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MACEDON, N.Y. — Singer Alicia Keys and her music producer husband Swizz Beats want to create a performing arts center in upstate New York.
The couple's proposal to transform an industrial site in rural Macedon was introduced at a town board meeting Thursday.
Linda Shaw, an attorney for Keys and her husband, whose real name is Kasseem Dean, said the project will re-purpose three vacant buildings to include a classroom, an office building, an art exhibit hall and a performing arts center.
Shaw says she is scheduled to appear before the city's planning board on Aug. 19.
LOS ANGELES — Even though Tito Jackson experienced fame with the Jackson 5, he heard the comments from Charles Barkley years ago about him having an insignificant role in the group's historic success.Jackson, 65, is looking to change that narrative about his musical abilities through his new solo project. He recently released a new version of his 2017 song “One Way Street,” and is working on his sophomore album, which he says is expected to be released next year.“I took that sort of personal,” he told The Associated Press in a recent interview, adding he's never heard anyone say that. “He's trying to say that I don't contribute. So then I say, 'Maybe it's time they hear from me.' ...The Jackson 5 included brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael. The family group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.By Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Entertainer Wayne Newton is being sued by a Las Vegas woman who claims the veteran crooner's pet monkey bit and injured her daughter during an invited visit to Newton's showpiece mansion nearly two years ago.Jocelyne Urena seeks at least $15,000 in damages on behalf of her daughter, Genevieve, in a civil negligence complaint filed Wednesday in Nevada state court in Las Vegas.Genevieve, then 15, received emergency hospital treatment for a bite to her right wrist from a capuchin monkey named Boo, her mother's attorney, Marc Naron, said Thursday.The lawsuit alleges the monkey attacked the girl without provocation during a tour of Newton's gilded former estate, Casa de Shenandoah.Naron said the animal was not caged or on a leash and was being shown to tour guests.Newton's wife, Kathleen McCrone Newton, said in an email that a family business entity broke ties with Casa de Shenandoah in July 2017, three months before the lawsuit alleges the girl was injured.
