Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
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Haunted Houses
As winter nears and darkness falls, the demons and creatures that lurk behind the walls of the Eastern State Penitentiary emerge for a vicious romp. This historical site that jailed the infamous Al Capone (in a rather nicely furnished cell)…
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Love & Food
The increased popularity of cooking shows has paved the way for adventurous theaters to put on plays that experiment with food prep as live entertainment. Cooking serves as the way of life in Cooking with the Calamari Sisters, a comedically chaotic “live…
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Kate Middleton Exposed
Royal nudie shots are really proving to be a royal pain. Add Kate Middleton, also known as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, to the ever-growing list of celebrities whose private bits are almost as famous as their public lives. Shortly after photos emerged of Prince…
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The Stranger’s Child
Virginia Woolf circumvented bluntness by dwelling on a snail. Alan Hollinghurst does it by creating complex characters with countless thoughts, motives, fears and desires — and then slowing everything down to each loaded sentence. Each scene in his most recent novel, The Stranger’s Child (Knopf),…
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Sherlock Holmes 2
Girls want to date them, guys want to be them (OK, and also probably want to date them): Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return for a 1891-set Holmes sequel with all the same great fight scenes and premeditated plans of attack.…
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Hell & Gone
Death is never an option for Charlie Hardie. Known as the former cop who can survive anything the world can muster up, Hardie finally meets his match with the Accident People, a secret group that quietly captures and kills people…