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To celebrate it’s current show, “Hairspray,” The Alhambra Theatre & Dining will host a hair donation event for Locks of Love on Sunday, March 13 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The community is invited to come to the Theatre and donate their hair, which will be cut and collected by local hairstylists (and re-styled!), […]

Wisconsin boasts a bumper crop of TV stars Duane Dudek Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel March 3, 2011 You can’t swing a snow shovel without hitting someone on television with a Wisconsin accent. Random Lake resident Andrea Boehlke’s torch is still lighted on “Survivor: Redemption Island.” Milwaukee’s Naima Adedapo earned a standing ovation on this week’s […]

Duane Dudek Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel “I love being from Wisconsin,” said Tanya Fischer, 25, from the CBS series “The Defenders.” Fischer, who grew up in West Bend, spent her youth “daydreaming among the cornfields” about being an actress and was involved in “all sorts of activities” in high school. After graduation, she joined the Milwaukee Bucks’ […]

By John Wenzel The Denver Post 03/03/2011 Katrina Lairsmith had taught dance in nearly every studio in Denver, but in all her time as an instructor — and as one of the original Denver Nuggets dancers — she never found a group that fit her style or mission. “Other than Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, there […]

By Nancy Wride ProtectConsumerJustice.org Mayra Fornos had big dreams, and they’d all come true by age 24. Newly married to a handsome USC student, Fornos lived across the street from the sands of Manhattan Beach, he a surfer bound for law school, she the tall and stunning fashionista. The future seemed set: He would become […]

By Natalie Angley CNN By the time Leikia Reynolds was 12 years old, her life was heading down the wrong path. Her grandparents took her in when she was 11 months old. She didn’t know her mother, and her father was serving a 16-year prison sentence. Her grandmother, Dorothy Reynolds, saw the warning signs. “She […]

By Tom Jicha Sun Sentinel The redheads are back!” This is the war whoop of Jaime Edmondson and Cara Rosenthal as they roar off the starting grid for their second odyssey on “The Amazing Race.” It’s an opportunity the former Dolphin cheerleaders dreamed of but never thought would come to pass. “We heard they weren’t […]

Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer by Mireya Mayor with a foreword by Jane Goodall (National Geographic, $26) Anyone who thinks it is impossible to reinvent themselves and dramatically change courses should put this book at the top of their reading list. Miraya Mayor was a former […]

Former Sea Gal and Sonics Dancer Ali D’s new website www.alidee.com just went live. She’s asking folks to come check it out. Sign-up and you can hear the latest song she just recorded. [AliDee.com]

Monica Rizzo People.com 2/15/2011 Melissa Rycroft Strickland is a mom! The former Bachelor contestant and her husband, insurance agent Tye Strickland, welcomed a daughter on Wednesday afternoon, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. Ava Grace Strickland, born in Dallas and weighing 6 lbs., 13 oz., is the first child for the pair, who wed in December […]