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posted Friday, December 28, 2007 - Volume 35 Issue 52 |
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Arts and Entertainment
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MAGNIFICENT MOVIES The Best of 2007 - A year to remember
by Sara Michelle Fetters -
SGN Contributing Writer
By all accounts, 2007 has been the best year we've seen at the movies since 1999. There have been more films certain to be fodder for conversation for decades to come released this year than any other I can recall during my time as a critic (and that includes High School and College), and as time passes I'm positive we' more |
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Burton reinvents Sondheim through the gleaming darkness of Sweeney Todd
by Richard J. Rosendall -
Special to the SGN
After seeing the new Tim Burton movie Sweeney Todd, my friend Craig and I went to dinner and were serenaded by a quartet of Christmas carolers. They were fine singers, but Sweeney's gloomy spirit lingered, and as they sang "Silent Night," I said to Craig, "Not silent enough." In my more
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Not our fathers' Jesus
by Eric Andrews-Katz -
SGN Contributing Writer
I cringed as I heard the dreaded words whispered from a theater employee, "I heard the star has a sore throat and won't be going on." Not the thing anyone wants to hear when attending a live theatrical performance. When it comes to an extremely familiar show like Jesus Christ Supers more
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Carrie Akre plays The Triple Door in January
by Tony Engelhart -
Special to the SGN
CARRIE AKRE
JANUARY 4, 8 PM
THE TRIPLE DOOR
216 UNION ST.
$15
Some artists wallow in their past accomplishments, while others flourish and continually push their creativity. It's a gamble and the results are always chancy when changing direc more
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National Treasure sequel is dumb and predictable fun
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
NATIONAL TREASURE:
BOOK OF SECRETS
NOW PLAYING
I loved the first film, National Treasure (which I saw on television after the "private screening" at my ex and daughter's place went belly-up following a little dust up between the three of us about a year ago), and a more
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