Archive for February, 2009
‘Slumdog’ rules Oscars with 8 prizes, best picture
"Slumdog Millionaire" took the best-picture Academy Award and seven other Oscars on Sunday, including director for Danny Boyle, whose ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film’s unlikely rise to Hollywood’s summit. The other top winners: Kate Winslet, best actress for the Holocaust-themed drama "The Reader"; Sean Penn, best actor for the title role of "Milk"; Heath Ledger, [...]
Check out the gallery of Oscar night stars
Check out the stars in a wide-ranging photo gallery from Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
Clooney puts Obama before Oscars
George Clooney apparently had a good reason for skipping out on Oscar night: He had a meeting with President Barack Obama. The Oscar-winning actor appeared Monday on CNN’s “Larry King Live” and spoke of his visit earlier that morning with Obama to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region. Clooney said he told the [...]
Qdoba orders up plenty of mixing and matching
Qdoba is a perfect place for those diners who want to make sure everything is just so, along with folks who like to try different spins on familiar favorites. Qdoba, a chain Mexican eatery, has set up its first Peoria-area operation. It’s like Subway: you order at the counter and request exactly what you want [...]
Symphony patron pulls donation over Commanday dismissal
A donor who funds a substantial portion of the music director’s annual $93,600 salary said Thursday that he is withdrawing his support from the Peoria Symphony Orchestra in protest of David Commanday’s dismissal. Former Caterpillar Inc. President Robert Gilmore, who funds the music director’s chair under the Mr. and Mrs. Bob E. Gilmore Endowment, also [...]
Symphony Orchestra players look to form union
Peoria Symphony Orchestra musicians may soon unionize in response to the board’s decision not to renew music director David Commanday’s contract, according to a statement released Wednesday. Musicians sent official word early this week to the symphony’s management that they want to join the American Federation of Musicians Local 26, said the release, which came [...]
Starbucks launching instant coffee
Starbucks Corp. began selling its new instant coffee online Tuesday, ahead of a nationwide launch to coincide with the company’s first major ad campaign. Customers will be able to buy packets of the new coffee in Starbucks’ Seattle and Chicago stores March 3 and the rest of the company’s U.S. stores in the fall when [...]
Vince Gill coming to Civic Center
Vince Gill will perform at the Peoria Civic Center Theater on May 21. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $40, $45, $55 and $70 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. They are available at the Peoria Civic Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 676-8700 and online at Ticketmaster.com. Gill [...]
Cries of ‘Keep Commanday!’ resound
A REVIEW PEORIA — Once upon a time in the Philippines, the sound of banging pots and pans would echo through the streets of Manila as disenfranchised citizens registered their deep disapproval with the old Marcos dictatorship. When you don’t have a vote, pots and pans will do. Peoria isn’t the Philippines, and there were [...]
Symphony director willing to stay
David Commanday said he would lead the Peoria Symphony Orchestra as music director next year if the orchestra’s board would let him. Meanwhile, more than a dozen people collected signatures outside the Peoria Civic Center before Saturday evening’s concert, which featured Commanday and Time for Three, an innovative string trio. Supporters hope to reverse the [...]
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