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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events The LadyGang podcast is launching LadyWorld, a three-day retreat debuting in 2025. The podcast, hosted by Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin and Jac Vanek, announced today they will curate the weekend experience Sept. 26-28, 2025, in Miramar Beach, Fla.

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Bob Dylan has announced a raft of additional dates for the upcoming leg of his ongoing ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ tour – see the full list below.At the end of January, Dylan announced his first tour dates for 2025, including shows in Tulsa, Wichita, Green Bay and Mankato.Now, he has unveiled a much lengthier list of dates for the next seven months, which also include a number of shows as part of the 2025 instalment of the ‘Outlaw Music Festival’ tour, where he will play alongside Willie Nelson, Billy Strings and others.In all, the shows will see Dylan on the road until mid-September. Tickets for all shows are on sale now, and you can find yours here.MARCH 25 – Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa Theater 26 – Little Rock, AR @ Robinson Center 28 – Springfield, MO @ Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts 29 – Wichita, KS @ Century II Concert Hall 30 – Topeka, KS @ Topeka Performing Arts Center APRIL 01 – Omaha, NE @ Orpheum Theater 02 – Sioux City, IA @ Orpheum Theatre 04 – Mankato, MN @ Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center 05 – Eau Claire, WI @ The Sonnentag Center 06 – Green Bay, WI @ The Weidner – Cofrin Family Hall 08 – Davenport, IA @ Adler Theatre 09 – Peoria, IL @ Prairie Home Alliance Theater 11 – West Lafayette, IN @ Purdue University – Elliott Hall of Music 12 – Fort Wayne, IN @ The Embassy Theatre 14 – South Bend, IN @ The Morris Performing Arts Center 16 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Western Michigan State University – Miller Auditorium 17 – Toledo, OH @ Stranahan Theater 19 – Youngstown, OH @ Powers Auditorium at DeYor Performing Arts Center 21 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Benedum Center for the Performing Arts 22 – Williamsport, PA @ Community Arts Center MAY 13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre * 15 – Chula Vista, CA @ North

A reporter has suddenly died in Louisiana while covering the Super Bowl — just a year after his wife also died.

Adan Manzano, a sports broadcaster at Telemundo 39 in Kansas City, has died. He was 27.

Adan Manzano, a sports broadcaster at Telemundo 39 in Kansas City, has died. He was 27.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Melissa Etheridge and Joss Stone, who sang together memorably 20 years ago in a duet on the Grammys, will join together again in spring 2025, this time for a joint tour. The (so far) 10-city outing will mostly hit the northeastern United States, with one date on the Canadian side of the border. It begins April 18, 2025 in Atlantic City, NJ and ends May 2 in Roanoke, VA, with stops in cities including Newark, Boston and Albany.

veto by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.Had the bill passed, it would have banned all gender-affirming surgical and hormonal interventions for minors suffering from gender dysphoria, with penalties, including the loss of their license to practice.The proposed law also would have allowed former patients, or the parents of former patients, to sue any doctor who prescribed gender-affirming treatments.Critics of the bill say it also would have effectively barred social transitioning — which involves no medical interventions — by prohibiting any person or entity who receives state funds from advocating for social or medical transitions for minors with gender dysphoria.

The 2024 Tribeca Festival, which unveiled its film slate Wednesday, is out with its television lineup of world premieres of new and returning programs from networks and streamers.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken,” a docuseries focusing on bonds the singer forms with incarcerated women over addiction issues that have affected their lives, will hit Paramount+ later this year, the network announced Thursday. The two-part series will follow Etheridge as she writes a new song inspired by her communication with five women locked up at a prison in her Kansas hometown, the Topeka Correctional Facility.

Travis Kelce is giving back to his community!

Emma & Mommy Talk to God, The Color Purple, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Separate is Never Equal, Wonder, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Of those titles, only The Color Purple contains LGBTQ content.The display had a piece of artwork showing a child in a wheelchair against a background of five colors, along with a quote from poet Maya Angelou reading, “In diversity there is beauty and strength.”The display also contained a multicolored infinity symbol, symbolizing autism awareness, with the slogan, “We all think differently,” reports The Topeka Capital-Journal.A temporary summer employee, Ruth Splitter, believed the autism symbol signified support for LGBTQ Pride, and told Lancaster, during an argument on June 22, she found it offensive.Even after being told it was a neurodiversity and autism logo, Splitter launched into an “anti-LGBT diatribe,” according to the librarians’ lawsuit.That same day, Splitter complained to library board member Michelle Miller in a text about “gay pride.” Miller, the vice chair of the library board, told Splitter she would raise her concerns at the board meeting the following day, allegedly telling her, “We’re not going to have that display up because I will rally the board members to call [Wheeler] to take it down.”Miller then texted Wheeler, saying she had stopped by the library, even though she had not.“I do not want any kind of rainbow display (aside from solely colors focused) especially in this month,” Miller said, referencing the fact that June is celebrated as Pride Month.

Investigations are underway for two Kansas high schools after students at a basketball game allegedly yelled racial slurs at players in a planned verbal assault.

A Kansas woman accused of murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend two decades ago has been released on bond after a judge reduced the amount to $350,000 from $1 million last month. Dana Chandler, 62, was charged with two counts of murder in the July 2002 Colorado shooting deaths of Mike Sisco, 47, and Karen Harkness, 53, at their home in Topeka.

Topeka police officers shot and killed a man early Thursday after he walked toward them with a knife as they tried to intervene in a carjacking, authorities say. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that a woman called 911 around 12:30 a.m.

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vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, that barred transgender students from competing in female-designated sports.

Roscoe Born, an actor known for The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives, has died, according to a post from friend and business partner Deanna Lynne on Facebook on Friday. The actor was 69.

When live music touring suddenly ground to a halt in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, country singer Randy Rogers didn't take long to realize he needed to think of new ways to generate income -- and fast. A family friend came up with a novel suggestion: Her company's Zoom meetings were dull. Would he consider doing a paid virtual performance to liven them up? "She was telling me about these Zoom meetings of 150 employees staring at the computer, you know?