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WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump cut the ribbon Thursday as the Washington Monument reopened to the public for the first time in three years.
The “Downton Abbey “ movie isn’t exactly a movie. It’s more like another season of the popular “Masterpiece Classic” show that’s been condensed to 90 minutes instead of 8 hours.
LOS ANGELES — “Game of Thrones” has dominated the Emmy Awards with the formidable power of, say, your average fearsome, flame-belching dragon. Same goes for “Veep,” but picture a cutthroat politician instead.
The last weekend of summer is upon us.
NEW YORK — “Supergirl” co-stars and real-life newlyweds Melissa Benoist and Chris Wood will join performers Jane Lynch, Wayne Brady and Laurie Metcalf for a concert being livestreamed Saturday to benefit low-income migrants.
NEW YORK — Rihanna believes women of all shapes, colors and sizes should be celebrated, and that spirit of inclusion has made her lingerie and beauty lines massive successes.
PENN TWP — The Maridon is hosting a Harvest Moon Festival on Sunday at Butler Country Club in Penn Township.
Butler Art Center, 344 S. Main St., will be the site of “Nature and Wildlife Show — Water Theme” through Oct. 5. The Art Center will take part in The Butler Fall Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 28 (artwork can be dropped off Sept. 25-27). Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Butler County Symphony Orchestra season begins Oct. 5 with “Folklore and Fairy Tales.”
Harmony Museum, 218 Mercer St., Harmony, tours include the 1809 main museum building and wine cellar and a neighboring early 19th century house, both built by the communal Harmony Society, and a Mennonite log house, offered from 1 to 4 p.m.
Red Barn Players’ summer season features “The Sunshine Boys,” a comedy, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sept. 26 to 28 at the theater on Route 288, Fombell, Beaver County. Tickets are $13 for plays and $15 for musicals. Call 724-431-1707 or visit www.redbarnplayers.com.
The Beacon, 231 Beacon Road, Renfrew, will host the band Trash Bandits featuring Chuck Moses at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Call 724-586-6233.
Bodiography Contemporary Ballet will perform Sept. 28 in the Succop Theater on campus. Tickets cost $20 for general admission, $18 for senior citizens age 65 and over, and $10 for students.
Nautical Nature pontoon boat at Moraine State Park has scheduled 90 minute cruises on Lake Arthur every Saturday and Sunday through Oct. 26 at 1 and 3 p.m. from the McDanel’s Launch on the North Shore. Call 724-368-9185.
Butler Little Theatre's season-opening show will be “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth,” a comedy by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie “Ad Astra,” had a burning question for a real-life astronaut.
NEW YORK — Sailor Brinkley-Cook will replace her mother, Christie Brinkley, on “Dancing with the Stars,” which will premiere Monday.
LOS GATOS, Calif. — Netflix says it will start streaming all 180 episodes of “Seinfeld” in 2021, as the battle for viewers heats up.
BOSTON — “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT scores, tearfully apologizing to the teenager for not trusting her to get into college on her own.
LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t quite enough to take down Pennywise the clown, but Jennifer Lopez and the scheming strippers of “Hustlers” topped even the high expectations they brought to the weekend box office.
“Hustlers “ saves all of its tricks for the end. It's a banger of an ending, too, which is something that so few films manage to nail. The emotion, the stakes, the character development and the why of it all hit around the same time. This, you think, is the movie.
NEW YORK — “Camera Girl,” an upcoming book on Jacqueline Kennedy’s early years as a columnist, draws on newspaper archives and interviews with friends and colleagues.
“Shine on Harvest Moon,” a song more than a century old, will certainly be playing in my head this weekend and most of the coming week.
TORONTO — Antonio Banderas says his emotional state from having a heart attack a few years ago influenced his award-winning performance in the Pedro Almodovar film, “Pain and Glory.”
The Greater Pittsburgh Oktoberfest — which was scheduled to be held at the Big Butler Fairgrounds — has been canceled.
