The Immortal Story, 1968. Written and directed by Orson Welles, from a novella by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Starring Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley, and Orson Welles. With our books and interviews, our videotapes and compact discs, we can try to reach back in time and speak with a dead man when we are … Read more
Somedays one can’t bring herself to write about the on-the-town junket she could and should be taking–in a perfect, more energized world. I am a woman, see, and so my universe is ruled by guilt. And it just feels really baaaaad sometimes, you know, to plug a show that I myself wouldn’t want to go … Read more
I think the gang at Lund’s has the right idea with their Food-E program. Having knowledgable food people in the store, existing only to answer questions and help customers is a great idea. But. I never see them when I need them. Or they’re in the front of the store and I don’t have anything … Read more
Inside-the-park homerun? An 0-2 wild pitch with a runner on third? All those half-assed at-bats in the seventh and eighth innings? The inability, time and again, to get a big two-out hit? Four runs in two games? S’Awright. I don’t know what else to tell you. Maybe God doesn’t work day games.
Eleven groundball outs through five, including six to the shortstop. And just as I finish typing those words, Michael Cuddyer launches a 411-foot homer into the left-field bleachers to cut Oakland’s lead to 2-1. …And Justin Morneau ties the game with an upperdeck blast to right. Adios, Estaban Loaiza. If I were Ken Macha I … Read more
First off all, it’s all already a blur, but were those really the Suburbs I saw playing “Rattle My Bones” out there on the field at the Dome before the game? I like that idea. I like that idea a lot. I also very much like the idea of the Twins taking an early lead … Read more
Our humble, and often slighted, dance community is hosting its own version of an awards ceremony: tonight at its flagship, the beautiful Southern Theater. Rumor has it that this event is going to be “less pretentious” than last week’s Ivey Awards. (As in less sponsored, probably–and I’m quoting an anonymous source here.) Tickets are just … Read more
Is it not against all natural reason that God out of his mere whim deserts men, hardens them, damns them, as if He delighted in sins and in such torments of the wretched for eternity, He who is said to be of such mercy and goodness? This appears iniquitous, cruel, and intolerable in God, by … Read more
Pop-ups, Nick Punto, Barry Zito’s curveball, the wondrous Johan Santana, and a measure of redemption for Rondell White. 55,542 screaming fans. The tying run on third base with two outs in the eighth and the AL batting champ at the plate. And the guy who killed the Twins was a player that pretty much everybody … Read more
Lenny Russo was made for this. On October 3rd, check out a special dinner at Cue that challenges you to Eat Locally. The Bon Appetit Management Company, which runs the hospitality show at the Guthrie, has challenged Russo to come up with an entire meal made from ingredients within a 150 mile radius of the … Read more