Entertainment

After 68 years, it's curtains for the Circle Cinemas

Ron Newman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:41:50 -0400

Last shows will be Sunday, September 7, according to today's Globe.

CinemaTreasures has some history of the theatre, which is several decades older than the Globe reporter realizes.

Sweet parking restrictions - bum bum bum

adamg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:25:57 -0400

Don't even think of parking near Fenway Park tomorrow. Diamond-inspired parking restrictions around Fenway, effective noon on Saturday.

Logan Airport and the banality of Cheers

adamg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:04:06 -0400

Joe Keohane got to Logan this morning just in time to see a little old lady in a wheelchair threatened by some TSA goons, but he reports that what really depressed him was an announcement over the PA welcoming visitors to Boston, New England's largest city, "famous for the Boston Tea Party, Harvard, and Cheers!"

The Cheers stuff especially galls me. I can see some town in the middle of some no-count state in flyover country managing for decades to maintain enthusiasm for having been the setting for a long-gone TV show, just like I can understand why having a huge ball of twine is a big deal when you're in a cultural wasteland. You take what you can get.

But there's no explaining our devotion to this show. Did it capture Boston in some indelible way? No. ...

Top 10 ways to know you're at a Cambridge folk concert

adamg — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:35:13 -0400

Dave Alpert counts them down.

Should the youth of the world be called upon to assemble in Boston?

adamg — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:45:31 -0400

On Blue Mass. Group, Bob reminds us of this old UH thread about the possibility of holding the Olympics here.

Forget the logistics for a second. How freakin' cool would that be? Imagine the excitement of world-class sporting events all over the place all at once. Imagine the Olympic marathon running from Hopkinton to Copley Square.

But now remember the logistics. You think the Big Dig and the Democratic National Convention caused inconveniences. Add both, and multiply by 10. Can you imagine what riding the T would be like? They'd probably install those new body scanners at Forest Hills and Harvard Square - if they didn't just shut the system altogether to people without Olympic tickets (oh, you know they would).

Unlike in China, our leaders have gotten soft and flabby and haven't torn down entire neighborhoods for giant projects in, oh, 50 year or so, so it might be difficult to build that new Olympic stadium on the South Boston waterfront. Plus, now that Boston is largely a branch office for other places, we no longer have the David D'Alessandro types to actually get this whole thing done.

And you think you're actually going to be getting tickets to anything? Hah! The only advantage to having the games here would be you'd get to watch Bob Costas babble about live events all the time, instead of watching him babble about events that happened 12 hours earlier.

21

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0400

21 is out on DVD. The film is based on the nonfiction best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

Romeo & Juliet on tour

amusings — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:20:01 -0400

Rebel Shakespeare Company of Winter Island, Salem MA, is taking its show on the road. The Teen Intensive Program will perform the 9th grade frameworks traditional classic "Romeo and Juliet" in ways you've never imagined.

Shows will be held in Lynn, Salem, Beverly, Marblehead, Newburyport and Haverhill.

In case you missed the opening ceremonies or just want to relive 5,000 years of Chinese history

adamg — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:19:38 -0400

Lance and friends provide the live blow-by-blow here and here, complete with incisive commentary on all the Channel 7 ads and stuff:

If there is one guy who should have got a whoopin' when he was in school, it's Matt Lorch.

Who'll stop the rain?

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:47:43 -0400

Joe Driscoll captured the band Incus as they tried to stay dry during First Thursday in JP.

Eric Clapton's yacht in Boston Harbor

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:39:21 -0400

No word if it's named Layla, though.