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Charles Dickens, Queen Victoria, and Handicapped Parking
The Friday after Thanksgiving Day begins the annual Charles Dickens’ Christmas Faire season here in the San Francisco Bay Area. A corollary to the Renaissance Faire activities, this faire recreates Victorian London during the holiday season, using the novels and characters of Dickens as a template. Over the 30 […]
Blame this Column on Greg
My fellow columnier (who says it has to be columnist?) Greg Kristapovich, wearing his “Man on the Street” baseball cap, cornered me at the ungodly hour of 6:45 a.m. the other morning and shoved a microphone in my face while asking if I’d put up my Christmas tree. I assumed from […]
Pick a Better Time to Nap
Perth, Australia – If you need to take a nap try to schedule it before or after you try to break into a shopping center…not during your attempt. An exhausted thief fell asleep in the process of seemingly trying to pick the lock of a shopping centre.
Cops in Australia said […]
Lots of F/X and #9
A Christmas Carol
(Rated PG) 96 mins.
2012 (Rated PG-13) 158 mins.
Garden State
(Rated R) 112 mins.
In the last couple weeks there have been a couple of releases that were laden with special effects, studded with stars, and seemed destined to make lots of money. One has a plot everybody knows; one doesn’t have […]
A Sinatra Holiday Bash: Christmas My Way
Leigh Cara Hussman, Eric Weaver, Katherine McLaughlin and Michael Voddee sing up Sinatra favorites with his legendary cool. Photo by Rich Miller Photography.
It’s that time of the season where Christmas movies start appearing, and TV reworks classic favorites from the past. Sierra Repertory Theatre has elected to present their […]
