SPOOKY TROOP
Wonkybot Studios has released the children and family audio adventure story album Spooky Troop: The Last Halloween in digital format, immediately available today at Wonkybot.com, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and other retailers. Physical copies of the album can also be pre-ordered today, exclusively at wonkybot.com.
PHOTO FLASH: Look Inside Rehearsals with John Hannah in The Titanic Orchestra
Four tramps huddle together at an abandoned railway station, full of vodka-fuelled dreams of escaping on one of the passing trains. But the trains never stop. Until one day, a dishevelled stranger is thrown into their midst. He claims to be the great illusionist Harry Houdini, and promises that together they will perform the most astonishing vanishing act the world has ever seen.
VIDEO: Stephen Gives Primer on Crimea on COLBERT
On last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central, Stephen gives a primer on Crimea, Republicans blame Obama for the Ukraine crisis, Steve King defends Arizona's anti-gay bill, and Jaron Lanier talks 'Who Owns the Future?'
Representative Steve King Isn't Worried About Bill Maher's Threat to Oust Someone in 2014
In a recent interview with the New York Times, comedian Bill Maher talks about the plan for his show, Real Time With Bill Maher, to ask viewers to make the case as to why their representatives in Congress are the worst in the United States. They then will choose one member of Congress and begin to point out all of the bad things they've done, and Maher will even make trips to the member's district to perform stand-up and criticize and spread more ill feelings towards the member.