Entertainment

Living near the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, DC, my son and daughter-in-law have encountered a number of celebrities at their neighborhood pharmacy. A year or so ago, the activity during one of our Skype sessions was a guessing game about their latest sighting. After our many failed tries, they finally revealed that they had seen Dame Judi Dench discussing the…

Thanks to the generosity of some friends who had tickets they couldn’t use, we traveled to Cleveland’s Playhouse Square last night to see the popular musical, Wicked, which first opened on Broadway more than a decade ago. This show gives the back story on the Wizard of Oz and offers some insight on why the Wicked Witch was…

For my last birthday, knowing how much I like The Band Perry, Husband Jim bought us tickets to see them as one of Rascal Flatts’ opening acts. The October 18, 2013 concert would also be the first major event at the newly renovated Erie Insurance Arena, and we were excited to see the new venue,…

Like many Les Miz fans, I eagerly awaited the film version of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Misérables. Having read the book many years ago and attended the musical several times both on Broadway and in local theatre, I hoped the film version could bring the story alive in ways that the stage version could not.…

My biggest fear, before seeing the current revival of Annie, was that some of the songs and scenes from the 1982 movie, starring Albert Finney and Carol Burnett, might make their way into the new version. Thankfully, my fears were unfounded, and the 2012 production contains just enough updates to breathe new life into the play while…

Today, Husband Jim and I attended our first St. Patty’s Day parade. How did we go through so many years in this town and not know that there was a parade on St. Patrick’s Day? I knew that a lot of people went downtown to drink, but I thought that’s all there was. Because the…

Husband Jim and I like to watch the conniving and back stabbing found on the CBS show, Big Brother, every summer. Down to five contestants, the show was pretty exciting last Wednesday. Right in the middle of Jeff’s verbal smackdown on Shelly, his image froze. Of course, we were watching the recorded version. Who watches live…

Today, Jim and I decided to celebrate the Fourth of July by attending the Millcreek parade, something we haven’t done since our three children were little–so the last time must have been in the nineties. Back then, it was quite a production to get three kids out of the house early enough to stake out…

Since we had actually gotten on the plane and flew to New York City, I figured this grand-prize thing wasn’t a hoax, but still, I wasn’t sure what to expect on Tuesday. Jim pointed out to me that this wasn’t going to be a concert from noon to one and an interview during the following…

Observations from Monday, June 6, 2011 Soon after Jim and I boarded our plane to Philadelphia, at a little after 11:00 a.m., I tweeted that the plane had propellors. It was a Dash 8-100/200. Propellors scare me. They look like if something went wrong, they could whip into the plane and take out a bunch…