Ann Lemons Pollack
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Brunch This Sunday?
Whaddya doing Sunday (December 13) for brunch? Tenacious Eats, the outfit that matches up dinner and a vintage movie, is doing a benefit brunch this Sunday at and for Food Outreach. Waffles! Mimosas! Chocolate milk! (Omelets and a carving station, too.) Music, movies, and a dress code so deeply relaxed that pajamas and costumes are,
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Bad Jews
"Bad Jews" is the current show at the New Jewish Theatre. It could almost be a meditation on what it means to belong to any particular ethnic group, except that Judaism has the singular distinction of not only referring to a widely varied ethnic group but to a religion as well. Grounds for dissention, therefore,
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Gin Game
Dramas – stories – are all around us. Lives there a soul so dead that they've never sat waiting for their car to be serviced or waiting for a bus, looked around and thought Hmmm…interesting looking person. I wonder what his story is? There was once a television series about New York City whose tag
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Sublime Intimacy
Ken Page's "Sublime Intimacies" opened this past weekend at the Kranzberg Black Box Theatre. It's Max & Louie Productions' first original show, described as a play with dance. Not about dance, understand you, but perhaps about loving the beauty that dance can epitomize, and definitely about the intimacies that love of all kinds can engender.
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Peter and the Starcatcher
In a variation of the old conflict of interest stuff, let me announce right now that no one who knows me would think I could resist anyone, even a character in a play, who writes poems about pies. There is indeed such a one in "Peter and the Starcatcher", which is at The Repertory Theatre
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Devil Boys From Beyond
No mistletoe. No bells. No dancing reindeer. If you're cynical about the holidays, or even if you're just already sick of the earlier-than-ever advance of commercial holiday "cheer", has Stray Dog Theatre got a show for you. "Devil Boys From Beyond" (a title certain to inspire satisfaction among such folks and a grin from most
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Memory Lane: Elsah Landing
One of my favorite restaurants ever, I came to love Elsah Landing, and indeed the lovely little village of Elsah, totally by accident. My then-husband showed it to me on a drive up to meet his family not too long after we met. Many years later, after a remarkably calm divorce, I would drive the
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Biryani Paradise Point
Paradise Biryani Pointe is almost hidden. Tucked into the corner of an L-shaped two-level strip mall on Manchester Road, it's where one of the locations of Saleem's was years ago. Interestingly, the restaurant turns out to be one of a chain of franchises, but it scarcely seems dumbed down by its owner, an Indian-American who
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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Jerome Kern, the noted lyricist, once said, "Irving Berlin is American music." With all respect to both Kern and Berlin, I'm not sure I'd go that far – Porter or Gershwin, anyone? – but for a time in the middle of the Twentieth Century, he seemed to eclipse them both. Popular, prolific and profitable, his
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The 39 Steps
Who would have thought a goofball comedy-melodrama could have come out of a thriller novel a hundred years old – even if it evolved into a 1935 movie from a young Alfred Hitchcock? ”The 39 Steps”, the current offering from Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble, is a slam-bang piece of work, amusing on its own, layering