4 Tools At Lowe's With Deep Discounts In September 2026

www.slashgear.com: Building a home tool kit can be an expensive proposition, especially when power tools enter the mix. A basic kit should include the essentials such as a hammer, screwdrivers, a tape measure, pliers, and more. A cordless drill will simplify many projects, but if you're planning some serious DIY or home renovations, you'll want to add more power.

Robbins Dance & Performing Arts Expands Division

BroadwayWorld: Robbins Sports Surfaces has announced the expansion of Robbins Dance & Performing Arts as a dedicated division, reinforcing the company's longstanding commitment to dancers and performers with the same focus it has long delivered to professional athletes. Leading the charge is James Fayette, former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer, who joins as Vice President of Business Development.

2,977 Lights Commemorate The Lives Lost As Drones Evoke Twin Towers Over NY

Live Design Online: An artwork made up of 2,977 lights has been produced over New York Harbor, recreating the Twin Towers with drones for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack. The lights represent the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001.

Paramount To Transform Hollywood With Warner Merger After AG Settlement That Clears Way For Warner Merger

www.forbes.com: An imminent settlement of the lawsuit by 12 states’ attorneys general blocking the $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery by much smaller rival Paramount Skydance removes one of the last barriers to a fundamental reshaping of Hollywood’s battered entertainment industry.

State AGs: Live Nation Deal Could Entrench Ticketmaster

www.ticketnews.com: Attorneys general from 17 states and the District of Columbia are warning that the Justice Department’s proposed antitrust settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster could do more than fail to restore competition — portions of the deal could actually strengthen Ticketmaster’s dominant position.

Heated Rivalry Musical Recoups Off-Broadway, Extends

Playbill: The acclaimed Off-Broadway run of Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, which officially opened May 26 following previews that began May 12 at The Culture Club, has recouped its initial investment in 13 weeks.

Wenger Corporation Launches GearBoss Sports Rigging for Sports and Entertainment Venues

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Wenger Corporation has announced the launch of GearBoss Sports Rigging, expanding the company's capabilities to provide engineered rigging solutions for sports and entertainment venues across North America.

Where Did the Creatives of the 2025-26 Broadway Season Go to School?

Playbill: As part of Playbill's Back to School week, take a look at our annual report on the colleges and universities with the most creative alums performing on Broadway in the 2025–26 Broadway season. Below you'll find this year's top 20 most represented schools for Broadway creatives (technically 22 due to ties). Take a look and see if your school—or a school you're considering attending—made the list!

Where Did the Actors of the 2025-26 Broadway Season Go to School?

Playbill: As part of Playbill's Back to School week, take a look at our annual report on the colleges and universities with the most alumni performing on Broadway in the 2025-26 Broadway season. Below you'll find this year's top 20 most represented schools on Broadway (well technically 22 due to ties). Take a look and see if your school—or a school you're considering attending—made the list!

Joseph Herscher’s Rube Goldberg Machines Create Wonder, Not Efficiency

The New York Times: Any busy morning routine can feel like a bit of a tap dance. But recently, Joseph Herscher turned getting ready for the day into a comically intricate work of choreography. Mechanized choreography, that is. Herscher, known online as Joseph’s Machines, has collected millions of social followers with videos of his pointedly inefficient chain-reaction machines. He’s a Rube Goldberg for the digital age.

Library of Congress opens experiential gallery for children

AV Magazine: The Library of Congress has opened The Source, an experiential research gallery where interactive AV technology helps children explore primary sources independently. Part of the A Library for You initiative, the 370 sq metre space uses projection-mapped animation, RFID-enabled objects and digital workstations to introduce visitors aged eight to 15 to the library’s vast collections in film, text, sound and image.

NYC Village Halloween Parade 2026: Theme and Route

www.timeout.com/newyork: New Yorkers, start stretching. The Village Halloween Parade is returning on Saturday, October 31, and its newly announced theme gives you permission to show a little skin, bare your bones or dance like nobody’s watching. This year, it’s “Body & Soul.”

Anonymous Content interview on 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' Emmy wins

www.goldderby.com: Anonymous Content, the entertainment company responsible for bringing Shelby Van Pelt's 2022 novel Remarkably Bright Creatures to life on Netflix, told Gold Derby that they celebrated the recent awards attention by making "a very generous donation" to World Wildlife Fund's "Adopt an Octopus" charity.

Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival to Feature Kid Capri and Eric Roberson

BroadwayWorld: The August Wilson African American Cultural Center’s (AWAACC) 2026 B.U.I.L.D. Residency Program, made possible with major support from the Joyce and George Wein Foundation, features Kid Capri, the iconic New York Grammy-winning rapper, DJ and producer, and Eric Roberson, the acclaimed R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and producer known as a pioneer of the independent music movement. Both artists will appear at the 16th Annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival co-presented by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (PIJF) September 17 – 20.

Tim Blake Nelson Says It's Never Been This Bad for Indie Film

www.thewrap.com: Over the course of his lengthy career, Tim Blake Nelson has seen it all. An actor, director, writer and producer whose latest film, “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” is premiering at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, he’s seen the industry evolve dramatically over the decades. And although he’s continued to work through all of it, this hasn’t always been an easy undertaking — especially in independent film.

Preview: Mandy Gonzalez Sings the Songs of Lin-Manuel Miranda With PSO Pops

onStage Pittsburgh: Mandy Gonzalez, the original Nina in the Tony Award-winning In the Heights, possesses a genre-defying voice that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to gush that she is “one of the greatest singers on earth.” She has played some of the most memorable characters in some of the most memorable Broadway productions of the 2000s — Elphaba in Wicked and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard among them — but it is her collaborations with the creator of In the Heights and Hamilton that brings her to Heinz Hall for Everything I Know: Mandy Gonzalez Sings Lin-Manuel Miranda, October 8-11, 2026.

Tateside leads AV integration at the OId Granada Studios

AV Magazine: Opened in 1956 as the UK’s first purpose-built TV centre, the Old Granada Studios is a landmark of central Manchester. Once home to Coronation Street, the studios are now at the centre of a major redevelopment featuring event spaces and hospitality venues including Manchester’s first Soho House and Mollie’s Motel & Diner. London-based system integration specialists, Tateside, led the vast AV installation across both the Soho House & Mollie’s sites.

Horton Foote Prize, Champion Playwriting Fellowship, MENA Grants, and More

AMERICAN THEATRE: The 1/52 Project has given out more than $675,000 in grants in the past five years to 46 early-career set, costume, lighting, sound, projections, hair, and makeup designers. Launched in January 2022, the 1/52 Project is primarily funded by Broadway designers who are encouraged to donate their weekly royalties to the fund. The project hopes to encourage early-career designers from historically excluded groups with the aim of diversifying and strengthening the Broadway design community.

AI and your intellectual property

www.thefabricator.com: In the 1980s, television stations across the U.S. picked up a tag line that originated in New York media for public service announcements that TV watchers from that decade will remember: “It’s 10:00 PM. Do you know where your children are?” Today, parents can track their children through their smartphones and tablets. They have a good handle on where they are most of the time. Can the same be said for manufacturing companies and their data? Do they know where that is?

Tommy Dorfman Targets Live Nation Settlement Loopholes

www.ticketnews.com: Longtime concert promoter Tommy Dorfman is urging the federal court reviewing the Justice Department’s settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster to reject the agreement, arguing that specific exceptions involving venue rebates and music festivals could preserve the same kind of industry leverage he says destroyed his own festival business.