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A Kids-Eye View  - Actors Get Silly But Bring Good Message For Children's Theater Trevor Wilhelms, 20, plays Toad in the JMU      Children's Playshop production of
by Elizabeth Rome

In the 15 years since he helped establish James Madison University's Children's Playshop, Bill Buck has watched the summer stock theater come full circle. "I've seen children who came the first year now going to college," said Buck, director of JMU's School of Theatre and Dance. "Entire families ...


 
Valley Fest Returns With 10 Wineries, Music, Kids' Activities 
by Rachel Bowman

Valley Fest 2008, the Shenandoah Valley's eighth annual Beer and Wine Festival, returns May 24 to kick off the Memorial Day weekend.

Sponsored by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce and NewBridge Bank, this celebration of Virginia wines and microbrews runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p. ...


 
Comic Ballet Back By Popular Demand 

After a five-year hiatus, Rockingham Ballet Theatre has revived its production of "Coppélia." The ballet, a comic tale of mistaken identities, presents the heroine, Swanhilda, with a dilemma: What to do when her fiancé falls in love with a living doll?

On the eve of their we ...


 
 
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  • McEntire says she has more fun hosting ACM Awards
    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards this weekend. Over the years, she says she's gained more ease hosting the event....


  • Signs point to imminent Simpson-Wentz wedding
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web sites, credited to the Insight News & Features paparazzi photo agency, purport to show the Simpson family home near Los Angeles dotted with large white party tents....


  • DeGeneres, de Rossi engaged after Calif. ruling
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," telling the studio audience the news that the California Supreme Court had struck down state laws against gay marriage....


  • Marcia Cross drops a few hints about Bree's future
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's true: "Desperate Housewives" will flash-forward five years....


  • What's Indy up to? Secrecy shrouds `Crystal Skull'
    CANNES, France (AP) -- Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings....


  • Moore: `Fahrenheit 9/11' follow-up is not a sequel
    CANNES, France (AP) -- With his follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore wants to examine America as an empire, study its standing since the Sept. 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did....


  • Daytime's 'The View' to go backstage for 1 show
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Daytime's "The View" will rerun one of its shows in two weeks from an entirely different view that lets fans know a little about what goes on backstage....


  • Eva Longoria Parker: not a fashion diva at home
    CANNES, France (AP) -- Eva Longoria Parker gets to play dress-up at the Cannes Film Festival - and she doesn't even have to pack her own suitcase....


  • Sarah Jessica Parker: She's not a slave to fashion
    BERLIN (AP) -- Sarah Jessica Parker says she's not a slave to fashion like her "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw....


  • Judge denies media motion in R. Kelly trial
    CHICAGO (AP) -- A judge has denied a motion from news organizations seeking immediate access to sealed court records and transcripts in the R. Kelly child pornography trial....


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Review: `Garcia Girls' is low budget but lovely

James Frey emerges, with a novel about LA

Review: New `Narnia' is both darker and funnier

`Frames' is something of a departure for Loren D. Estleman

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Moore: `Fahrenheit 9/11' follow-up is not a sequel
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CANNES, France (AP) -- With his follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore wants to examine America as an empire, study its standing since the Sept. 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did....

Eva Longoria Parker: not a fashion diva at home
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CANNES, France (AP) -- Eva Longoria Parker gets to play dress-up at the Cannes Film Festival - and she doesn't even have to pack her own suitcase....

Sarah Jessica Parker: She's not a slave to fashion
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BERLIN (AP) -- Sarah Jessica Parker says she's not a slave to fashion like her "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw....

What's Indy up to? Secrecy shrouds `Crystal Skull'
AP Photo
CANNES, France (AP) -- Indiana Jones doesn't give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings....

Actor John Phillip Law, angel in 'Barbarella,' dies at 70
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70....

Cannes balances glamor with `Blindness'
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Celebrity cast in Hollywood wiretapping case
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Seven famous faces associated with Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano's racketeering case:...

Super publicist Warren Cowan dies in Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Warren Cowan, one of the last of the super publicists who helped make Hollywood the glamour capital of the world, has died. He was 87....

Cannes: animated documentary recounts war horrors
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CANNES, France (AP) -- It's an animated documentary - which is perhaps a contradiction in terms....

Fur flies at `Kung Fu Panda' premiere at Cannes
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McEntire says she has more fun hosting ACM Awards
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- After wrapping up a successful concert tour, you'd think Reba McEntire would want to take some time off to relax. Instead, the tireless country star is preparing for her 10th turn as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards this weekend. Over the years, she says she's gained more ease hosting the event....

Signs point to imminent Simpson-Wentz wedding
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DeVotchKa creates `big drunken tuba party'
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INDIO, Calif. (AP) -- Asked if his band's performance in an hour's time will include any theatrics, Nick Urata warns: "There will be some death-defying feats of glory."...

Judge denies media motion in R. Kelly trial
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CHICAGO (AP) -- A judge has denied a motion from news organizations seeking immediate access to sealed court records and transcripts in the R. Kelly child pornography trial....

`American Idol' concert tour will start July 1
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Whether it's David Archuleta or David Cook who wins "American Idol" next week, both singers will be part of the show's annual concert tour....

New `Ballo' production aims to shock and inspire
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BERLIN (AP) -- A new staging of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" has been retooled for shock value, moving the setting to the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center and inserting liberal doses of flabby flesh and Hitler in drag....

Taylor Hicks to play Teen Angel in Broadway's `Grease'
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Taylor Hicks is going from "Idol" to "Angel."...

Country star Shania Twain, husband splitting up
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Rapper DMX enters not guilty plea
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PHOENIX (AP) -- DMX has pleaded not guilty to felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges....

`Lohengrin' cheered in Geneva after opening-night boos
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GENEVA (AP) -- Daniel Slater's new production of "Lohengrin" wasn't necessarily vintage Wagner, but it deserves praise as a thoughtful and tasteful take on the medieval legend - and certainly none of the boos it received on opening night....

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