These days Shelley Smith spends most of her time welding oil drums into wearable art on the Redneck Riviera, in the little Gulf shore Alabama town of Perdido Beach, where […]
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Reviews: A Good Day to Die Hard, Beautiful Creatures
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD * It’s been exactly a quarter-century since Bruce Willis became a movie star with the action classic Die Hard, but while 2013 finds the […]
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BOOK FEST: Midnight writer
“Please don’t ask me to be Mister Clean,” Gregg Allman sang on the classic Brothers & Sisters album, “cuz baby I don’t know how.” Allman wrote that song, “Wasted Words,” […]
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Classroom chaos theory
Like Lindsay Weir on the late and lamented series Freaks and Geeks, high school sophomore Vickie Martin is a rather reluctant member of the math team. Vickie joins the nerdy […]
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Valentine’s edition
This week, the sweetest of the holidays rolls up on the day planner — Valentine’s Day. With a long history of waxy chocolates, sugary hearts admonishing “Be Mine!” and enough […]
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5 Spot
5 Spot hits lucky 7 Every so often in the rough and tumble restaurant business there is that magical moment when an eatery is the right thing, at the right […]
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Reviews: Movie 43, Warm Bodies
MOVIE 43 * One of the producers behind Movie 43 publicly stated that he hoped the film would become this generation’s Kentucky Fried Movie, a declaration that felt like a […]
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Hyde Park on Hudson
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON * The next time anyone blathers about “liberal Hollywood,” remind them that in 2012 alone, the film factory released one movie that paid tribute to the […]
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Luxury, reasonable rates
With equal measures of bluegrass, talking blues, country and folk, City Hotel’s music straddles and blurs the lines of Americana, acoustica and old-time wit and whimsy. Not even two years […]
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More sweetness than sadness
The thing that you need to know about Jewish film festivals is that they’re not all about the Holocaust. True, the mass murder of six million Jewish people under Hitler’s […]
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Spam and chocolate
As a kid growing up in Virginia, actor Author Rowan wore out his VHS copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He was, he admits, “one of those people” […]
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Whaleboat gets all social
Every day on Facebook, someone posts a quote or a meme about the dangers of addiction to social media and other contemporary forms of communication. This week, it was none […]