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EDITORIAL - The End of the Road tour is coming through Fresno tomorrow night, a few years too late in my opinion. The seventies New York based rock band Kiss is bringing their flash-pots, light show and high energy theatrics to the Save Mart Center supposedly for the last time ever. This show comes just nineteen years after Kiss played at Selland Arena for their “Farewell Tour”.

In 2000, the band that played in Fresno was the real Kiss made up of all four original members. The band playing Friday is now made up of two founding members, Paul Stanley (67) and Gene Simmons (70 in August), along with the band’s fifth guitarist Tommy Thayer (58) and their fourth drummer Eric Singer (60). Both Singer and Thayer, who many fans refer to as SCABS, will be dressed up as the original members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley.

FRIANT - Table Mountain Casino welcomes the Ambassador of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein, for one exceptional evening concert on Tuesday, February 19, 2019.  Feinstein, renowned for his dazzling thirty-year musical career, has earned the reputation for greatness as he has shared the music of the Great American Songbook with the world. 

A Principal Pops Conductor for the Pasadena Symphony, best-selling author, and five-time GRAMMY award nominee, he has performed at The White House, Buckingham Palace, the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and on February 19^th, at Table Mountain Casino. Feinstein's performance promises to captivate enthusiastic fans with a masterful mix of original and classical musical.

THE CANDY STORE - SweetHearts have gone missing. They are the most popular brand of the most popular Valentine's Day candy, and they're not on shelves this year. As a result, conversation hearts' reign as the top Valentine's Day candy will end this year - with sales falling by an estimated 80%.

Conversation hearts candies are the little hearts with cute sayings on them: Be Mine, Marry Me. They are the most popular candy for Valentine’s Day season – which is estimated to generate over $1.8 Billion in candy sales. If the biggest brand vanished, would conversation hearts still be the most popular candy? Not even close.

LOS ANGELES -  Actor-comedian and Oscar^®–nominated writer Kumail Nanjiani and actress–producer–director Tracee Ellis Ross announced the 91st Oscars^® nominations today (January 22), live from the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills. Nanjiani and Ross announced the nominees in 9 categories at 5:20 a.m. PT, and the remaining 15 categories at 5:30 a.m. PT.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.