The latest half hour comedy, “Sons of Tucson,” is set to premiere Sunday, March 14, at 9:30 pm about a deadbeat with a low level job, Ron Snuffkin, who falls in with the wrong company … three young, troublemaking boys with absentee parents.
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NoHo Know How: Fixin’ the kitchen on any budget
Collegian staff writer Shayna Murphy reveals several great purveyors of kitchenware in Northampton where quality products like mugs, salt and pepper shakers, tableware and more can be found at affordable prices.
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Weekend at the Movies: Post Valentine’s Day Recap
Pete Rizzo and Shayna Murphy offer up their opinion of this year’s Valentine’s Day cinema entries. Movies topics include the romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day,” the remake of the “The Wolfman,” and last weekend’s new family feature “Percy Jackson & The Olympians.”
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Winter chill prompts cinema escape
Who says the only thing worth seeing over winter break was “Avatar?” From sentimental period pieces like “The Young Victoria” to hackneyed vampire tales like “Daybreakers,” winter break offered a diverse array of escapist cinema.
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Weekend at the Movies winter recap
Collegian movie critics Pete Rizzo and Shayna Murphy discuss the best and worst of film from winter break.
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Year of Woody ends well with army flick
Woody Harrelson co-stars as a casualty notification officer for the United States Army in Oren Moverman’s “The Messenger.” As a veteran soldier, Harrelson guffaws and, upon the audience’s first introduction, strikes an image that to most should seem very familiar: he comes off like a godamned raving lunatic.
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Big screen blunders: disappointing films of 2009
No best-of-the-year film list would be complete without a glimpse at the films that made audience-goers cringe in 2009. From harebrained comedies to ambitious prestige pieces that just fell short of the mark, the following is a list of films that failed to scintillate at the Cineplex.
Tags: 2009, bad, Movies, worst
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Artists go down to the Paradise City
Spot the rows of intricately beaded handbags and hand-stitched wool jackets and you’ll have seen a place unlike any other – a place cluttered with ceramic vases and glasswork tinted by light blue hues and other accoutrements to catch the eye’s attention. For the local art aficionado, it’s a place that only sprouts up once a year, but easily earns its mantle – it’s Paradise City.
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Artists ask “Who Does She Think She Is?” in new documentary
The Everywoman’s Center and the Women of Color Leadership Network will be presenting the film, “Who Does She Think She Is?” tonight at 7 p.m. in the Augusta Savage Gallery in the New Africa House. This event is free to everyone, and the location is also wheelchair accessible.
Tags: art, documentary, Movies
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Scantily-clad interns give working girls a bad name
As fall slowly begins to peak it’s way through the leaves, congressional male staffers look forward, with equal parts excitement and longing, to “skintern” season – a time when thousands of supple young female interns swarm Capitol Hill, strolling its marbled hallways in tight-fitting skirts and revealing tops.
Tags: Fashion
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