February 01, 2018
Brooke Simpson, a recent finalist in “The Voice” competition, will be performing Saturday in a Welcome Home Concert in Weldon.
The Brooke Simpson Welcome Home Concert will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Griffin Centre on the campus of Halifax Community College at 100…
February 01, 2018
The annual Valentine's Concert by the Rocky Mount Chamber Choir is scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at Benvenue Country Club.
The evening will begin with several duets and solos by members of the ensemble accompanied by piano, bass and percussion. Following these numbers, guests will…
January 25, 2018
Part of the tradition of Oscar season is dissatisfaction, from grumbling about who got snubbed in the nominations for the most seemingly inexplicable reasons to complaining over what movies get enshrined in cinematic history on the night of the ceremony itself. Certainly, the momentum for…
January 18, 2018
Edgecombe Community College will welcome The Barter Players back to Tarboro at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26.
The theater troupe, based at the historic Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., will perform an adaptation of Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” as part of…
January 11, 2018
A short movie filmed at Rocky Mount Mills last year is set to be screened at the historic site next week.
“Learning Man,” about a ghost haunting the mill, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19. The free showing at the mill on Falls Road will serve as a fundraiser with a recommended $5…
January 04, 2018
NEW YORK — NBC News opened the new year Tuesday by appointing Hoda Kotb as co-anchor of the “Today” show’s first two hours with Savannah Guthrie, replacing Matt Lauer following his firing on sexual misconduct charges in late November.
Kotb, 53, will continue to co-host the…
December 28, 2017
LONDON — Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media and warned against spending too much time immersed in the internet at the expense of the world outside.
Obama did not,…