George Jones, News

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the Kennedy Center Honors of 2008. Recipients to be honored at the 31st annual national celebration of the arts are: actor Morgan Freeman, singer George Jones, actress and singer Barbra Streisand, choreographer Twyla Tharp, and musicians Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who.

Scott Coulter and Tim Di Pasqua with Lisa Asher (in for Tom Andersen, who was ill) performed the award-winning show, 'Southern Comfort: A Down-Home Country Music Jamboree,' on Friday, Aug. 3, at 7:30PM at The Metropolitan Room.

Tom Andersen, Scott Coulter and Tim Di Pasqua will perform their award-winning show, 'Southern Comfort: A Down-Home Country Music Jamboree,' on Friday, July 27, and Friday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at The Metropolitan Room,

The Metropolitan Room, the popular cabaret located at 34 W. 22nd St., has announced a partial July line-up of performers

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 1-3 at the Orchestra's summer home in the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Massachusetts.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre will present award-winning singers Tom Andersen, Scott Coulter and Tim DiPasqua in 'Southern Comfort: A Down-Home Country Music Jamboree' for three special performances only on Fridays, August 4, 11 and 18 at 7pm

Lauren Molina, Judy Blazer and Kate Pazakis will be among the August line-up of performers at the Laurie Beechman Theatre

Star-Studded Charity Performance, Featuring Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Patrick Wilson, Trace Adkins, Raul Malo, Lee Ann Womack and Trisha Yearwood, Is A Fundraiser For The Actors' Fund of America and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund