Mother Courage opens this weekend. It’s the show I’ve been waiting months for!! Mother Courage has long been one of my favorite play scripts, the monster of a thing… But I’ve never before seen it performed. I’ll be quite interested to see how this fairly young actress, Annie Enneking, performs in the role of crusty, … Read more
Flags of Our Fathers, 2006. Directed by Clint Eastwood, written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis. Starring Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Barry Pepper, John Benjamin Hickey, Paul Walker, Jamie Bell, Neal McDonough, Harve Presnell, Judith Ivey, Myra Turley, and Thomas McCarthy. Now showing at theaters around town. A long time ago, when … Read more
While in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan this fall, I came across this picture on a poster titled “Upper Michigan Border Patrol” I had never thought Brown bears lived in the Midwest, but this photo made me curious if I had been mistaken. In fact, it occurred to me that I had never really known … Read more
Someone over at MNSpeak beat me to the punch on tonight’s happeningest happening: a tour of FOUND magazine, 8 p.m. at Creative Electric Studios. (And I might actually go, now that I’m feeling better…) Not wanting to seem unoriginal, however, I thought I’d toss off a couple other things, too: A Kung Fu comedy from … Read more
Another movie night… On one hand, we have the Women’s Human Rights Film Series, which provides a smattering of documentaries about the various plights of women… And, on the other hand (the far other), we have rumor of a documentary about snuff films airing at IFP’s Cinema Lounge tonight… Another bet is 49 Up, a … Read more
All right, everybody get in line and listen up. I want you fellas to get some shut-eye so we can all be up and ready to hump it at first light. We’ll be traveling seven miles to the east over rugged terrain. Word has it we might be in for some heavy weather as well, … Read more
I was asked to contribute to this blog due to a fear that cars are losing their manliness. Before you go all Angela Dworkin on me here let me make it clear that women can be manly. In fact, I know many women who are far more manly than men, the late Ms. Dworkin included. … Read more
Ford is essentially a truck company. That is why in spite of calling 2005 “The Year of the Car” they could not muster much more than a reskinning of the Volvo 80 platform to create the unpowered, boring as butter Five Hundred Series (which have sold poorly). Sadly, Ford of Europe manufactures cars that people … Read more
Dateline: Philadelphia I’m here in the City of Brotherly Love for a few days and I have to say this is clearly a food town. Maybe not a food town like San Fran or New York where it’s almost a tourist trade, but more like a food town full of serious eaters. I’m not going … Read more
More fodder from the chick who’s too sick to do nuthin’: (Ah, there’s not much going on today anyhow…) another fantastic concert from the Minnesota Sur Seine Festival, a show that’s a little tripped up thanks to some problems de la Visa, and perhaps the Art of Horror exhibition at Altered Aesthetics. Because, who doesn’t … Read more