Jay and the Americans will perform Feb. 15, 2026, at the Robins Theatre. The vocal group’s hits include “She Cried,” “Come a Little Bit Closer,” “Let’s Lock the Door (and Throw Away the Key),” “Cara Mia,” “This Magic Moment” and “Walkin’ in the Rain.” Tickets for the 5 p.m. show go on sale 10 a.m. Friday through Etix.
They can be found on the same radio stations and playlists and in many of the same CD collections. Saturday they will be on the same stage. Ezra Ray Hart is Better Than Ezra’s Kevin Griffin, Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath and Tonic’s Emerson Hart playing their hits together and, on this tour that includes a Packard Music Hall date, mixing in some seasonal favorites as well. All three continue to work with their own bands, but when the stars — and their schedules — align, they also play shows together, starting about a decade ago. “Over the years, you come across a lot of ...
Better Than Ezra never performed on “Saturday Night Live,” but the group is a tiny part of the show’s history. The band was part of a memorable Norm Macdonald joke during Weekend Update: “And in music news, No. 1 on the college charts this summer was Better Than Ezra. And at No. 2 — Ezra.” The line got a laugh that lasted longer than the joke itself when it originally aired in 1995, and it’s one of those lines that people still remember. After Macdonald died in 2021, it regularly was included in montages of his most memorable “SNL” bits. It also can be seen in ...
Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • Back in August, I wrote about Anthony LaMarca’s latest album, “Weapon,” and its unique distribution model, being available for download only through a QR code printed in the PETRA Int’l Herald, an 8-page newspaper he created. At that time, LaMarca — who is a member of the Grammy-winning band The War on Drugs and releases his solo material as The Building — said he wanted to perform the “Weapon” songs live locally but hadn’t picked a date or a venue. The date is Friday and the venue is a bit of a surprise — ...
“Give us a clock tick” is an expression uttered several times in “Wicked: For Good.” But Jon M. Chu’s two-part musical has asked for quite a bit more than that. Together, the two halves of this “Wicked” adaptation have run 297 minutes, which, more than the threat of lions and tigers and bears, is enough to make any moviegoer not entirely bewitched by the “Wizard of Oz” revision breathe a sigh of “Oh, my.” So it’s a lot of clock ticks, quite a few more than the stage musical, which had roughly half the runtime. But “Wicked” has always been a spectacle of ...
Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e,” through Jan. 29, 2026. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. hoytartcenter.org and 724-652-2882. ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER, 2928 W. 13th St., Ashtabula: “Hope in Artistry: Suicide Awareness and Prevention,” through Nov. 25 with reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. ashtabulaartscenter.org and ...