Arts and Music and Entertainment
Coverage of the arts and music plus entertainment, movies, theater, things to do.
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For a blink of an eye, Barbara Eden will be in Clearwater
Arts / Entertainment Jeannie will star with Hal Linden in ‘Love Letters’ at the Capitol Theatre By Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times / March 7, 2019 PHOTO: Bill Daily, Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman and Hayden Rorke star in ‘I Dream of Jeannie.’ (Photo from Sony Pictures) “She did what?” It was the reaction a…
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‘Restrepo’ director Junger, in Tampa tonight, talks war and journalism
News / Military By Howard Altman / Tampa Bay Times / September 21, 2016 PHOTO: For their 2010 documentary Restrepo, Sebastian Junger, left, and Tim Hetherington documented the experiences of a small group of soldiers at an outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Hetherington later was killed in Libya. (AP Photo/Outpost Films, Tim Hetherington) Author and…
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Kristin Beck film tells ex-SEAL’s transgender story
Kristin Beck says that in February 2013 she was beat up in Ybor City, sucker-punched from behind for being transgender. It wasn’t the first time that Beck, a decorated former Navy SEAL, ever got into a scrape. During her 20 years in uniform, Beck did 13 combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, serving along the…
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Sinise playing Lt. Dan Band concert in Tampa to help vets
For years, Gary Sinise has been known as much for his efforts to help veterans as for his acting. At 7 tonight in Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Sinise, who starred in “Apollo 13” and “Forrest Gump,” brings his Lt. Dan Band to Tampa to kick off a concert series aimed at raising money to build…
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Musician, 95, Has His Mojo Working
Pinetop Perkins continues to astound with his blues chops TAMPA — Halfway through a rocking first set by the Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin band, the old blues man in the red suit and red fedora was helped up to the stage and eased into the seat in front of the Yamaha keyboards. Ambulating was the…
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Trio Of Ethnic Comedians Mocks Middle East For Laughs
TAMPA — In the Middle East, more strife between Palestinians and Israelis, more trouble in Iraq, and, oh yeah, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made headlines by announcing he was thinking about visiting ground zero in New York. Bad news for the world, perhaps. But fodder for Maz Jobrani. “It’s just like the news,” says Jobrani, a veteran…
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Avril Has Something For All 7,000 At Amphitheatre
TAMPA — Gone was the raccoon makeup. Gone was the trademark tie and the arm socks. Gone was the dark, pouty princess of the moody, broody, blues vibe. The Avril Lavigne who showed up at the Ford Amphitheatre on Saturday night in a gray tank top and blue jeans was a full-on sultry, blond rocker…