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Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Daughtry, Seether to rock Rose Music Center in October
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Two rock bands are heading to the Miami Valley to rock Huber Heights this fall. At 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 10, Daughtry and Seether will performing with Kami Kehoe and P.O.D. at Rose Music Center at The Heights in Huber Heights. Spotify shows 'Home,' 'It's Not Over' and 'Over You' as recognizable songs for Daughtry. The platform also lists 'Broken,' 'Fake It' and 'Fine Again' as songs Seether is best-known for. General sale tickets go on-sale June 6 at 10 a.m. To purchase tickets, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Yahoo
Mass. DCF seeks to block names of lawyers, others in Harmony Montgomery custody hearing
A Massachusetts agency aimed at keeping children safe from abuse and neglect has asked for a 'minor amendment' in the decision by that state's highest court to allow a documentary filmmaker access to audio recordings of a hearing after which Harmony Montgomery ended up in the custody of her father. The requested amendment is to require the redaction of all names, including those of lawyers, social workers and court personnel, 'due to safety concerns,' according to court documents obtained by the Union Leader. Several documents have been impounded. Harmony's father, Adam Montgomery, was convicted last year of beating the little girl to death about 10 months after he gained custody in February 2019. SJC Montgomery request The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted journalist Bill Lichtenstein of LC Media access to the audio of these hearings from February 2019, but the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families has since requested the court amend its order to redact the names. The court's original order only called for redaction of the names of other children, according to the ruling. Lichtenstein is working on a documentary called 'Broken,' a feature-length documentary on the failed child welfare, foster care and family court systems in Massachusetts and nationally. Limited information on what happened in the hearing, held in Essex Juvenile Court, has been released in multiple reports. The hearing focused on Adam Montgomery's fitness as a parent, the ruling read. Montgomery had a violent past and was incarcerated at the time of Harmony's birth. In her request for further redactions, Kristin Braithwaite, assistant general counsel for the Mass. DCF, said interest in the case had presented itself 'in the form of anger and threats,' and the key participants did not willingly accept publicity. 'The juvenile court judge who presided over the hearing in question has attested to receiving multiple threats upon his identity being learned of by the public,' she said. The Committee for Public Counsel Services has filed a similar request, which is impounded. Braithwaite argued the release of the names will not provide information to help prevent a future tragedy. 'Impounding these names will not limit the impact or efficacy of this court's order,' Braithwaite said Lichtenstein's attorney, Jennifer Lamanna, said the request should have been 'briefed and argued as part of earlier filings and oral arguments." 'With regard to the redaction of the names of counsel, attorneys and judges in high profile cases are regularly named in the press and, of course, in non-impounded proceedings, identifiable from the court's public records,' Lamanna said in opposition. The court ruled Lichtenstein 'met the standard for relief from impoundment as to all information contained in the audio,' except the privacy interest of other children. Lamanna called any threat 'speculative and remote,' in her filing. Adam Montgomery was convicted in February 2024 of second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and other charges related to Harmony's death. He was sentenced to 56 years to life to be served on top of a minimum 32-year sentence for prior firearms convictions. Harmony's remains have yet to be found. jphelps@
Hindustan Times
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
'Someone sent Kunal Kamra ₹10K on YouTube': Sahil Shah on many ways fans can support comedians in ‘uncertain times'
Comedian Sahil Shah, who is known for immaculate grip on observational comedy, is back with one of his most introspective stand up yet, Broken. The 34-year-old comedian, who has performed over 1500 shows across New York, London, Toronto, Nairobi, Singapore, and Dubai sat with Hindustan Times talking about his transition as an artist and importance of mental health. He also touched upon the recent controversy surrounding Kunal Kamra who allegedly took a dig at Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde calling him a 'traitor' leading to vandalism of his stand up venue Habitat studio. Sahil also gave his two cents about comedian Samay Raina's India Got Latent controversy where podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia's joke on parents landed him in big trouble. Sahil stressed how audience can help during uncertain times in Indian comedy scene. Excerpts from the interview: It is a comedy show about me being broken and all the steps that I am taking to fix myself. It is a deeply personal show and I have been working on it for five years. My first special was Childish Behavior, so Broken was an antithesis to that, saying that look, I am not childish anymore. As Covid happened and my mental health went up and down, I started getting existential, which eventually formed the show. A big chunk of the show is also about my dog and cat. Comedy is the greatest form of catharsis. If a comedian has a break up, there are two thoughts. First thought is, 'Oh my god, I am heartbroken' the second thought is 'Waah, kya joke milega isme' (Wow, what an amazing joke will come out of this). So as I was feeling all these emotions in the lockdown, I started to write them down and the more I wrote about it, I thought it would be fun to speak about mental health, the sadness I am feeling. So let me give you a great example. I was talking to my therapist saying I don't think I have achieved enough in my life and my therapist said, hey look at Vincent Van Gogh, he became famous after he died. And I told her that is the worst advice you have given me, stating the obvious irony of the situation. Even she realised after some time and said, almost panicking, 'No no. I am not saying you have to die to become famous'. The moment she said that, I wrote it down that this is such a funny joke that my therapist also thinks that maybe you will be famous after you go! So when something like this happens to me, I do think about what has happened to me and the next thing is, I can turn it into a joke. A post shared by Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) So let us just put it this way, comedy works on a very simple thing called context. If you were watching a comedy show live, you would understand that when I am performing and I am cracking my jokes, they are not coming from a place of malice, there is no hidden agenda, nobody has paid me money to say what I want to. My jokes are coming from a place where I want to express my emotions. Now, for example, tomorrow, I am doing a joke on a therapist, hypothetically, and a bunch of therapists get angry, at that point I will be like why are you getting angry? I am not trying to threaten you. It is not what I meant. I was talking about my journey and my thoughts. As an artist I believe that all of us are allowed thoughts, opinions and if you disagree with my thought and opinion, you are allowed to disagree. But if that turns into you getting aggressive or violent then that is where it gets problematic because we aren't threatening anyone, we are cracking jokes, it is not hate speech. But what can people take offence to, we don't know. In fact, it is a scary time as an artist where, tomorrow for example, if you are writing this column but you were scared or afraid that you want to say things but you think may be I can't or maybe I shouldn't. A post shared by Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) I don't know Ranveer personally but with Kunal and Samay, I have messaged them and I have spoken to them. And look, I can't do anything except be there for my fellow comics. I sent a message asking 'all good', 'hope all good', that's it. I don't expect the audience to do anything. If someone comes to vandalise the property, the audience will run. No one is going to stand up. I agree, I accept. I am saying, online, support the person, that is it. Tomorrow, I have given you a joke on dogs and PETA gets angry at me, I want people to be there and say no Sahil was joking. He has a dog, he is talking from experience, I don't think he means hatred, we support him. People don't understand this but everyone gets affected by it. It is not only about Kunal Kamra but also Habitat got shut down, the livelihood of the people working there, what did they do? Nothing. Their livelihoods are getting affected. We don't have a venue anymore to perform. A post shared by Sahil Shah (@sahilbulla) I'll be honest, no controversy is bad controversy. People feel that silence is a very good tool but silence can work another way. On one hand, if you are telling someone that hey, now we will never let you perform, when the person goes and performs in a foreign country they are going to be sold out. The more you try to stop people from doing something, the more the people would want to do it. It is as simple as that. Look at Kamra's YouTube channel, see the amount of super thanks he has got. I had seen recently someone has sent ₹10,000 to him saying 'bro keep up the good fight'. So this is what I mean by support. You are financially supporting someone who could have lost their opportunity. You are monetarily supporting someone by buying tickets when they do start touring. You emotionally support someone by sending them a message when they are down. We are nothing without our audience. We are just people who talk. If tomorrow my audience stops coming for my shows, it doesn't matter what I do, my support has gone forever. This was unpredictable. I don't think that venue thought it would be broken. We are living in uncertain times. You don't know who would react to what and for valid legitimate reasons as well. What Kamra said, must have hurt someone, and they have reacted because of that, maybe how they reacted for them seem valid but for us it is not valid. There are two sides of the coin. So as an audience, I am saying things will start again. Shows are still going on. The Habitat will be back again. When it does, come watch shows, support the artist. It totally depends on what you stand for. Kamra is super fearless, he is doubling down. His Tamil Nadu thing is the funniest thing I have ever heard. (In a viral audio clip, Kunal Kamra was allegedly threatened by a person, who was asking his address but the comedian told him that he is in Tamil Nadu). I am also fearless in the topics that I am tackling. As a comedian you get to decide what topics you want to tackle. Fear comes from 'I don't think I can talk about this'. I want to talk about death, that is more important to me. When I talk about support, I would also like to mention that if someone does get cancelled or someone does get threatened, as Ranveer had said that his family was getting threats, you would have to understand that these people's mental health also would be at an all-time low. A simple message, I love what you do, I will always be there for you, goes 10 times more than buying a ticket, although buying a ticket does help. Even in my show, there is a very important part where I talk about how important this equation between comedian and audience is. I think what we fail to realise is that after every comedy show there's always someone who is like, 'Oh my god, I am seeing you for the first time'. We fail to realise that not only are there new comedy audiences coming but there are old audiences too. I have met parents who said, 'Listen I was in college when you used to perform. Now this is my child and I am like 'Oh my god', that is when you realise, your audience is also growing old with you. My duty now is for my audience who have grown old with me to have pride and say, 'hey when I was 19 and he was 19, that was fun but now as we aged, it still feels the same. I have grown, he has grown, I enjoy it'. I put my everything in this show. There is a new show I am working on and the theme of it is in continuation, saying how I am average in everything and how I realised I don't want to be great. I am happy being average. There is too much pressure being the best, so that's the entire next angle in my life. I want to put my baby (new show) into the world, I want it to walk and while it is growing I want to enjoy life a little with my dog and cat. In improv comedy there is this basic fundamental rule called, 'Yes, and?' I have learnt to 'Yes, and?' my life. If anything happens I have learnt to be like, 'Yes, and now what?' Covid happened, I started doing digital shows, streaming. Live shows are happening, I am adapting. YouTube is happening, I am adapting. Reels are happening, I have adapted. It is very important to keep adapting and growing. So that's the advice I would give, if anything happens, accept it, say 'yes, and now what' and look forward to the next chapter. Sahil Shah's Broken is available to watch on YouTube.
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Urban landscapes under the lens: Sudhir Patwardhan's solo exhibition opens in Kolkata
A new solo exhibition by renowned artist Sudhir Patwardhan opened on Wednesday, April 17, at TRI Art & Culture in Ballygunge. Titled Cities: Built, Broken , the show runs until June 15 and features 40 new works by the artist, along with select prints of earlier paintings dating back to 1977. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Organised in collaboration with Vadehra Art Gallery, the exhibition explores the dynamics of urban construction and destruction in the context of global modernisation. Known for his decades-long engagement with Mumbai's evolving cityscape, Patwardhan uses oil and acrylic to reflect on the visible and invisible forces shaping contemporary urban life. His artworks delve into themes such as displacement, infrastructural violence, and everyday resilience. Among the featured works are Yellow Sky (2023), Lynching 1 (2023), and Aspire (2024), depicting fractured skylines, crowded neighbourhoods, and moments of unrest. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on a central question: 'What is truly being built, and what is irrevocably being broken?' Spread across the ground and first-floor galleries of TRI—a nonprofit cultural space housed in a restored triangular heritage building—the exhibition includes a walkthrough with the artist on April 17 and a public conversation between Patwardhan and art critic Gayatri Sinha on April 19. Patwardhan, who began his career as a radiologist, has exhibited widely in India and abroad. His recent works continue to explore the city not merely as a physical space but as a lived experience shaped by its inhabitants. The exhibition is open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday, 11 AM to 7 PM.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Yahoo
Mass. SJC allows journalist access to Harmony Montgomery audio records
A New England journalist working on a documentary that addresses how Harmony Montgomery's father was granted custody of his daughter before he killed her in 2019 has been allowed access to audio recordings of the custody hearing. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted journalist Bill Lichtenstein, of LC Media, access to the audio of these hearings from February 2019, according to court records. Lichtenstein requested those recordings for use in a documentary about the child welfare and foster care systems, according to a statement from Lichtenstein and his attorney obtained by MassLive. Set to release later this year, the film, 'Broken,' follows a two-year investigative journey led by journalist Brooke Lewitas, who began the investigation while a graduate student at Boston University. 'Releasing these recordings to the journalist for purposes of the documentary he proposes may help to better inform the public both about what happened to this child specifically and whether there are steps the child welfare system generally can take to minimize the possibility of repeating this tragedy,' court documents read. The audio recording of the hearing was held in Essex Juvenile Court, where proceedings are shielded from the public. Lichtenstein sought access to a recording of the hearing because the public interest in the case was so great that it superseded the privacy protections in place in the court. But a lower court judge denied his motion, prompting an appeal from Lichtenstein. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, took up Lichtenstein's appeal sua sponte, or of its own accord. Typically, the case would have been first heard by the state's Appeals Court. Lichtenstein previously attempted to get access to four other protection proceedings between 2014 and 2019 before he narrowed his request to when Adam Montgomery was awarded custody of his then 4-year-old daughter. 'The February 2019 hearings focused on the father's fitness as a parent,' according to the court's order. 'The father has asserted no privacy interest in the February 2019 hearings. The child's counsel took no position on the release; instead, the child's counsel has emphasized that the child's dignity and privacy deserve continued respect.' Under the Supreme Judicial Court's decision, the names of Adam Montgomery's other young children, who have been publicly named elsewhere, are to be redacted. The conditions under which Lichtenstein will be allowed access to the audio include only being allowed to use the recordings for his documentary. 'Second, even after the release of the documentary, the journalist may not release any portion of the redacted recordings other than those portions actually published in the documentary,' the decision reads. Lichtenstein's lawyer, Jennifer Lamanna, applauded the court's 'courageous recognition of the fact that, now, more than ever, the public's right to know must take precedence over the government's desire to operate in secrecy, especially when the safety of our most vulnerable citizens is at stake,' Lichtenstein's statement reads. The Department of Children and Families took custody of Harmony Montgomery in August 2014, a few months after she was born, due to her mother's substance abuse issues, MassLive previously reported. At the time of her birth, Adam Montgomery was incarcerated. A judge placed Harmony Montgomery in the custody of her father in February 2019 after years of supervised visits, but over the objections of an attorney representing the Department of Children and Families. The 5-year-old died 10 months later. Adam Montgomery was convicted last year of killing his daughter. He was sentenced to 45 years to life for her murder last year. Search for Harmony Montgomery presses on a year after father's conviction Mass. SJC hears arguments on release of Harmony Montgomery records Harmony Montgomery's mother leads search for daughter's body, reports say Harmony Montgomery's mother files wrongful death lawsuit against N.H.
