Checking in with Sian Richards

What are you working on right now? The Performers Exchange Project is looking to add a few gigs for our last performance, Our American Ann Sisters. We performed here, we performed it at the Hamner, we took it a few other places. We took it to the Catskills in New York, so we’re looking to […]

Goal oriented

“Who Do You Think You Are?” Friday 8pm, NBC I very much enjoyed the first season of this genealogy-based documentary show in which celebrities learn about their ancestors. Did you know Sarah Jessica Parker’s great-great-something-or-other was one of the accused during the Salem Witch Trials? Well, you do now. This season we get to follow […]

Capsule Reviews

127 Hours (R, 94 minutes) Danny Boyle puts his spin on the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah, and was forced to cut off his own arm to escape. Regal Downtown Mall 6  Black Swan (R, 110 minutes) Read the C-VILLE review here. Vinegar Hill […]

Something fishy

“RuPaul’s Drag Race 3” Tuesday 9pm, VH1 Even if you’re currently Logo-less you can still enjoy the most awesomely ridiculous reality competition ever to sashay across a television set. VH1 will rebroadcast new episodes of the drag-queen series the night after they originally air on the aforementioned gay cable net. The new season starts this […]

Checking in with Phillip St. Ours

Rob Evans, who’s the producer on the Pantherburn record, and I have been talking for a while about starting a record label to help other bands get started in the recording process, kind of what Pantherburn just did.

Changing seasons

“American Idol” Wednesday-Thursday 9pm, FOX Simon is gone. Last season was a disaster. A slew of new singing competitions are set to launch in the next 12 months. “Idol” needed change big time, and that looks like what it got. Ellen and Kara are out; unfortunately some idiot signed Randy to a multi-year contract, so […]