Beidler Explains Cost Of Theater
- June
- 1
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If you missed the Harnett Regional Theatre production of Irvin Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” you missed a great evening of theater. Mellicent and I have enjoyed most of the big hits but had always passed this one by.
You would have been surprised. The stage setting was absolutely fabulous with brilliant lighting, and the sound [...]
Huckabee Went Farther Than Expected
- March
- 6
DALLAS - Mike Huckabee’s appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” was a metaphor for his presidential campaign. He declared, “Mike Huckabee does not overstay his welcome,” yet he lingered, missing repeated cues to leave the stage.He hung on longer than anyone could have imagined, even after rival John McCain won South Carolina and rolled up [...]
NASCAR tracks fertile for road rage
- February
- 24
“You smack me in the helmet, and I’m going to punch you in the face,” Hamlin said after his run-in with Petty. “You meet me someplace else and we’ll settle it.”
Hardly a NASCAR race passes without fans seeing at least one driver’s road rage in the premier Sprint Cup Series, a 36-race circuit that holds [...]
Sing along with Van Halen?
- February
- 1
To go to a Van Halen show like tonight’s reunion gig at the Pepsi Center and not sing along with hits “Jump” and “Panama” would be a punishable offense in certain Southern counties.
Is there a better way to celebrate the reunion of singer David Lee Roth and guitarist Eddie Van Halen [...]
American Fork High orchestra concert to raise funds for N.Y. trip
- January
- 31
AMERICAN FORK %26#151; An impressive performance in Philadelphia two years ago led to an invitation for the American Fork High School orchestra to perform in March in New York City.
Led by director Shauna Smith, the 96-member symphonic orchestra and 20-member string ensemble is planning a [...]
Orlando composer values statesong contest even in loss
- January
- 13
A tune penned by a South Florida music teacher that extols everything from the sunshine to the space industry won the competition. There were three finalists to replace the state song, “Old Folks at Home (Swanee River),” by Stephen Foster. From Dec. 11 to midnight Thursday, the public cast votes [...]
Flame Wars: Why We Can’t Resist Hot Blogger-on-Blogger Action
- January
- 11
Free Speech at Its Finest
You can’t help but think that Thomas Jefferson himself would be pleased to know that out there in the awesome equalizing social force that is the Internet, people armed with the power of free-flowing ideas are busy pummeling the crap out of each other.
More than that, they’re doing it in public, [...]
Heavenly awards potential for Lumets Devil
- January
- 7
“Devil” director: That elusive combination of boxoffice
success, critical enthusiasm and filmmaker cache that translates
into prime Oscar and Golden Globes nominations is coming together
beautifully in Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re
Dead.”
With its lively $36,919 average per theater at two screens in New
York last weekend via THINKFilm, its very fresh 85% critics’ rating
on RottenTomatoes.com and Lumet’s [...]
Heavenly awards potential for Lumets Devil
- January
- 7
“Devil” director: That elusive combination of boxoffice
success, critical enthusiasm and filmmaker cache that translates
into prime Oscar and Golden Globes nominations is coming together
beautifully in Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re
Dead.”
With its lively $36,919 average per theater at two screens in New
York last weekend via THINKFilm, its very fresh 85% critics’ rating
on RottenTomatoes.com and Lumet’s [...]
2007 readers’ choice
- December
- 24
TheatreSubway, Traverse, Edinburgh, AugustSubway is a tale of how a small curtailment of civil liberties in the present has nudged Scotland into a landslide that, 30 years hence, ends in a frightening dystopia. It was conjured by two actors and a seven-piece band from Kosovo [producing music] that became a character in its own right, [...]
