The Stage Whisperer

It looks like the band Lonestar is going to be only one degree of separation from the actor Kevin Bacon, maybe one and a half. While Kevin’s and his brother’s band, The Bacon Brothers, plays in Ocean City, New Jersey, Lonestar will be across town headlining the famed Harvest Festival of Atlantic City.
Lonestar gets the [...]

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The season of the Peninsula Symphony begins Sunday, October 26, at 7pm at Rolling Hills Covenant Church, at 2222 PV Drive North in Rolling Hills Estates.

The first guest conductor of the season, Andrew Shulman, will present Mozart’s Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with guest soloist [...]

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The Sunday, October 26 performance of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” at Torrance’s Armstrong Theatre has sold out, according to Ray Solley, the Executive Director of the Torrance Cultural Arts Center Foundation (TorranceArts), which presents the series of family programs at the Armstrong.
Though the classic tale, presented by the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, is not [...]

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I don’t know what’s more intriguing: the spelling of Qatar; their “leading English Daily,” the Peninsula; or, the country’s love of The Celtic Tenors.
In any case, you can check out all three phenomena here. You probably won’t need any further inducement than the endorsement by Qatar’s leading English Daily, so here is the link to [...]

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We happened to stop in at Inge’s, in Riviera Village, not just for the delightful music or the inspiringly spirited conversation with Inge herself, or even to watch her do her magic as “the professor of fashion” in the South Bay, the way she can just look at you and decide what outfit would make [...]

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Can you be light about such things as gravity?
The Kingston (Mass.) Reporter thinks so and says that Garry Krinsky proves it. His Toying with Science show (the name is a good clue) wowed the students, they say. “… part mime, part circus act and a whole lot of humor. Each laugh came with a lesson [...]

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An excellent piece on Lonestar appears on the reputable blog BC (BlogCritics) by a talented 17-year-old. Check it out both for a great music blogsite and for interesting tidbits on one of your favorite bands.
By the way, it should be noted that Lonestar is playing at the Armstrong Theatre in Torrance on the 45th anniversary [...]

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Lesley Gore is playing Halloween at the Met — as in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art — and the NYC assortment of gossip, news, celebrity, retro and just plain blogs are agog.

Her show, “It’s Still My Party,” has been praised by everyone from nyc.com to Gay [...]

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Noted South Bay folk/rock artist Stan Dewitt is performing in a benefit for Breast Cancer Angels, at Riviera United Methodist Church, 375 Palos Verdes Blvd. in Redondo Beach, on Friday, October 10, at 8pm.
The Breast Cancer Angels return 100 percent of all donations to helping women currently in treatment.
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Aye, they’ve sung round the world but you know that when it comes to singing their hearts out, this is where the Celtic Tenors leave nothing behind — Church of the Assumption, in Tullamore, Ireland.

According to the Offaly Express (is the pun there intended, you think?), the Tenors packed them in on behalf of Tullamore [...]

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