Curtain To Drop On Cinema At The Avalon
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 13, 2008
Most of the time, it didn’t matter what film was showing at Cinema at the Avalon longtime friends Thelma Hughes and Janet Johnson were regulars at the Wednesday senior matinees.
The nonprofit’s board of directors decided to terminate the use arrangement for the building it had with the city of Grand Junction, which owns the Avalon [...]
Curtain Closes On Saints Soccer Squads
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 13, 2008
Mistakes were the difference as St. Helena High’s varsity boys soccer team saw its season end with a 2-0 loss to visiting University High School last Wednesday night in the opening round of the North Coast Section playoffs.
“That’s really what good teams do,” Saints coach Ozzie Gallegos said, noting that the Red Devils who scored [...]
Stepping Behind The Iron Curtain Of The East
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 12, 2008
The countries of Indochina love themselves some communism. Laos and Vietnam are openly People’s Republics, with red hammer-and-sickle flags lining the streets, while Cambodia fronts like a democracy. (Mao Zedong Boulevard and Josip Broz Tito Street in Phnom Penh hint at the country’s political ideology.)
In Laos and Vietnam, it seems every central square, statue and [...]
Opening The Curtain On Torture
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on November 12, 2008
McDonagh’s first success, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, jolted audiences in Galway, London and New York, where it opened in 1998. The Lieutenant of Inishmore, on Broadway in 2006, had audiences gasping both at the comedy and at the apparently horrific fate of an innocent onstage cat.
Director Kevin G. Becker and a terrific cast have [...]
Curtain Call Looms For Egoli
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 12, 2008
THE stars of Egoli, South Africa’s longest running soap opera, are “going to miss the show dearly” but they still have a full year in which to shoot more scenes of deception and tangled love.
M-Net and Franz Marx Films have decided to pull the plug on the country’s first home-grown soap opera because of “changing [...]
Curtain Closes On Theatre Group
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 11, 2008
A brief notice posted on its web site confirms the local theatre group has “ceased operations effective immediately.
“Despite positive, community-oriented aspirations, the company succumbed to overly ambitious plans for the 2008 season, a major downtown in tourism and widespread apathy,” according to the statement. “The resultant, brutal lack of cash flow delivered the coup de [...]
Final Curtain For Uiq Symbian Interface
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 11, 2008
According to a report by Swedish online magazine mobil.se, the Swedish software company UIQ has given notice to all of its 270 employees. UIQ produces one of the two interfaces for the Symbian OS smartphone operating system. Smartphones with this interface were produced by UIQ’s owners Motorola and Sony Ericsson, among others, but both vendors [...]
Sanderson Launches New Wallpaper And Curtain Fabric Collections
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 11, 2008
Beautiful florals are brought to life in the satins, taffetas and silks of the ‘Mereville’ collection, with delicate motifs interpreted in subtle, feminine detail. The ‘Elyan’ collection of weaves and pretty embroideries captures a similar resonance, reflecting the faded elegance of French country houses and capturing a chic yet comfortable appeal.
The ‘Marney’ collection, comprising a [...]
Cole Brings The Curtain Down On Career
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 11, 2008
Andrew Cole has announced today that he has retired from playing football with immediate effect and brings the curtain down on an eventful career in top flight football. Whilst the last couple of seasons have seen Cole out of the Premiership, there was no doubt that at one point he was one of the most [...]
Curtain Up On Right Pearl Of A Musical
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on November 11, 2008
Lambeth Walk and The Sun Has Got His Hat On will be ringing out at Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre tonight when the curtain goes up on classic Cockney musical Me And My Girl.
The talented company has been staging an annual production for the past 81 years and has been performing at the Grand since 1958 following [...]