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VIDEO GAME REVIEWS: ‘TOP SPIN 4’ & ‘VIRTUA TENNIS 4’
For the sport of tennis on the video game console, a simple question remains: When will they get it right?
Top-five concert tours
The top-five concert tours, ranked by average-box-office-gross per city. Includes the average ticket
NEWSMAKERS | Songwriter Brooks apparently kills self
Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of “You Light Up My Life” who was awaiting trial for rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS | Public art project at YSU festival
The Summer Festival of the Arts is collaborating with Art Youngstown to produce and exhibit a second public art project, “Here Comes the Sun.”
Today’s entertainment picks
Today’s entertainment picks: v ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, 7 p.m.: Texas boogie-blues and Southern
The story of Oprah
TV queen’s show will end but presence remains By Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times As “The Oprah
RECORD REVIEWS | TINIE TEMPAH “Disc-Overy”
Tinie Tempah has already conquered his homeland with a smash album and four No. 1 U.K. singles and is ready to take on America with a new version of his “Disc-Overy” (Capitol) debut.
Pop culture Q&A
By Rich Heldenfels McClatchy Newspapers Q. My wife and I weren’t fans of reality shows until
GO & DO
TODAY Bike Night 2nd Annual Rite Aid Fun Ride & Poker Run, 8 a.m. to 4 a.m., Harley-Davidson
NEWSMAKERS | Idol finalist Suddeth is ‘country girl’ at heart
Every Wednesday night since she was 12, Lauren Alaina Suddeth belted out a two-hour set at a restaurant just across the Tennessee border from her hometown of Rossville, Ga.
‘How States Got Shapes’ is a fun history lesson
Watching “How the States Got Their Shapes,” the new History Channel show, is sort of like sitting through an hourlong history class taught by a fav-orite teacher.
LITERARY NEWS | ESPN’s history covers 700-plus pages
A new book about ESPN mixes a detailed corporate history of the 24-hour-a-day sports network with off-camera gossip and after-hours tales about the personalities there.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS For the week ending May 14
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Dead Reckoning” by Charlaine Harris (Ace) 2. “Buried Prey” by John
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS | YSU arts festival seeks volunteers
The 13th annual Summer Festival of the Arts on July 9-10 on the Youngstown State University campus is seeking volunteers.
Catching up with ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd Double trouble
By JOHN BENSON entertainment@vindy.com The paths of classic rock acts ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd