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Local Entertainment (Please check with venues first in case of cancellation) Friday, July 11 Leigh’s Garden Winery, 6 pm – Friday Night Piano with Bill Rinne Escanaba Farmers Market Stage, 6-7:30 pm – Jesus Rally with Onward Saunders Point Brewing in Gladstone, 6-9 pm – Reflections band Mackinaw City Music in the Park Mackinaw City 8-9 pm – A Place to Land Freshwater Tavern, 8:30-11:30 pm – Live Music Acoustic Fridays through October 17th Downtown Manistique – Manistique FolkFest with Grand Design Band from 9 pm – 12:30 am Superior Culture, 717 N. 3rd ...

George Harrison’s Beatles-era photos to be released

NEW YORK (AP) — A book of Beatles -era photographs taken by George Harrison, many of them never published, will be released next year. Random House announced Thursday that "The Third Eye," which includes more than 250 black and white and color images, is scheduled for Fall 2026. Harrison's widow, Olivia Harrison, compiled and curated the book, which covers the years 1963-69 and includes photos of the Beatles everywhere from their native Liverpool to India to Shea Stadium. "I want to show people, from George's unique photographic perspective during the Beatles' early years, the ...

Dark series ‘The Institute’ adaptation gets author Stephen King’s thumbs up

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen King has a rule for anyone wanting to adapt one of his books for the big or small screen. It's basically the Hippocratic oath for intellectual property — first, do no harm. "When you deviate from the story that I wrote, you do so at your own risk," he says in a recent interview from his home in Maine. "I know what I'm doing and I'm not sure that screenwriters always do or that producers and directors always do." Not everyone has listened to King, who has enjoyed hit adaptations — "The Shawshank Redemption," "Stand By Me," "Misery," "It" and "The Shining" ...

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Local Entertainment (Please check with venues first in case of cancellation) Friday, July 11 Leigh’s Garden Winery, 6 pm – Friday Night Piano with Bill Rinne Escanaba Farmers Market Stage, 6-7:30 pm – Jesus Rally with Onward Saunders Point Brewing in Gladstone, 6-9 pm – Reflections band Mackinaw City Music in the Park Mackinaw City 8-9 pm – A Place to Land Freshwater Tavern, 8:30-11:30 pm – Live Music Acoustic Fridays through October 17th Downtown Manistique – Manistique FolkFest with Grand Design Band from 9 pm – 12:30 am Superior Culture, 717 N. 3rd ...

Former ‘Love Island USA’ contestant apologizes for using racial slur

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former "Love Island USA" contestant Cierra Ortega apologized Wednesday for resurfaced posts where she used a racial slur against Asian people. Ortega, who was half of one of the season's strongest couples, left the villa just a week before the popular reality show's finale after old posts resurfaced that contained the slur. Ortega addressed the entire Asian community in her nearly five minute TikTok video and said she is "deeply, truly, honestly so sorry." "This is not an apology video. This is an accountability video," Ortega said. "I had no idea that the ...

Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, others reflect on 40 years of Live Aid

NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might otherwise have ignored. Simulcast from Philadelphia and London on July 13, ...