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Big Island Jazz and Blues Fest boasts local, national stars

Updated: May 24, 2013 12:07am

By JOHN BURNETT

Tribune-Herald staff writer

Legendary performers will play with the best musicians Hawaii has to offer in the 2nd annual Big Island Jazz & Blues Festival, May 30 to...

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‘The Show’ is sweet as it gets

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 12:06am

If I was the marketing person for “MLB 13: The Show,” this is how I would advertise it: “You can text-message your friends while you bat, because this game moves so slow, you will have all the...

<p>Associated Press</p><p>This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Nicholas Hoult in a scene from “Jack the Giant Slayer.”</p>

‘Giant Slayer’ lacks magic

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 12:06am

By CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE

Las Vegas Review-Journal

It looks like a blockbuster. It feels like a blockbuster. On the set, it probably even smelled like a blockbuster.

But for long...

‘Glee’ and ‘Archie’ bridge comics, TV in crossover

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 12:06am

By MATT MOORE

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Blaine Anderson and Kevin Keller? Betty Cooper and Noah Puckerman?

Things are not as they usually are in the halls of William...

Benefit planned for Hilo bassist

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 12:06am

Local jazz musicians have banded together for a fundraiser-tribute event for Hilo bassist John Parker who is battling cancer.

The event is Sunday, 4-7:30 p.m. at the Hilo Elks’ Lodge, 150...

<p>Associated Press</p><p>This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Nicholas Hoult in a scene from “Jack the Giant Slayer.”</p>

‘Giant Slayer’ lacks magic

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 12:06am

By CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE

Las Vegas Review-Journal

It looks like a blockbuster. It feels like a blockbuster. On the set, it probably even smelled like a blockbuster.

But for long...

<p>Associated Press</p><p>Karla Gutierrez, left, and Ashley Shimizu perform in a scene from ABC Family’s TV series “Switched at Birth.” When news of the school’s closing spreads, the students of Carlton School for the Deaf stage a protest.</p>

‘Switched at Birth’ goes silent to make a point

Updated: Mar 03, 2013 12:06am

By LYNN ELBER

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — “Until hearing people walk a day in our shoes, they will never understand,” says a guidance counselor at a high school for deaf students in...

Oscars expand social media outreach for 85th show

Updated: Feb 24, 2013 12:05am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is encouraging celebrities to tweet during the Oscars.

The film organization has expanded its digital outreach for the 85th...

<p>HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald</p><p>Mark Yamanaka and his son Jorden, 11, will be performing in the Laupahoepahoe Music Festival. Mark will be performing solo and Jorden will be playing with the band Times5 and dancing with Halau O Ke Anuenue.</p>

Laupahoehoe music fest

Updated: Feb 22, 2013 12:05am

By JOHN BURNETT

Tribune-Herald staff writer

Braddah Smitty’s 8th annual Laupahoehoe Music Festival is a family-friendly event, and for the musicians, it’s a family affair as well.

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Good triumphs over evil — ninja style

Updated: Feb 22, 2013 12:05am

In the new game (hilariously subtitled) “Metal Gear Revengeance,” you kill a lot of evil people in amazingly bloody, vivisection ways. To justify this bloodlust, the game has created terrorists so...

Auditions for ‘Vaudeville’ show

Updated: Feb 22, 2013 12:05am

The Palace Theater is holding auditions Saturday at 10 a.m. for it’s 2nd annual “Vaudeville” variety show.

Director Clay Callaway says he’s looking for “self-contained” acts, including...