New this week: Harry Styles, 'Angelyne' and 'The Valet'
This week’s new entertainment releases include Harry Styles' third solo album, a reboot of “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers” that has attracted some top “Saturday Night Live” alums, and Emmy Rossum stars in a series about media personality Angelyne.
Astroworld festival tragedy: Here are 5 concerts that turned deadly
(Amy Harris/Invision/AP)HOUSTON — Concerts can be high-energy affairs, with attendees perhaps suffering from hoarseness or ringing in their eyes from the noise. However, as Friday night’s tragedy at the Astrodome music festival demonstrated, there are times when concerts turn deadly. Officials declared a “mass casualty event” outside NRG Park during the Astroworld Festival, according to the Houston Chronicle. The Astroworld Festival was founded by Scott in 2018, Variety reported. Here are five other high-profile incidents:Route 91 Harvest FestivalOn Oct. 1, 2017, a 64-year-old gunman named Stephen Craig Paddock fired into a crowd attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
wftv.comThe Who concert memorial fundraiser plays on, virtually
Alumni of nearby Finneytown High School, who lost three classmates in the tragedy, faced obstacles in 2020 to their annual memorial scholarship fund-raising event. Aging alums had wanted their schoolmates to be remembered and decided that the tragedy “could be turned into something that was a living memorial,” Wittenbaum said. Boosted by a visit from Daltrey in 2018 to the Finneytown High memorial, where he signed a guitar, albums, books and other items for auction, they raised enough last year for four scholarships. Wittenbaum, choking up, unveiled a new plaque at the Finneytown memorial listing all 11 who died. The stars, of course, were Daltrey and Townshend, who spoke in separate interviews about how the tragedy has haunted them.