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West Central Dairy Princesses Brenda Hinseth, left, and Julie Gatewood take the big plunge into the icy water of Green Lake during the 8th annual event held Jan. 28, 2012, to raise money for the Special Olympics. This year’s event is scheduled for Saturday near Saulsbury Beach on Green Lake. (Tribune file photo by Ron Adams)

9th annual Polar Plunge takes place Saturday on Green Lake in Spicer, Minn.

By Carolyn Lange SPICER — The Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Department sent out a public advisory last weekend warning people about unsafe ice after a truck partially plunged into open water...

entertainment / showcase Thu, Jan 24, 2013 - 7:10am

King celebration to travel to New York Mills, Minn.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis-based multicultural theater is bringing its celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the New York Mills Cultural Center. Mixed Blood Theatre will present...

entertainment / theater Wed, Jan 23, 2013 - 10:30am

Jessica Chastain plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives, stationed in a covert base overseas, with Christopher Stanley, left, and Alex Corbet Burcher, right, who secretly devote themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures' new thriller, "Zero Dark Thirty." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley)

Chastain films take top 2 spots at box office

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg over the weekend, topping the box office with both her supernatural horror film “Mama” and the Oscar-nominated...

entertainment / showcase Mon, Jan 21, 2013 - 11:11am

20 years on, Katie Beers says kidnapping saved her

OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — Being chained as a 10-year-old for more than two weeks in a coffin-size box in a suburban New York dungeon was, Katie Beers says 20...

entertainment / television Tue, Jan 15, 2013 - 8:57am

'Argo,' 'Les Mis' win at Golden Globes

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Ben Affleck got some vindication and Jodie Foster made a revelation at the Golden Globe Awards. Affleck's "Argo" earned him best motion picture drama and...

entertainment Mon, Jan 14, 2013 - 7:17am

Beloved vintage cars star in 'Gangster Squad'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — To bring the story of mobster Mickey Cohen's reign over post-war Los Angeles to life, the director of “Gangster Squad” employed Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan...

entertainment / showcase Fri, Jan 11, 2013 - 8:10am

Orchestra instructor Lisa Zeller, right, helps Darren Seubert tune his bass during fourth-grade orchestra rehearsal Tuesday at Roosevelt Elementary School in Willmar. (Tribune photo by Gary Miller)

Music Matters hosting Jazz in January event to raise money for orchestra program in Willmar, Minn.

WILLMAR — The chance to dance to a live jazz orchestra doesn’t come along all that often. Willmar Music Matters is offering it Saturday night in a fundraiser for the...

entertainment / showcase Thu, Jan 10, 2013 - 10:10am

This publicity film image released by DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox shows Daniel Day-Lewis portraying Abraham Lincoln in the film "Lincoln." (AP Photo/DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, David James, file)

'Lincoln' leads Oscars with 12 nominations

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The Civil War saga "Lincoln" leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis,...

entertainment Thu, Jan 10, 2013 - 8:23am

TV-over-Internet service expands despite lawsuits

NEW YORK — The Barry Diller-backed Internet company that challenged cable and satellite TV services by offering inexpensive live television online plans to expand beyond New York City this spring...

entertainment / television Wed, Jan 09, 2013 - 7:20am

This file theater publicity image provided by Disney Theatricals shows, from left, Neil McCaffrey, Scarlett Strallen and Cassady Leonard in a scene from "Mary Poppins," in New York. The six-year old musical will end performances in March at the New Amsterdam Theatre and eventually be replaced by a musical adapted from the film “Aladdin.” (AP Photo/Disney Theatricals, Joan Marcus)

'Mary Poppins' to close on Broadway in the spring

NEW YORK (AP) — “Mary Poppins” is closing up its big umbrella on Broadway. An official close to the show's producers said Monday that the 6-year-old musical will end performances...

entertainment / theater Tue, Jan 08, 2013 - 9:57am

David Letterman says he sees psychiatrist weekly

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Three years after an extortion scandal that led him to bare his infidelities, David Letterman said he sees a psychiatrist once a week to try to...

entertainment / television Tue, Jan 08, 2013 - 8:40am

NBC execs say it's not a 'shoot-'em-up' network

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NBC executives said Sunday they are conscious about the amount of violence they air in the wake of real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting, but...

entertainment / television Mon, Jan 07, 2013 - 8:38am

‘McDreamy’ says he beat Starbucks for coffee chain

SEATTLE (AP) — “Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick Dempsey may be the real “McSteamy.” The actor, who was dubbed “McDreamy” by fans of the hospital drama while his co-star affectionately has...

entertainment / television Fri, Jan 04, 2013 - 3:54pm

$Matt Damon stars as Steve Butler in Gus Van Sant’s contemporary drama “Promised Land,” a Focus Features release set to open Friday nationwide. In this film about fracking, Damon’s character repeatedly points out that drilling has brought new life to struggling towns, calls U.S. reliance on foreign sources of energy “insane,” and defends fracking as a technology with a proven track record of safety. And he seems to believe it himself, at least initially. (AP Photo/Focus Features, Sam Jones)$

‘Promised Land’: Hollywood faces fracking

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The new movie “Promised Land” digs into the fierce national debate over fracking, the technique that’s generated a boom in U.S. natural gas production while also stoking...

entertainment / showcase Thu, Jan 03, 2013 - 9:44am