Temple University alumni are used to the sight of Bill Cosby walking along the sidelines and in the stands at Temple basketball and football games. Some students are taken aback at the sight of the iconic comic walking along with the masses. But Cosby isn’t like most of his egocentric peers. He doesn’t merely exist in a fortress of solitude.
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Baseball games, weddings and a murder case involving arson.
Comedian and author Ken Davis will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at First Mennonite Brethren Church in Wichita.
Wichita Community Theatre is mixing hilarity with poignancy in its latest production. “The Dixie Swim Club” focuses on the enduring bond of friendship and the ups and downs of life experienced by five close-knit Southern women who met on their college swim team. The show, which opened last weekend, features a cast of women as diverse as the characters they play. It’s a performance that the director thinks is relevant to any audience.
Mumford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane has a blood clot on his brain that will require surgery.
It has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the superhero blockbuster, the comics' most iconic son has eluded its grasp like a bird or, if you will, a plane.
The suspense thriller "The Purge" topped the weekend box office with a shocking $36.4 million that doubled industry expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday.
He spends his weekday afternoons spinning country hits on KFDI.
Khaled Hosseini’s grandmother told him stories – amazing tales. Sometimes they were about her childhood in western Afghanistan, but often they were tales of fairies and giants – folktales from her youth.
“The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari” by Paul Theroux (Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt, 353 pages, $27)
“Middle C” by William H. Gass (Knopf, 395 pages, $28.95)
“The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” Shakespeare-in-the-Park series, presented by Wichita Shakespeare Company, shows at 7 p.m. Sun., Riggs Park, Haysville; Fri., Buffalo Park; Sat., Central Riverside Park; June 16, Andover Sports Park, Andover; June 21, College Hill Park; June 22, Cowtown; June 23, Hand Park, Derby. Free. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. In the event of bad weather, call 316-655-2017 after 6 p.m.
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Harry Williford is transforming landscapes into explosions of contrasting colors for his latest exhibition at Gallery XII. “Reinvented” showcases over a dozen new works by the veteran painter whose interest has recently shifted from conventional sceneries to colorful abstracts. The show will be on display throughout most of this month.
James DeMonaco’s “The Purge” is a bloody-minded, heavy-handed satire of life within these violent United States. It’s a horror film with the occasional visceral thrill: the fear of being hunted, the excitement of righteous violence against nameless intruders. But mostly, it’s just a clumsy lecture about who we’re becoming: haves vs. have-nots, with the haves armed to the teeth.
“We got the beat!” the River Festival is exclaiming as it heads into its final two days with a blow-out: the Go-Go’s playing a beach party (remember the tug-of-war? It’s back), a shot at a world record for the most people wearing sunglasses at night, a concert by Big Head Todd and the Monsters, a neon party with complimentary glow sticks, and the final fireworks to cap it all off.
Two years ago, Mike Garvey was not a dog person. When he got his first one, a terrier-poodle mix named Marco, from the Kansas Humane Society, he set strict limits.
Motown and melodrama may seem like an odd entertainment pairing, but the folks at Mosley Street Melodrama have managed to come up with a funny and tuneful melange with their newest show.
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