Category: <span>Arts and Entertainment</span>

by Wade Manns Back in 1900, L. Frank Baum released his timeless children’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Over 100 years, many sequels, and many adaptations later, the 1939 movie version, simply called The Wizard of Oz, is still the most popular rendition of Baum’s classic. In September, that venerable movie celebrated its 70th...

by Timm Showalter Oct. 2 – 4 over 35 songwriters will be rockin’ out at Pensacola Beach for the first ever Annual Pensacola Songwriters’ Festival. For those who do not know exactly what a songwriter is: a songwriter is someone who writes the music that major artists then perform.  Some of the songwriters attending this...

Kay Forrest – The Corsair The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church at 1720 W Garden St. will hold its 50th annual Greek Festival Oct. 16-18. Admission is free. In addition to authentic Greek food and dancing, church tours will be offered and souvenirs will be sold. Though locals attend the festival for many reasons, one of...

by Wade Manns The Informant! From Warner Bros., Participant Media, and Groundswell Productions Starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, and Melanie Lynskey Rated R for language. You might’ve heard in the 1990s about a certain scandal that went on among several agricultural conglomerates, involving the food additive known as lysine. This was a price-fixing...

by Wade Manns Before 1977, videogames were rather boring affairs. Each unit had built-in game software and used dedicated hardware, which meant that each game had to be very simple. The technically-minded among us probably think of the classic arcade game Pong when I talk about these times, and they would be right, but consoles...

Cynthia Munoz Published: November 22, 2006 From the producers of “Wallace and Gromit,” “Flushed Away” is a sewage floating tale of two mice on an adventure: one to make money, the other on a quest to go home. This sweet tale of how bitter acquaintances become friends through trust and teamwork is raking in revenues...

Ashley Porter Published: November 8, 2006 Stranger than Fiction starring Will Farrell, Emma Thomas and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is about a man named, Harold Crick, and the wrist watch that he dismisses as being an ordinary.  Harold Crick is a very, very ordinary man who’s every step is calculated and time precisely by his wrist watch. ...

Ashley Porter Published: November 8, 2006 “Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” staring, Sacha Baron Cohen is an absolutely hilarious documentary style film about a journalist named Borat Sagdiyev.  Borat is sent on an assignment to better the nation of Kazakhstan by documenting the ways of the American people. ...

Cynthia Munoz Published: November 8, 2006 The trilogy has been hacking its way through the box office since the first film was released.   The lip biting, face turning, eye shutting debut of “Saw III” opened in theaters on Oct. 27, with profits exceeding $33.6 million during its opening weekend. To “Saw” fans, it will be...

Heather Madden Published: November 8, 2006 Do you know that joke where someone walks into a bar and there is a Priest, Jewish man, and an Atheist woman?  Well, the joke was not actually a joke.  And the bar was actually a church and a coffee shop. The Factory church and coffee shop is a...