The year 2023 marked the 16th season of presenting the arts for the outdoor performing arts venue, a program of the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, near Selbyville. This season brought fresh beginnings to the non-profit as it debuted the new box office and main entrance. These are the first of two permanent structures in the venue and the first part of the multi-phased plan for the expanded venue. These new structures have transformed the entry experience for patrons.
Congratulations to Actress Angela Basset she is finally getting an Oscar. This November The Academy Awards Committee will be presenting Angela Bassett and Legendary Film Director Mel Brooks with honorary Oscars for their work throughout the years.
Although Gene Pitney, who died this week, is likely to be remembered mainly for "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" and "24 Hours from Tulsa", he was a much more versatile talent than that suggests. When he re-recorded the former in 1989 as a duet with Marc Almond, it went to No 1, presenting Pitney as a cabaret crooner in the vein of Andy Williams and Engelbert Humperdinck, but in his 1960s heyday he was a more singular figure, who deftly straddled the divide between that kind of big-throated pop balladry and the emergent beat-group culture.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj represented himself in court. He told jurors that the federal government was presenting a false narrative and that they needed to consider only the facts as they deliberated his fate and that of his two sisters and his brother-in-law.