First Friday, April 4, 2008 [With Photo Gallery]

Art Upstairs Gallery A collection of works by Peter Alamonte, 6-9pm.Batteau Custom Framing Works by Judith Ely, Cayce Odom and Christine Rich, 5-8:30pm.BozArt Gallery ”Celtic Patterns Around the World,” works in multiple media by Matalie Griffin Rivard Deane, Bob Deane and Jim Watkins, 5-9pm.Café Cubano “How I See It,” paintings by Mary Michaela Murray, 5-7pm. […]

Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since The […]

The Raw deal [with video]

Second-year art major Laura Lin is framing a handful of portraits—many watercolors, a few oil pastels, most still bearing the heavy pencil lashings of a young artist—on a makeshift table beneath a single lamp and an open ceiling.

Knowing the Drill

After writing, directing and/or producing a four-year string of comedy hits (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Knocked Up, Superbad, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Judd Apatow could be forgiven for taking a little break, if for no reason other than to preserve the […]

Tracey takes on…America

“Battlestar Galactica: Revisited”Thursday 10pm, Sci-Fi Channel This half-hour special gives you everything you need to know about the critically acclaimed sci-fi show, conveniently airing before its fourth and final season begins next week. Countless critics (myself included) have praised “Galactica,” and it really is a fantastic show. People get spooked by the “sci-fi” banner, and […]

Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town 10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since […]

Capsule reviews of films playing in town

10,000 B.C. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) directs this big-budget SPFX extravaganza. It’s, well, 10,000 B.C., and a hairy, mammoth-hunting hero (unknown Steven Strait) is prevailed upon to rescue his tribe from a civilization of pyramid-dwelling slavers. Omar Sharif is in there, doing his best prehistoric work since The 13th Warrior. Playing […]