Pay No Attention To The Economist Behind The Curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on October 5, 2008
As this column was being written, the U.S. House of Representatives, for a variety of ideological reasons, rejected the Bush administration’s Wall Street bailout. The bailout plan was written by Wall Street alumni and contained virtually no provisions addressing the root causes of the economic crisis. The author applauds Congress’s newfound courage and encourages further [...]
Electronic Entertainment Expo curtain raiser
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 19, 2008
The great and good of the videogames industry will be de-camping to Los Angeles to show what new titles they’ve got in the pipeline for the coming year.
It seems the focus of the show will be on software, rather than hardware, and although we’re unlikely to see any groundbreaking new consoles getting their grand unveiling [...]
Meeting a legend
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on May 17, 2008
Growing up as a wrestling fan, I always relish the chance to interview the stars that graced my television set as a kid. The more I began to learn about the business, the more I began a fascination with the history of the industry. This is why I always value the chance to interview the [...]
Gary Carter wasn’t shy about curtain calls
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 3, 2008
Gary Carter was the king of the curtain call, a guy whose signature fist pump would come to define both him and the swaggering Mets of the middle to late 1980s.
Not even Carter knows how many curtain calls he gave since introducing his move 23 years ago after hitting a 10th-inning home run to give [...]
Critics’ choice
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
TODAYTwice Removed pairs photographer Edward Burtynsky and abstract painter Brent McIntosh for a show of landscape work fashioned to rekindle one of the oldest concerns in contemporary art, the relation of painting and photography. Eight negatives of Burtynsky’s early landscapes his pre-industrial work from the 1980s became McIntosh’s point of demarcation for work the painter [...]
Theater land lease approved
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
The Central Florida Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday raised the curtain on Ocala Civic Theatre’s hopes of building a new 650-seat theater by voting unanimously to lease to the theater group 14 acres of land for 99 years at the Appleton Cultural Center.”During this 50th anniversary year, we have the opportunity to be [...]