SAN ANTONIO – Heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden announced a U.S. tour for 2024, and that includes a stop in San Antonio. Iron Maiden will play at the Frost Bank Center on Nov. 17, 2024. Tickets for “The Future Past Tour” will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 3 at FrostBankCenter.com and … Read more
NEW YORK – The fallout from the actors strike, now past 100 days, has been widespread throughout the film industry. Movies large and small have postponed. Sound stages remain shuttered. Adjacent industries have been devastated. Another effect is that some great performances haven’t gotten the attention they deserve. For most movies, actors haven’t been able … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Taylor Swift’s reimagined “1989” is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era — revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance. Released in 2014 and named for her birth year, the original “1989” signified a sonic rebirth. Swift had shed the Nashville country roots of her … Read more
ABUJA – Africa’s fashion industry is growing rapidly to meet local and international demand but inadequate investment limits its potential, UNESCO said Thursday in a report released during Lagos Fashion Week. Currently valued at $15.5 billion worth of exports annually, the earnings from the continent’s fashion industry could triple over a decade with the right … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Not so long before her platinum-selling single “Tennessee Orange” became inescapable on country radio, this year scoring Megan Moroney her first-ever CMA nominations (song of the year and artist of the year), the up-and-comer was attending the University of Georgia. The life of a country musician? It wasn’t supposed to happen. “It … Read more
ATHENS – Finishing her class at The Juilliard School of the arts in New York, Greek opera great Maria Callas gave her students a final word of advice. “Keep on going the proper way: Not with fireworks, not with easy applause, but with the expression of the words, the diction, and to really feel what … Read more
NEW YORK – Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release next week of what is promised to be the last “new” Beatles song. The track, called “Now And Then,” will be available Thursday, Nov. 2, as part of a single paired … Read more