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Chicago Tribune
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
What to do in Chicago: Nikki Glaser, ‘Floating World' and a busy weekend for street festivals
The Queens: Expect three hours of hits as Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan and Stephanie Mills command the stage at the United Center. The four R&B divas, who range in age from 68 to 81, demonstrate how they've earned their status over decades in the business. Maifest Chicago: Lincoln Square promises Gemütlichkeit — geniality — at its annual celebration of German heritage. Eat, drink beer and dance 'til your lederhosen snap. Do Division Street: Two stages programmed by The Empty Bottle and Subterranean are the draw for this West Town street fair, with Ax and the Hatchetmen among the headliners. Beyond the music, check out local artists, food trucks, fashion-forward sidewalk sales and a whole lineup of family fun including a petting zoo. Nikki Glaser: The comedian who went viral for her razor-sharp roast of Tom Brady brings her 'Alive and Unwell' tour to the Chicago Theatre for a four-show stand. If you've only seen her as host of the Golden Globes, now's your chance to see what she can really do. Windy City Hot Dog Fest: This four-year-old festival in Portage Park pits sausage against sausage, with 11 stands vying to be named top dog. Beyond all the hot dog eating — and yes, there also will be a contest to eat the most — the weekend will feature a dog parade (as in, canines) and live music. Porchfest Lakeview: Maybe you've heard of NPR's 'Tiny Desk Concerts.' Lakeview does it better. Watch local acts perform front-porch concerts throughout the neighborhood. Can't make it this weekend? Watch for another installment in Roscoe Village on Aug. 17. Chicago Puppet Lab Showcase: Get a glimpse of puppet theater works in progress, as eight Chicago artists take the stage. A offshoot of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, the Chicago Puppet Lab will offer two programs featuring four artists each. 'Hokusai & Ukiyo-e — The Floating World': Promising an immersive experience that brings Japan's Shogun era to life, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art presents a 70-piece collection including paintings and woodblock prints by Hokusai and other masters of ukiyo-e. This is the first time this Chiossone Collection will be shown in the United States. 'Summer Camp': No s'mores here, but plenty of fun. The Siskel Film Center has put together a 10-film lineup of 'sweeping melodrama' and movies that are 'so bad they're actually brilliant.' It kicks off Sunday with Douglas Sirk's 'Written on the Wind' before winding its way through the Maysles brothers' classic documentary 'Grey Gardens,' the Joan Crawford biopic 'Mommie Dearest' and the Bette Davis humdinger 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' Of course there's John Waters and the disastrously fantastic Liz Taylor flick 'Boom!' Chicago Botanic Garden Plant Giveaway: It's tomato season at the Chicago Botanic Garden's plant giveaway. Head to the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden to learn about featured plants — which this weekend will feature La Roma IV and Tomatoberry Garden tomatoes — and then take home a seedling. Plant giveaways run throughout the growing season, featuring a variety of herbs, vegetables and flowers.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Broadway Alumna and R&B Superstar Stephanie Mills Headlines The Queens Tour with Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle
Stephanie Mills, the Grammy Award-winning singer and actress who catapulted to stardom in 1975 headlining as Dorothy in the original seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway run of The Wiz, scoring a number one smash hit with the musical's anthemic ballad 'Home', is one of four female music industry icons taking center stage for The Queens: 4 Legends, 1 Stage tour. The Queens tour–which also features legendary singers Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and Gladys Knight–kicked off its second leg on May 9 in Las Vegas and runs through October 6, arriving at the Kia Forum May who cut her teeth singing gospel music as a kid in Brooklyn's Cornerstone Baptist Church, left a groundbreaking impression in the soul, pop and R&B arenas, recording a string of number one hits in the 1980s, including 'Home,' 'I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love' and the Grammy-winning chart-topping single 'Never Knew Love Like This Before.' Mills also collaborated with R&B superstar Teddy Pendergrass on hit duets such as 'Feel the Fire' and 'Two Hearts.' 'Teddy was gone much too soon,' says Mills of Pendergrass, who died in 2010 following complications from a car accident that left him paralyzed. 'I miss Teddy every day because we used to talk a lot. It was like a brother and sister relationship.' Working with fellow musical artists is a joy and privilege that Mills never takes for granted. Uniting with LaBelle, Khan and Knight on tour is an experience Mills describes as nothing short of 'exciting.' 'It's very exciting, and I think this will never happen again,' says Mills. 'And I say that because Patti is in her 80s and Gladys is in her 80s and Chaka and I—we're the youngest. I'm the baby of the group at 68 years old. But it's all just so wonderful, Black women all coming together and bringing R&B back and showing the low and respect we have for each other. I mean, I bowed down to Patti and Gladys and Chaka because they came before me. They paved the way for me to exist.' Gathering four generations of soul songstresses on stage—each performs one roughly 45-minute set, but, says Mills, 'come together to do something at the end'—is something that Mills has wanted to do for a long time. 'I've always wanted to tour with these women—I call them my sisters. So, this is like a dream come true for me. I really, really wanted to tour with Chaka, I wanted to tour with Gladys and Patti. Gladys is like sweet potato pie. She's just as sweet as she can be, and so is Patti. So, for all of us to finally come together and do this is just amazing. And we keep adding to the tour. We were initially supposed to do 20 shows, and now we're doing 25.' 'That the L.A. show is on Mother's Day is also a really nice little coincidence,' adds Mills. In the wake of the COVID pandemic when touring came to a halt, Mills says that getting back on a stage is like an artistic rebirth of sorts. 'I live for it. I love live performances,' she says. 'We're all using our own bands and our own singers. We will have a rotating stage, so the minute Gladys is over then I come around. The minute I'm over, Patti comes around. There won't be any lull in the performances.' This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of The Wiz, a moment that Mills refers to as 'the yellow brick road of my introduction to the world.' That numbers such as 'Home' and 'Ease on Down the Road' are still sung and heard and enjoyed by generations both young and old is a 'gift,' says Mills, who this April dropped her latest single, an upbeat, high-energy house dance mix of the classic 1967 track 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough,' written by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson and originally recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. 'I'm just really excited about this new version,' says Mills. 'This is a happy time. It's a peaceful time in my life.'
The Guardian
27-04-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Readers reply: Are there more pips in lemons than there used to be?
Are there more pips in lemons than there used to be? That's definitely my impression. What's going on? Andrea Wilson, Manchester Send new questions to nq@ I knew this would finally pay off. These are my diary records: 1975: 8.2 mppl (mean pips per lemon); 1976: 7.9; 1977: 8.3; 1978: 7.9; 1979: 8.0; 1980: 8.2; 1981: 8.1; 1982: 7.8; 1983: 7.8; 1984: 11.2; 1985: 8.6; 1986: 8.3; 1987: 8.1; 1988: 8.2; 1989: 7.9; 1990: 7.9; 1991: 8.0; 1992: 8.0; 1993: 8.0; 1994: 7.8; 1995: 7.7; 1996: 7.9; 1997: 8.4; 1998: 8.0; 1999: 7.8; 2000: 8.1; 2001: 8.0; 2002: 8.0; 2003: 7.5; 2004: 7.7; 2005: 8.1; 2006: 7.8; 2007: 7.9; 2008: 8.4; 2009: 6.9; 2010: 7.6; 2011: 7.8; 2012: 8.1; 2013: 8.2; 2014: 8.3; 2015: 8.3; 2016: 8.3; 2017: 8.5; 2018: 8.3; 2019: 7.8; 2020: 7.7; 2021: 8.2; 2022: 8.7; 2023: 8.0; 2024: 117.4. So in summary, yes. theteedeehoo I don't know if there are more, but they aren't squeaking like the should. seedysolipsist I blame Gladys Knight. PeteTheBeat I only use limes, not many pips; far better flavour. Psmitharises A few more years of climate change and you'll be able to buy Geordie lemons. FrogmellaMousetrap Ceci n'est pas une pip. EddieChorepost Yes, your observation is indeed accurate, and I'm pleased to say that now that sufficient time has passed and the reason is no longer subject to the Official Secrets Act, I can finally reveal why. Before the advent of mobile phones, pips were in constant demand for installation in telephone boxes. So in secret government establishments cunningly concealed behind the scenes inside casinos (where any mention of pips would be unlikely to arouse suspicion and, of course, lemons featured unremarked on all fruit machines) thousands of pips were extracted from lemons immediately after import by a small army of skilled workers, using X-rays, jewellers' loupes, fine needles and pipettes. A few pips were allowed to remain in each lemon to allay any suspicions, before the fruit, deprived of most of its seeds and waxed to conceal the tiny holes through which the seeds were extracted, was passed to greengrocers for sale to the unsuspecting public. Now that phone boxes are no longer functional, being mostly used as libraries, greenhouses or toilets, the familiar pips are surplus to requirements, so that clandestine specialist workforce has long been disbanded, and modern -day lemons are left in peace to retain their full natural complement. I hope this clarifies the matter? ThereisnoOwl No, there are precisely six on the hour, every hour. The number has stayed the same for over a century. Dorkalicious Don't worry, government policy on disability benefits is designed to bring about a reduction in pips. J63320 They are now producing watermelons with hardly any pips, so I think this is the universe readjusting itself. blitzen13 I recently bought five different types of hand lemon squeezer, so the way you can pip-free juice a lemon has increased, too. I found the small metal funnel you can insert into a whole lemon the best. Costs just a couple of pounds … snazpizaz2 Have you ever noticed how lemon pips cling to the sink in spite of your best efforts to wash them down the drain? There must be some commercial/industrial use of that adhesive-when-wet quality. Oikaze For drinks, I never worry about the pips. If I swallow one, it doesn't worry me in the slightest and I've hardly ever had a lemon tree grow inside me. AlanAudio Not only more pips, but they're better at hiding close to the core. So when you've picked out every single bleeder, three more will emerge from the slice you dip into your Earl Grey. Rodber Lemons have reverted to being more like the lemons of the 1970s, which had quite a lot of pips. We have had a long period of increasingly pip-depleted lemons between, say the late 1990s up to Covid. I wonder if the recent upswing in pips is due to lemons being sourced elsewhere because of the cost of living crisis. Justdreaming Mr M and I both had a Pink Lady apple this lunchtime. In both apples we found sprouting pips, they are now residing in compost in the hope of they may continue growing. Morvandelle
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Detroit concerts on sale this week: Mumford & Sons, Sex Pistols, Gladys Knight and company
Here's a glance at the latest batch of metro Detroit's notable upcoming concert announcements. (Note: Many tours offer presale ticket opportunities; check individual show links for details). R&B titans Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle and Stephanie Mills are headed to Little Caesars Arena on Sept. 28 for a blockbuster show dubbed 'The Queens: 4 Legends, 1 Stage,' part of a 20-city U.S. run. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Mumford & Sons will make their first Detroit appearance in six years with an Oct. 20 show at Little Caesars Arena, as the British folk-rock trio tours in support of the new album 'Rushmere.' On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will stage his latest holiday-season concert at Little Caesars Arena with a Dec. 7 visit. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. The rebooted Sex Pistols, with British punk vocalist Frank Carter in place of Johnny Rotten, will play the Fillmore Detroit on Oct. 4, part of a 13-city North American dash. It'll be the band's first Detroit gig in nearly three decades. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Billy Corgan will play his most intimate Detroit show since the early days of the Smashing Pumpkins with a June 19 stop at Saint Andrew's Hall. His Return to Zero Tour will debut a new four-piece lineup and a run through classic Pumpkins material. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Concerts: Detroit concerts on sale this week: Jonas Brothers, John Legend, Primus, more Events: Mumford & Sons set for 1st Detroit concert since 2019 with Little Caesars Arena date Alt-rock mainstay Garbage will hit the Masonic Cathedral Theatre on Sept. 13 as Shirley Manson and company embark on their first U.S. headlining tour in nearly a decade. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through AXS. The second edition of idobi Radio Summer School — a traveling indie music festival cofounded by Warped Tour's Kevin Lyman — will kick off its U.S. run with a July 11 date at the Fillmore Detroit. Featured artists include Charlotte Sands, Taylor Acorn, Arrows in Action and Rain City Drive. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Fitz and the Tantrums' Man on the Moon Tour will bring the L.A. ensemble to the Majestic Theatre on Aug. 9 with opener Ax and the Hatchetmen. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through TicketWeb. Breakout Mexican singer-songwriter Luis R Conriquez will make his Detroit premiere with a June 20 show at the Fox Theatre. On sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit concerts on sale this week: Mumford & Sons, Sex Pistols, more
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and Stephanie Mills to perform in Greensboro
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Four titans of R&B are bringing their unforgettable tour to the Piedmont Triad. Andrea Bocelli coming to First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and Stephanie Mills will grace the stage together at First Horizon Coliseum, formerly known as Greensboro Coliseum, as part of the 'The Queens! 4 Legends. 1 Stage' Tour. 'Sharing the stage with my amazing sisters is an absolute honor,' Chaka Khan says. 'Music is about connection, and this will be a celebration of the joy, power, and love that it brings to us all. The Greensboro performance will take place on Sept. 19 and will be the first stop of the second leg of the tour. It will also be the tour's only stop in the state of North Carolina. 'I am so excited to join these icons, who I call sisters, on this tour! It's going to be something special. And I can't wait to see everyone there,' says Patti LaBelle. A presale for tickets will begin on Thursday at 10 a.m. EST on and on the B. General sale will begin on Friday at 10 a.m. EST. 'I'm thrilled to be touring with the best sisters a woman could be blessed with,' says Gladys Knight. 'We will come together in support of one another and in harmony at a time when love is most needed.' All of the artists will be performing some of their greatest hits during the show. Guaranteed performances include Chaka Khan's 'Ain't Nobody,' 'I'm Every Woman,' and 'Through the Fire'; Patti LaBelle's 'Lady Marmalade,' 'If Only You Knew,' and 'New Attitude'; Gladys Knight's 'Midnight Train to Georgia,' 'Neither One of Us,' and 'Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me'; and Stephanie Mills' 'Never Knew Love Like This Before,' 'Home,' and 'I Feel Good All Over'. 'I'm excited to tour with my beautiful sisters! Our different styles unite in love, compassion and understanding and it's important to come together now. Performing with Chaka, Patti, and Gladys for you will be electrifying. We can't wait to see you,' Stephanie Mills says. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
