Local Life
by
LEN LEAR
“Faith
is the bird that sings while it’s still
dark.”----Helen Keller
****************
When
the Back Home Catering firm recently catered a
fine china event for the Pennsylvania Ballet board
members; or when they catered an event for the
First United Methodist Church of Germantown; or
when they catered a bar mitzvah for the Mishkan
Shalom congregation in Roxborough, a disinterested
onlooker would never have guessed that...
by
ANDREW REPASKY McELHINNEY
When
laser discs were first introduced in the ’80s, many
of us cinema lovers marveled at the concept of a “director’s
commentary.” Finally we could hear what our favorite
directors had to say about their craft. However, with
the DVD revolution, commentary tracks have become de rigueur,
along with such alleged “bonus” items as trailers,
deleted scenes or alternate cuts. Film is a mystical and
dream-like sensation shuttling through the projector at
24 frames per second, and these added items have increasingly
chipped away...
by
Len Lear
Sean
Coyle, 28, grew up in center city with a life
many would envy. The Malvern Prep alumnus was
always a talented golfer, good enough to compete
on the National Junior Golf ESPN Tour. After
graduating from the University of South Carolina
with a degree in restaurant and hotel management,
Sean embarked on a career as a professional
golfer in California and later in Florida.
However,
when Sean’s dad became too ill to continue
running the family business, Binni & Flynn’s
Restaurant in Wayne’s Gateway...
By JIMMY PACK
When I was a child, I used to hate
food shopping. Sitting in the cold steel of a
shopping carriage, trapped like a mental patient,
was torture. Add to that the piped-in Muzak and
strangers walking up to me saying, “Your
hair is so blonde!” or “What pretty
blue eyes you have,” followed by a pinch
on the cheek or a rustle of my hair, and I might
as well have been in the Please Touch Museum as
an exhibit.
And, GOD!, all those cereal boxes
with the cool toys like diving...
The
best works of Franz Kafka are typically anxiety-producing
tales rife with grotesque characters struggling
against the rules and values of a rigid society.
Václav Havel, playwright and one-time
president of Czechoslovakia, attempts to emulate
Kafka’s style in his one-acts, Audience
and Unveiling. However, in director
Jonathan Carr’s production at the Allens
Lane Theater, only Unveiling approaches
the level of the great German writer’s
work.
Audience,
which takes place in the Foreman’s office
of a dank, cold...
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