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As he winds down a banner year featuring some of the most enthusiastic critical notices of his career for the incredible Silver Age (Merge), a debut appearance on THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, a CONAN performance, and a first ever AUSTIN CITY LIMITS TV taping, Bob Mould has confirmed that his widely sold out tour will add four more North American stops and an Australian run in early 2013.

The nominees for THE 44TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS were announced today during a live press conference from the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA. Anthony Anderson (Guys with Kids), Niecy Nash (The Soul Man), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Garcelle Beauvais (Flight), Tyler James Williams (Go On), and Zendaya (Shake It Up!) announced the categories and nominees.

Idina Menzel appeared on Good Day LA to talk about her upcoming New Year's Eve concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as her husband, fellow stage star Taye Diggs, her son Walker, and more. Click below to watch the interview!

MyFOXLA does a daily hangout on Google+ to give its viewers behind the scenes access to the making of a TV news broadcast. After their interviews on set, the program invites special guests to come back to the Social Media Desk with Maria Quiban to chat with viewers. Click below to watch Tony Award winning actress Idina Menzel talk about her upcoming show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA on New Year's Eve and more!

The nominees for THE 44TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS were announced today during a live press conference from the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA. Anthony Anderson (Guys with Kids), Niecy Nash (The Soul Man), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Garcelle Beauvais (Flight), Tyler James Williams (Go On), and Zendaya (Shake It Up!) announced the categories and nominees.

Zubin Mehta returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his music directorship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Thursday, December 13, at 8 pm, Friday, December 14, at 11 am, Saturday, December 15, at 8 pm and Sunday, December 16, at 2 pm. Mehta leads the orchestra in the colorful and varied program that inaugurated his tenure in 1962.

Buck Creek Players is proud to announce their 40th Anniversary Season in 2013-2014! The community theater will present Neil Simon's Rumors, Pat Cook's The Little Town of Christmas, The Women by Clare Boothe Luce, Carie, and Beauty and the Beast, Jr.

Abingdon Theatre Company, in an ongoing effort to recognize excellence in playwriting, established the Christopher Brian Wolk Award to be presented annually to an American writer of a full-length play not produced in New York City. The award is based upon the writer's demonstrated ability to reach a mature artistic vision using theatre. Playwright Rob Winn Anderson will receive the $1,000 cash award and a staged reading of his script The Tenth Son, directed by Jules Ochoa, at the award ceremony, tonight, December 10, starting at 7:00PM in the June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, Midtown, Manhattan.

On December 9, 2005, 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' was released in theaters. Based on the first novel in 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series, the film follows the four Pevensie children who are taken into the country home of an old professor during World War II. While playing hide and seek one afternoon, they stumble across an old wardrobe that transports them to the world of Narnia. This enchanted place where animals speak is ruled by the evil White Witch, who has made it snow for 100 years. The children must unite with the true ruler of Narnia, a lion named Aslan, and together defeat the evil witch and fulfill their destinies as kings and queens of Narnia.

Two Emmy-winning specials produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios,DISNEY PREP & LANDING" AND "PREP & LANDING: NAUGHTY VS NICE, will air back to back TODAY, DECEMBER 9 (8:00-8:30 & 8:30-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

One of the country's most prestigious musical institutions, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music comes to New York City in January for a tour -- spanning four concerts in four venues -- that includes performances by the Oberlin Faculty Jazz Ensemble, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Oberlin College Choir, Oberlin Baroque and the Oberlin Orchestra.

What do you get when you combine Christmas, Disney styling and a singer currently touring with the 25th Anniversary production of Les Miserables? You get a spectacular, one of a kind Christmas EP. Ian Patrick Gibb's new EP, "The Time of the Year for Miracles."

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), Concert Artists of Baltimore and conductor Edward Polochick continue their tradition of ushering in the Christmas season with an all-star performance of Handel's Messiah tonight, December 7, 2012 at 7:30 pm at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.

Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre welcomes the return of "Monsters, Inc," one of Disney•Pixar's most beloved and visually imaginative feature films, presented in stunning 3D for the first time ever from Dec.19 - Jan.6, 2013.

Nominations for the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight by The Recording Academy and reflected an eclectic mix of the best and brightest in music over the past year, as determined by the voting members of The Academy. Scroll below to see the nominees for Best Musical Theater Album!

Enveloping the audience in a magnitude of musical splendors, the $3.1-million William J. Gillespie Concert Organ, played by world-renowned organist Todd Wilson, captures the beauty, range and colors of popular and traditional holiday music during Pacific Symphony's annual "Holiday Organ Spectacular."

Scott Boyarsky has been appointed to the newly-created position of Vice President, Product Development & User Experience for CNBC Digital, it was announced today by Kevin Krim, Senior Vice President & General Manager, CNBC Digital.

On November 5, 1901, Walter Elias Disney was born to Flora and Elias Disney in Chicago, Illinois. Since that day, Disney has brought his magic to millions and millions of people all over the world. Below, watch the opening moments from a 1979 broadcast of 'The Wonderful World of Disney', a beloved Sunday evening family staple for decades.

Dynamic conductor Gustavo Dudamel returns to the Kimmel Center to lead Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela in their Verizon Hall debut tonight, December 5 at 8 p.m. One of today's most uniquely gifted conductors, Gustavo Dudamel leads the elite group of musicians through Carlos Chavez's Sinfonia india, Julian Orbon's Tres versiones sinfonicas, and Richard Strauss' Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony) Op. 64.