10/25/11

Martha Marcy May Marlene pits the Catskills Against Connecticut

In terms of scary movies, the big money went to Paranormal Activity 3 this weekend, but the smaller, quieter Martha Marcy May Marlene got better reviews, at least according to Metacritic. It's not quite an apples-to-apples comparison. Martha Marcy May Marlene isn't your typical scary movie. There's nothing paranormal about it, and there's no menacing slasher with a butcher knife picking off teens one by one. Instead, its scares are psychological.

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10/19/11

Yonkers Native Outasight Featured in Pepsi Pop Commercial

Last week, we talked about some of the new fall TV series—but this week I want to talk about the commercials.

Yes, I know—you probably use your DVR to skip them. But there's one commercial in particular, played in the run-up to the premiere of The X Factor, that I want to focus on. The spot is for Pepsi, and it cycles through a bunch of old Pepsi commercials featuring musical megastars like Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Britney Spears, Kanye West, and Mariah Carey. It ends with the tagline: "Where there's Pepsi, there's music."

But the...

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10/11/11

New Fall TV Shows: Suburgatory's Take on the Northern Suburbs

The new TV season has been going strong for a couple of weeks, enough time for audiences to sample shows and separate the breakout hits from the crash-and-burn failures.

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10/04/11

Theater Review: My Fair Lady at the Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford, NY

Photo by John Vecchiolla

It's a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl. Boy takes an interest in girl. Boy tries to rid girl of her Cockney accent and pass her off as a Duchess at a society event, thereby changing society's expectations of her along with the male-female power dynamic of their relationship.

Okay, fine, maybe that's not a tale as old as time, but it's a tale as old as 1914, when George Bernard Shaw first...

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