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Weird Al brings his legendary full-production multimedia comedy rock show back to the concert stage with the BIGGER & WEIRDER 2025 Tour, playing his iconic hits as well as some never-performed-live-before fan favorites. Al’s long-time band is joined by four additional players to create a super-sized concert experience. “Weird Al” Yankovic is the biggest-selling comedy recording artist in history. A 5-time Grammy Award winner, he is best known for his parodies of the biggest musical artists over the last 4 decades. His many hits include “Amish Paradise,” “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Word Crimes,” and the platinum-selling “White & Nerdy.” His last album "Mandatory Fun" is the only comedy album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Weird Al's live shows have entertained audiences across the globe for generations. In 2022, Yankovic produced and co-wrote the Emmy-winning biopic "WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story," starring Daniel Radcliffe in the title role. Puddles Pity Party, the 7-foot sad clown whose golden voice is “comparable to any Grammy winner” (Los Angeles Times), has amassed over 900K YouTube subscribers and performed sold out shows around the globe including San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, London’s Soho Theatre and a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He has performed on stage with such legends as Eric Idle, Nick Offerman, Jack Black, Maynard James Keenan and Primus. Puddles’ one-of-a-kind “textured voice laced with melancholy” (NY Times) has been hailed as “operatic” (Boston Globe) and his show both “life-affirming” (Herald Scotland) and “hysterically funny” (LA Weekly).  Please note: the San Diego Symphony Orchestra does not appear on this program. Purchase on Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A006125406A5B42 "Weird Al" Yankovic on Facebook / Instagram / X

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Concert Hour is a music enrichment series presented on the campus of Palomar College for our students, staff, and community by the Palomar College Performing Arts Department. Enjoy a range of exciting artists and musicians in the beautiful Howard Brubeck Theatre or Performance Lab D-10. The program is presented weekly during the Fall and Spring Semesters at 1 p.m. and ends at approximately 2 p.m. Admission and Parking are FREE. This Week’s Performing Arts Will Be Located in Performance Lab D -10 Justine Dawn Tiu, a native of Southern California, Justine enjoys working bicoastal as a freelance musician and educator in California and Florida. Recent engagements include performing with the Jacksonville Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Redlands Symphony, and being appointed principal harp of San Bernardino Symphony. Justine graduated from Northwestern University with a Masters in Harp Performance (‘21). Major teachers include Marguerite Lynn Williams (Lyric Opera & Northwestern) and Kayo Ishimaru-Fleisher (Jacksonville Symphony & Grant Park Symphony). Visit: Justine Dawn Tiu – Concert Hour Justine Dawn Tiu on Instagram

Friday, June 20, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Discover the life of singer-songwriter Janis Ian and how she rose as a folk icon and gay rights advocate. She broke ground with "Society's Child" (1966), a bold take on interracial love, and "At Seventeen" (1975), a searing anthem about bullying.

Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her first interview since the board installed President Trump as its new chair.

A wrongful death lawsuit alleges the company fostered a risky culture of drug use among some leaders and employees, claiming they routinely use potent psychedelics as an unregulated form of “healing” and for recreational purposes.

By 2027, Kraft Heinz says all artificial food dyes will be replaced with natural colors. The move comes two months after federal officials called on food companies to stop using synthetic dyes.

En los últimos días, Trump ha prometido desviar las redadas migratorias de sitios gobernados por sus aliados políticos y dirigirlas hacia sus adversarios políticos, dándole prioridad a las deportaciones en Chicago, Los Ángeles, Nueva York y ciudades en "el núcleo del centro de poder demócrata".

The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction.