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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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 […]
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Live through this: A conversation with Legs McNeil
As a co–founder of New York’s Punk Magazine (with John Holmstrom), Legs McNeil was an integral part of the burgeoning punk music scene in the 1970s. He practically lived at […]
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You can’t get there from here. Yet.
Sometimes there’s a chicken and egg thing going on with people’s perceptions of proposed bicycle and pedestrian facilities. Some folks regard sidewalks and bike lanes as unnecessary on a particular […]
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The Foodie Column: FORMing cheese
As I explore restaurants, I’m a sucker for a good charcuterie plate. Generally found in the appetizer section of menu or on its own, charcuterie is technically a collection of […]