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Published: September 10, 2009
Updated: 09/09/2009 04:40 pm
Week Out!
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SUMMER LOVE:Welcome to small-town Kansas, circa the 1950s. Summer is waning, and plans are in the air for a Labor Day picnic. Enter Hal Carter, handsome drifter, turning heads and hearts, including those of beautiful young Madge. Guess what happens to her mother's plans for her to become a trophy wife?
Greensboro's Triad Stage kicks off its 2009-10 season with William Inge's Picnic, now through Sept. 27. Inge won a Pulitzer Prize for the play in 1953, and the original Broadway cast included Paul Newman.
Shows this week: today at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. and a "pay what you can show" at 7:30 p.m. (an hour before show time, any available seats will be at the box office for whatever price you can afford).
For more information, call 272-0160 or visit www.triadstage.org. Tickets are $10 to $42.
Saturday September 12
ROCK THIS WAY:The Gateway YWCA will have its first Guitar Hero Challenge this weekend. Registration closes at 5 p.m. today, so dust off your air guitar and head on over to 1300 S. Main St. Entry is open to rock stars of all ages and costs $10. Call 354-1589 for more information.
Competition begins at 10 a.m. Saturday. Contestants are encouraged to channel their inner rock god and don rock-star duds. Gold lame pants, anyone? The winner will get a game system from GameStop.
Sunday September 13
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER: During a decade littered with over-the-top dance dramas, no film quite captured our hearts like 1987'sDirty Dancing. Was it Johnny Castle/Patrick Swayze's smooth moves, or his swagger? Was it the mix of nostalgic '50s and '60s tunes with unmistakably '80s hair? Jennifer Grey's transformation from a duckling into a slinky swan?
You decide this Sunday at Movies at the GreenSpot, downtown's free outdoor summer-movie series. If the weather is fine, gather at 8 p.m. at the corner of Liberty and Sixth streets. Bring a radio, and something to sit on. Beer and wine go on sale at 8:30 p.m. Go to www.atthegreenspot.blogspot.com for more details.
Week In!
Out Now!
FRINGE BENEFITS: Fox's eerie drama Fringe -- a sort of updated version of The X-Files, with the focus on scientific experiments rather than aliens -- starts its new season next Thursday. So now is the time to revisit old episodes. Fringe: The Complete First Season came to DVD and Blu-ray this week with in-depth bonus features about the show and how it was made. There are also deleted scenes, a gag reel, a production diary, three commentary tracks, and more. The Blu-ray version has an exclusive bonus called "Pattern Analysis" that dissects scenes from six episodes.
Tuesday September 15
BOOMSTICKS AND BITE MARKS: Two of the best horror-comedies ever made are returning to DVD in new special editions and making their Blu-ray debuts on Tuesday. Army of Darkness has Bruce Campbell reprising his Evil Dead role as the blustery Ash Williams, a boneheaded 20th-century guy who is transported back in time to Medieval England. And An American Werewolf in London is director John Landis' cult classic about an unfortunate tourist who runs afoul of a furry foe on the Scottish moors.
Army has a few extras, but Werewolf is loaded with bonus material, including a new, feature-length documentary.
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