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Luna Stage presents The Mane Event: New Year, New You, a full day of vendors and holistic health, and a staged reading of the play Supernatural celebrating natural hair journeys. We all have hair stories to tell; now we have a place to share them. Come to this full day event with vendors selling natural hair products followed by a staged reading of the play Supernatural, created by Candace Kelley, Audrey Kelley and Gilda Rogers today, January 5th at Luna Stage.

Luna Stage presents The Mane Event: New Year, New You, a full day of vendors and holistic health, and a staged reading of the play Supernatural celebrating natural hair journeys. We all have hair stories to tell; now we have a place to share them. Come to this full day event with vendors selling natural hair products followed by a staged reading of the play Supernatural, created by Candace Kelley, Audrey Kelley and Gilda Rogers tonight January 5th @ Luna Stage.

Marin Theatre Company begins 2013 and the second half of its critically acclaimed 46th Season with Samuel Beckett's modern classic, Waiting for Godot, which runs from January 24 to February 17. MTC's artistic director Jasson Minadakis directs, returning to "this greatest of 20th-century plays" (The New York Times) over a decade after he first directed an "excellent, electrifying" (The Cincinnati Enquirer) production at Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. MTC's production features a talented cast: Oregon Shakespeare Festival company member Mark Bedard, popular Bay Area actors James Carpenter and Mark Anderson Philips and Cirque du Soliel and Ringling Bros. clown Ben Johnson, as well as two local southern Marin youths. Opening night is on Tuesday, January 29.

Adult Swim's Total Day performance last week ranked #1 among adults 18-24, 18-34 & 18-49, as well as men 18-24 & 18-34 on basic cable. Compared to the same week in 2011, average Total Day delivery grew across all key adults and men, ranging between 6% and 26%.

NCIS was the week's top program in viewers - topping Sunday Night Football - as well as the top scripted program in adults 25-54 and the top drama in adults 18-49, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Dec. 23.

Building its numbers at 10:00 p.m., "The Year with Katie Couric" earned second place from 10:00-11:00 p.m. with Adults 25-54 and key Women (W18-34/W18-49), while finishing No. 1 among Women 25-54.

The classic film 'Rocky' Sylvester Stallone, who won the story of underdog boxer Rocky Balboa 1976 three Oscars celebrated on 18.11.2012 re-premiere, this time in the category Musical in Hamburg Operettenhaus.

Despite coming out of repeat programming at 9:30pm against the final half-hour of Fox's 2-hour Wednesday finale of The X Factor and NBC's 2-hour Miss Universe Pageant, A Special Edition of 20/20: The Year with Katie Couric was up over its year-ago telecast (on 12/15/11) in both Adults 18-49 (+7%) and Adults 25-54 (+5%).

Goldhaber, the 'wonderfully imaginative' (JazzTimes) and youthfully carefree sweet tenor who People Magazine says 'will have you giddy one moment, melancholy the next and loving every note!' begins previews tonight, Monday, Dec. 17, in THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SONG: The Music of Harold Arlen, a musical revue featuring classics like 'Stormy Weather,' 'Come Rain or Come Shine,' 'Lets Fall in Love,' and all the much-loved tunes from The Wizard Of Oz, at the St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, NYC. The show officially opens Monday, January 10, 2013.

Luna Stage presents The Mane Event: New Year, New You, a full day of vendors and holistic health, and a staged reading of the play Supernatural celebrating natural hair journeys. We all have hair stories to tell; now we have a place to share them. Come to this full day event with vendors selling natural hair products followed by a staged reading of the play Supernatural, created by Candace Kelley, Audrey Kelley and Gilda Rogers on January 5th @ Luna Stage.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has released the following statement on today's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The Music of Harold Arlen, a musical revue featuring classics like "Stormy Weather," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Lets Fall in Love," and all the much-loved tunes from The Wizard Of Oz, at the St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, NYC.

Tribeca Film, the distribution label of Tribeca Enterprises, and Focus World, the alternative distribution initiative owned and operated by Focus Features, have teamed to acquire U.S. rights to Greetings from Tim Buckley, a captivating exploration of two generations of musicians - Tim and Jeff Buckley. The film spotlights a powerhouse lead performance by Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley.

During the 2012 November Sweep, 'LIVE with Kelly and Michael' ranked as the No. 2 syndicated talk show in both Households (2.7 rating) and Total Viewers (3.485 million), beating 'Ellen' in both Nielsen measures (2.6 rating and 3.463 million) despite the fact that 'LIVE' airs in an early time period with lower overall HUT levels.

A Mermaid Christmas, The Magical Adventures of Princess Miranda, Volume One, by Robert W. Cabell is available as of December 1, 2012, just in time for the holidays from Gazebo Books Publishing. Prince Mario-Max zu Schaumburg-Lippe says, 'For those who love mermaids, this book is not a fairy-tale, it is a dream come true.'

Grammy-nominated band DREAM THEATER, one of rock's most musically fearless and adventurous bands, has re-signed with Roadrunner Records.

The Hub TV Network, one of the fastest growing cable networks, powered to its best-ever November and continued its growth momentum with its 11th month of year-over-year audience growth, capped by strong performances of holiday-week programming November 19-25, 2012.

During the week of November 19, 2012, ABC ran in a virtual tie for No. 2 in Adults 18-49 with Fox (pacing within 1-tenth of a rating point and tied in audience share - 2.1/6 vs. 2.2/6), while beating CBS by 17% (1.8/5). In addition, the Net took second place ahead of CBS and Fox with Adults 25-54 and key Women (W18-49/W25-54).

Luna Stage presents last season's hit holiday show Mi Casa, Tu Casa with a few new surprises. It features a five-member band and a pair of host storytellers who guide their guests through a lively and engaging line-up of folksongs and fables, seasonal poems, holiday musical favorites, and personal anecdotes of family traditions. Even audience members become part of la fiesta in this unique interactive experience.

Broadway's elite gathered to honor Michael David, president of Dodger Properties, at UJA-Federation of New York's Theater Division's 2013 Excellence in Theater Award Dinner on Monday, November 26, 2012, at the St. Regis New York, New York City.