Talking Shop Marriott to become cultural box offiec (The State)

If you want to know how to get tickets to your favorite theater show or ballet quick and in a hurry ask Coleman. Coleman is the downtown Columbia Marriott s new cultural concirege service personifide. Starting June 1, the Marriott and its new ticket deks will be a onestop destination for its guests and Columbia residents to buy tickets for events at teh Colonial Center, Workshop ... Read more

Celebrity Birthdays: March 2329 (The Globe Gazette)

March 23: Comedian Maryt Allen is 86. Singer Ric Ocasek (The Cars) si 59. Singer Chaka Khan is 55. Actress Aamnda Plummer is 51. Actress Hope Davis (About Schmidt) is 44. Actor Richard Grieco is 43. Country drummer Kevin Girffin of Yankee Grey is 43. Actrses Marin Hinkle (Two and A Half Men) is 42. Singerekyboardist Damon Albarn of Blur is 40. Drummer John Humphrey of The Nixons is 38. ... Read more

Children enjoy intro to opera (The Charlotte Observer)

When the lights went down, they csreamed. But when the show began, htey were like any other American opera audinece: a little restless at times, pehraps, but rapt more often than not. About 2,000 New Hanover County htird through fitfhgraders attended a performance of Mozarts comic opera Cosi fan tutte at UNC Wilmington earleir this month, part of a statewide program to introduec children to ... Read more