NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
It is Monday, September 15 and here’s today’s calendar: Queens Restaurant Week begins with three-course lunches for $25 or $35 for dinner Yankees vs Chicago White Sox at Yankee Stadium at 7:05 p.m. A Celebration of Maurice Sendak with Tony...
10,000 Monkeys and a Camera (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Here are a various few links for a Friday afternoon... 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World 30 Creepiest Trees on Earth A brilliant and hilarious parody from Jimmy Kimmel. If you've been reading here for long, you know I...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Ernie from Sesame Street learns rule #1 about playing the saxophone in this fun video from 1988. Check out all of the guest appearances! From the YouTube description: Another segment from the 1988 prime time PBS pledge drive special, an all star celebrity sing-along. The celebrities, in order of appearance: John Candy (as Yosh [...]
New York City (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Although I loved the movie musical and listened to the Broadway recording and played the piano vocal selections ad nauseum as a child, why wasn't ...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
This year's Broadway Bares, the 18th edition of the burlesque benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, was held last night at Roseland Ballroom in NYC, and raised a record-breaking $874,372 for the charity. The annual event, which featured Mary Birdsong,...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
"Young Frankenstein," the stage version of Mel Brooks' cinematic monster spoof, will get a new trio of leading ladies starting after the...
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
One of my all time favorites, with Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara. The best video about PMS you will ever see.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I enjoyed watching reruns of 1967's The Carol Burnett Show in my youth, and based on the following skit, I'm glad I missed this 1991 reincarnation. This has to be the most painfully unfunny Star Trek skit I've ever seen -- made even more painful by seeing the likes of Burnett, Richard Kind, Andrea Martin, and Paula Poundstone humiliating themselves with unfunny dialogue. And no offense to Carol, but...
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
A quiz about Tony award winners.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
As a famous Siamese king once said: "It's a puzzlement." Usually, I have very few quibbles with the Tony nominations. Yet today, around 8:37 a.m. at NYC's Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, when Tony winners — and...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Bartlett Sher, artistic director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre, earned his third Tony nomination today for "Rodger's & Hammerstein's South Pacific"; three nominations for Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein."
andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
"SCTV" alums Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, Martin Short and Harold Ramis, are performing for a second time tonight at the Second City Theatre in Toronto. According to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Anybody searching for the Fountain of Youth is advised to pay a visit to the Second City on Mercer St. where The Benefit of Laughter opened last night for a two-performance run.
Hollywood Grind (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
SCTV, which was one of the greatest Canadian comedy shows of all time, will reunite members of the cast, who are still alive, for two shows for charity. Some of the original cast members went on to big careers in the U.S. The original cast members were John Candy (passed away), Robin Duke, Joe Flaherty, [...]
Notes from Underdog. (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
(Cross-posted from GreenCine Daily:) Animator Emily Hubley, the daughter of renowned animators John and Faith Hubley (A Windy Day, Voyage to Next), is perhaps best known for her work on Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but she's also director of...
