Robert Redford, founder of the Sundance Film Festival, might claim that filmmakers, stars, journalists and Hollywood-types journey to Park City, Utah, each January to see movies. But in fact, many Sundancers stay the entire 10 days and see only a few. While The Hatchet did plow through 25 films in five days, to only report on the life within the dark and crowded theaters would be to ignore the reason why Sundance is a festival and not just a Cineplex.
Chicago, Ill., 1968. It's August, and the Democratic National Convention is about to take place. You're young and pissed off at President Lyndon Johnson, his despicable war, and how he's sending your generation off to die for their country thousands of miles away from home.
Walk out of the Courthouse metro, past the blocks of cookie-cutter condos and into this totem pole-marked bar tucked behind the Taco Bell, and you'll see why the streets look so dead on a Saturday night: everyone's in here. Dr. Dremo's Taphouse - a funky bar with two crowded stories and an underworld feel stranded in the heart of square, suburban Virginia - is a veritable mecca of all things alternative, absurd and alcoholic.
If you have $5 Add some relish to your Super Bowl festivities this Sunday by going to Arlington Drafthouse to check out live music before watching the game. Get off at the Pentagon City metro, and 2903 Columbia Pike is just over a mile away and easily accessible by the Route 16 bus.
There aren't many bands that get to THAT level; the point where every time they take the stage, it's not just a concert… it's an event. For the past couple of weeks, there was a buzz (err… a low murmur) around campus about last Thursday's Red Hot Chili Peppers show.
Last year, "Little Miss Sunshine" rocked Sundance. Abigail Breslin, as young Olive, quickly became everyone's adorable little sweetheart and the dynamo cast was lauded by almost every major publication. So this year at Sundance, the buzzing question was "What will be the next 'Little Miss Sunshine?'" I had to apologize when I shoved my mini recorder into Reece Thompson's ("The Sandlot 2", "SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2") face.
There were 196 films screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and The Hatchet managed to see 25 of them. While this might seem like a meager percentage, sitting and watching movies for 12 hours a day is no easy feat. Thankfully, the duds were few and far between.
"Once" is a put-your-arm-around-your-girlfriend kind of movie. A modern-day musical, "Once" could best be described as a happenstance meeting between two lonely people who wind up making sweet music - literally. He's a self-described "broken hearted hoover fixer sucker guy" - working in his father's vacuum cleaner repair shop by day, playing his own music on the streets of Dublin by night.
If you are homeless, handicapped, gay, black or Jewish, you are not safe from Sarah Silverman. In her new show, "The Sarah Silverman Show", scheduled to air this evening on Comedy Central, no joke is too crass, no quip is too offensive, and no one leaves unscathed.
It's 9 a.m. on Friday and I'm not sleeping in. I'm rubbing elbows with Coelogyne ochracea and Oerstedella centradenia. Amidst great halls of fossils and colossal taxidermy in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, one will find "Orchids: Take a Walk on the Wild Side," the 13th annual orchid exhibit presented by the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division and the U.
It's been nearly 40 years since Rod Stewart first shook his British booty into America's hearts (and loins) with his breakthrough single, the infamous older-woman love lament "Maggie Mae." Rod Stewart is 62 now, and Maggie's probably dead. But to the 10,000 screaming over-the-hill women inside the Verizon Center last Friday night, Stewart's boyish charm is still very much alive and kicking.
"The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show" is being heavily promoted on Comedy Central these days. You may have seen clips of David Koechner (pronounced Kech'ner in Iowa) ("Anchorman") wrestling a bear aside an 18 wheeler while an elderly man in the nude (Dave 'Gruber' Allen, "Freaks and Geeks") watches on in disapproval.
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