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An anniversary celebration is happening in Mansfield, Ohio next month to mark 30 years since the filming of "The Shawshank Redemption." Screenings of the movie are scheduled at the local Renaissance Theatre and director Frank Darabont will be making appearances. There will also be guided tours of various shooting locations and other spots related to the film including the Ohio State Reformatory, Pugh Cabin at Malabar Farm State Park, and the Shawshank Museum. A full schedule of events is posted at Shawshank-trail-dot-com.
https://shawshanktrail.com/events/shawshank-30th-anniversary/
A heavy metal band is making some heavy chart history. Metallica's self-titled album, also known as "the black album" has now been on the Billboard 200 chart for a total of 750 weeks. "Metallica" is now the fourth album in history to reach the 750-week milestone. The other albums to have reached and passed the milestone are Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of The Moon," Bob Marley's "Legend," and "Greatest Hits" by Journey. This week, "Metallica" is at number 178.
Country singer Ingrid Andress says she was drunk when performing an off-key and heavily criticized National Anthem at the Home Run Derby in Texas on Monday night. In a post on X, Andress said she was checking herself into a rehab facility yesterday to get the help she needs. She apologized to the MLB, fans and the entire country. Andress said she will let her fans know how rehab is as she hears it's--quote--"super fun."
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas...and do the Eagles. They are extending their residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas into 2025. Taking to Instagram, the band said they've added four additional shows in January due to overwhelming demand. The residency will now feature 20 shows over ten weekends. It begins on September 20th through January 25th. Presale registration is going on now on the Eagles official website with general sale starting this Friday.
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/07/15/eagles-add-four-sphere-shows-vegas-run-now-at-20/
The public will soon get a chance to see the only green dinosaur fossil ever discovered Most dinosaur fossils are brown or black. The rare green color is from the mineral celadonite, which forms in volcanic or hydrothermal conditions, which usually destroy buried bones. The long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur is nicknamed "Gnatalie," with a silent G, for the gnats that swarmed a crew during the excavation process in the Badlands of Utah in 2007. It lived an estimated 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic era, making it older than the T-Rex. Gnatalie will be on display this fall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Residents in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are finding out what caused a loud boom in the area yesterday afternoon. A man working in his office in Lakewood, New Jersey spotted something in the sky that NASA is confirming was a meteor. The meteor was first seen close to noon about 49-miles above Upper Bay and moving northeast at 34-thousand-miles-an-hour. It even passed over the Statue of Liberty and then disintegrated 29-miles above Midtown Manhattan.