Sep 6-12, 2006
10 Stories Ignored by Big Media Last Year; St. Mike’s Prof Sharon Lamb Looks at Pink Culture, and Sees Red; Librarian-Author on Publishing for Picky Readers
News Quirks 09.06.06
Curses, Foiled Again Maria Bergan, who is 23 and legally old enough to drink in Ohio, used a stolen driver’s license to prove her age at a bar in Westlake. The waitress she presented it to, Kathryn Mooney, 22, recognized it as hers. She reported it stolen three weeks earlier. Bergan grew suspicious when Mooney…
Mark LeGrand & The Lovesick Bandits, Cold New England Town
(Self-released, CD) Central Vermont trio Mark LeGrand & the Lovesick Bandits have been the Friday night house band at Montpelier’s Langdon Street Café for some time. By all accounts, they’re local favorites; listening to Cold New England Town, it’s easy to see why. Leader LeGrand has been playing music in the Green Mountains since the…
Lowell Thompson, Lowell Thompson
(RELEASE) (Self-released, CD) Burlington may be a long haul from Bakersfield, but the warm twang and wine-fueled heartache of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and their fellow Okie pickers has long captured the souls of the local music community. On his first full-length disc, Lowell Thompson has assembled a crack group of old and new-school pickers,…
UNITED 93*****
Paul (Bloody Sunday) Greengrass wrote and directed this unflinching account of the passengers and crew who rose up and took their plane back from terrorists on September 11. With David Alan Bashe, Richard Bekins and Cheyenne Jackson. (121 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/united93/
THE SENTINEL**1/2
Michael Douglas stars in this action-adventure about a veteran Secret Service agent who comes under suspicion for plotting to assassinate the president. Kiefer Sutherland and Kim Basinger costar. Clark Johnson directs. (PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesentinel/
TAKE THE LEAD***
Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard and Jenna Dewan star in first-time director Liz Friedlander’s dance-floor drama, in which a ballroom pro combines forces with hip-hop-crazy high school hoofers to create a whole new style of movement. Based on a true story. (108 min, PG-13) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/takethelead/
FRIENDS WITH MONEY***1/2
Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener and Frances McDormand star in writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s wry exploration of the shifting relationships between four L.A. women who have been close all their adult lives. (88 min, R) Web: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/friendswithmoney/
