• Stars align for Strasenburgh Planetarium, Vanishing Sun collab | Choice Events
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    Stars align for Strasenburgh Planetarium, Vanishing Sun collab | Choice Events

    November 14, 2021 - By 

    click to enlarge PHOTO BY DAVE JONES The creative team behind “Impressions of the Infinte”: Strasenburgh Planetarium Director Steve Fentress and Ian Sherman of the funk fusion band Vanishing Sun. It’s been more than a year and half ago since musician Ian Sherman and the Rochester Museum & Science Center’s Strasenburgh Planetarium Director Steve Fentress planned to premiere the show “Impressions of the Infinite” — combining live music performed by Sherman’s band Vanishing Sun with Fentress’s real-time manipulation…

  • Calendar preview: Sun power | Choice Events
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    Calendar preview: Sun power | Choice Events

    August 16, 2020 - By 

    Summer and sunshine — we’ve still got ’em, Rochester, and we have lots of ways to enjoy them. We should not look directly into the sun, but we can behold it through other means: ripening peaches, sunflower fields, and in the face of a lion. And they’re all here. Leo, the zodiac sign long-associated with the sun, is having its moment right now. Leos can celebrate their namesake through August 16 during World Lion Week at Seneca Park Zoo. This annual education series brings conservation to the forefront to protect a species that has lost around 80 percent of its…

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    Johnny Depp: Dispute over finger injury at centre of The Sun libel case

    March 19, 2020 - By 

    Picture copyright Getty Images Picture caption Amber Read with Johnny Depp in 2016 How Johnny Depp missing the prime of his middle finger is proving important to a libel scenario he has brought from The Solar. The actor is suing publisher Information Group Newspapers (NGN) above a 2018 article that alleged he was violent and abusive in the direction of his ex-wife Amber Read. At a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, the newspaper group said he sustained the injury through “an alcoholic beverages and drug-addled rage from Ms Read” in 2015. But he statements his finger was fractured when she threw…

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    Sun on the Strip Podcast: Talking beer with VGK’s Ryan Reaves

    February 27, 2020 - By 

    Tony Tran Ryan Reaves pours his 7Five Brewing Company’s Showtime Blonde Ale at the NoMad Bar at Park MGM. By Brock Radke (make contact with) Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 | two a.m. Here’s what you are going to find in this week’s episode of the Sunlight on the Strip: Recapping Sarah McLachlan’s efficiency at Encore Theater and finding all set for this week’s shows from Harry Connick Jr. Morrissey is coming to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Rock concert events from Poison and Judas Priest and comedy from Joe Rogan are all on the way to Vegas. “Buddies! The Musical Parody”…

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    Sun on the Strip Podcast: Magician Mat Franco on five more years

    January 23, 2020 - By 

    By Brock Radke (get hold of) Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 | 2 a.m. On this week’s episode of the Sunshine on the Strip podcast, I’m welcoming Mat Franco into the studio to converse about the evolution of his exhibit “Magic Reinvented Nightly” at the Linq, not too long ago extended for five far more several years of magical performances. In the news this week, Vegas is going significant for the NFL Draft, Terry Bradshaw is now a resident at Luxor and Bon Jovi and the Scorpions are preparing significant rock shows on the Strip this year. For the Spotlight, we’re…