Iron and Wine is extending its North American tour into November, it was announced today — and one of the last stops is at Salt Lake City’s Saltair on Wednesday, Nov. 6.

Iron and Wine is the name by which singer-songwriter Samuel Beam performs. He has released five albums, starting in 2002 with “The Creek Drank the Cradle” and most recently with “Ghost on Ghost“ in April.

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 21; check the artist’s website for details. There also is a ticket pre-sale program, starting today.

• Troubadour Jackson Browne performs at Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City. Opening act: Sara Watkins. Show starts at 7:30. The show is sold out.

• Snowden, the band that’s really just musician/songwriter Jordan Jeffares, performs at Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Opening act: Ola Podrida. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $12, at 24Tix.

• Father John Misty, the moniker of folk musician Jonathan Tillman, performs at The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City. Opening act: Pure Bathing Culture. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $15, at ...

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• Country yodeler Slim Whitman, the tall mustachioed singer whose as-seen-on-TV albums made him a cult figure in the ‘80s and ‘90s (and made him the punchline of “Mars Attacks”), died this morning at the age of 90. [Time]

• Journalist Michael Hastings, 33, died in a Tuesday morning car crash. Hastings wrote for Rolling Stone and Buzzfeed, and was best known for his 2010 interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal — who was forced to resign after making stinging comments about how President Barack Obama was conducting the war in Afghanistan. [NBC ...

The reigning queen of country music and one of Nashville’s leading hunks are teaming up on tour — and coming to Salt Lake City in October.

Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley will co-headline the “Locked & Reloaded Tour,” which will play EnergySolutions Arena on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Lambert has been named the top female vocalist four years running by the Academy of Country Music, and won a Grammy for her hit “The House That Built Me.” She and husband Blake Shelton, also a country star and a judge on “The Voice,” are known as one of Nashville’s major power couples.

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• Neil Patrick Harris is returning to Broadway next spring, after “How I Met Your Mother” has finished its run. He'll fill John Cameron Mitchell's high-heeled shoes in the Broadway premiere of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” [New York Times]

• Don't look for Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the “Avengers” sequel, hints director Joss Whedon. [Entertainment Weekly]

• How far out do you want to pencil in your calendar for “The Amazing Spider-Man”? Columbia Pictures already has, setting the third installment for 2016 and th...

A Utah businessman has a big dream, which began with a little golf ball.

“I’ve never given up on it, and it’s finally bearing fruit,” said Steve Brown, who is pitching an animated project called “Henny Bogan” to major media outlets — and has started a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter to get it off the ground.

The project began, Brown said, a decade ago with a business venture in a golf-related game. The game wasn’t a success, but people asked about licensing the artwork associated with it.

Brown used the characters from the artwork to populate a chi...

• Psychobilly band Nekromantix performs at In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 6. Tickets are $17, at Smith’s Tix.

• Indie-pop group Bad Veins performs at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), Salt Lake City. Opening act: Kevin Edwards & The Glass Hands. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $10, at 24Tix.

It was the “um” heard ‘round the world.

Marissa Powell, Miss Utah USA, fumbled a question during last night’s Miss USA pageant - turning a question about women’s income inequality into a hamfisted plea to “create education better” - and the video of the moment has become an international viral sensation.

The video was highlighted on Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, TMZ and Britain’s Daily Mail, to name just a few.

The question, posed by celebrity judge NeNe Leakes (from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”), was this: “A recent report shows that in 40 percent ...

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• Kim Kardashian gave birth to the daughter she and Kanye West created. Also created this weekend: A gazillion variations of this joke on Twitter: “Imma let you finish, but Beyonce had the best baby birth ever!” [USA Today]

• “Man of Steel” scored $125.1 million over the weekend (including Thursday night previews), even though comic-book purists are ticked off about the ending (read this only if you've already seen the movie). [Box Office Mojo, Entertainment Weekly]

• Bernie Sahlins, co-founder of Chicag...

• Country superstar Tim McGraw headlines tonight at Usana Amphitheatre, 5150 S. 6055 West, West Valley City. Opening acts: Brantley Gilbert, Love and Theft. Show starts at 7. Tickets, from $30.50 to $70.25, at Smith’s Tix.

• L.A. band Everest performs tonight at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), Salt Lake City. Opening act: King Niko. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $10, at 24Tix.

• Singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata performs tonight at The State Room, 638 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Opening act: Sanders Bohlke. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $17, at the venue’s website.

What's more appropriate for Flag Day than a movie about a guy from another planet who says he's “as American as you can get”?

That would be Kal-El, the last son of Krypton, alias Clark Kent (Henry Cavill), whose origin is revealed in “Man of Steel,” the latest iteration of DC Comics' venerable and invulnerable hero Superman. It's a serious, camp-free action movie, as director Zack Snyder (“300,” “Watchmen”) loads up on visual splash while screenwriter David S. Goyer (who developed the story with “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan) revamps the mythology. The results get a little over-the-top at the end, but mostly it'...

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• Media mogul Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from his third wife, movie producer Wendi Deng Murdoch, after 14 years of marriage. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will star in the fifth “Terminator” movie. So now we must contemplate a future in which robots get old and craggy. [Vulture]

• The next Muppet movie has a new title, “Muppets Most Wanted,” to reflect its crime-caper plot. (Didn't they do that with “The Great Muppet Caper”?) [Entertainment Weekly]

• Bluegrass quintet Poor Man’s Whiskey performs its Pink Floyd tribute, “Dark Side of the Moonshine,” at The State Room, 638 W. State St., Salt Lake City. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $14, at the venue’s website.

• British dancehall musician Gappy Ranks performs at Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Opening act: DJ Chan Dizzy. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $13, at Smith’s Tix and 24Tix.

The first Salt Lake Comic Con has landed the biggest fish in the geek universe: Willilam Shatner.

Shatner tweeted the news on Wednesday: “So Salt Lake City, I’m coming to your first Comicon.”

Shatner is, of course, the original James Tiberius Kirk from the “Star Trek” TV series and seven movies. He’s also known for the cop show “T.J. Hooker,” authoring the TekWar sci-fi book series, and being the spokesman for Priceline.com.

The Salt Lake Comic Con is set for Sept. 5-7 at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy. Other celebrities scheduled to appear are (in...

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• Sandra Bullock is in talks to play the evil Miss Hannigan in the Jay-Z-produced “Annie” remake. (Didn’t they see Jane Lynch in the Broadway revival?) [Entertainment Weekly]

• Both Carey Mulligan and Scarlett Johansson have dropped out of the running to play Hillary Clinton in a new biopic. [The Telegraph, The Huffington Post]

• The guy who writes jokes for George Takei’s Facebook page apologized for spilling the beans about his ghostwriting. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• British acoustic folk-rock trio The Staves performs at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), Salt Lake City. Opening act: Musikanto. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $12, at 24Tix.

• Real Salt Lake plays host to the Charleston Battery (of the USL Pro league) in U.S. Open Cup action, at Rio Tinto Stadium, 9256 S. State St. Game starts at 7:30. Tickets available at the Rio Tinto website.

• Indie rock band Rogue Wave performs at The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City. Opening act: Koala Temple. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $16, at 24Tix.

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Robert Redford may be coming soon to a TV screen near you -- in an ad urging government action on climate change.

The 30-second ad, for the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes aim at coal-fired power plants — and ends with Redford telling viewers to urge President Barack Obama “to make dirty power plants clean up their carbon pollution.”

The ad includes a brief clip from Obama’s second inaugural address, in which he promised to “respond to the threat of climate change.”

Redford also takes aim at Obama. “The good news is that President Obama has pled...

Hoping to dodge the speeding bullet that is “Man of Steel” on Friday, Universal is releasing “This Is The End” today. It’s worth a look to see Hollywood stars laugh through the Apocalypse -- and, even better, laugh at themselves.

Writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (“Superbad”) make their directing debut in this comedy, which stars Rogen as a variation of himself, welcoming his best friend Jay Baruchel (also playing himself) for a visit to L.A. Jay doesn’t like L.A., or the Hollywood phonies Seth wants to hang out with -- so he’s not thrilled when Seth drags him to a party at James Franco’s house.

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• Rapper 2 Chainz was arrested at LAX, accused of stashing pot in his checked baggage. Dude, you know the dogs sniff those bags, right? [Vulture]

• Nigel Lythgoe, founding producer of “American Idol,” is leaving the show. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Time for “Hobbit” fans to lose their cool: It’s the first trailer for part 2, “The Desolation of Smaug.” [Entertainment Weekly]

Like any 10-year-old, Salt Lake City’s Damn These Heels! LGBT Film Festival is experiencing a growth spurt.

This year’s festival, which runs July 12 to 14, will include 21 feature films from nine countries, organizers announced today. That’s more than double the films that played at last year’s festival. The festival is also expanding to both rooms of the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City) — the Jeanne Wagner and Black Box theaters.

And for the first time, there will be an audience award. Festivalgoers can vote for their favorite films after each screenin...

• Pop/punk band No Tide performs at The Shred Shed, 60 E. Exchange Place (360 South), Salt Lake City. Show starts at 6:30. Tickets are $10, at Smith’s Tix.

• Pop/punk band Cartel performs at The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $16, at Smith’s Tix.

• Hard-rock trio Kyng performs at Burts Tiki Lounge, 726 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $12, at Smith’s Tix.

• Salt Lake City musician Talia Keys celebrates her birthday with her genre-crossing local band, Marinade, at The State Room, 638 S. ...

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• Even before paying moviegoers have had a chance to see it, “Man of Steel” is already getting a sequel. [Vulture]

• However, the same studio, Warner Bros., has decided to can a sequel to “Dumb and Dumber.” [Variety]

• John Oliver had his first night behind the desk at “The Daily Show,” subbing for Jon Stewart. [Entertainment Weekly]

Gabriel Iglesias is a big comic.

Not in terms of being fat — because, as he said in the title of his first DVD, “I’m Not Fat... I’m Fluffy” (which is why his website and Twitter handle identify him as “Fluffy Guy”).

No, Iglesias is big because he can play arenas — including the Maverik Center in West Valley City, which is where Iglesias will perform Oct. 19.

Tickets for the Utah stop of Iglesias’ “Stand-Up Revolution” tour go on sale Friday, starting at 10 a.m., at TicketMaster.

• Reggae legend Don Carlos performs at Bar Deluxe, 666 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Opening act: TBA. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $25, at Smith’s Tix and 24Tix. (The show has been moved from Park City Live, and moved from Thursday to tonight.)

• The rapper Logic headlines the Visionary Music Group’s “Welcome to Forever” tour, landing at The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City. Also on the bill: Skizzy Mars, C Dot Castro, Quest. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $15, at Smith’s Tix.

• Electronica band STRFKR (no, we can’t print the full name, and click at your own risk) performs at The...

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• The musical “Kinky Boots” won six Tony awards on Sunday, including honors for lead actor Billy Porter and songwriter Cyndi Lauper (who's now 3/4ths of her way to an EGOT). Christopher Durang's “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” won Best Play. [Entertainment Weekly]

• The horror-thriller “The Purge” topped the box office this weekend, taking in $36.3 million. Pretty good for a movie that only cost $3 million to make. The weekend's other new movie, the comedy “The Internship,” scored an underwhelming $18 million for fourth p...

So, are you ready to take a chance again?

Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is coming to the Maverik Center, West Valley City, on July 12 for a concert billed as “direct from Broadway.”

Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m., online via Ticketmaster or through Manilow’s website. Ticket prices range from $19.99 to $129.99.

Manilow is among the biggest-selling musicians of all time, with such hit songs as “Mandy,” “I Write the Songs,” “Copacabana” and many more. He has won a Grammy, two Emmys, a and a Tony — and his ballad “Ready to Take a Chance Again” rece...

• Instrumental duo A Hawk and a Hacksaw performs tonight at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), Salt Lake City. Opening act: Grizzly Prospector. Show start at 7. Tickets are $10, at 24Tix.

• Local folk-rock band Lady and Gent performs tonight at The Shred Shed, 60 E. Exchange Place (360 South), Salt Lake City. Opening acts: Isaac Farr Trio, Brian Bingham, Jeremy Tyler. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $10, available at 24Tix.

• R&B legend Andre Williams & The Goldstars performs tonight and Saturday at The Garage on Beck, 1199 N. Beck St., Salt Lake City. Show starts at 8 p.m. both nig...

Does the future belong to search-engine operators, or to armed marauders allowed to murder? That's what this weekend's big movie openings are asking.

“The Internship” is a weakly executed and oddly old-fashioned comedy set amid the rainbow-hued corporate optimism of Google. That's where laid-off salesmen Billy and Nick (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, reuniting almost a decade after “Wedding Crashers”) hope to land a job. But first they have to survive a complex internship competition, conquer their technological ignorance, impress their 20-something teammates and (in Nick's case) maybe get the girl (Rose Byrne). Director Shawn ...

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• Does a single photo from “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” -- which doesn't come out until next summer -- reveal a major spoiler just because of a wardrobe choice? [Entertainment Weekly]

• Russell Brand's FX talk show “Brand X” is no more. [Vulture]

• Hollywood aquatic star Esther Williams, whose elaborate bathing-beauty musical numbers entertained generations and helped launch the Olympic sport of synchronized swimming, has died at the age of 91. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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• Experimental/psychedelic rock band Linear Downfall performs at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), Salt Lake City. Show starts at 7. Tickets are $6, at 24Tix.

• New Zealand pop artist Willy Moon performs at The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $10, at 24Tix.

The memory of Roger Ebert will be honored at next January’s Sundance Film Festival, by a new generation of movie critics learning to do what he did.

At the “Celebrate Sundance” fund-raiser held Wednesday night (where Ebert was awarded, posthumously, Sundance’s Vanguard Award), Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam announced the establishment of the Roger Ebert Scholarship for Film Criticism.

The scholarship will provide grants to six-to-eight young critics, so they can attend and cover the Sundance Film Festival next January as part of the Indiewire Critics Academy. Student cri...

The Sundance Institute is bringing back some old favorites from the Sundance Film Festival to outdoor screens in Salt Lake City and Park City this summer -- and you, the moviegoer, get to help choose one of the movies.

The 16th annual Free Outdoor Summer Screening Series will include five movies, all past festival or Sundance Institute lab entries. The fifth one will be determined by an online poll later this summer.

The series, according to Sundance co-managing director Sarah Pearce, “pays tribute to the films the local community responded to at our festivals, and we’re excited to invite ...

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• In the race to become Hillary Rodham Clinton in a biopic, “Rodham,” British actress Carey Mulligan (“The Great Gatsby”) is emerging as the front-runner. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• It's a wonder this sort of thing doesn't happen more often: Somebody tried to kill himself with a knife in the New York crowd outside the “Today” show this morning. [New York]

• The innocent men whom the New York Post identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, with the front-page headline “Bag Men,” are suing the newspape...

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• Now that “After Earth” has become the first bonafide flop of his career, what does Will Smith do next? There's no shortage of advice. [Entertainment Weekly, Vulture]

• Rocker Jack White turns out to be the anonymous donor who paid a $142,000 delinquent tax bill for Detroit's Masonic Temple, saving the historic venue from the auction block. [Detroit Free Press]

• You owe it to yourself to read this: A moving tribute to Roger Ebert, in comics form. [Zenpencils.com]

Pop, big-band, country and jazz will all be represented in The Gateway’s annual summer concert series, Music on the Plaza.

Shows run on Thursday nights starting this week, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the north end of the downtown Salt Lake City shopping center.

Here’s the line-up:

• June 6 • Jagertown (country)

• June 13 • DJ Jimmy Chunga (end-of-school summer party, with the 101.9 The End’s morning personality, runs until 9 p.m.)

• June 20 • The Sensations (Motown)

There’s been a major celebrity sighting in Utah’s Monument Valley — where this star of money-making movies and popular TV shows is filming his next summer blockbuster.

This Hollywood big wheel is Optimus Prime, the semi-trailer truck leader of the Autobots in the “Transformers” films. And director Michael Bay is shooting part of “Transformers 4” along the Utah-Arizona border.

Paramount Pictures has released photos of a retooled Optimus Prime, along with some other new characters to the “Transformers” line-up. (The photos appeared first on the Los Angeles Times’ website and on a site for Om...

• Metalcore band The Color Morale performs at In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 6. Tickets are $12, at Smith’s Tix.

• Eyeliner-heavy rockers Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson headline the “Masters of Madness Tour,” which stops at Usana Amphitheater, 5125 S. 6400 West, West Valley City. Opening act: Picture Me Broken. Show starts at 7. Tickets, from $34 to $59, available at Smith’s Tix.

• The national touring show of the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” arrives for a 13-night, 16-show run, at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tonight’s show sta...

The closest David Archuleta ever came to a tabloid romance rumor involved a girl named Charice.

Three years ago, when the Utah-raised “American Idol” runner-up was at the height of his national fame, rumors swirled that Archuleta was dating Charice Pempengco, a pint-sized Filipino pop singer who that year had a recurring role as exchange student Sunshine Corazon on “Glee.”

Archuleta and Charice (who goes by one name professionally) hung out a lot in 2010, and performed a duet of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” on Archuleta’s “Christmas From the Heart” album.

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• Michael Douglas’ PR person would like to clarify a statement he made, about throat cancer and oral sex, that he made in an interview with The Guardian. Alas, most people didn’t hear anything after the words “oral sex” and “throat cancer.” [Entertainment Weekly]

• Oscar winner Penelope Cruz as a Bond girl? It could happen, if you believe the British tabloids. (Not that you should.) [The Huffington Post]

• Hall of Fame football player David “Deacon” Jones, who as part of the L.A. Rams’ “...

• British rock band Foals performs at The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Opening acts: Surfer Blood, Blondfire. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets are $20, at Smith’s Tix.

• Rock band Hellbound Glory performs at Burts Tiki Lounge, 726 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $8, at Smith’s Tix.

• The 1967 “spaghetti Western” classic “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” screens at Brewvies Cinema Pub, 677 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 10:15. Admission is free. (Must be 21 or older.)

Amy Grant is coming to the Utah State Fair, and tickets go on sale Friday.

Grant’s 35-plus-year career has gone in a lot of directions. She started as a Christian singer and songwriter, with a streak of hit records and her first Grammy in 1982.

Grant made her pop breakthrough with her 1991 album “Heart in Motion,” which generated the hit singles “Baby Baby,” “Every Heartbeat” and “That’s What Love Is For.”

She’s gravitated back to gospel music in recent years, with such albums as “Somewhere Down the Road” (2010) and her latest, “How Mercy Looks From Her...

From time to time, The Cricket likes to update the status of former familiar Utahns, to see what they’re up to now. It’s kind of like being a gossipy aunt.

Today comes word that former Park City radio personality Don Gomes has been named executive director of the Anchorage Community Theatre, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

Gomes was a familiar voice for several years on public-radio station KCPW. In 2007, he became executive director for the Utah Nonprofits Association, a job he left in 2009 when his wife got a job in Alaska.

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• Matt Smith will be leaving the role of The Doctor on the iconic British series “Doctor Who.” Smith, the 11th actor to play the time-traveling Doctor, will wear his bowtie in a 50th anniversary special in November and in the traditional Christmas episode. [BBC]

• “After Earth” was an afterthought for moviegoers, coming in a weak third in the box office with $27 million – behind the second weekend of “Fast & Furious 6” ($34.5 million) and the debuting heist thriller “Now You See Me” ($28.1 million). [The Hollywood Reporter...

A quick reminder: Tickets for individual shows for this year’s Twilight Concert Series go on sale Saturday, starting at noon.

Tickets for the shows at Pioneer Park will be available online, on the 24Tix website.

Tickets for the nine shows are $5 each. Season tickets, at $35 (do the math — that’s like two free shows), are already available online.

• Comedian Jerry Seinfeld performs tonight at Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 7. Tickets available at ArtTix.

• The Tallest Man on Earth, which is how Montezumas frontman Kristian Matsson bills his solo act, performs tonight at The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Opening act: Strand of Oaks. Show starts at 8. Tickets are $20, at Smith’s Tix.

• Music duo Houses performs tonight at The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City. Opening acts: Giraffula, D33J. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $10, at 24Tix.

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The late actor Gary Coleman -- who lived his final years in Santaquin, Utah, trying to find refuge from his fame -- will be honored with an exhibit opening next month at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications.

The exhibit, “The Life and Times of Gary Coleman,” will feature personal and professional artifacts from Coleman’s career, donated by his parents, William and Sue Coleman. Sony Television is donating video of Coleman’s work, notably his years playing the precocious Arnold Jackson on “Diff’rent Strokes.” Norman Lear (who produced the series) and Fred Silverman (the NBC executive who green-lighted the show) will ap...

One of the year’s best movies has only one special effect: An astonishing performance by a 7-year-old.

That kid is Onata Aprile, and she’s at the center of “What Maisie Knew,” a searing drama set in modern-day Manhattan, but adapted from a Henry James novel published in 1897. Aprile plays Maisie, a normal kid who observes what happens when her self-centered parents, a rock star (Julianne Moore) and an art dealer (Steve Coogan), go through an acrimonious divorce. Maisie gets shuttled between the two, but ends up mostly being cared for by the people her parents married, a frazzled nanny (Joanna Vanderham) and a laidback barten...

Here’s what’s being talked about this weekend in pop culture:

• Get ready for more cooking shows on KSL: NBC has renewed the ultra-gory crime drama “Hannibal,” which KSL has barred from its airwaves, for a second season. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• It’s official: Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj won’t be back to judge the singers on “American Idol” next season. [Entertainment Weekly]

• Bad-boy director Lars Von Trier has released a few details about his next movie, the explicitly sexual “Nymphomaniac.” [The Huffington Post]

• Indie-rock darling Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros performs at Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City. Show starts at 7:30. The show is sold out.

• Abrasive comedian and Comedy Central star Daniel Tosh performs at Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Opening act: Jerrod Carmichael. Shows start at 7 and 9:”30 p.m. Tickets available at Smith’s Tix and ArtTix.

One of the Disney Channel’s stable of stars is coming to the Utah State Fair — and tickets go on sale Friday morning.

Actress and singer Bridgit Mendler will perform on the Grandstand stage Monday, Sept. 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Mendler is the star of the Disney Channel series “Good Luck Charlie,” playing Teddy, the protective big sister of baby Charlie. She reprised the role in a Disney Channel movie, “Good Luck Charlie: It’s Christmas,” which was filmed primarily in Utah.

Her other acting credits include the Disney Channel movie “Lemonade Mouth,” a guest role o...