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The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Spend a minute with Brendan Fitzgerald and plan your cultural events for the next week.
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
3:10 to Yuma (R, 117 minutes) Russell Crowe and Christian Bale replace Glenn Ford and Van Heflin in this remake of the highly regarded 1957 western. Crowe is the outlaw leader on his way to court via the titular conveyance. Bale is the small-time rancher charged with escorting him there alive—no small task when droves […]
Reap what you sew
There is a tricycle laying on its side in the middle of Hardy Drive, a toy from one of what Quintin Franklyn would call the "immature" kids, the kids that hang out at the spot called Little Kids' Park in the back of the Westhaven housing project.
Shooting from the hip
"The Biggest Loser"Tuesday 9pm, NBC NBC’s feel-good weight loss competition is shaping itself up for the new season, jettisoning dead weight host Caroline Rhea and replacing her with Alison Sweeney, best known as bad girl Sammy Brady from "Days of Our Lives." As a "Days" fan from back in the day, this excites me very […]
First Friday, September 7
Angelo “Petal and Pod,” watercolors by Lara Call Gastinger, 5:30-7:30pm. Art Upstairs “Fleurs et Jardins Intines,” oils and pastels by Anne deLatour Hopper, 6-9pm. Artifacts “Artifacts at Artifacts,” photographs by Robert Williams, 5:30-7:30pm. Bozart Gallery “A Different Eye,” photographs by Craig Lineburger, 6-9pm. The Bridge “Fuzz,” a collection of handcrafted works curated by Patrick Costello […]
Capsule reviews of films playing in town
Balls of Fury (PG-13) What could be better than the folks behind "Reno: 911" taking Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon and re-writing it as a rude comedy about an illegal underground ping-pong tournament lorded over by evil Christopher Walken? Completely absurd, but I dare you not to giggle on multiple occasions. Opening Wednesday; check local […]
Under covers [with video]
There was a lot that could've distracted Mike Sager from his 51st birthday. A writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, Sager was on assignment in Las Vegas with Kobe Bryant, the L.A. Lakers guard, when August 17 rolled by…
Running out of soap
"Passions"Weekdays 2pm, NBC Wacky shit goes down all the time on daytime TV, but none of it comes close to the insanity on "Passions." I caught an episode in which a tsunami crashed into the show’s New England town and unearthed corpses from a graveyard, one of which ended up in a house and then […]