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Summer in Little Italy will officially start on Saturday, May 25, with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 12 Noon marking the opening of the Mulberry Street Pedestrian Mall, it was announced by Ralph Tramontana, President of the Little Ital Merchants Association which has operated the Mall since its creation 25 years ago.

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS: Jay Gatsby provides Daisy and Tom with a tour in The Great Gatsby .

MUCH is celebrating the long weekend with one of movie and TV's freshest actors ever.

Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch , who stars in the hit FOX television show GLEE as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, made her Broadway debut this week as tyrannical orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in Annie and BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the celebrations of her joining the show including cast members from GLEE who came to ... (more)

Not every crowdfunding attempt is going to be a raging success. Though "Veronica Mars" managed a Kickstarter project that garnered her $5.7 million in funding as an alternative to Hollywood funding, Melissa Joan Hart was unable to gain nearly so much, and ultimately failed to meet the stipulated goal.

The Guthrie today announced that eight artists who have graced the Guthrie's stages during its 50-year history, from the first season in 1963 to the theater's current season, are slated to participate in the Guthrie's 50th anniversary on June 22, 2013.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Yes, there was a commercial release - but you can't stop the bootleggers! Unless you were around in the late 1940s and early 1950s, you probably never heard of "Suspense." Originally created as a radio program, this half-hour anthology series was among the popular programs in the very early days of ... (more)

Less than a year before his death, Jimi Hendrix sent Paul McCartney a telegram inviting him to join a supergroup he was putting together, reports The Associated Press.

Conversations 'Bout the Girls is a provocative play that is quit delightful: 'Bout the Girls chronicles the lives of young girls and women and their relationships with their breasts, body image and world around them.

Email: info@innsbruckrecords.com Website: http://www.aldimeola.com Music: http://innsbruckrecords.com/al-dimeola/al-di-meola-and-i-love-her [...] Like millions of other American boys growing up during the 1960s, guitarist Al Di Meola was forever affected by seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show back in the era of black & white TV.

Critics ripped apart the new comedy, about a bickering elderly gay couple living in London, when it aired on ITV earlier this month, with reviewers branding it "lame" and "the least funny new comedy in recent memory". Viewing figures for the show have also significantly plummeted since it was first aired, but veteran star Jacobi is still convinced ... (more)

Outside of band camp, who would even care to imagine a parade with 76 trombones, much less one with 110 cornets on their heels? And yet when Robert Preston's professor Harold Hill paints the picture of that brass orgy in The Music Man , it's not just visible in your mind's eye; you tingle at the thought.

Dixon Place & The Apothetae present The Penalty, written by Clay McLeod Chapman and directed by Kris Thor, with music and lyrics by Robert M. Johanson and Clay McLeod Chapman .

Riding on a plane, sitting in a movie theater or while walking down Hollywood Boulevard, I couldn't believe I was in Los Angeles for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival.

Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez start in Proof of Life director Taylor Hackford's action-thriller about a professional thief seeking revenge on the gang of criminals that double-crossed him and left him for dead.

"Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon" is an awesome tribute to '80s action movies that are both hilarious and really fun to play.

Director, Subhash Ghai is planning on re-making 1983 blockbuster, Hero. The film will have two new faces, Aditya Pancholi's son, Sooraj Pancholi and Suniel Shetty's daughter, Athiya Shetty .

Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch , who stars in the hit FOXtelevision show "Glee" as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, will soon make her Broadway debut as tyrannical orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in Annie .

The final installment in the indie director's tragicomic trilogy will star Gemma Arterton, Parker Posey, Thomas J. Ryan and Liam Aiken.

The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci's Walk of Shame , which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 from 315 backers in a little over a month.