The C-VILLE Minute! [with video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
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The C-VILLE Minute! [with video]
Spend a minute with Brendan Fitzgerald and plan your cultural events for this week.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Stop the Earth, we want to get on!
Many decades ago, when the movies still were young and naive, and the original version of The Day the Earth Stood Still wasn’t even a gleam in the robot Gort’s cycloptic eye, a Russian director named Lev Kuleshov put on a famous series of cinematic experiments. He took one straightforward shot of a movie star’s […]
When you're good to Momma…
“Momma’s Boys” Tuesday 10pm, NBC Ryan Seacrest, does your evil know no bounds? The self-styled heir to Dick Clark’s throne produces this new reality dating show in which 32 single women compete for the affections of one of three eligible bachelors. But there’s a catch: The boys are totally whipped by their mothers, and the […]
The razor’s edge
Live Arts’ current production of Sweeney Todd isn’t without its share of challenges. There are no visible set hands and no blackouts; the cast is nearly always onstage, involved, engaged. And it’s a large cast, filled with huge voices like Doug Schneider in the Live Arts Artistic Director John Gibson (holding razor) keeps the current […]
Capsule Reviews
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Carmike Cinema 6 Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays a canine superhero on TV, and thinks he actually is one, winds up in New York by mistake […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [with video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Baby, you can drive my car
So, apparently Chuck Berry did not get his sound from hearing Marty McFly substitute on guitar for Berry’s injured cousin, Marvin, at the November 12, 1955, “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance in Hill Valley, California. And apparently the birth of rock ’n’ roll has nothing to do with a time-traveling DeLorean, but instead with vintage […]
Brian Williams gets in the ‘Spirit’
“Little Spirit: Christmas in New York” Wednesday 8pm, NBC This new animated holiday special tells the story of Leo, a little boy from the Midwest whose family moves to New York City right before Christmas. Leo is taken aback by all the people, buildings, and sights and sounds, and ends up losing it a bit […]
The Steve Keene machine
Watching Steve Keene paint is a bit like watching the Ford Motor Company run in reverse. The goals are the same—a simple process and affordable products—but the assembly line is all screwy, as if Keene carelessly painted over it with images of Bob Dylan or John Coltrane or beer cans. In the Steve Keene assembly […]
Capsule reviews
Australia (PG-13, 175 minutes) Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann directs Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic historical western. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays a canine superhero on TV, and thinks he actually is one, winds up in New York […]