@kwellscomm @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com Entertainment News  — Tinseltown’s most luxurious award night is fast approaching. The 89th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday night. “La La Land” is the break-out leader with a record 14 nominations, including Best Picture. Other films vying for the coveted award are “Moonlight,” “Lion,” “Hidden Figures,” “Arrival,” “Hell or High Water,” “Manchester by […]

@kwellscomm @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com News  —  UPDATE: (Thurs., Feb. 16, 2017)– The community will gather with family and friends on Saturday, Feb. 18 to celebrate the life of a native son and one of the founding members of an Indianapolis R&B band that launched musical legends. A viewing for musician/vocalist Charles “Chuckie” Bush, II will be held […]

@kwellscomm  @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com News  — Mary Tyler Moore was apparently a big inspiration on former First Lady Michelle Obama as a young girl. Mrs. Obama told Variety magazine in a 2016 interview that “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was an important part of her childhood. Obama noted that Moore played one of the few single working women […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com News  The actress best known as the iconic character ‘Princess Leia’ in the original “Star Wars” film trilogy, Carrie Fisher, is dead at the age of 60. Fisher died after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles last week. People on board the plane gave the “Star Wars” […]

@kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com Entertainment News –  The man who had a wide-reaching impact on American comedy and whose work was beloved across generations, and racial lines, has died. Click the media player below, to learn more about comedic actor, writer, producer Gene Wilder, his on-screen partnerships and illustrious body of work. (WTLC News) Wilder dedicated his […]

Three major Hollywood studios have decided to back an online movie ticketing app to make it easier for you to get your tickets for your next showtime.  Fox, Disney and Lionsgate are showing their support for Atom Tickets in the form of $50 million. The startup is meant to make it easier specifically for groups […]

This is a film you’re sure to hear more about. It’s called, “The Birth of a Nation” and it’s the big winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Nat Turner slave rebellion drama swept the Grand Jury and Audience Award honors Saturday in Utah. It’s the fourth straight year that a film has swept the marquee […]

Actor Jamie Foxx is being praised for helping to rescue a man who was trapped inside a burning truck. Foxx who plays heroic characters on screen all the time leaped into action in real life. Foxx says he rushed to the scene after hearing the crash Monday night in Ventura County. California Highway Patrol says […]

Jamie Foxx is set to play Little John in the film “Robin Hood: Origins.”  It is the latest adaptation of the classic story in which a bandit leads a group of ‘merry men’ liberating wealth from the rich for the benefit of the less privileged.  This new Robin Hood tale is expected to be grittier than […]

Supermodel and cosmetics industry titan, Iman, is relying on her faith in the face of her family’s most recent challenge. On Sunday, her husband, musical legend, songwriter, and actor David Bowie died. Word of his death was posted on the artist’s official social media accounts and confirmed by his representative. Bowie died just, two days after his 69th birthday. […]

So, you want to make yours a great Labor Day holiday weekend for yourself and your family? Okay, check out some of the events discussed during my local news on Friday morning’s Yolanda Adams Morning Show and on Saturday morning’s HARAMBEE!: “Anne & Emmett” a play by journalist, author, and playwright–Indy’s own–Janet Langhart Cohen. Cohen was born In […]

So, you want to make yours a great Labor Day holiday weekend for yourself and your family? Okay, check out some of the events discussed during my local news on Friday morning’s Yolanda Adams Morning Show and on Saturday morning’s HARAMBEE!: “Anne & Emmett” a play by journalist, author, and playwright–Indy’s own–Janet Langhart Cohen. Cohen was born In […]