Angie Renna, vice president of financial services at AXA, along with her dance partner, Roy Shipman, bested the competition Saturday, April 9, to take home first place in the annual Dancing With Our Stars extravaganza. While New Times.

Novak, 24, is a 2010 graduate of Syracuse University’s esteemed Goldring Arts Journalism program. Students in that master’s level curriculum get to choose a concentration and Novak selected music. She graduated in 2009 from James Madison University with a degree in communications with a music industry minor.

The ace guitarist brings his custom-made seven-stringer to the Westcott Theater,.

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On Saturday, April 2, the Arts Across Campus Legends of Jazz Series concluded its inaugural four-part run with a performance by Hammond B3 master Dr. Lonnie Smith (pictured).

Fair thee well: (below) The Westcott Street Cultural Fair seeks volunteers.

The fourth annual hoof-hearted hoedown doubles as a dinner-and-dancing benefit for the George and Rebecca Barnes Foundation.

The acclaimed guitarist-troubadour does his acoustic blues-folk thing at two area venues this weekend. First Kevin So will visit the Nelson Odeon, 4035 Nelson Road, Nelson, for an 8 p.m. show on Friday, April 1.

Machete slashes through a junk-food menu of sex and violenceFrom the box-office wreckage of a costly 2007 misfire comes an unlikely spinoff: Machete (20th Century Fox; 105 minutes; R; 2010), a wild-an

While Ichiban Steakhouse has been making donations to benefit charitable causes, such as the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy, this is the restaurant’s debut fundraiser, Ogata says. Originally from the southern edge of Honshu, the largest of Japan’s four islands, with Tokyo in the center, Ogata and her husband Hiro Ogata,.