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A cold drizzle doesnt stop Julia Burgen from climbing out of a warm pickup truck and walking along Johnson Creek in Arlingtons entertainment district, near I-30 and Collins Street, where Six Flags, Hurricane Harbor, Ameriquest Field, and the Dallas Cowboys stadium-in-progress are glitzy monuments to good times. On a stark February morning, trees have shed their leaves, and the creek looks naked, forlorn, and scarred by the paper cups, beer cans, and assorted trash that cling to banks and branches. Stripped by winter and trashed by man, the creek somehow remains lovely, a beautiful problem child with an occasional habit of running loose and flooding streets, homes, and businesses. Burgen has worked for a quarter-century to achieve flood control on Johnson Creek without ruining the streams natural feel, its canopies, birds, and critters.
Robert Altman's visionary oeuvre
Though his was a career of extreme ups and downs, Robert Altman was one of the true visionaries of American cinema, and though he was 81 and in failing health--he confessed at the 2006 Academy Awards that he'd recently become the recipient of a heart transplant--his death in November still came as a surprise, for few directors of any age were as fresh and full of life. An elder statesman of the Easy Riders/Raging Bulls generation of 1970s filmmakers, Altman was no twentysomething University of Southern California film school grad, but a veteran of TV dramas like Combat and Bonanza, yet when he made his best-remembered comedy, 1970's MASH (Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan, 1,780 yen), audiences preferred it over what was supposed to be that year's hip and irreverent antiwar comedy, Mike Nichols' Catch-22.
Graffiti artists ditch spray paint for lasers and magnetized light ...
In a parking lot in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, graffiti artist James Powderly prepares to leave his mark. His canvas, 100 yards away, is a building 150 feet high and 120 feet wide. Powderly intends to cover all of it. His tool of choice is not a can of Krylon paint but a laser pointer and projector connected to a laptop. As he scans the building with the pointer, the projector follows his script, imprinting his ephemeral message in pale green light.
Powderly is a promoter of a new wave of graffiti art. He and his partner, Evan Roth, are founders of the Graffiti Research Lab, a year-old artist's collective in New York dedicated to expanding graffiti beyond spray paint to new but accessible technologies. But not all established graffiti "writers," as they are known, agree that the lab's work deserves to be called graffiti.
Majesco Entertainment Announces Chairman Emeritus Morris Sutton to ...
EDISON, N.J., March 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Majesco Entertainment Company , an innovative provider of digital entertainment products and content, today announced that Morris Sutton, its founder and Chairman Emeritus, will move into a consulting role with the company. Morris founded Majesco more than 20 years ago as a distributor of closeout video games. His entrepreneurial spirit and business savvy grew Majesco to a leading publisher of value and handheld video game software with a wide-ranging distribution pipeline. In his new role as a consultant and strategic advisor, he will support the sales team by managing select key accounts and utilizing his extensive network of entertainment industry contacts to bring revenue generating opportunities to the Company. "Much of Majesco's culture -- our entrepreneurial nature and mass market mentality -- is a direct reflection of Morris Sutton," said Jesse Sutton, Interim Chief Executive Officer.
Drawing the Line1
Ingénieurs Sans Frontières mix pleasure and philanthropy tonight at La Tulipe (4530 Papineau, 7 p.m.), where they host a show jam-packed with local talent: Lyrical Assaults, Project SideFX, Name Withheld, Feed The Ghost and High John. The context is a massive national effort to raise awareness about extreme poverty, defined as people who live on less than $1 a day. All across the country, ISF members are distributing a flyer, Canada Horizon, dated 2025, when extreme poverty no longer exists; the flyer details the steps to take to make that scenario a reality. FRIDAY 2 Concordia's fantabulous yearly Art Matters event kicks off tonight for 16 days' worth of varied art offerings. Read more in the Arts section and check the full schedule at artmatters.concordia.ca, but in the meantime, party like it's 1999 at the Art Matters opening party, where The Winks, Thundrah, The Nymphets, The Captains, Shapes And Sizes and DJs Sons of Warshaw will regale you with massive levels of entertainment.
Too many local theaters already?
HAMPTON -- Local entertainment and arts leaders on Thursday greeted a plan for a 2,000-seat theater near Hampton Coliseum with a mixture of curiosity, admiration and bewilderment.
Most said they wanted to hear more details about exactly what kind of performances the theater would present. Several said that success for the new music hall would depend on carving out a niche in what's become a very competitive market live music market.
"My first gut feeling is, 'Wow, that makes about seven similar-size theaters in our area," said Bill Reid, whose company Rising Tide runs the 1,500-capacity NorVa ballroom in downtown Norfolk. The NorVa specializes in rock, rap and pop concerts ranging from My Chemical Romance and The Roots to Ringo Starr and The Isley Brothers.
XM and Knitting Factory Entertainment Live Music Series to Debut ...
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- XM, the nation's leading satellite radio service, in collaboration with Knitting Factory Entertainment (KFE), the leading authority on live emerging music, today announced the alternative music performance series "Live From The Knitting Factory on XMU" will premiere on March 2. Co-created and co-produced by KFE and XMU, XM's indie/college music channel (XM 43), the weekly concert series will feature performances from both up-and-coming and established alternative bands recorded at Knitting Factory clubs in New York and Los Angeles. Each "Live From The Knitting Factory on XMU" performance will capture the spontaneity and eclectic energy that has been the signature of Knitting Factory concerts, while spotlighting emerging artists across multiple genres.
The Fight Network Opens Office in Ecuador
TORONTO--(MARKET WIRE)--Feb 27, 2007 -- Blackout Media Corp.'s (Other OTC:BKMP.PK - News) -- The Fight Network's -- North America's first and only all combatant sports and entertainment channel is pleased to announce that it has set up its Latin American office in Quito, Ecuador.We chose Ecuador to set up our first office in Latin America as it is accessible to several of the countries that will be launching the network. The office will be used for affiliate relations and sales and marketing. Newly appointed Director of Operations for The Fight Network Latin America, Ken Blum, stated, "I'm looking forward to the opportunities of expanding The Fight Network in Latin America as well as showcasing the athleticism of the sports they air." "Setting up offices in South America enables us to target the Latin America population from a very central point," stated Mike Garrow, President of The Fight Network.
Now showing: epic cost of cinema snacks
Buying a small popcorn and a soda at a movie theater is becoming a big investment. At the 13-screen theater owned by Regal Entertainment Group in the Fenway, the price of a small popcorn and a small soft drink will set you back $10, the same as an adult ticket. Granted, the small popcorn is 85 ounces, nearly twice as big as the small at other theaters, and a small soft drink is 32 ounces, the equivalent of roughly half of a 2-liter bottle, but it's still a lot to pay for modest fare. Susan McWhinney-Morse of Boston recently went to the movies at the Fenway Regal, where tickets for herself, her grandson, and friend set them back $25. A small popcorn and two drinks added $16.50 to the bill. "That's $40," she said. "It's appalling. It's absolutely appalling." All food vendors take hefty profits on the products they sell, but analysts say no one does it quite like movie theaters, which push popcorn, soda, and a host of other items that cost little to make or buy, and generate very high profit margins.
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