Welcome back to Westeros! In this week’s episode a boy became a man (several times over), a queen haggled for slaves, and Jaime Lannister’s personal Applause-o-Meter took a permanent hit. Beware: here there be spoilers. Let’s start with Riverrun, a completely new location for the show, and ancestral home of Catelyn Stark. The show fast-forwarded […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Results (Top 6 to Top 5)
And finally, our long national nightmare is over. I’ll keep tonight’s blog short and sweet. Here’s what you need to know: -Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery was back, singing his incredibly repetitive new song. And frankly he did not sound great. He also still looks 12, which made it all the more uncomfortable when Ryan […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Burt Bacharach/Songs the Idols Wish They’d Written
Last night’s “Idol” featured the highs and the lows of competition. Literally, we had some of the best singing of the season, but also the worst of possibly ANY season. I was hooting and clapping so loudly at my TV screen that I realized: this season has actually somehow become amazing. Largely in spite of […]
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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5: Veteran affairs
With just five queens remaining it was time for the annual makeover challenge. This time the task was to turn gay veterans of the United States military into drag queens for a day. These vets ranged from fairly young to of-a-certain-age, from stick-figure twinks to bears. It may have been the most mixed bag of […]
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“Doctor Who” Season 7: “The Rings of Akhaten”
Allons-y, Alonso! The City Entertainment Blog is going to take a crack at reviewing non-reality shows, starting with “Doctor Who.” Before we jump into this week’s new episode, a bit about your humble blogger. I’m a fairly recent “Who” convert, having devoured almost all of the reboot episodes in the past three months (I missed […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Results (Top 7 to Top 6)
The “Rock Week” results episode kicked off with the Top 7 group sing to “Somebody to Love” by Queen. Lot of Queen this week. Some of it was pretty, and once Candice came in at the end she stole the entire song. There were other moments — mostly with Lazaro — where it just wasn’t […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Top 7 Perform (Rock Week)
The theme was rock night, but the actual theme of the show as fashion trends. Seriously, I think the judges spent more time talking about the contestants’ clothes and styling than they did about the singing. That’s an exaggeration, but not by much. Anyway, people we expected to do poorly with this theme did in […]
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ART: Geva cancels summer show “The Lifeguard”
Geva Theatre Center announced today that it has cancelled its upcoming summer production of “The Lifeguard,” a new one-man show about Ronald Reagan that was set to star Rochester native and Oscar nominee Robert Forster. Geva heavily touted the show at its 2013-14 season announcement a few weeks back. In the official press release, Geva […]
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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5: Adios, my nutty auntie
Que lastima! What a tragic ending to another wonderful episode. The Final 6 queens — Alaska, Alyssa Edwards, Coco Montrese, Detox, Jinkx Monsoon, and Roxxxy Andrews — first had to emote during “The Crying Game” (she’s a man!). Then they put their (over)dramatic skills to use in telenovela scenes opposite a somnolent Wilmer Valderrama, whose […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Results (Top 8 to Top 7)
First, and most importantly, WHAT WAS LAZARO WEARING? It looked like “Day of the Triffids” attacking his shoulders. The Top 8 opened the show with a group sing of “Old Time Rock N Roll.” The boys just shouted. The girls fared better. I noted that Lazaro and Amber were the only two not given solo […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Music from Detroit (Top 8 Perform)
It was Detroit night on “Idol,” which I initially interpreted to mean Motown, but it was actually much broader than that – we even got some Madonna in there. Smokey Robinson was our guest mentor. He seems like a nice man. I wish he would stop doing things to his head. Candice Glover opened the […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Results (Top 9 to Top 8)
The show opened with the Jimmy Iovine recap, which I always find fascinating. Jimmy is the one person who I feel actually knows what’s going on this season. He found Wednesday night confusing, because some of the singers were good, some were bad, and yet the judges were nice to all of them. He basically […]
