Performing Arts Preview 2006
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News Quirks 09.20.06
Curses, Foiled Again Austrian authorities arrested a 34-year-old man who tried to rob a bank in Poggersdorf, only to discover that it wasn’t a bank but a municipal building. The robber believed it was a bank because he saw an automatic teller machine in the lobby, but after a woman whom he reportedly threatened with…
Michael Chorney, Mother Tongue
(GrainbinMusic, CD) Bristol’s Michael Chorney has worn several musical hats over the years. A talented bandleader, composer, producer, instrumentalist and arranger, he’s among the Green Mountains’ most versatile artists. With Mother Tongue, Chorney makes his first foray into the singer-songwriter genre. The results are nearly as strong as anything he’s tried before. Mother is a…
RAQ, Ton These
(Harmonized Records, CD) Let’s get this out of the way right up front: Burlington rockers RAQ’s latest, Ton These, is an eminently listenable album. The musicianship is great, perhaps flawless. Each of the 10 tunes is infectious. Unfortunately, the quartet still wears its influences on its sleeves; RAQ need to roll ’em up and get…
THE WILD**1/2
Disney’s latest computer-animated adventure concerns an assortment of animals that depart a New York Zoo in pursuit of a fellow creature who’s been released into the wild. Featuring the voices of Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Izzard, William Shatner and James Belushi. (85 min, G) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/thewild/
LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN**
Josh Hartnett stars in this mistaken-identity drama in which a young man travels to New York to visit a friend and winds up the target of bookies owed big money by his missing buddy. With Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley. (110 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/luckynumberslevin/trailer/
GOAL!**1/2
Kuno Becker, Allessandro Nivola and Marcel Iures are teamed in Danny Cannon’s feel-good-a-thon about a Mexican boy who crosses the border to realize his dream of soccer glory. (117 min, PG) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/goal/
