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Long awaited and highly anticipated, Available Light Theatre just finished their opening weekend of Jane Eyre. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, many Columbus residents grew excited for another collaboration between AVLT and Daniel Elihu Kramer, the playwright of AVLT’s 2010… [Read More]
Opposites attract. They attracted me anyway. Saturday May 18th offered central Ohio art supporters a unique opportunity to appreciate two very different ways in which the art scene in Columbus is taking off. On one end of the spectrum is… [Read More]
Ten years ago Star Trek was in the final stages of a long, debilitating fight with old age. Stagnancy had robbed the once great franchise of its life and by 2005 Star Trek was gone from theaters and TV for… [Read More]
A Moulin Rouge spin on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of decadence, longing, and the brutal carelessness of the wealthy could have been awesome. Isn’t that what we kind of expected when Rouge helmsman Baz Luhrmann signed on to direct The… [Read More]
A place with the moniker “Manifesto” sounds really serious. And when veteran customers mention that there are profound quotations written on the walls of the establishment, it reinforces expectations of seriousness. Someone needs to point out that the biggest quotation… [Read More]
On top of being a huge hit 2008’s Iron Man solidified Robert Downy Jr.’s comeback by making him a full-fledged superstar again plus got the ball rolling on what would become the Avengers franchise. Since then an underwhelming Iron Man… [Read More]
Hey Hey is nice little neighborhood hangout on Whittier. It’s almost kitch, but not in any deliberate fashion that would inspire eye-rolling nausea. And now that Hey Hey has teamed up with The Coop, a much beloved local food truck,… [Read More]
Viva Vagina, Shadowbox Live’s newest Stage 2 production, conjures up thoughts of a musical variation of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues or a cabaret-style, satirical, faux-chauvinistic but ultimately feminist comedy. This production does not really do either. Instead, it presents a… [Read More]
Jeff Nichols’s criminally underseen Take Shelter was the best film of 2011. Poetic and understated, steeped in the mores of small town Ohio, this story of a man haunted by visions of the apocalypse benefitted from a treatment fully at… [Read More]
Gosh, who wouldn’t want to visit a Chinese restaurant that sets up shop in the shell of a former strip joint? With a history like that, how could Helen’s Asian Kitchen not be interesting? Online reviews do forewarn of lots… [Read More]
Oblivion is a stunning Sci-Fi adventure starring Tom Cruise as a drone repair man who battles unseen foes in an apocalyptic future earth. So it’s been a tough few decades. An alien attack has destroyed the moon, and the earth… [Read More]
Columbus is becoming a more popular place for bands to add as a stop while on tour. We were skipped over and forced to drive to Cleveland or Cincinnati to indulge in orgasmic music. But fortunately, this is changing rapidly… [Read More]
An entire two weeks have passed since the Virginmarys last played Columbus. Last time, as an opening band for CD102.5′s First Dose at the LC where they played a short, but impressively powerful, set. Friday night, they returned to the… [Read More]
I did a quick peruse of TV Guide’s current top ranks to see two identical shows vying for top place (The Voice and American Idol). Then I noticed Dancing with the Stars, that show that reincarnates 80s celebrities. Scrolling down… [Read More]
If Danny Boyle’s directing career was a novel and each chapter represented a different film from his career, I think most would agree that there was a different author for each chapter. Boyle doesn’t stick to just a couple of… [Read More]
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