Archive: Arts & Entertainment

Part of the Kitchen's 2005/06 - 15th Anniversary MAIN STAGE Season, The SantaLand Diaries is a decadent dose of holiday humor, courtesy of NPR humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris. David Sedaris' popular holiday story known to This American Life listeners has been adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello into a screamingly funny one-person play that stars Karl Gregory. It begins previews on Thursday, December 1 at 7:30pm, opens Saturday, December 3, and runs through Friday, December 23, 2005. [Mature theme & language]

SMART TALK
By  Dr. Verbos Metikulos

TUNAFISH: Once patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired learn to stop falling down, so to speak, the bright ones may begin study of redundancies contained in a single word, such as tunafish.

Most of them have never looked at the can, where it just says tuna. Hey, there are no tunabirds. Saying tunafish is like saying troutfish, eaglebird or llamamammal. After treatment, patients even say gull instead of seagull and linked instead of interlinked.

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Have you seen the latest Harry Potter movie? Though you and many other eager viewers across the globe have seen the Goblet of Fire, but some have not been so lucky.  Many in the States of China, or Ukraine still have 24 days to go! But for the people that did see it, they are saying nothing but good things.

On the first weekend alone Harry made 201.1 million dollars, over the last 10 days, worldwide. That is the highest of all the Potter films! In a short interview with the leading actors they said they made roughly 250,000 a year. Dan, Rupert, and Emma say that this is an unforgettable experience. For many Harry Potter is over, but in a couple of year J.K. will be giving us the last Potter book. 

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By Dr. Clark Chousie

HOT WATER HEATER: Don't ever go to a plumbing supplier and try to buy a hot water heater. Oh, they'll know what you mean. And they’ll probably be polite, because they see a fool and his money, soon to be parted. But they won't sell you one.

There's no such thing as a hot water heater, because who wants to heat hot water, anyway? What you're getting is a water heater. It doesn’t even say hot water heater on the box. Saying water heater consistently is a condition for discharge from the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired.

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As people poured into All Saints Church the ticket taker appeared a bit wide eyed as she realized the church was going to be filled to capacity. The event was "Cantemus! Master Works for the Female Voice," a concert by the Finger Lakes Women's Chorale last Sunday (11/20) to benefit the All Saints music program.

The group performed five pieces ranging from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. Starting a few minutes late as chairs were added in the side aisles, the concert began with "Virgines prudentes" (O, Ye Wise Maidens) with part of the chorus on stage with the other on the rear balcony, covering the sanctuary with sound from both directions.

ITHACA, NY:  The Kitchen Theatre Company's FAMILY FARE series continues in December with another world premiere, Winter Tales a seasonal musical with book & lyrics by Rachel Lampert and music by Lesley Greene.  Winter Tales opens on December 3 and closes on December 18 with performances on Saturdays at 1:00 and 3:00pm and Sundays at 1:00 pm.  This production marks the second of three original musicals in a performance series created for children and their grownups.

Rebecca, who is "nine, almost ten - almost double digits," is a very bright child, a very capable child. She generally uses very good judgment. Well, most of the time. There was the time "she decided to cut her own bangs. And the time she decided to re-color her room using her finger paints. And, she once dressed up the cat in the flower girl's outfit she was supposed to wear to her Aunt Helen's wedding." But those things had happened a very long time ago.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hit theaters Friday, and I was there to see it. The Goblet got a PG-13 rating, because of fantasy violence, and dark concepts. The actors in the movie didn't mind.

They said that they were being faithful to their first fans, and the older ones. The film shows how all the characters are growing up. They face most of the problems that teenagers today face as well.

Dating and love also plays a big part in the film. This is Harry's first ball, and, being a champion, he has to open the ball with his date.

A new Teacher is introduced who is a little on the eccentric side.

SMART TALK
By  Assoc. Therapist Winton “Windy” Prolix

GATHER TOGETHER: Redundancy about togetherness may explain the increase in this country's curmudgeon count. It, like the word togetherness itself, gets really tiresome.

At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, entering patients are sometimes veterans of the ’70’s human potential movement. Their habit is to share together, blend together, combine together, huddle together, join together, mingle together and mix together.

These days, many of their children add to the glut of cookbooks.

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Ithaca, NY: The Kitchen Theatre Company continues its 2005/06 - 15th Anniversary MAIN STAGE Season with The SantaLand Diaries, a decadent dose of holiday humor, courtesy of NPR humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris. David Sedaris' popular holiday story known to This American Life listeners has been adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello into a screamingly funny one-person play that stars Karl Gregory. It begins previews on Thursday, December 1 at 7:30pm, opens Saturday, December 3, and runs through Friday, December 23, 2005. [Mature theme & language]

David Sedaris may well be "the closest thing the literary world has these days to a rock star" (New York Times). His speaking engagements are now consistently standing-room-only, a far cry from his early days as a housecleaner in New York City. His sardonic wit and incisive social critique have since made him one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.