Author: Tracy Mobley-Martinez
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REVIEW: TheatreWorks’ ‘TheWeir’ complex, quiet, completely riveting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sometimes we forget the profound power of storytelling. TV, film and even music have usurped the time-honored job of mothers, grandfathers and older cousins, who spun tales that thrilled, warmed and reminded us of our…
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The Shrimp CocktailThe Famous, A Steakhouse31 N. Tejon St.- 227-7333, thefamoussteakhouse.net Sure, the SC screams country club dances and stuffy ma?re d’s. The Famous, though, gives us the turbo-charged version of the appetizer: Four dewy, pink, Godzilla-sized shrimp perched on a martini glass filled with a horseradish-heavy sauce spicy enough to raise the dead. (You…
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REVIEW: ‘Make Sure It’s Me’ delivers big message, unresolved storytelling
In Scott RC Levy’s first year, the Fine Arts Center took a bit of a detour from its familiar programming with a potentially off-putting contemporary production (“In the Other Room”) and a challenging musical (“Assassins”). This season, the FAC director of performing arts is doubling down with an ambitious new Second Stage Series, which opens…
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Renowned Springs opera star set for final bow
It’s only a rehearsal, but Martile Rowland sparkles in the light of the Colorado College stage. It’s the purple sequins — and that still-exquisite voice. “What can anyone expect, except to recollect?” sings Rowland, who plays a sour dowager in Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” an Opera Theatre of the Rockies production that begins…
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PBR KILL
In world that’s all about stats, even professional bull rider Austin Meier is boiled down to the basics.Age 25, the PBR website says, 165 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches and seven years a pro. A Top 10 rider, he’s scored almost a million dollars since he joined the PBR in 2006.Meier, who is a third-generation…
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PBR KILL
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In world that’s all about stats, even professional bull rider Austin Meier is boiled down to the basics.Age 25, the PBR website says, 165 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches and seven years a pro. A…
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PBR KILL
In world that’s all about stats, even professional bull rider Austin Meier is boiled down to the basics.Age 25, the PBR website says, 165 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches and seven years a pro. A Top 10 rider, he’s scored almost a million dollars since he joined the PBR in 2006.Meier, who is a third-generation…
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REVIEW: ‘Hairspray’ full of style with a few tangles
It’s Baltimore 1962. Blacks and whites are divided by issues more subtle than just skin color. Beauty is defined by dress size. And one teen with gumption decides to change the world — one Wathusi at a time. I know. It’s “Hairspray.” Just go with it. The Fine Arts Center’s production of the Tony-winner (which…
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Big on pride and possibility
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is pretty clear on the topic of the mouse. Pointed snout. Rather small ears. Elongated body and slender tail. But as readers of E.B. White’s beloved children’s book know, there is a bit more to the mouse named Stuart Little. Born of human parents, this small rodent possesses a fine vocabulary, sports…
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CSTV: Interview with the Haunted Windchimes
They started like every band does: in small venues playing for friends and waiting for the day they could quit their day jobs. These days, though, the Haunted Windchimes are more than hometown heroes. The tight-knit group — Inaiah Lujan, Sean Fanning, Mike Clark, Chela Lujan and Desirae Garcia — are on something of a…