REO Speedwagon

ON SALE THIS WEEK Britney Spears with The Pussycat Dolls, 8 p.m. March 13, Prudential Center, 165 Mulberry St., Newark, N.J., 973-757-6000. Tickets: $39.50-$153, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Cheech and Chong, 7 p.m. March 7, Sovereign Center Arena, 700...

Sister Hazel, 8 p.m. next Thursday, Crocodile Rock, Allentown, 610-434-4600. Trace Adkins with Craig Morgan and John Michael Carrol, 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Sovereign Center Arena, Reading, 215-336-2000, 610-898-7469 . The 1st Annual Blues for Smiles...

B.B. King with Steve Brosky and Jimmy Meyer, 8 p.m. March 31, State Theatre, 453 Northampton St., Easton, 610-252-3132. Tickets: $70, $75, on sale to members Tuesday and to the public Dec. 9. REO Speedwagon, 8 p.m. Jan. 24, State Theatre, 453 Northampton...

The State Theatre, Easton, has announced nine new shows for 2009, including rock acts and musical theater. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 2 to members and 10 a.m. Dec. 9 to the public. REO Speedwagon, veteran arena rock band, 8 p.m. Jan. 24. Tickets:...

1977 Amy Dickinson ("Ask Amy"), graduate of Dryden High School in Dryden, N.Y. Dancing style: full frontal contact, her arms clutched around his neck, his arms around her waist Song: "Color My World" Dating custom: making out underneath the bleachers,...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains with a visit to a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota. He campaigned for votes yesterday at what amounts to an annual...

Tommy DeCarlo, a credit manager at a North Carolina Home Depot, was so moved by Boston's singer Brad Delp's death last year that he wrote a song about it for his MySpace page. Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was so moved by it that he asked DeCarlo to perform...

My high school reunion was going amazingly well when the principal called us into a lecture hall. For the previous hour or so, we had shared hugs and laughs, repeatedly gushing, "You look the saaaame!" as we caught up on the 25 years that had passed...

True Colors Tour (June 1 at Nikon Theater at Jones Beach and June 3 at Radio City Music Hall). It turns out last year's excellent debut for Cyndi Lauper's package tour was just a warm-up. This year's version is even stronger, with Lauper and The B-52s...

No one can say "Strange Wilderness'" writer-producer Peter Gaulke and writer-director Fred Wolf ducked responsibility for the gross-out comedy misfire. The "Saturday Night Live" alums not only kept their names on the movie, which opened Friday without...

Single this Valentine's Day? Who cares! It's only a night engineered by Hallmark…right? Check out these events designed specifically for V-Day singletons What: No Love at the Cow Where: The Sunburnt Cow When: Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Everyone's favorite...

Even after taking part in a half-century of opening days, Brooks Robinson still gobbles them up like a hard smash to third. Tomorrow night, the former player and broadcaster will experience the first pitch from a different point of view: as owner of...