I was fascinated to see how the showrunners would wrap up this season, especially given the intense public reaction to last episode’s Red Wedding. The answer is, they didn’t. Not really. What we got in the Season 3 finale felt more like a place holder than a proper finish. Some of the storylines were given […]
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“Game of Thrones” Season 3, Episode 9: A nice day for a Red Wedding
The Starks and The Tullys really shouldn’t have been that surprised by the ending of last night’s episode. If they’d bothered to look at the bridal registry they could have seen that all the Freys had signed up to bring BETRAYAL and DEATH! I have been waiting for this episode since before the series even […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “Steel Magnolias”
Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” has remained consistently popular since making its stage debut in 1987. Bolstered by a successful, star-studded film adaptation a few years later, the play continues to be staged at numerous theaters across the country and just last year was adapted again for a made-for-TV movie featuring an all-African-American cast. The play’s […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “Venus in Fur”
“Venus in Furs” is not pornography. We are told this several times by Thomas, the playwright appearing in the play “Venus in Fur” (note the singular), now playing on the Geva Theatre Nextstage. In Geva’s “Venus,” Thomas is the writer and director of a theatrical adaptation of the controversial 1870 novel “Venus in Furs” by […]
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“Game of Thrones” Season 3, Episode 8: An Imp-ulsive wedding
The final act of Season 3 kicked off with several major plot points and some wonderful dialogue, making for another terrific episode in – I think – the strongest season of the show yet. *The main plotline of the night took place in King’s Landing, specifically the utterly joyless forced wedding of Tyrion Lannister and […]
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“American Idol” 2013 Finale: And the winner is…
And finally, the finale. The show opened with the Top 10 all dressed in white, lipsynching to “Glad You Came” by The Wanted. I honestly barely remembered that Devin and Paul existed. And Curtis Finch Jr. is seriously the worst lip syncher. It’s just so weird that this is a singing competition, and the finalists […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Final 2, Candice vs. Kree Sing-Off!
Finally, the Final 2! Candice Glover vs. Kree Harrison. This was not the finale I was expecting, and I doubt I’m alone in that. I expected Angie Miller to be going up against Candice. I felt the whole season was building to it. And Angie’s ouster last week really did surprise me. I had pegged […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Results (Final 2 Revealed!)
Ryan Seacrest started off the show by making a veiled insulted reference to the news that Randy Jackson announced today that he’s leaving the show. We can only hope that is the truth — he has teased that many times before, and reportedly was only asked back for this season at the absolute last minute. […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Top 3 Perform
Ryan Seacrest started off the show by making a back-handed compliment to Mariah Carey about “not eating any carbs this week.” What an asshole. We had a three-round fight between our Final 3, Angie Miller, Candice Glover, and Kree Harrison. Round 1: Jimmy Iovine Pick. Round 2: Judges Pick. Round 3: Idol Production Pick. For […]
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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 5 Reunion: The winner revealed!
After two weeks of (mostly) filler we finally got to what we’ve been waiting for. The 90-minute reunion finale was filled with all the S5 queens lazily performing some basic glee-club choreography, some brief one-on-one interviews with Ru, a few clip packages, the blatant promotion of not one but two new RuPaul songs, a LaToya […]
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“Game of Thrones” Season 3, Episode 6: Pinky swear
This week’s episode closed the second act and prepared us for the third, and in doing so made some fairly significant departures from the book. First, the stuff that stayed largely consistent with the books: *SamwellTarly and Gilly continued their run back to the Wall after the implosion of the Night’s Watch at Craster’s Keep. […]
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“American Idol” 2013: Results (Top 4 to Top 3)
The opening group number was to Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.” I love that song, but it was a terrible choice for this scenario, and none of the Final 4 girls came off particularly well in it. Angie and Kree sounded the worst, I think. It had a 1920’s flapper edge since it’s being used in […]
