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Ou Est Mon Baguette

9AM ON 06/03/2010
BY Daily Dose

cable car cinema Here’s an unbeatable combo — smoking and French movies. Two days left of the French Film Festival at the Cable Car Cinema.

Saturday and Sunday, Cable Car, 204 South Main Street, 272.3970


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Eat Rock

2PM ON 20/11/2009
BY Beth Comery

In the interest of moving the words ‘Seacrest’, ‘Clarkson’ and ‘Lite’ at least a little further down the page, and because I have not put up a video in while, I give you the Upper Crust who performed at Jerky’s recently and brought down the house.  I love these guys.


filed under: Film | Foreigners

When All You Want Is To Fit In

10AM ON 07/02/2009
BY Beth Comery

let the right one in The tween years are so difficult, but Oskar and Eli have a special set of challenges. The Avon is holding its own vampire weekend with midnight-ish showings of the Swedish movie Let the Right One In. (If that sounds familiar, the title is derived from a Morrissey song, the screenwriter being a fan.) The curious white poodle that shows up in an early scene is the first indication that visually, this is going to be an interesting show. In fact, there are at least 5 or 6 scenes of such disturbing originality that the audience (okay, me) gasped out loud. In fact, do not watch the trailer for the movie — it gives away too many surprises.  Film school students will have a field day with the symbolism and layers of meaning in this one. (How is this not nominated for one single Academy Award?) All I can say is — best creepy blond kid since The Bad Seed. And one last thing, in that nanosecond of frontal nudity, did I see what I think I saw? My companion did not see what I saw.  A simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ will do. No spoilers please.  [The New York Times]

11:30pm Saturday, $9.25, 114 minutes, Avon Cinema, 260 Thayer Street


filed under: Comedy | Foreigners

Can’t Wait

9AM ON 31/12/2008
BY Beth Comery

FotC 2009 calendar

Things to do today — buy a calendar.  Things to look forward to in the new year — the new season of Flight of the Conchords starts January 18th, 10pm on HBO.


filed under: Foreigners | happiness

They’re Not Gay, They’re British

12PM ON 21/12/2008
BY Beth Comery

Christmas in Whoville… Dr. Who-ville.  Robots, lasers, spaceships and the Hawkins Brothers.  I love this song.


filed under: Foreigners | Games

Word of the Day: Pyrrhic

11AM ON 16/12/2008
BY Beth Comery

scrabbleWhat are the odds that two Dosers would need to write about Scrabble on exactly the same day? This is a little vexing since I actually have some news to report and the other guy just wanted to say ‘Butts’. In the future, Matthew, why don’t you stick to reviewing your clinically-depressed techno-vikings and leave the Scrabble beat to the professionals.  (The assignment editor will be hearing from my union rep.)  To be honest, I don’t have much on this story yet, but according to a brief write-up in the ProJo business digest, Hasbro has filed papers in the U.S. District Court of New York withdrawing its complaint against the creators of Scrabulous.  Neither party is talking, but I believe we can expect a statement from Hasbro sometime soon.

The court documents don’t specify a reason for the withdrawal of the case. Hasbro and the Agarwalla brothers did not immediately return messages left seeking comment.

My best guess is that both parties realized they were whizzing this thing down their leg and figured out a way for everyone to make big piles of money. Hasbro’s replacement game was not well-received — why didn’t they listen to me?

(Other celebrity Scrabble players include Jack Black and Jon Bon Jovi.)


filed under: Foreigners | Music

Friday on my mind…

11PM ON 05/12/2008
BY Dave Segal

‘Australian Beatles’ they ain’t– but perhaps the Easybeats deserve a bit more cred than they get/got? (Eric — ever consider an Australia-only Loaded?)


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