*Barbra Streisand played her first concert in Germany over the weekend, winning an enthusiastic welcome from 18,000 fans at Berlin’s open-air Waldbuehne and praising the capital’s “beauty — and desserts.” “I can’t believe it took me so long to come here,” she said.
*A concert Saturday night in L.A. by South Korean pop star Rain was canceled, disappointing fans who had reportedly flown in from Hong Kong and Tokyo. The Staples Center show was called off “due to issues related to the show’s production,” according to a statement from the 25-year-old performer’s promoter.
– Jack Kerouac fans celebrated the 50th anniversary of his “On the Road” with a marathon reading of the novel at Naropa University in Boulder over the weekend. The cover-to-cover reading took 12 hours and kicked off the university’s inaugural Kerouac Festival.
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Personals was compiled by Cristi Kempf from Tribune news services and staff reports.
