Stay updated with breaking news from Ed Ames. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
WhatcomTalk's Marla Bronstein profiles recently retired WWU professor Jim Lortz, who taught acting, musical theatre, voice and diction classes, and contemporary literature studies for 32 years.
Today in History FacebookTwitterEmail Today in History Today is Friday, July 9, the 190th day of 2021. There are 175 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 9, 2004, a Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration had relied on to justify going to war. On this date: In 1540, England’s King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in ...
CNN’s current series of documentaries about late-night television rekindled memories of working on the “Tonight Show” back when it was based in New York but shooting for three weeks in “beautiful Downtown Burbank,” as Johnny Carson joked. At 23 and new to the entertainment industry, I was taken aback to have the star appear at my desk and address me as “Sybil.” We’d never met yet he’d learned my name for what turned out to be our one interaction. Being placed there by a temporary agency as secretary to the producer, Art Stark, was beyond exciting. I’d become a fan of the s...
CT band the Remains rubbed elbows with the Beatles, Donna Summer and more Michael Catarevas FacebookTwitterEmail From left, Chip, Bill, Barry and Vern on stage after playing a club show in Los Angeles in 2006, the 40th anniversary of the Beatles tour.Courtesy of America’s Lost Band, Manhattan Productions Inc. When four young, bleary-eyed rock musicians ambled into the midtown Manhattan office of General Artists Corp. one June afternoon in 1966, they could have had no idea that what they were about to hear would inform their careers and lives forever. “You guys wanna play on the Beatles’...
A six-part docuseries airing from 8 to 9 p.m. Sundays on CNN. Late night? That was another story. Late night television was as cool as the one room in your house that had a window air conditioner. When you watched Johnny Carson with his checkered suits and his sideburns and his racy innuendo on the “Tonight Show” and even various pretender/contenders such as Dick Cavett and Joey Bishop, you felt like the kid that had sneaked out of bed and was on the stairway while the parents were having a “Mad Men”-esque cocktail party in the den, with cigarettes and highballs and slightly r...