America, our God-given right to eat hot dogs without worry is under siege. 

OCEAN ISLE, N.C. – If you want to skip the sand in your shorts and crowds at the Carolina beaches this Labor Day weekend but still want to visit the ocean, you may want to head to the Museum of Coastal Carolina.

From Danville Concert Association, Arts and Humanities

Douglas Kendall Adams was named outstanding actor for his portrayal of the desk clerk Ferris in the comedy “Bedside Manners” by Derek Benfield, directed by Alan G. Holt. Adams also appeared as the emcee in “Cabaret.”

The Allman Brothers Band has sued a record company to demand a bigger cut of recordings sold through third parties such as Apple’s iTunes music service. 

one of the group’s founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June

computer and video games are actually among the easiest of entertainment products for parents to control.  In addition to using ESRB ratings to help choose appropriate games, parents can take advantage of parental controls to make sure that their children are playing games they deem appropriate.

My only other marketable skill is frying hushpuppies at the fish camp, is the cutback in good, old-fashioned monkey coverage. 

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Glenwood Smith Band plays first gig in nine years

The broadcast networks’ new shows have been announced and will be heavily promoted. But there’s still nothing much to see. Fewer pilots than usual were shot this year, due in part to the Hollywood writers strike and the straight-to-series policy gaining favor at some networks. 

Getting “two thumbs up” from Siskel and Ebert used to mean something. 

By Labor Day, it could display the first drive-in movie the Central Virginia area has seen in more than two decades. 

The Oak Ridge Boys who started out as a gospel quartet before gradually changing over to country-pop, will play the Salem Civic Center September 5..

Sunday’s show featuring local community members will benefit the North Theatre.

Final preparations are under way for Sara Evans took the stage at a new Smith Mountain Lake concert site. 

I thought I had it bad, but some of you at one time or another have transformed into one huge, hideous blister, shunned by family and friends and forced to live in outbuildings so no one could hear your agonizing cries and see your incessant scratching. 

Fast facts about the country singer

Humor Column

Smithsonian exhibit celebrates the music of a nation

Hoping to honor rocker Elton John before his first-ever Vermont performance, Vermont’s crazy-cool confectioner has whipped up a flavor just for him

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Hollywood’s modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career.

The key to my happiness was missing. 

Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform in Danville Sept. 11 at the Carrington Pavilion. 

Hootie & the Blowfish will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Carrington Pavilion. The band is best known for hits including “Only Wanna Be With You” and “Hold My Hand.”

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In male-dominated Hollywood, apparently even robots are subject to gender roles

Jack Nicholson’s Joker was a blast. Heath Ledger’s Joker is as dark and anarchic a figure as Randle McMurphy in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the role that brought Nicholson his first Academy Award. 

The guy has owned Fourth of July weekends with huge debuts for some passable but not-so-great movies (“Independence Day,” “Men in Black II”), and he’ll likely do it again with this foul-mouthed-misanthrope-as-superhero flick.