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Art & Entertainments

Storytellers Project show featuring stories about the arts

Two singer-songwriters. An Emmy Award-winning writer and performer. A national film critic. And a filmmaker known for creating stories with strong Indigenous female leads.

Art is all around us and this event explores the creatives behind the culture, as USA TODAY delivers an hour of true, first-person stories as part of the Storytellers Project’s show, “I Made This: Stories about the Arts.”

“I hope that people can get an understanding of how much my current album, ‘Heart Theory,’ has been a turning point for me in my career, and who I am as a person,” said storyteller Lindsay Ell, a

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March 5, 2021
Music

How Much Does the Super Bowl 2021 Halftime Show Cost?

The Weeknd is about to do the Super Bowl – and it’s going to be expensive.

The 30-year-old After Hours star is set to hit the stage for the halftime show performance on Sunday (February 7) during the big game.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of The Weeknd

And the superstar himself is putting tons of his own money into the performance, apparently: The Weeknd spent $7 million of his own money on production costs for his Super Bowl halftime show, his manager Wassim “Sal” Slaiby told Billboard last week.

He’s doing so to “make this halftime show be

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February 8, 2021
Art Photography

Biennial community art show focuses on insects and arachnids: Valley Views

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — Although it is the dead of winter, The West Woods Nature Center will soon be a-buzz, a-flutter and crawling with artful images of real and fanciful creatures.

“What’s the Buzz? Insect & Arachnid Inspired Art Exhibition” opens 10 a.m. Saturday (Feb. 13) and will be on display to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through April 26.

From the sheer beauty of butterflies, intricate and iridescent dragonfly wings, and dew-covered spiderwebs to powerful grasshoppers and formidable flies and mosquitoes, the works displayed by regional artists will prod you out of your winter hibernation

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February 8, 2021
Music

Super Bowl Halftime Show 2021: Odds, Expected Songs for the Weeknd Performance | Bleacher Report

The Weeknd performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Friday, April 20, 2018, in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Amy Harris/Associated Press

An unconventional NFL season has given way to an unconventional Super Bowl, during which an unconventional halftime show will be held.

To start, Sunday’s halftime show headlined by The Weeknd at Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, won’t be held on the field. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the production is streamlining the halftime show by holding the performance in the stands to minimize the amount of time and bodies needed to set up the stage.

Approximately 22,000 fans are expected to be attendance.

“We all grow up watching the world’s biggest acts

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February 6, 2021