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.
Guns, guts and graphic novels
Amidst the high-profile comic book movies flooding theaters this summer (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Dark Knight, Hellboy 2), there’s one more whose roots trace, rather quietly, back to […]
One Ringwald to rule them all
“Secret Life of the American Teenager”Tuesday 8pm, ABC FamilyDid you like Juno? Of course you did. So now here comes Hollywood to force lesser clones of the indie smash down […]
Love is a Muxtape
How do you herald the start of an enormous musical experience? Do you move from the ground up, or from the top down? Bring a thunderous ruckus like Wu-Tang Clan, […]
He talk pretty
Every writer (especially the self-absorbed ones) dream of being David Sedaris, the author and memoirist whose every book shoots to the top of the bestseller list, and whose Santaland Diaries on NPR (about working as a Macy’s elf) has become a seasonal classic.
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Movies playing in town
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (PG, 140 minutes) The Pevensie kids return to the magical land of Narnia, only to find that 1,000 years have passed since their last […]
“Sorry about that, chief”
Nostalgia is a powerful tool, and it’s one of the driving forces behind the new, feature film adaptation of the ’60s spy spoof TV series, “Get Smart.” Rather than totally […]
Game show mania
“I Survived a Japanese Game Show”Tuesday 9pm, ABC There’s a great episode of “The Simpsons” where the family gets stranded in Japan and, to earn plane fare home, they subject […]
Storm’s coming
There are more than 60 versions of “Peaceable Kingdom” by Quaker painter Edward Hicks—different iterations of all creatures great and small, sleek-coated predators and skittish prey, hunkered down together wearing […]