Nick Pearson

She saved them from the cut. Britney Spears’ viral knife dancing video reportedly saved a struggling prop shop in Los Angeles after fans rushed to buy the fake blades. According to the manager of the Hand Prop Room, online purchases and calls to the shop have doubled since the “Toxic” singer name-dropped them on Instagram. […]

Streaming has revolutionized the music industry in countless ways, including how songs are penned, the Wall Street Journal says. Hit songs are being written to keep pace with how sites like Spotify track success and pay artists, resulting in shorter tracks. The Journal cites analysis from blogger Michael Tauberg, who concludes that hit songs […]

Kris Aquino. Image: Instagram/@krisaquino Kris Aquino insisted that she is “not in a relationship” with anyone and she now “feels more peaceful” in the company of her sons Josh and Bimby. Without disclosing any names, Aquino took to her Instagram to reiterate what she said last July that she ended her relationship with Batangas vice governor […]

Nicole Borromeo. Image by Danilo Factor

Were you Seen at the Art of Music, a Season Preview Performance presented by Albany Pro Musica on Oct. 1, 2023, at Saratoga Arts in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.? Photo by Joe Putrock/Special to the Times Union Were you Seen at the Art of Music, a Season Preview Performance presented by Albany Pro Musica, at Saratoga Arts […]

(From left) Kim Chiu, Maricel Soriano. Images: Gee Plamenco Jr. via Instagram/@chinitaprincess, Instagram/@niceprintphoto Kim Chiu couldn’t help but fangirl over Maricel Soriano, saying getting slapped by the Diamond Star onscreen is a “dream come true” for her as an actress. At a branch launch recently, Chiu happily declared that she finally got to experience what […]

The Rhinebeck photographer’s collaborative art approach takes his clients out of the studio, where they aren’t wearing matching sweaters, uncomfortable smiles and overly coifed dos in front of a green screen. Instead, they’re in the woods acting out surreal scenes from great painters, wearing ski gear on a fake slope in their yard, or having […]

Tom Hanks has told fans to beware of a computer-generated Tom Hanks that has been promoting a dental plan. “There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it,” the actor wrote in an Instagram post, sharing a screenshot of the fake […]

Comment on this storyComment With a jeweler’s precision, Edgar Allan Poe forged a succinct masterpiece in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a story of madness and violence that runs a mere five or so pages. Would that such conciseness prevailed in Synetic Theater’s adaptation of the 1843 work. Although objectively shortish — about 110 minutes — and […]

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Barrington Stage Company finishes a stellar season with its final mainstage offering, an insightful and nuanced production of “English,” which ran off-Broadway last year and five months ago won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It’s also a pleasure to see that Barrington Stage, which often achieves its reliable excellence with a regular stable of returning actors, […]