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Courtesy of Emily's Toybox Online

Emily's Toybox, will play the West Shore Hardware Bar this Friday at 8:00 pm.

Below is a promotional video of Emily's Toybox, featuring clips from various performances.

Courtesy of August Burns Red's Myspace page

Metalcore icons August Burns Red opens their world tour tonight at Lemoyne's Champion Ship. Their exhausting three-month tour will see the Lancaster, Pa. band play 67 shows in 75 days in 17 countries. This is a must-see show. Opening are A Skylit Drive and Sky Eats Airplane. Tickets are $12 in advance and $14 the day of the show.

Below is the music video to "Composure."

I'm still reeling from watching Tropic Thunder yesterday and of course had to start searching for any and every story on the web relating to the film.

As I perused through the Internet for general Tropic Thunder news, reviews, photos, and what have you, I came across a list of EW's Top 25 funniest films since 1983. I was befuddled to find I've seen less than 10 of them. Clearly I have some catching up to do.

movies.yahoo.comWatch out for those VietCongs...er...VietCong.

NEW YORK -- Susan Lucci, Toni Braxton and Lance Bass will hit the floor on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." They are among 13 celebrities slated to compete on the new season of the top-rated dance contest, premiering Sept. 22.

The other contestants are Cloris Leachman, Kim Kardashian, Ted McGinley, Brooke Burke, NFL champ Warren Sapp and two Olympic athletes: Misty May-Treanor, who won her second gold medal for beach volleyball at this year's summer games in Beijing, and Maurice Greene, who won two gold medals in track at the 2000 games in Sydney. Rounding out the cast are chef Rocco DiSpirito, Cody Linley of "Hannah Montana" and comedian Jeffrey Ross.

"Traitor," which opens Wednesday, is the kind of movie so many of us yearn to see: It's intense and intelligent, has something to say without being pedantic and presents complicated issues without condescending.

An Overture Films release, it is rated PG-13 for intense violent sequences, thematic material and brief language. Running time is 112 minutes.

The Associated PressIn this image released by Overture films, Guy Pearce, left, and Don Cheadle are shown in a scene from "Traitor."

GARY DWIGHT MILLER, Patriot-NewsGregg Allman with the Allman Brothers Band performs "Stormy Monday" at the Hersheypark Star Pavilion in Derry Township, Monday.

Gregg Allman proves that youth is wasted on the young.

The gray-bearded leader of the Allman Brothers Band survived a drug- and drink-fueled misspent youth and more recently battled back from a yearlong convalescence from complications of hepatitis C.

Dig into sauerbraten and tap your toes to authentic German music at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Saviour's sixth annual GermanFest. It kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church at 420 N. Progress Ave. in Susquehanna Twp.

Church members have been busy preparing sauerbraten, hahnchenschnitzel (chicken schnitzel), kohlroulade (cabbage rolls), chicken soup, oxtail soup, bratwurst, hot dogs and baked goods.

PHILADELPHIA -- Classical pianist Van Cliburn will perform a rare concert in Philadelphia during the 2008 Liberty Medal ceremony honoring former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Sept. 18.

It will be the 50th anniversary year of the Texas native's victory at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Van Cliburn, now 74, was only 23 years old when he won that competition on April 14, 1958, at the height of the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev, who was premier at the time, granted permission to the Soviet judges to award the prize to an American
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The National Constitution Center's 2008 Liberty Medal will be awarded to Gorbachev for his role in ending the Cold War.

The Liberty Medal ceremony will take place at the National Constitution Center at 7 p.m. Sept. 18.

Among the new exhibitors at this year's Long's Park Art & Craft Festival will be glassblower Earl James of Cleveland, who created this bowl.

More than 200 of the nation's top artists and craftspeople will have their works on display during the Long's Park Art & Craft Festival, Aug. 29-Sept. 1 in Lancaster's Long Park. Categories of art at the four-day show include jewelry, apparel, leather, glass, paintings and photography.

Exhibitors at the festival were chosen by a panel of jurors from among more than 1,200 applications from artists in 46 states and three foreign countries. "It has a long history as a superlative show," Lancaster art appraiser Michael L. Heberlein said. "You know that the artists coming in are professionals who do this for a living. They are the cream of the crop."

Jason Statham in Universal Pictures' 'Death Race'

(AP) - "Death Race" bravely faces that philosophical quandary every one of us must face: What to do when a ninja breaks into your home, frames you for the murder of your wife and taunts you with a finger-gun motion?