Cinemadope: Sweet and Hot, Three stories of Asian flavors
Everyone with a go-to Chinese take-out joint is sure of one thing: theirs is the best. It’s a partisan game on a par with Left vs. Right or The Beatles vs. The Stones — I once witnessed, on a Brooklyn street corner, a heated argument about the neighborhood’s best...
Nightcrawler: Fire Power, Bash benefits Christmas Eve fire victims; Amy Fairchild joins members of Extreme, The Allmans, Megadeth and more for Boston charity
She’s seen fire. She’s seen (freezing) rain. But Kristy Librera Chapman remains undaunted in her quest to aid her family and her community. A cousin to one of the families affected by a tragic Christmas Eve fire in Southwick, Chapman says that she knew she needed to...
News of the Weird: Witness Behind Bars
Even dangerous felons sometimes serve short sentences, but Benito Vasquez-Hernandez, 58 — guilty of nothing — has been locked up for nearly 900 days (as of early March) as a “material witness” in a Washington County, Oregon murder case. The prosecutor is convinced...
Comedy’s Smooth Sailor: Sinbad at the Calvin Theatre
Sinbad is the older, bigger version of that cut-up from grade school that you either adored or avoided: an irrepressible tease, hyperactive and loud, with a brash baritone laugh and a tireless eye for odd social moments. Best known for his TV appearances, the...E-Edition
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