Entertainment
Famous Stallions to Perform at Patriot Center
By Broadside Staff Writer Kristen White
The world famous Lipizzaner Stallions have performed all over the world, including North America, South America, Great Britain, Europe and Australia. Now, they’re coming to perform at the Patriot Center on Friday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. There are 12 to 14 stallions in this particular showcase, with Troy Tinker acting as the master of ceremonies and Gary Lashinsky behind the show as the producer, according to the company’s Web site.
WGMU: This Week's Top 20 Records
By WGMU Music Director Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson.
Check out WGMU's top 20 record albums for this week.
| 1. I'M FROM BARCELONA | Who Killed Harry Houdini? |
| 2. STEAKHOUSE MINTS | Out Of The Sky |
| 3. HELLO SAFERIDE | More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide |
| 4. BOB DYLAN | Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 |
| 5. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS | The Age Of The Understatement |
| 6. KAISER CHIEFS | Off With Their Heads |
| 7. SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY | Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel |
| 8. EAGLES OF DEATH METAL | Heart On |
| 9. DISTANT LIGHTS | Simulacrum |
| 10. ANBERLIN | New Surrender |
| 11. APOCALYPTICA | Worlds Collide |
| 12. KINGS OF LEON | Only By The Night |
| 13. FIREFOX AK | Once I Was Like You: Firefox AK vs. Laid [Single] |
| 14. TIMO RäISäNEN | Love Will Turn You Around |
| 15. CHESTER FRENCH | She Loves Everybody |
| 16. WHITE LIES | Death EP |
| 17. I ARE DROID | I Are Debut |
| 18. THE LITTLE ONES | Morning Tide |
| 19. DR. DOG | Fate |
| 20. MEAGHAN SMITH | The Cricket's Quartet |
Tier Chats with Local Band DeVille
Who knew Craigslist.com could make a killer band? Find out why DeVille has got Tierney swooning over them with their soulful and rock 'n' roll sound on her talk show.
WGMU Rocks the Bistro Wednesday Night
By Connect2Mason Information Director Miguel Perez.
Come get your fix of local music this Wednesday, Nov. 19 at the Johnson Center Bistro. WGMU, Mason’s internet-radio station, will be hosting a free concert headlined by Fairfax Station-based rock band Ringleader along with bands Numa, The Frustrations, Safety Word Orange, No Compromise, and others.
The show will start at 6 p.m. at the Johnson Center Bistro. Read on to learn more about the featured bands.
Interview: Danny Boyle, Director of Slumdog Millionaire
By Broadside Reporter Jonathon Vaughan. Photo Courtesy of Fox Searchlight.
Q: The thing that really struck me about this movie were the visuals of the slums in Bombay. How did you go about trying to show them to the audience?
A: You’ve got to find a vividness that will lure people in there, so they have no alternative but to go on the journey with you . . . I love motion; I think movies are about motion. That’s how it began. That’s what made people gape at it. I love action movies, even stupid ones, because they’re about motion and movement and that’s why we’re addicted to them. We’re connected to this forward motion energy in movies. It’s different than books that are so reflective or poems that are so introspective, [film] just charges forward, I love that about films and I’ve always tried, if I can, to have that feeling in a film of putting you there, and making you run as well.
New Film Puts Twist on Millionaire Game Show
By Broadside Reporter Jonathon Vaughan. Photo Courtesy of Fox Searchlight.
In Danny Boyle’s new film, Slumdog Millionaire, a young Indian boy is in Bombay on his country’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. But, because he seems to know all the answers, he is tried for fraud. Through a series of flashbacks, the story reveals that he had been given the answers during the meaningful moments of his life. The story has a religious and philosophical subtext like two previous Boyle films, the Catholic Millions and the peculiar science fiction of Sunshine. However, this film is a stylistic breakthrough for the director; it is deliriously colorful. If you tried to imagine the feverish sequences off of the train in The Darjeeling Limited made into an entire movie, you get an idea of what Slumdog Millionaire is like. I enjoyed the dynamic use of subtitles in some parts of the movie where words would drift around the screen and become color coded to the characters speaking them.
Diary of a People Watcher: Watch at Your Job
By Connect2Mason Blogger Brandon Weathers. Photo courtesy of Flickr user richardmasoner.
Jobs are some of the best places to people watch and build friendships around it. Depending on where people work, I’m sure they are introduced to a variety of personalities and body types.
In my life, it all goes back to coffee; coffee, gossip, and people watching go together like beer, cigarettes and making an ass out of yourself. Coffee, gossip, and people watching are fun when you are drinking coffee, but vital to one’s survival when you work at a coffee shop.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
By Connect2Mason Writer Emily Culley
Three years ago, Madagascar left the audience on a humorous note. The penguins knew that the plane was out of fuel, but decided it best not to tell the other passengers. The fierce group hits the theaters again in what should be a humorous release from the real world in Madgascar: Escape 2 Africa.
This time the animals find themselves in Africa. Instead of taking to the jungle as quickly as they had imagined during their first big screen rendezvous, the animals quickly find that there is a concrete difference between their life in New York and a life in Africa.
Manassas Memoirist Bares Her Soul
By Reporter Kyle Ridley
Manassas author Syndia Payne’s memoir, Bare My Soul: MyStory," details her personal journey from being a victim of child sexual abuse to rediscovering herself through self-forgiveness, self-love, and self-acceptance. The Hylton High School language arts teacher merges personal prose alongside poetry in a book she describes as the “ultimate healing.”
Payne will appear Saturday at Phyllie B’s Unique Boutique in Occoquan for a special reading and signing of Bare My Soul.
Sci-Fi Novel 'Anathem' is Engaging, Challenging
By Connect2Mason Tech Blogger Jimmy Rogers
"Have you ever read a book that completely changed your view of the world?" I posed this question at a dinner with several adults once and their response was a unanimous "No." This surprised me a great deal, as you can imagine, but when I elaborated with an example, they softened their reply with "Oh, well maybe when I was your age." This tells me one of two things. Either my fellow diners were less deeply philosophical people than I first thought, or my mind will not always be as malleable and thoughtful as it is now. Whatever the answer, I hope that you have not already reached this sad point in your life. This latest book is proof that I haven't, that's for sure.