Tag: Entertainment & Pop Culture

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (RNS) Fred Rogers, the man behind the long-running “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” children’s show, died 10 years ago, but his influence is still felt deeply here, the city he called home.

With the passage of some weeks the History Channel’s miniseries “The Bible” begins to fade from the public eye and embark perhaps on a gentle migration (as so many fleetingly popular titles do) to the bargain price video bin at Walmart. I have already delved into some of those aspects of the series that catches the eye of this feisty non-Christian (focusing on Genesis, the Samson Tale and the Exodus), and will conclude with the transition the story took from Old to New Testaments.

Is there anything morally redeeming about “Game of Thrones”? Does the hit HBO series even have a moral vision?

The show is certainly entertaining, almost addictively so, and as “Games of Thrones” wraps up its third season on Sunday (June 9), the ratings reflect that popularity...

Christian rock band Third Day will be performing during the Lilac Bowl at Spokane's Riverfront Park on July 13.

Also performing during the local SPIRIT FEST event will be Colton Dixon from American Idol

Without sounding a note, the Blonde Redheads say something about today’s world. They are an American band comprised of Japanese musician Kazu Makino and two twin Italian brothers, Simone and Amedeo Pace.

The audience sitting in the Bing Crosby Theater was whisked away to the city of Agrabah, where every beggar has a story and every camel has a tail.

The Christian Youth Theater of Spokane’s spring production of “Aladdin Jr.”, premiered May 24 at the Bing Crosby Theater.

When Mark Lowry was 9 years old in the late 1960s, his parents made sure he got to record an album. They realized their young son had a gift for singing and with his teenage years fast approaching, they worried his voice would change.
“My dad paid $500 so I could record that album,” Lowry said. “I have wonderful parents. They found out what you were good at and then fanned the flame.”