January 24th, 2012 by Bianca Lions | Tags: Alicia Keys, Keys
Posted Jan 24, 2012
When someone celebrates their birthday it usually all ‘me, me, me’, Alicia Keys, on the other hand, has taken the run-up to her 31st birthday in a more humble manner and as an opportunity to honour others.
Lending her voice to Steven Spielberg, Alicia was on hand to honour the cinematic hero as he picked up two awards, one for the animated film kudo for ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” and the other was the David O. Selznick Achievement Award. Told you she wasn’t playing by the birthday rulebook. But we kn
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January 21st, 2012 by Henry Ibsch | Tags: Confessions Public, Public
I have no intention of doing any public speaking myself in the next, oh, decade or so, or if I can help it ever, but nonetheless, after picking up this book on a whim, I found it engrossing. The author is a professional speaker who has clearly thought a lot about what makes for a successful presentation and about how people learn. He offers the reader practical advice about how to do well in front of an audience, or at least better, and about how to respond when, inevitably, something goes wrong. A lot of the secret is simple hard work: if youre super prepared and knowledgeable about your subject matter and youve practiced your talk until you know your points cold, then youre less likely to be thrown by technical problems or hecklers or last minute changes in line-up.
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January 20th, 2012 by Ruby Anthony | Tags: Jeannette Walls, Walls
Some time ago I featured Jeannette Walls’ “The Glass Castle” in this column. “The Glass Castle” is the most moving memoir I’ve ever read, and I wasn’t the only one affected by it.
Shortly after the column published, I received numerous emails from readers who were also touched by the book.
Memorable characters abound in “The Glass Castle,” but the most intriguing person to me was the author’s mother, Rosemary.
At times Rosemary was loving to her children, but other times she neglected them. Rosemary considered herself an artist and her paintings often seemed more important to her than her children. And though the fami
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January 17th, 2012 by Ruby Anthony |
The dining room, with chandeliers and hand-stenciled walls, emanates elegance.
But with entrees from $16 to $36 and gourmet pizzas starting at $11, the pricing falls between casual and fine dining.
Our party tried an appetizer, a soup, two entrees and the four-course chef’s tasting menu which, at $35 with wine pairings, I thought was a great deal. For four of us, with tax and tip, the bill came to $151.63.
The New York Strip ($28), which my daughter ordered with french fries and red wine demi-glace on the side, was fabulous. The beef was cooked perfectly to the medium-rare requested and had the full, robust flavor of dry-aged beef. It was so tender you could almost cut it with a butter knife.
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January 14th, 2012 by Henry Ibsch |
There’s one thing that Hollywood studios now know they can depend on more than the Sun shining in the morning and that is just about anything comic book related is HUGE money.
Such is the case for the writing team of Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz who penned two big blockbusters “Thor” and “X-Men: First Class”.
The two are riding high on their fame and can make deals left and right.
Penning two Marvel Comics movies from a company that has been dominating the box office for over ten years straight, is a big opportunity and both have done well based on box office receipts and critics analysis. Now the two are kicking six figure deals with some companies and are reportedly working on everything from feature films to television pilots. They’ve n
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