WebNews
Please enter a web search for web results.
NewsWeb
Meet a snake charmer, breaking down the Surfside report, game over for Play Station, dog beach
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (303+ words) It's time for the Florida Python Challenge, when novices and pros traipse the Everglades to hunt for the invasive species in the name of conservation. We've got last year's winner to talk about what goes on during the event. Plus,…...
St. Petersburg comedian fundraising to take 'Beer with a Queer' show to a Scotland fringe festival
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (491+ words) A St. Petersburg comedian is taking his show to an international audience this fall in Scotland. Jeff Klein is known for his "Fatty Gay" comedy special on Amazon and for his "Beer with a Queer" bit on You Tube. In…...
Kathy Griffin on surviving controversy, skewering celebs and coming back to Tampa
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (788+ words) Kathy Griffin was once known for telling gossipy stories about celebrities. By the mid-aughts, her reality show, "My Life on the D-List," won two Emmys for Outstanding Reality Program. It now streams on Peacock. The blowback was fierce. She lost…...
Julian Barnes' playful new book is also his 'official departure"
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (616+ words) Departure(s) explores several of Barnes' lifelong obsessions " mortality, memory, and time. It's slim but weighty, digressive yet incisive. Barnes, who just turned 80, says it will be his last. Julian Barnes' playful new book is also his 'official departure' In Departure…...
Improv comedy: Why this spontaneous art form is gaining new audiences
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (1011+ words) Standing on stage without a script in front of dozens " even hundreds of people " might sound like a nightmare. But that's improv comedy, and it's gaining popularity around the country as in-person events draw crowds and reels on social media…...
In 'The Roses,' Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a couple at odds
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1045+ words) Many movies that have been made detail the start of relationships. Those dizzying first moments of love " flirtation and the spark of attraction, first kisses and the will-they-or-won't-they tension of so many romantic comedies. The movie, directed by Jay Roach,…...
'SNL' castmember Bowen Yang shares a piece of 'cultural contraband' from his youth
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (484+ words) For Bowen Yang, joining SNL as a writer in 2018, and then becoming a castmember the following year, was the fulfillment of a prophesy: during his senior year of high school, Yang had been voted "Most Likely to be on SNL....
Flight of the Conchords' Bret Mc Kenzie on family, legacy and 'Freak Out City"
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (589+ words) Bret Mc Kenzie built his music career on a foundation of comedy. As a young artist, he played in multiple bands spanning a variety of genres, though he's best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of…...
Chappell Roan's thick-skinned 'The Subway' captures a survivalist New York mood
11+ mon, 5+ day ago (629+ words) Her latest single has a new sound (wistful '90s acoustic pop), and a new vibe (toughing out whatever NYC public transportation throws at you, from rats to trash to unexpected encounters with your ex). Chappell Roan's thick-skinned 'The Subway' captures a…...
Remembering composer and musical satirist Tom Lehrer
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (404+ words) (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "POLLUTION") TOM LEHRER: (Singing) See the halibuts and the sturgeons are being wiped out by detergents. A fish got to swim, and birds got to fly. But they don't last long if they try. Pollution. Pollution. You…...