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Churches wrestle with musical worship choices
On a recent Wednesday evening, the band began to play. Dean Brusnighan sat at a table in the back of the room at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in West Lafayette. At times he clapped. During other moments, he mouthed the lyrics intently. His eyes closed tightly as he sung ...
Museum hopes 'Star Wars' exhibit draws thousands
Sit in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon Interactive Experience, perhaps in a front seat usually reserved for Han Solo or Chewbacca, and you won't be thrown into a deep space dogfight with Imperial TIE fighters. Instead of fantastic battle, fact-based exploration is the theme. Anthony Daniels — voice of ...
Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past
The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip. This Memorial Day weekend, the hulking metal come-ons are once again glinting and shimmering at night. The Neon Museum, where ...
A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes
Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival. The festival, he says, is "for snobs," and when he meets a reporter from his native land, he exhales, "It's so nice to hear an American." To him, Cannes isn't ...
Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival
After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or. The prestigious award, given to the best film in competition, will be handed out Sunday night, decided upon by a jury headed by ...
Prison is forced sabbatical for leader of Mo. band
A popular Grateful Dead tribute band from Missouri is taking a sabbatical — the result of a 30-month prison sentence for the lead singer. Jimmy Tebeau founded the Schwag in 1991. He's headed to prison next week after pleading guilty to a federal drug charge, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported ...
A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes
For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from classic American films (Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation") to European classics (Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"). Ahead of Sunday's presentation of ...
Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes
"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript — a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about. Rasoulof is also Iranian, his movies are banned in his homeland and he's been sentenced to jail ...
Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools
Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a ...
Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 'GRIGRIS' ENTRY IN CANNES BRINGS PRIDE TO AFRICAN NATION OF CHAD Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun stirred up some emotion and national pride when he premiered his new movie "Grigris," at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The filmmaker, who ...
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