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The California State Senate today adjourned its floor session in honor of the late SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard. Watch the tribute below!

Columbia, MD (PRWEB) May 30, 2015

The Pear Avenue Theatre is proud to present the third chapter in local playwright Paul Braverman's 'stage-noir' trilogy featuring gin-soaked private eye Frankie Payne: BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Once again we travel to Boston in the 1960s to see Frankie battle the Irish mafia and solve murder mysteries, but this time she's engaged in mysteries of the heart as well. Will love finally find Frankie? or will it prove too elusive? Can she solve the riddle of crime in time? Directed by Pear veteran Michael Champlin, and featuring The Pear's Artistic Director Diane Tasca as the irascible, indomitable, chain-smoking and hard-drinking Frankie, the production runs tonight, May 1 through May 24, 2015.

The Pear Avenue Theatre is proud to present the third chapter in local playwright Paul Braverman's "stage-noir" trilogy featuring gin-soaked private eye Frankie Payne: BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Once again we travel to Boston in the 1960s to see Frankie battle the Irish mafia and solve murder mysteries, but this time she's engaged in mysteries of the heart as well. Will love finally find Frankie? or will it prove too elusive? Can she solve the riddle of crime in time? Directed by Pear veteran Michael Champlin, and featuring The Pear's Artistic Director Diane Tasca as the irascible, indomitable, chain-smoking and hard-drinking Frankie, the production runs May 1 through May 24, 2015.

97.3 KBCO, Channel 93.3 and Z2 Entertainment are proud to present Delta Spirit with Sacco at the Fox Theatre tonight, October 18th, 2014.

Delta Spirit has added three headlining New York City dates in three consecutive nights to their extensive fall tour, today, September 30 and October 1, and October 2. The performances celebrate the release of their highly anticipated new album Into the Wide, due September 9 on Dualtone Records, and honor the city where most of the band resided during the record's conception.

Delta Spirit's fourth record Into the Wide is out now via Dualtone Records. The album is the band's highest charting record to date on Billboard's Top 200, also debuting at #18 on Independent Albums and #15 on Current Alternative Albums charts. Into the Wide is receiving widespread critical acclaim.

Into the Wide, the awaited fourth album from acclaimed San Diego-bred five-piece Delta Spirit, will be released today, September 9 via Dualtone Records.

The video for lead single “From Now On” off Delta Spirit's highly anticipated Into the Wide is now streaming at Entertainment Weekly (http://bit.ly/1opx6SH). Of the video, which was filmed on a ranch in Southeast Colorado, director Andrew Bruntel of Wes Anderson's The Director's Bureau explains “it's comprised of three simple, understated vignettes dealing with various relationship dynamics…if I could parse it down to one simple theme it would be vulnerability. Vulnerability in friendships, in our relationships with family and with the pets/animals that we allow into our lives.”

97.3 KBCO, Channel 93.3 and Z2 Entertainment are proud to present Delta Spirit with Sacco at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, October 18th, 2014.

Delta Spirit has added three headlining New York City dates in three consecutive nights to their extensive fall tour. The performances celebrate the release of their highly anticipated new album Into the Wide, due September 9 on Dualtone Records, and honor the city where most of the band resided during the record's conception

Into the Wide, the awaited fourth album from acclaimed San Diego-bred five-piece Delta Spirit, will be released September 9 via Dualtone Records.

Fresh off of their nationwide Three of Clubs tour, Flagship will be playing School Night at Brooklyn Bowl on May 11. In addition, the band has confirmed that they will be heading oversees to play Communion and Camden Rocks Music Festival in London as well as European dates. Details to follow.

Flagship will be co-headlining the nationwide Three of Clubs tour along with Terraplane Sun and Little Daylight. The tour includes stops in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; please see below for complete dates. Flagship's self-titled debut is out now on Bright Antenna Records and is garnering critical acclaim: Consequence of Sound praises the album's “pastoral folk rock graces of bands like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear, with occasional detours into wide-eyed pop catharsis” and American Songwriter describes the band as “reminiscent of the best of The National and old school U2.” The new album was recorded with celebrated producer Ben Allen, best known for his work with Animal Collective, Washed Out and Youth Lagoon. Of the sessions Allen said, “It's really satisfying as a producer to hear the song sound complete and epic right when it's being recorded live, as opposed to having to edit, tweak and mix until it feels that way.”

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov will play in a new version by Anya Reiss, directed by Chris Honer, and running tonight, 21 February - Saturday 8 March 2014 with the Library Theatre Company. The Seagull, one of Anton Chekhov's masterpieces, in a vibrant and critically acclaimed new version by Anya Reiss, is the final production under The Library Theatre Company banner before it becomes HOME, the new organisation created by its merger with Cornerhouse.

Flagship will be co-headlining the nationwide Three of Clubs tour along with Terraplane Sun and Little Daylight. The tour includes stops in New York, Chicago and Los Angele

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov will play in a new version by Anya Reiss, directed by Chris Honer, and running Friday 21 February - Saturday 8 March 2014 with the Library Theatre Company. The Seagull, one of Anton Chekhov's masterpieces, in a vibrant and critically acclaimed new version by Anya Reiss, is the final production under The Library Theatre Company banner before it becomes HOME, the new organisation created by its merger with Cornerhouse.

Have you seen enough of Scrooge, His Imperial Crankiness? Are you ready for another take on the old tale? Herndon, Virginia's Next Stop Theatre has just the thing: a production of 'Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol' a one-man marvel performed. As performed by the lithe and wily Ray Ficca, Marley takes us through the trials and tribulations of being not just Scrooge's long-suffering partner, but also his eternally-suffering guardian angel.

American Songwriter is premiering the new lyric video for Flagship's “Break the Sky” at http://bit.ly/18sf9R9, hailing the track as “a moody anthem reminiscent of the best of The National and old school U2.”

American Songwriter is premiering the new lyric video for Flagship's "Break the Sky" at http://bit.ly/18sf9R9, hailing the track as "a moody anthem reminiscent of the best of The National and old school U2." "Break the Sky" is from the band's upcoming self-titled debut, out October 8 on Bright Antenna Records. To celebrate the release, Flagship will embark on a new run of tour dates including stops at New York's CMJ festival. Earlier this month Consequence of Sound raved that the band "sifts through the pastoral folk rock graces of bands like Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear, with occasional detours into wide-eyed pop catharsis." The new album was recorded with critically acclaimed producer Ben Allen, best known for his work with Animal Collective, Washed Out and Youth Lagoon. Please see reverse for complete tour dates.