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Chicago Tribune
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Community news: Jazz enzemble, native plant sale, kindergarten roundup, health fair
Chesterton High School hosts All That Jazz Chesterton High School will host its 52nd Annual All That Jazz, an annual jazz festival at 7 p.m. Saturday in the CHS Auditorium, 2125 S. 11th Street in Chesterton. Enjoy an evening of music performed by Chesterton High School's Jazz Ensemble, with special guests Bonzo Squad. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Friends of Indiana Dunes Native Plant Sale is Saturday The Friends of Indiana Dunes 29th Annual Native Plant Sale takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Friends' office, at 1000 West Oak Hill Road in Porter. The sale is just north of Indiana Dunes National Park's Chellberg Farm. There is ample parking in the adjacent lot or immediately to the north at Indiana Dunes National Park's headquarters complex. Admission is free, and more than 80 native plant species will be for sale. Porter County seeks applicants for library board The Porter County Council is seeking citizen applicants for position(s) on the Library Board of Trustees, a four-year appointment. Individuals interested in being considered can obtain an application at the Porter County Council office, 155 Indiana Ave., Suite 207, Valparaiso, or online at under the Citizen Board Appointments tab. Depending on the vacancy, certain requirements, such as residency, and/or certain political party affiliation, must be met to qualify for a particular appointment. Applications must be received via post, email at council@ or in person no later than 4:30 p.m. June 16. The Council will make the appointments at the June 24 Council meeting at 5:30 p.m. Valparaiso announces Compost Awareness Week The city of Valparaiso has proclaimed the first full week of May as International Compost Awareness Week. Valpo Parks has partnered with Porter County Recycling & Waste Reduction for a pilot program to promote composting. Through the program, residents may bring their compostable food and garden waste to the Farmers Market (beginning June 3 for the 2025 season) at Central Park Plaza, 63 Lafayette St. on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. The materials are collected and composted at a Valpo Parks site. Last year the program collected more than 8,000 pounds of organic waste, diverting it from the landfill. Call for teen summer reading volunteers Several branches of the Lake County Public Library need teen Summer Reading volunteers to help throughout the programs. Teens will earn volunteer hours toward their silver card. Those interested will need their parents' permission and must attend an orientation session to participate. Register for the Dyer-Schererville orientation on May 14 at or on May 17 at The following branches will host one-on-one orientations. Call or visit your branch to register: Griffith-Calumet Twp., 219-838-2825; Hobart, 219-942-2243; Lake Station-New Chicago, 219-962-2409; or Merrillville, 219-769-3541. Register for the Munster orientation on May 13 at on May 21 at or May 29 at Register for the St. John orientation on May 19 at or on May 28 at Cedar Lake and Highland branches will not need teen volunteers this year; teens from those branches are welcome to sign up at other branches. Ivy Tech Lake County to celebrate graduation Ivy Tech Community College's Lake County campus will celebrate Commencement ceremonies at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Dean and Barbara White Community Center, 6600 Broadway, Merrillville. Ivy Tech Lake County's Class of 2025 includes approximately 1,200 graduates earning more than 1,600 degrees and certificates during the 2024-2025 academic year. The event will be live-streamed on the campus Facebook page, which can be accessed at or @IvyTechLakeCounty. Gary Community School Corporation to host Kindergarten Round-Up Gary Community School Corporation will host their Annual Kindergarten Round-Up from 1 to 3 p.m. May 14 at the Bethune Early Childhood Development Center, 2367 E. 21st Ave., Gary. Registration for kindergarten is now open to all children who will turn 5 years old on or before Aug. 1, 2025. In addition, those who will be age 3 or 4 will have the opportunity to register for Bethune Early Childhood Development for the 2025-2026 school year. Highlights will include: meeting principals, teachers and staff from elementary schools across the city; information sessions about programs and resources; on-site registration for kindergarten; and family-friendly activities and refreshments. The F.A.C.E. (Family and Community Engagement) team will be onsite to help with registration for all grades Pre-K through 12th for the 2025-2026 school year as well. Be sure to bring the following documents: parent/guardian ID; birth certificate; proof of residency (Gary residency not required); and updated immunization record. For more information about the Kindergarten round-up, contact the Bethune Early Childhood Development Center at 219-886-6542. To enroll your child in any of the Gary Schools, visit Gary Mizpah Health Ministries to host health fair Gary Mizpah Health Ministries will host a health fair from noon to 4 p.m. May 18 at the Hudson and Campbell Sports and Fitness Center, 455 Massachusetts, Gary. The event will include free blood pressure checks, home health information, blood sugar checks and refreshments. Be sure to bring your insurance information for on-site diagnostic testing, interpretation and free faxing. For more information, call 219-301-9722. New Beginnings Clubhouse hosts 5K Color Run fundraiser In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, New Beginnings Clubhouse will host 'Stomp Out the Stigma,' a 5K Color Run Fundraiser, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 24 at the Lake County Fairgrounds, Shelter No. 4 Pavilion East, 889 S. Court St., Crown Point. The 5K is open to all ages. Register at Proceeds from the event will benefit New Beginnings Clubhouse in Merrillville. New Beginnings offers people living with mental illness opportunities for community, employment, housing, education and access to medical psychiatric services. More information can be found at or call 219-794-1004.
Japan Times
31-03-2025
- Sport
- Japan Times
Kaori Sakamoto breathes sigh of relief after world championships
Following last year's ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Kaori Sakamoto seemed invincible. This season, which culminated with the worlds in Boston last week, proved otherwise. Sakamoto, whose gold in Montreal marked her third straight world title, already appeared to be vulnerable before her arrival in Boston, losing three out of her five previous international competitions coming into the event. There was also considerable expectation on her shoulders that she would capture her fourth title in a row, something last achieved in 1960 by American Carol Heiss. In the short program, it looked like the pressure was proving to be too much for the five-time Japanese champion. In the second half of her routine, she popped a planned triple flip into a double. The experienced Sakamoto had the presence of mind to add a triple toe loop onto the end of the combination and although she was slightly off the leading pace, she was still within striking distance for a medal. Whether she could climb back to the top of the podium, however, was out of her hands going into the free skate, as a comeback would require mistakes from those ahead of her. Sakamoto didn't go down quietly. She produced her best free skate of the season, performing to "All That Jazz" from the musical 'Chicago,' and received a standing ovation. It wasn't quite enough, however, to put her on top, and she had to settle for second place behind an unheralded rival. After taking a bronze medal at the 2022 world championships, which took place after the Beijing Olympics earlier in the year, American Alysa Liu hung up her skates at age 16, feeling she had achieved all she could in skating. There was nothing to suggest Liu would be a contender in Boston after only announcing her return to skating in March last year. She was no longer attempting the triple axel and quadruple jumps that she had done in her junior years, and at last month's Four Continents Championships, she finished fourth and was not even the leading American. However, while her more favored teammate Amber Glenn and Sakamoto faltered in the short program, Liu skated cleanly and repeated that feat in the free, performing to none other than Bostonian disco legend Donna Summer's 'MacArthur Park,' on her way to becoming the first American woman since Kimmie Meissner in 2006 to take gold at worlds. After the event, Sakamoto reflected on the emotional challenge of defending her title. 'Before the performance, I was just so nervous,' she said. 'I felt like I was about to cry even on the bus to the venue. I was so nervous that my coach asked me, 'Why do you look like you're about to cry?' I felt like I was about to cry at any moment. "It's a cruel world. Even if you win, you can't be happy." Kaori Sakamoto earned a silver medal at the world championships, finishing behind American Alysa Liu. | Imagn Images / VIA REUTERS Heading into an Olympic year, her defeat could be something of a blessing in disguise. Sakamoto will no longer carry the weight of being the overwhelming favorite for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. While disappointed by the loss, she also felt relief that her streak was over, and that she could start fresh, unburdened by such lofty expectations. "Until now, all the talk was about consecutive victories and winning the championship, but it is great to be back to zero and in a position to chase,' she said. 'It was good to experience that at this world championship. I'm a little bit relieved. The pressure was so big." Overall, the Japanese women had an excellent worlds, with Mone Chiba finishing behind Sakamoto in third place, and their combined ranking easily qualifying Japan for three quota places at next year's Olympics. Teammate Wakaba Higuchi placed sixth. Looking at the results of these worlds alone, the battle for medals in Milan would seem to be between the Japanese and American women. However, in December the International Skating Union, figure skating's governing body, announced that Independent Neutral Athletes (AINs) from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to participate in the final Olympic qualifier, to be held in Beijing in September. Those respective national federations will be allowed to nominate one entry in each category for the event. While Russian skaters have not been able to compete internationally due to a ban following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, there is still a wealth of talent in the country. The nominated athlete in the women's event is likely to be 17-year-old Adeliia Petrosian, a two-time Russian champion who possesses an arsenal of quadruple jumps that will be hard for any other female skater to match. Japan's only gold of this year's worlds came courtesy of Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, who regained the pairs title they lost last year in Montreal. The silver medalists in the Olympic team event in 2022 had a cushion of just under three points over reigning European champions Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin after the short program. Miura and Kihara made a number of minor errors in their free skate, but the Japanese did just enough to hold off the Germans by less than a point overall. Like Sakamoto and the other Japanese women, they will also face a strong AIN pair from Russia at the Olympics. 'Despite the mistakes, we were able to get a new season's best, which shows that there is still room for more growth moving forward,' Miura said. 'We've been through a lot of injuries and hardships over the past two years, so although we had several minor mistakes today, I'm glad the two of us were able to clinch this title together.' The final evening of this year's worlds came with a measure of disappointment for Japanese hopes, with Yuma Kagiyama slumping to bronze, well off the mark set by American star Ilia Malinin. A personal best in the short program had put him in second place, three points behind the 'Quad God' going into the free skate. Unfortunately, Kagiyama's free skate was riddled with errors. Despite only placing 10th in the free, he had enough in hand from the short program to stay on the podium. For the upcoming Olympic season, Kagiyama knows he will need to step up his technical content if he is to contend with the likes of Malinin and Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov, who was second in Boston. "This season, my short program has improved a lot, but I couldn't put together my free program,' Kagiyama said. 'My practices before the world championships went well, and I was confident in my six-minute warmup and official practices, so I need to think about why I couldn't do it in the actual competition. "I tried not to feel anxious. I felt uncomfortable with the quadruple flip. After I missed the quadruple salchow, I thought I can't fail again, and my mind went blank. "Shaidrov can do unique combinations and the quadruple lutz. I want to incorporate the quadruple lutz into my performance." As with all the skaters at worlds, securing spots for next year's Olympics was at the front of his mind. "I wasn't thinking about my medal at all,' he said. 'Of course, the result was important, but all I was thinking about was whether we got three spots." Shun Sato finished sixth, which meant the combined ranking of the top two Japanese skaters was enough to guarantee three quota spots in the men's event in Milan. Tatsuya Tsuboi finished 21st.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sinitta joins Chicago UK & Ireland tour: Tickets available now
Pop legend Sinitta is heading back to the stage as she joins the cast of Chicago as Mama Morton in the 2025 UK and Ireland tour – and yes, we're already humming 'Cell Block Tango' (Cicero!). The 'So Macho' diva will bring her signature sass to the role across several dates, including Bournemouth, Canterbury, Norwich, Woking, Crawley and Glasgow. Also stepping into the spotlight is Strictly Come Dancing star Janette Manrara, who plays Roxie Hart at most venues. She's joined by Coronation Street fave Faye Brookes, returning for performances in Canterbury and Bristol. The role of silver-tongued lawyer Billy Flynn will be split between Olivier nominee Dan Burton, TV star Darren Day, and Strictly champ Kevin Clifton. Sinitta's casting sees her share Mama duties with powerhouse vocalist and Loose Women regular Brenda Edwards, who reprises the role in cities including Nottingham, Birmingham, Cardiff and Salford. The tour kicks off on 31 March at Bournemouth Pavilion and runs through to 30 August, with stops all over the country – including a London run at the New Wimbledon Theatre in June. Featuring iconic songs like 'All That Jazz', 'Razzle Dazzle' and 'Mister Cellophane', the multi award-winning Chicago is a tale of murder, fame and courtroom drama set in the roaring twenties – a time when a gal could get away with anything if she had the right PR. Which, let's face it, Sinitta definitely does. For tickets and the full list of dates and lineups, visit the UK and Ireland tour website. Monday 31 March – Saturday 5 AprilPavilion Theatre, Monday 7 – Saturday 12 AprilRoyal Concert Hall, Monday 14 – Saturday 19 AprilThe Alexandra, Monday 21 – Saturday 26 AprilHall for Cornwall, Tuesday 29 April – Saturday 3 MayVenue Cymru, Monday 5 – Saturday 10 MayWales Millennium Centre, Monday 12 – Saturday 17 MayMarlowe Theatre, Monday 19 – Saturday 24 MayBristol Monday 9 – Saturday 14 JuneNew Wimbledon Theatre, Monday 16 – Saturday 21 JuneCurve, Monday 23 – Saturday 28 JuneGrand Theatre, Monday 30 June – Saturday 5 JulyHull New Monday 7 – Saturday 12 JulyCongress Theatre, Monday 14 – Saturday 19 JulyTheatre Royal, Monday 21 – Saturday 26 JulyWinter Gardens, Monday 28 July – Saturday 2 AugustNew Victoria Theatre, Monday 4 – Saturday 9 AugustSunderland Monday 11 – Saturday 16 AugustHawth Theatre, Monday 18 – Saturday 23 AugustKing's Theatre, Monday 25 – Saturday 30 AugustThe Lowry, The post Sinitta joins Chicago UK & Ireland tour: Tickets available now appeared first on Attitude.
Boston Globe
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
They're young. They're hip. They love ... DVDs?
'I created a monster,' says the elder Agostino, 55, who began the collection when DVDs were new on the scene. 'We do get teased a lot for our physical media because everybody thinks we're dinosaurs.' But while some of these dinosaurs lived through the asteroid crash of streaming, a new generation has emerged from the amber, Jurassic Park- style. Even while streaming services were fundamentally upending the entertainment industry, an ardent community of cinephiles and collectors keep scouring Goodwill bins and secondhand stores for their favorite flicks or underseen masterpieces that aren't available to stream. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up And there's a lot not available, seemingly more every week: David Lynch's Wild at Heart, Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid, Ron Howard's Cocoon, and one of my favorite movie musicals, Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, can't even be rented on demand. Advertisement If your only way of seeing movies is by streaming, it's as if they never existed. Among the most passionate collectors are film's younger fans: twenty- and thirtysomethings who fondly look back on the waning days of Blockbuster and portable DVD players, feel fatigued by endless scrolling on algorithmic-driven and ad-ridden streaming services, and want to watch their favorite films when they want, without fear of them dropping from their subscribed platforms, or, worse, disappearing from the internet forever. When I put out a call looking for collectors to interview, I received messages from nearly three dozen Gen-Z and millennial enthusiasts. Among them: Salem Ross, 21, with upward of 150 films in Wakefield; Cam McGrath, 25, has somewhere between 300 to 400 discs in Haverhill; and Jared Rose, 28, who has more than 3,500 DVDs at his home in Gloucester. Advertisement 'The whole process of it, the ritual of putting in and out of a DVD, is very different,' says Justyn Ferguson, 26, who has about 150 films hoarded in his Brighton studio apartment. Justyn Ferguson with some of his favorite DVDs. George Annan Jr. for the Boston GLobe Young people are also 'It's clearly a moment,' says Sean Fennessey, co-host of the popular podcast The Big Picture who has become a self-described ambassador for physical media. 'I think film is getting smaller, but film fandom is getting more intense.' I'm one of those twentysomethings who, over the years, has forked over hundreds of dollars to build my own library of DVDs, Blu-Rays, and 4K discs. Movies have always been important to me: As a toddler, I called incessantly for 'Dogs,' the name I gave Lady and the Tramp, and when I was slightly older I couldn't go on a trip longer than an hour without a portable DVD player. But it was in high school when I realized that movies could be so much more than entertainment or spectacle — when I saw what cinema could really do. I agree with Rob Newton, the managing director of Cape Ann Community Cinema in Rockport, who calls film the 'perfect art form.' Advertisement 'When it's great, it's unforgettable,' says Newton, who also runs a video store called HelpFlix. 'And I want to be able to relive that feeling whenever I want.' When I began collecting, around 2015, streaming was already well established. It promised us a better future for entertainment: For just a small fee each month, sans ads, you were treated to a seemingly endless supply of films — and television shows, which could now be binged in a sitting. It hasn't exactly worked out that way. Particularly after the pandemic, the experience of watching movies has, for millions of people, become an experience increasingly confined to the TV in the living room, a laptop propped up on the bed, or on a smartphone, well, anywhere. The industry has matured so much that beyond the giant streaming services such as Netflix, there are well-curated libraries including the Criterion Channel and Kanopy, the latter of which is offered through thousands of public libraries. And if those are too mainstream for you, Mubi will gladly take your money. So will Shudder and Crunchyroll and Acorn TV. But in the glut of our current streaming landscape, titles come and go. There's no knowing how long certain films will live on streaming services, even if that Advertisement 'The realization that the internet's not forever has really sunk in for some people, and that things are going to vanish,' says Kevin Koppes, who owns Jamaica Plain's The VU, Boston's only video rental store. 'There was a time you were buying things on the internet and you felt that you owned those things.' The rationale for collecting ranges from the practical to the apocalyptic. What if we experienced a 'digital dark age,' wonders Jasmyn Choi, a Cambridge resident who has upward of 50 physical films. 'It'll be like the next burning of the Library of Alexandria.' Jared Rose with his film collection at home in Gloucester. George Annan Jr. for the Boston GLobe I didn't start out buying my favorite movies on disc to prepare for the apocalypse — though thankfully I can now watch Denis Villeneuve's Arrival as I wait for our own aliens to come. For me, watching a movie on a physical disc approaches a ritual: selecting a movie, taking it out of its case, hearing the hum of the disc drive opening and closing. There are no mid-movie ads, no buffering pauses, no drops in resolution, no popup window at the end trying to get me to watch something else (or my worst nightmare, interrupting the crucial last scene of Psycho , as one user on X recently showed). There's no algorithm pushing me to watch more of what it thinks I want to watch. The credits roll and . . . exhale. Streaming's brief golden age promised us something miraculous, something better: a number of low-priced, ad-free platforms that could save you money after cutting cable with their rich library of media to choose from. But it was a bait and switch: Now, when I try to watch a 30-minute TV show or 90-minute movie, I'm seeing the same ads multiple times. It's worse than what I remember on cable. And while many streaming services still carry a rich selection of titles, there seem to be more and more titles made specifically for streaming that lack the intention behind movies made for the big screen, whether it's a genre film or Oscar hopeful. Advertisement When streaming feels like 'slop that you're just sort of fed on an algorithm,' Choi says, deciding to watch something intentionally 'gives a viewer so much empowerment.' It's also more social. 'You can sort of pawn them off — I have friends who aren't super big movie people, but I'll be like, 'You have to watch this movie,'' says Liesel Schroeder, 26, who works at the Scarborough, Maine, outpost of physical media retail chain Bull Moose and has well over 100 movies. 'You giving them the object sort of forces them to watch it, because they have to give it back to you.' While locations that sell physical films are dwindling — once-dominant chain Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010, and Best Buy and Target are among the retailers who have announced they would all but Many of the owners prioritize curation, highlighting underseen films or finding and selling one from boutique distributors such as the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, Arrow Video, and more. At HelpFlix, 'The section that you see first when you walk into the store is called 'seldom-streamed,'' manager Newton says. 'It's basically movies made before 1975. I think that's a segment of the population that all the streamers kind of ignore.' Many cinephiles were horrified to learn that at one point late last year, Netflix's oldest Hollywood movie was 1973's The Sting . Video store owners also see themselves as preservationists. While he can't be sure whether Netflix's library will remain the same next month, The VU owner Koppes knows that the collection he rents out will only grow. Taking care of these titles is not only important for collectors, he says, but for our own cultural history. The VU rental store in Jamaica Plain in 2022. Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe That's particularly important for films outside the mainstream, including foreign films, queer cinema, and more. At a time when lawmakers across the country are banning books, there's a real fear for a similar censorship of films. Some streaming services have even edited scenes of movies on their platforms, prompting outrage from fans. It's a significant worry for me too. Film brings us closer together. We can learn so much more about other people and places, and ourselves, by losing ourselves to movies that take us places we've never been. They also offer a kind of permanence to young people who feel that other kinds of stability are increasingly out of reach. 'I've never once in my life thought, Oh yeah, in the future, I'm gonna own a house, ' says Choi, the collector in Cambridge. 'So there's something so romantic and so dissonant with reality about owning and collecting DVDs.' Or, as one of my Gen-Z colleagues, Dana Gerber, put it, 'When the world ends, I still want to be able to watch The Wizard of Oz. ' Aidan Ryan can be reached at
CairoScene
09-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
‘Chicago' Broadway Musical is Bringing the Razzle Dazzle to Abu Dhabi
One of Broadway's greatest musicals will take over Abu Dhabi's Etihad Arena this September. May 02, 2024 It's time to Tap Dance to All That Jazz in Abu Dhabi! 'Chicago', the longest running American musical, will be staging a jailbreak at Etihad Arena this September. Renowned for its portrayal of passion, murder and the jazziest jail cells ever, the musical follows the intertwined journeys of two ambitious women – Roxie Hart, a chorus girl, and Velma Kelly, a former vaudeville star. The musical, featuring tunes like 'All That Jazz', 'Cell Block Tango' and 'Razzle Dazzle', has captivated audiences worldwide since its Broadway premiere 27 years ago. From New York to major cities such as London, Tokyo, Paris and Madrid, 'Chicago' will debut in the UAE for a limited run from September 12th to the 22nd.
