by Robert Dora in Entertainment
Sci-fi dominates Thursday nights- not the Sci-fi channel mind-you. What it dominates, I'm not sure. Two of the CW's most popular shows, Smallville and Supernatural air back-to-back each Thursday at 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. respectively. Thursday is also the night that new episodes of CSI, the original, air.
by Cara Claflin in Entertainment
The sisters of Theta Phi Alpha and the brothers of Zeta Nu hosted a haunted house in town last week to benefit the local Potsdam village schools. On Wednesday and Thursday, October 22 and 23, ZN's fraternity house opened its doors to the public and encouraged them to come, be spooked, play games and eat festive food.
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
by Roger Moore in Entertainment
Another All Hallow's Eve, another Saw movie. They're as dependable as pumpkins and as fresh as a jack-O-lantern left out in the sun until Thanksgiving, but no matter. It wouldn't be fall without a little more torture porn. More "guilty" people kidnapped, chained in a basement filled with ingenious, self-mutilating torture devices that the punished must endure to survive to the next room on their way to "rehabilitation.
Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
by Steven Rea in Entertainment
Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is cycling 'round London town, waving at pedestrians, merrily dodging cars, her face abeam. In the opening minutes of Mike Leigh's oddball and ingenious Happy-Go-Lucky, we already know a lot about its protagonist: She's upbeat, friendly, indomitable.
by Alicia Anderson in Entertainment
Last weekend, Clarkson Theater Company brought the musical Guys and Dolls to Old Snell's stage under the direction of Ryan Cerone and musical direction of Jessica Peterson (SUNY Potsdam).
Guys and Dolls is a story of love in the gambling underground of Broadway during the 1950s.
Newsday (MCT)
by Verne Gay in Entertainment
If not quite Richard Nixon's "sock it to me?" moment on Laugh In almost exactly 40 years ago, Sarah Palin's TV appearance on Saturday Night Live still proved two entirely separate but related and incontrovertible facts.
First: The lady from Wasilla has a sense of humor.
