Archive for November, 2009

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Capitalism: A Love Story

History, those who fail to learn from it are doomed to repeat it and I don’t mean in the classroom.  If the stock market invested in the means of production instead of fuzzy paper, people would have jobs in this country and money going to China would stay her.
I left the movie 3/4s of the [...]

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Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Live @ the Lyric

The fall series is past and gone.  What a great series it was!  Romeo and Juliet, Cowboy Junkies, Mark Nizer, and Cadillac Sky. There was entertainment for everyone.  I help work backstage helping with the technical stuff and am still amazed, after 4 years of volunteering and 4 years of getting paid, how the Lyric [...]

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

A Tale of Two Movies

What do Israeli sumo wrestlers and the man in the moon have in common?  They are two great short films that have recently played the Lyric.
Moon was last week and it was one of the best, cleanest, real, smart science fiction movies in a long time.  Built a bit off 2001, there is a talking [...]

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Sunday, November 8th, 2009

What’s happening at the Lyric

Friday the 13th - don’t worry, be happy!  Cadillac Sky will be rocking the Lyric with their high energy newgrass!  These guys can kick some serious hay bales and still have roots to Bill, Earl, Lester and Jimmy.  Apache Relay will be the opening act and they are a pretty serious band as well.  So [...]

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