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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Now that the summer blockbusters have begun falling about our ears (some with surprising accuracy), let us quickly retreat to our bomb shelter and plan our forthcoming Cineplex excursions with care. In other words: Now that Indy Jones has landed, is there anything left to see besides…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen “Write a movie review about Mother’s Day,” growled my editor. “But Mother’s Day will be over by the time it’s published on Monday!” I exclaimed logically. My editor growled, spat out his nasty old cigar, and bit the head off a live chicken. I got the idea….
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Item by Mike Zucconi Eastern Mennonite University recognized the achievements of student athletes during the 2007-08 school year during its annual athletic awards banquet on April 15. “Rookie of the Year” honors went to Kacie Ruark (Baltimore, Md./Western) of women’s soccer and George Johnson (Richmond, Va./Miller School) of men’s basketball. Ruark is an Old Dominion…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Am I the last movie fan in the universe to discover “The History Boys?” No matter – it’s one of those movies you just stumble across by accident, and suddenly remember why you love cinema. And if you are enamored of character development, crazy about the clever…
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Story by Jim Bishop Theater at Eastern Mennonite University is pleased to continue its season with one of the great achievements of the American musical stage, Cabaret. The three-time Broadway smash hit, directed at EMU by Patrick K. Reynolds, theater department chair, will be presented 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 14-16 and the same…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amid a backdrop of men of various sizes and numbers of tattoos alternatively kicking and punching the air and occasionally a trainer wielding oversized protective gloves, the almost preternatural calm of Tyler Moyer stood out to me. At least what I was reading was calm. I soon found out that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So I’m talking with MMA athlete Dustin Honeycutt backstage about his match – which he lost by submission – and about the broken thumb that he suffered early on that pretty much ate away his chances of coming out on top.
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen As usual, it’s feast or famine time in Hollywood. The studios wait until the very end of the year to roll out their Academy Award-worthy films, figuring all the Oscar voters suffer from A.D.D.
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Item by Chris Graham The Puppy Project and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network are joining hands on a special project this holiday season. Donations to The Puppy Project will be split with the food bank to deliver gifts of Sparky, a plush, stuffed puppy, to children in the food bank’s outreach programs –…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Alas, the Golden Age of Musicals is long gone. Might as well toss in the Silver Age of Musicals and the Bronze Age of Musicals as well. And the latest big, splashy Broadway musical to be brought to the screen, “Dreamgirls,” is just more proof that if…
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