After the downhome comedy and simple melodies of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” the Hesston High School music department comes back this fall with a little dazzle and glitz in its production of “Hello Dolly!”
After an eight-year hiatus, Tina Turner brought her famous voice and energy back to the stage Wednesday, opening her 36-date North American tour with a hit-filled concert at the Sprint Center.
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Papa’s Pumpkin Patch • 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. • six miles north of Newton on Kansas Highway 15 and three-fourths of a mile east. Free admission. Features pumpkins, decorative corn and gourds, family activities, food and kiddy corn maze. The patch is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Fridays and Sundays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays or by appointment. Call (620) 367-2721.Drew Barrymore’s “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” pawed its way to the top spot at the weekend box office, debuting with $29.3 million.
The top movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday,Things have changed between Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio.
At least onscreen.A play set during the Depression, “The Diviners,” will be performed by the Hesston College Theatre Department Thursday through Sunday. Performances in Northlawn Room 109 are scheduled at 7 p.m. today and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Those reunion rumors weren’t just cut bait: Four years after disbanding, the time seems right to Phish.
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Fall Festival • Bethel College • North Newton. For a complete schedule of events, go to www.bethelks.edu/fallfest. Fall Festival buttons are $3 for adults and $2 for children ages 3 through 12.A photographer who called 911 to report Heather Locklear allegedly driving erratically runs a paparazzi agency and profited from images she took of the actress’s subsequent arrest, the woman’s attorney said Wednesday.
Movie-goers put “Eagle Eye” under surveillance, lifting the conspiracy thriller starring Shia LaBeouf to the No. 1 spot with $29.2 million during opening weekend.
It began with graduate studies, curiosity about an old family diary and every journalist’s unceasing quest for “a good story.”
Walter Ratliff of Herndon, Va., works as content manager for Associated Press Television.