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‘The View’ Star To Host Dove Awards
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--“The View” co-host Sherri Shepherd has answered a call from a higher power: the Gospel Music Association.
Miss Shepherd will host the Dove Awards, and she said fans can expect “a hot night of Godly music and comedy” at Christian music’s annual celebration of voices raised in faith. [Read full story]
On Fox
‘Chicago Code’ Is Newest Cop Show to Hit Airwaves
NEW YORK--In the 1987 movie, “The Untouchables,” a tale about Chicago crime, cops and corruption penned by Windy City-born playwright David Mamet, a Canadian Mountie involved in a violent liquor raid, says to Al Capone foe Eliot Ness, “I do not approve of your methods!” [Read full story]
‘The Game’ Is a Winner, Helped by BET Loyalists
Sitcom Thrives When It Didn’t on Another Network
Sometimes, what a television show needs is a new neighborhood.
“The Game,” a situation-comedy about pro football players’ relationships with women, puttered along in obscurity for three years on the CW network. [Read full story]
The Marsalis Clan
America’s First Family of Jazz Presented Award
NEW YORK--America’s first family of jazz--patriarch Ellis Marsalis Jr. and four of his sons--were presented the nation’s highest jazz honor last week at the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony. [Read full story]
Three Events Held
Founders Day Celebrated by Local Fraternity Chapter
Three events were recently held to celebrate the founding of the Beta Eta Lambda chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
On Dec. 4, more than 200 attended the chapter’s Founders Day Dance at The Centre, which attracted fraternity members from the University of Central Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. [Read full story]
A Big Box
Johnson, an Overlooked
R&B Singer, Rediscovered
NEW YORK--Four years ago, Syl Johnson, a Chicago soul singer beloved by R&B purists but otherwise not well known today, was approached by the Numero Group, a small record label that wanted to reissue some of his music from the 1960’s and ’70’s. [Read full story]
Family Fun Featured On New Year’s Eve
Set for Opening Night Downtown
Opening Night returns to downtown Oklahoma City on New Year’s Eve, and will again offer a night of family-friendly activities, including music performances, dance, theater and fireworks.
Festivities get underway at 7 p.m. and will continue until midnight. [Read full story]
Lithography Art Pieces On Exhibit
Through Feb. 20
Stone-drawn lithography by a Lawton artist is on exhibit at the State Capitol.
“A Time of Protection,” by Katheryn Liontas Warren, is on display at the North Gallery through Sunday, Feb. 20.
The exhibition may be viewed Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. and on weekends from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. [Read full story]
Isley Says Inspiration Hit Him in Prison Stint
Veteran Singer Releases First Solo Album Since ‘03
NEW YORK--For half a century, Ronald Isley Sr.’s crystalline voice has spurred millions to shout, twist, groove, fight the power and, above all, make babies between the sheets.
But it wasn’t until the leader of the Isley Brothers wound up in federal prison that he discovered another purpose for his “gift from God.” [Read full story]
Multi-Million Dollar Campaign
Winfrey Channel Is Gearing Up for It’s Debut
NEW YORK--In a one-minute ad that starts Friday in movie theaters across the country, the voice of the Black Eyed Peas front man, will.i.am, calls out to dreamers, believers and “tomorrow leaders.” [Read full story]
An Aggressive Tone
On New Album, Rihanna’s ‘Loud’
LOS ANGELES--Rihanna is a good girl who went bad a couple of albums ago, and she keeps getting naughtier all the time.
“Loud’s” pulsating opener, “S&M,” makes it clear from the jump where she’s headed as she acknowledges that “chains and whips excite me.” [Read full story]
Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
Rivers, Wilson, Frank, Schifrin, Others to Be Inducted
TULSA--Sam Rivers, Joe Lee Wilson, Artt Frank and Lalo Schifrin will be among the 10 to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame next week. [Read full story]
Stars Connect
‘Colored Girls’ Movie Features Talent Rainbow
NEW YORK--At a chic Manhattan art gallery, the stars of Tyler Perry’s new film, “For Colored Girls,” have gathered to check out filmed portraits of their screen characters, and to check each other out in the flesh. [Read full story]
She’s With Child
Singer Looks Ahead to The
Next Stage in Eventful Life
NEW YORK--Don’t expect to see less of Mariah Carey now that she’s pregnant.
“Actually,” the singer quipped, “I suppose that you’ll be seeing more of me….when you see me.”
The singer laughs easily, shortly after confirming what had long been rumored: that she is, at 40, expecting her first child.[Read full story]
‘Driving Miss Daisy’ Revisited
Playwright, Actor and Old Friend Invoke ‘Hoke’
NEW YORK--It’s two hours before curtain at the John Golden Theater, where the first Broadway production of “Driving Miss Daisy”--the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that became an Oscar-winning film--is in previews.
And in leading man James Earl Jones’ modest-sized dressing room, several me are sharing space with a very distinguished ghost. [Read full story]
