Simon Price on Dexys: Cheer up, Kevin! I'm about to give you a big smacker on the lips

Simon Price on Dexys: Cheer up, Kevin! I'm about to give you a big smacker on the lips

Simon Price on Dexys: Cheer up, Kevin! I'm about to give you a big smacker on the lips

Some things are a gift. Like the sign above the Duke of York's – where Dexys are playing an unprecedented nine nights – for Peter Nichols's black comedy Passion Play . Dexys are an act, after all, who called their 1981 tour The Projected Passion Revue, and the two elements that implies – heightened emotion and calculated theatricality – are still key to a Dexys live show.        

Julie Christie in Billy Liar: The girl who showed the way to the future

British cinema of the early 1960s was a relentlessly downbeat affair, studiedly realist in a manner pinched from the French New Wave, cautiously unflashy and obsessed with failure. The key directors of the period were British intellectuals – Jack Clayton, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson, John Schlesinger and Karel Reisz – whose chosen subjects were working-class dramas set in the provinces ...

The List: body music - Financial Times

The List: body musicFinancial TimesThe low-brow 1984 comedy Police Academy launched Steve Guttenberg's acting career and caused uproarious merriment with dialogue like, “Drop that stereo before I blow your goddamn nuts off.” But its real claim to immortality rests on introducing the ...

Isle of Arts festival opens - Isle of Wight County Press

Isle of Wight County PressIsle of Arts festival opensIsle of Wight County PressMusic will include pop jazz band Miss 600, new wave combo The Skatonics, Island ensemble JC and the Dance Preachers, featuring Paul Armfield on bass, singer and clarinettist Jacqui Hicks, jazz guitarist Femi Temowo, singer-songwriter Adam Isaac, Little ...

New sitcom opens Khan of worms

DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, Citizen Khan is either ground-breaking, belly-achingly funny, or ill-conceived, offensive and racist.        

North Central Community Calendar — April 11-17

Send your North Central public event notices (including recreational sports) for free to Edmond Ortiz at eortiz@primetimenewspapers.com; by fax at 250-3350; or by mail to him in c/o North Central News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, TX 78297-2171. Medical professionals have the opportunity to participate in one of the largest, regional educational opportunities on kidney disease and ...

North Central Community Calendar — April 4-10

Send your North Central public event notices (including recreational sports) for free to Edmond Ortiz at eortiz@primetimenewspapers.com; by fax at 250-3350; or by mail to him in c/o North Central News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, TX 78297-2171. A program for family caregivers of a loved one with dementia offers stress management techniques, relaxation and coping strategies, and class materials ...

Britain's Got Talent 2013:Simon Cowell is left gobsmacked by 11-year-old singing sensation as new series of Britain¿s ...

He’s the man who has something to say about everything and it’s usually pretty sarcastic.

Mix of Six: MJ, Aida and a musical flashback with Chantal Kreviazuk - MetroNews Canada

Mix of Six: MJ, Aida and a musical flashback with Chantal KreviazukMetroNews CanadaFilm, Music, Comedy and Fun: Musician Shaden Garett releases Tender Wild Animal: The Movie at the Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St. Friday. The 13-minute ... One of the most performed operas worldwide, Aïda is a tragic love story set in ancient Egypt that ...

Boston's unique Debo Band capturing world's fans - Boston Herald

Boston's unique Debo Band capturing world's fansBoston HeraldOn the traditional Ethiopian tune “Asha Gedawo,” a highlight of the 2012 debut, the band evokes Nigerian Afropop, New Orleans jazz, noise rock and other less-obvious influences. “That's a song that you hear at every Ethiopian wedding,” Mekonnen said.

Colla-beer-ation - Mountain Xpress

Colla-beer-ationMountain XpressThe prize, for “Innovation in Brewing,” was awarded in large part due to New Belgium's ambitious barrel-aging program. Plenty of smaller brewers ... Unlike many Oskar Blues beers, it's lightly hopped; however, it's steeped with Ethiopian coffee for an ...and more »

Toronto Jewish Film Festival opens with CowJews & Indians - CBC.ca

CBC.caToronto Jewish Film Festival opens with CowJews & IndiansCBC.caThe Nazis had forced his Jewish grandfather to give up his property in Germany, but decades later, American Halberstadt realized he was himself living on Mohawk land in New York. “I started out to try to get my ... A third individual, a working ...and more »

Derbyshire Times What’s On listings

The Pitman Painters. The winner of the Evening Standard Award for best new play showing at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield, 3pm and 7.30pm. Tickets from £12-£25. To book contact 01246 345222 or www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk

Alchemy festival celebrates South Asia in London - The National

Alchemy festival celebrates South Asia in LondonThe NationalIt also encompasses dance, theatre, comedy, food, film, literature, design and debate. Some of Bollywood's biggest singers will be ... Raman has made her name playing everything from Ethiopian-influenced covers of Jimi Hendrix jams to trance-inducing ...and more »

North Central Community Calendar — March 28-April 3

Send your North Central public event notices (including recreational sports) for free to Edmond Ortiz at eortiz@primetimenewspapers.com; by fax at 250-3350; or by mail to him in c/o North Central News, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, TX 78297-2171. A program for family caregivers of a loved one with dementia offers stress management techniques, relaxation and coping strategies, and class materials ...

top 10 movie picks for the week of April 7, 2013 - New York Daily News

New York Daily Newstop 10 movie picks for the week of April 7, 2013New York Daily NewsTry the Ethiopian documentary “Jeans & Marto.” 2. Hayao Miyazaki Retrospective (bam.org) BAM will be honoring ... “The Last Detail” (filmforum.org) Jack Nicholson earned his third Oscar nomination for this 1973 dramatic comedy, about three sailors ...and more »

The Critical List

FILM PICK: Spring Breakers In Harmony Korine’s film, a group of girls find bacchanalian bliss on holiday, but the good times soon turn dark and bloody. A fun portrait of the decadent dreams of young Americans.

Movie Listings for April 5-11 - New York Times

Movie Listings for April 5-11New York Times'Silver Linings Playbook' (R, 2:00) David O. Russell's exuberant new comedy tracks the feverish, happy, sad, absurdly funny ups and downs of a head case (Bradley Cooper) just as he returns to his parents' home after eight months in a mental institution ...and more »

Dour detective back on the beat

Stephen Tompkinson may not look like a happy man in the role of Chief Inspector Alan Banks, but he is.

Should David Miliband cough up the cash for by-election he caused by resigning - Daily Mail

Daily MailShould David Miliband cough up the cash for by-election he caused by resigningDaily MailShouldn't David Miliband help pay for the by-election he has caused in South Shields by resigning his Labour seat for a big bucks job in New York? When an MP resigns for reasons of ill-health, ... Film comedy star Steve 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles ...and more »