2012 Tournament of Roses Parade

By Doug

Dec

31

The 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade will be held in Pasedena, CA on Monday, January 2, 1012.

This year marks the 123rd year for the parade, and one of the few instances when the “never on Sunday” rule will be in effect.  Traditionally, the Rose Parade, and the accompanying Rose Bowl Game, are held on January 1st. However, in 1893 it was decided that the parade would be held on a Monday whenever January 1st falls on a Sunday, in order to prevent conflicts with Sunday church services.  The last time the “never on Sunday” rule was applied was in 2006.

This year, the parade, which will be seen in the US, Canada, and in 200 countries across the globe, celebrates the theme of “Just Imagine…”  It will feature marching bands from all across America, celebrated equestrian units and, of course, dozens of magnificent floats covered in flowers.

photo courtesy Joe Mac1 via Creative Commons License

Beat the Heat While Still Having Fun

By Doug

Jul

11

Looking for a fun activity to partake in this summer? Well here are a couple of great ideas to have a good time while staying cool.

 

First, why not go all terrain vehicle (ATV) riding, it’s an outdoor activity which is invigorating and allows you to experience the beauty of nature. An ATV is basically a four wheeled vehicle which you sit on and it allows you to drive over any terrain. With large dunlop ATV tires, the vehicle will have no problem traversing dirt, rocks, or soil. Riding an ATV is a thrilling experience because they can reach very high speeds and allow you to see parts of the outdoors that you most likely wouldn’t reach on foot. To find great trails to ride on, check your state government’s parks and recreation website.

Another way to get away from the heat is to head to the lake. You can rent a boat or jet skis and can hit the water for a day or two of fun. The lake will provide a great way to cool down and you can bring your friends or family along for a bit more of a social atmosphere. If you rent a boat you can take part in different water sports such as, wakeboarding, waterskiing, and tubing. With a jet ski, you can travel around the lake much faster and you can explore much more of the lake since it is a smaller vehicle.

Southern California is known for their beautiful beaches and their mild summers. It is definitely worth a road trip to visit the coast and to spend some time soaking up the sun and playing in the waves. Before heading on a road trip, make sure that your car is ready to handle the trip, have a mechanic check the engine and make sure that the tires are not worn out. When in California, there are tons of beaches to visit and each one has their own unique flair and personality. You can surf, paddle board or just soak up some rays while at the beach. California beaches are very beautiful and while a road trip may seem like a bit much, it is definitely worth the time.

While summer can seem like an extremely unpleasant time due to the heat, there are definitely ways to avoid the heat while still having a blast. Whether you want to hit the trails, spend some time on the lake, or visit the ocean, you will have a great time.

Take A Road Trip to Disneyland

By Doug

Jun

10

Road trips are a great way to see new places, bond with people and make the most out of a vacation. Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim, California are opening new attractions and they are sure to be spectacular. Disneyland is a perfect excuse to take a road trip, so grab your USA map and your California map and hop in the car.

Disneyland and California Adventure are each opening a new ride or attraction and with state of the art technology, these are sure worth seeing.

Disneyland is one of the most visited places in the United States; known as the “happiest place on Earth”, why wouldn’t you want to stop by for some fun. One of the great sections of Disneyland is Tomorrowland, which offers all types of rides and attractions based on the future and science fiction. One of the most popular rides in Tomorrowland is Star Tours, which takes you through the world of Star Wars on a three dimensional movie tour in a “ship” which moves with the movie. Until now, the ride was a bit dated and the technology was lacking. Recently the ride has undergone a total revamp and offers the best 3-D experience, which makes you feel as though you really are flying through the stars and visiting other planets.

California Adventure is opening a little mermaid themed ride. After 20 years, the undersea princess is finally getting her own ride. With brand new animatronics and cutting edge technology, this ride will bring in tons of Disney princess fans. The ride has multiple rooms, which you navigate in a moving clam seat, filled with Ariel and her friends.

Both Disneyland and California Adventure offer fantastic experiences and these new attractions are definitely beneficial additions to the parks. So if you haven’t been to Disneyland in a while and want a chance to see some of the United States on the way, grab your keys and take a road trip to beautiful Anaheim, California.

Best Club in Seattle – Trinity

By Doug

Jun

16

Trinity Nightclub in Seattle is an ornately adorned 2-level labyrinth, housing 3 rooms: The Main Room, the Blue Room, The Card room and a large private VIP room. Each room has a unique theme and decor with 2 spacious dance floors, full lounge, state of the art sound and lighting, plus internationally acclaimed DJ’s.

The Main Room, is a majestic room featuring Seattle’s top sound and lighting systems. It also has one of the largest dance floors on the west coast. Many of the room’s features are from a Seattle area church, including the DJ booth, which was constructed from its pulpit. This design gives The Main Room a classic, old-world feeling with all the modern amenities, including fully appointed VIP room with full bar and private restroom.

The Blue Room, is the fun, flirty side of Trinity. Royal blue with white accents, including a sparkle-infused blue dance floor. It’s reminiscent of the 50′s, but with aretro-modern style, and a pinch of an overdone Roger Moore James Bond film style. The Blue Room also features computer-controlled LED lighting system suspended from the ceiling and a custom designed DJ booth.

The Card Room, is an eclectic Asian themed lounge side of Trinity. Featuring pieces rescued from the Asian room at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. The Card Room is very exotic and relaxing, a place to enjoy dim sum, drink and a good conversation.

The VIP Room, is a private and intimate area with up-matched elegance. The perfect setting for professional and personal entertaining. This sophisticated room offers a fully stocked bar, plush seating, a private restroom, a climate-controlled atmosphere and the VIP guests get to enjoy an unsurpassed service, which includes table-side premium service made available by your personal host and professional staff. Reservation are necessary.

You’ll find Trinity at 111 Yesler Way, not far from a downtown boutique hotel Seattle, USA offers its fine international guests.

New York in the Movies

By Doug

May

28

New York City has always been a pretty intimidating rival to Hollywood when it comes to making movies. In terms of sheer volume, of course, no one can come close to the west coast, but in terms of top films made in the country, ones that critics generally accept as the finest of their crop, New York is very much a contender. It’s really rather difficult to compete with New York for anything and come out winning, because there’s something rather sturdy about the people and the artistic traditions here. There are also some fine movies.

It’s not just a great place to make movies, although it has some of the most spectacular locations anyone could ask for. It’s also a great place to see movies, with some of the oldest movies houses in the country, offering plenty of entertainment for anyone staying in a New York hotel and looking for an authentic experience. Years ago, the stories go, people could smoke in the theaters, and one could hop from one to another, and see movies all day. Common rules of decency have changed these things a bit, but it’s still a city that offers a cinema experience that’s important to catch.

The city has enough weight behind it when it comes to film. Some of the most important films have been made in the city, and New York in the movies has been used to such effect that it actually becomes a character. It’s easy to see how this figures into the movies of Woody Allen, Spike Lee, or Martin Scorcese. In many of their films, the subject matter is so quintessentially New York, and the city locations are used with such dexterity, that it comes to life in a remarkable and memorable way.

It wasn’t just this era of the contemporary cinema greats, however, that make New York memorable in movies . It could have started before 1933, but that year, when King Kong was climbing the Empire State Building, the movie became more than a film set in New York. The city became a symbol of culture and civilization, but then it also showed itself to contain a brutal force, one that could compete with the worst that nature could throw at it. In the end, it lies in a poignant balance between the two places, both as urban jungle and high society, and the dialectic serves to spin out films generation after generation.

San Francisco Dreams the Movies

By Doug

May

24

Seeing movies in San Francisco has all the advantages of seeing a film in any big, cosmopolitan city. The audiences are generally much more receptive, and also critical, and make the experience very different than seeing a film anywhere else. For anyone taking a vacation, going from their downtown hotel to the local theatre, it’s sometimes a wonderful experience in world cinema, and sometimes it becomes striking how many films are made in and about the city itself.

San Francisco may have a reputation for cop films, with hits like 48 Hours, Dirty Harry (yes, the original one), and Bullitt, with some of the most exciting car chase scenes ever caught on celluloid. But there are also a number of other kinds of films made here as well, with intimate, exceptional dramas like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Days of Wine and Roses. There are also films like X-Men, Monsters Vs. Aliens, George of the Jungle, and Herbie the Love Bug that take some common ideas of a world based on San Francisco, and then morph it for maximum effect. Then there are films that are more focused on the multiple cultures here, like The Mistress of Spices, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Joy Luck Club, and Milk.

These all make up a kind of testament to what San Francisco is, a glass bead game with multiple facets, constantly revealing and unveiling, and at the same moment hiding something new. The San Francisco Film Commission has been pretty instrumental in keeping the city centered as a location for world cinema, and there are many independent filmmakers and small companies working to document the dreams and realities of the city on film and video. The first moving picture was taken in this part of the country, and it set a standard for the city, as well as a kind of fortunate precedent. Small visions of great poetic beauty, and large visions of the state of the world are worthy of capturing the audience’s attention here, and it’s up to the artists to filter in and out what makes sense, and what makes a dream.

Las Vegas Movies

By Doug

May

19

Three contemporary films set in Las Vegas, “The Hangover,” “Leaving Las Vegas,” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” can offer a fairly good idea of the kinds of films being made about the city these days. They offer a glimpse into the worlds that are here, and also reflect the extraordinary imaginations of the filmmakers. Seen in another light, they also speak of a cultural history in the U.S. in general. Las Vegas has always served as a kind of litmus test for the rest of the country when it comes to film, because of the unusual things that films can reveal that are not possible in other art forms.

It also has a lot to do with how the city is perceived in the rest of the world, and what it stands for in the imagination. Since the film industry got off the ground in the 20th century, Las Vegas has been a primary setting for movies, and there are literally hundreds of movies about Las Vegas in the past hundred years. Recent popularity of the above-mentioned films also suggests that this isn’t something that’s on the decline. Las Vegas stands, then, as a kind of archetype that continues to haunt the imagination, and the archetype tells as much about the imaginations of the people as it does about the city itself.

It’s often the case in Las Vegas movies that the hotel plays a big role in the content of the film. Hotels aren’t simply locations where the characters happen to be staying, but often play a significant role themselves, and this gives them a certain metaphorical weight. The luxurious hotel in a movie speaks to the fortunes of the characters, and also tells the audience that they are in the city inhabiting another space. Being in a new space, for any character in literature, usually means that the story is an adventure, where they are stepping out of themselves in order to let their real essence come through.

The dislocation of people in time and space is an old literary device, putting them in a kind of crucible, where they will be tested. In some of the movies, the test is one where sudden good fortune becomes a means of bringing out the darker sides of human nature. In others, the location becomes something of a last chance, to discover something that was lost or fading away, and the movie then become about the characters struggling with what was left behind, in order to change and become the next thing. Much like the city itself, always in flux, and always on the way to something else.

Lindsey Lohan’s New Girlfriend?

By Doug

May

18

Lindsey Lohan denies that they are going out, but it is a different story from what other people who have seen them around town are saying. Photographer, Indrani, has been seen hanging out with Lohan a lot lately, and has even been spotted making out with her. Indrani says that this is her first female relationship she has had, but she really likes Lohan. Her impression is that Lohan is trying to get her life back on track and many people who know Lohan are hoping that Indrani is a good influence on her. If all this is true it begs the question as to why Lindsey is denying the relationship. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Movies Made in Atlanta

By Doug

May

11

Atlanta, Georgia is a place that’s rich with history and culture. It’s one of the great cities in the world to visit, and now more than ever there are plenty of reasons for coming. In the past, it was a place to change planes, but the secrets are getting out that it’s also one of the most fabulous cities in the country. Still small enough to maintain its distinct identity, but large enough to have a very cosmopolitan feel, there is something for everyone. There are plenty of live entertainments to enjoy here, including live music, theatre, dance, and other kinds of performance, but it’s also increasingly a place for movies.

It’s indeed a rich place for film-lovers, and there are also a number of very popular movies filmed in Atlanta . Because of its extremely lovely natural appeal, with different kinds of vegetation and landscapes, it is a perfect choice for filmmakers looking for shots of the country. It also has a lively urban center, which means that multiple locations are very accessible here. As if this weren’t enough, there are also new tax incentives that make it very financially reasonable to choose Atlanta as a setting.

For guests, this can mean that there are times of the year when celebrity star-gazing is particularly good. And who knows? Perhaps this means that one might run into someone famous on the streets, when setting foot outside of the luxury hotel . It’s not uncommon. In the 1970s, BUrt Reynolds spent a lot of time here, with films like “Deliverance,” and “Sharkey’s Machine.” Even “Smokey and the Bandit” took advantage of some of Georgia’s back roads.

The filming of “Roots” in Savannah was a ground-breaking work that touched the entire country, but it also sparked interest in Atlanta as a fine choice for film . “The Big Chill” may be the first big contemporary Hollywood blockbuster to be shot here. This opened up the doors for other kinds of movies as well, where they didn’t have to be action-oriented, but could appeal to urban audiences looking for films that allowed for intimacy with the viewers. “Driving Miss Daisy,” “The Blind Side,” and “The Last Song,” are just some of these. There are also generous amounts of side-slitting comedy’s set here, most notably some of the more celebrated works of Tyler Perry. Even in film, Atlanta has something for everyone.

IPad is for the Consumption of Content

By Doug

May

9

There has been a lot of going ons about the IPad. Is it worth it? If you don’t have one yet, you may want to take a look at this video and find out some things about it. The main thing he likes to say about it in the video is that the IPad is for the Consumption of Content, not for the creation of it. You won’t want to write an essay on it, or even a blog post. You make up your own mind though.

Singapore Club Culture

By Doug

May

1

Singapore’s reputation as a force to be reckoned with in the global scheme of things is pretty solid by now. The recent decades have seen a city-state that’s turned itself into its own version of itself, and this is in constant reinvention. In part, the reinvention is one that’s almost a quotation of itself, referring to its own particular history and multiculture. In part, too, the reinvention is a constant negotiation between the whole puzzle of global culture, as well as its distinct parts. Port cities have a knack for integrating ideas, rhythms, and ingredients in ways that few places can, and Singapore seems masterful at decoding for itself which parts are worth keeping and adding to its own evolving cloth.

Club culture here is no different than anything else, exciting, edgy, and extremely progressive. It might be one of the very top hallmarks of the city-state, where it’s ability to mix culture comes across on the dance floor and in the spaces in a very elegant and fresh way. It’s easy to see why so many first-time visitors come to the island and fight off their jet lag to enjoy a spectacular meal at a singapore restaurant and then head out to the clubs as soon as the plane lands.

Zouk is by no means the only club in town, but it’s pretty iconic as a representation of what Singapore has to offer, and an evening spent here, in any or all of the three rooms, will fill the appetite for world beats and late-night youth culture. The buildings were originally warehouses in 1919, and have been refurbished to maintain the old look. This is not only a perfectly hip move in club culture, but it also serves to center the history of Singapore right here. No matter how fast the grooves carry you away from the present and into a future that looks so bright, there is always the weight of the past. In this case, it doesn’t have a gravitational pull that slows things down, but instead ties this cultural moment to everything that came before, turning the weight into power. Fashion and lifestyle do indeed come to the clubs, reverberating the cultures of the city-state in ways that speak to the visual as well as the aural, and suddenly we all find ourselves on the crest of a new wave.

Chopping Videos Are Hot

By Doug

Apr

29

Loving to cook is a good thing. Someone who can cook well is pretty much always appreciated. It looks it is also becoming a skill more and more people want to learn because as I was looking through some of the best videos on the web today I came across this one.


How To Use Your Guide Hand – The funniest videos clips are here

It has gotten a lot of hits, and is honestly a pretty good cooking video.

Facebook is Announcing a New Feature: The Like Button?

By Doug

Apr

19

Facebook is announcing a new feature soon. There has been no official talk yet, but it looks as though all the rumors point in the same direction. Soon Facebook will be announcing a button that allows you to “Like” web pages. With it being a little colder than becoming a fan, and takes most of the same styling of Digg, one wonders how well this will work out.

Twitter Launches New Features

By Doug

Apr

18

There have been a number of new features launched lately from Twitter, right around the same time in announced that it now has over a million users. This does not come close to the number of users Facebook has, but that is to be expected. What twitter has over Facebook is enormous however, and their users are expected to grow, however the only way Twitter will be able to keep up with it is if they can also pull in the revenue stream. Hopefully, some of these new features will help them do just that.

Danny Rose Goal

By Doug

Apr

16

Watching this match was amazing. Debut goal, beautiful shot, and it was even on his weaker foot. This is one guy you have got to watch if you like football.

Bones and Booth, What’s In Store Next?

By Doug

Apr

15

Last weeks episode has everyone wondering what is next for these two? While it is generally acknowledged by fans that they would love to see the couple get together even after all this time, it seems ever less likely because that would be the thing that ruins all the tension the majority of the show has been set up on. As always the producers tease the fans with the idea that maybe, just maybe they will finally get together, but we have to wait for the season finally to get a real view of what is in store for them in the future.

The Best Type of Writing for Films

By Doug

Apr

13

When movies changed from silent films to talkies, the whole style of writing also changed. It turns out that there is a very specific style of writing that is ideal for script writing in modern films, and there are a number of people who go to school for it under a different name. Here is the full story because she can put it much better than I can.

Will an Ipad Blend?

By Doug

Apr

8

The answer is yes. Here is the video from the well known and loved series “Will it Blend?”

Who Will Win the Grand National 2010?

By Doug

Apr

7

One of the biggest days in horse racing is coming up soon and Saturday the 10th marks the big day. This is the event to see and be seen and is the race the whole event has been leading up to. Horse racing’s biggest stars will be there, with forty of the greatest names racing across the famous track it is hard not to be excited. With the most prize money yet to be awarded to the winner of a horse race, and it being anyone’s game after last year’s win by 100-1 winner Mon Mome. This is one of the few times this has happened since Foinavon ran in 1967. Other than those two only three others have won on 100-1 odds, but even being given a number that high is rare in these races that ensure quality racers before allowing them to race the course. This is mostly for health reasons as the race track used for the Grand National is one of the most dangerous in the nation. This is what sets this race apart however and is one of the big draws to go down and see the horses run on Saturday instead of watching any number of the other races that go on throughout the year.

As per the usual, a number of great horses are lined up for this year’s race and a number of them have won this race before. That may be the one thing that consistently is a decisive measure in whether a horse has a chance of winning this race, but it is not the only factor that matters and is not a rule that holds true all the time. The race is expected to have over 150,000 people watching from the stadium and will be televised with an expectation in excess of six hundred million viewers.

Has Sharon Lawrence Gotten Hitched?

By Doug

Apr

6

It looks like Sharon Lawrence will be joining the new sitcom Hitched, focused on a newly wed couple dealing family and friends. TV Guide has the full story.

The NBA Recaps the Scores from Wednesday

By Doug

Apr

1

With thirteen games on Wednesday the NBA does a recap. Below are all thirteen scores.

Movies Made in Austin

By Doug

Apr

1

The cultural scene in Austin is more alive now than it’s ever been. Or, perhaps it’s better to say that it’s as alive as it’s ever been, because although it would be hard to compete with its own past, it has maintained a steady pace of incredible activity for a few decades. There’s no signs of it slowing down, either, making it a perfect weekend jaunt for young creative people wondering if the next big thing might be happening here. The hotel options are excellent , and there are plenty of great options for food all around town.

The big draw is the culture, of course, with a wide array of choices in mainstream and alternative entertainments in visual art, performance, music, naturally, and also film. Its reputation is secure in the indie market when it comes to film, and the SXSW festival continues to put it square on the map, but there’s also a long history here for larger budget films as well.

With films of another generation, like Raggedy Man, Gator, and Honeysuckle Rose , filmmakers knew that there was a certain local appeal here. It was possible to make movies that had an authentic Texas feel, but the town also offered a certain kind of cosmopolitan feel that made it particularly attractive to casts and crews. It’s not just a great place for backdrops that speak to an American West, but it’s also a fine place to hang out after the shooting is over for the day.

The next generation really opens up with Richard Linklater who somehow, unbelievably, managed to cross over into the mainstream with films that have a deeply alternative approach and point of view. Slacker managed to slip into the stream and started a wave of interest in Austin culture in general. Added to this, it also opened the doors to other films, including his own growing body of work, with films like A Scanner Darkly, and Waking Life, all made here, and all reflecting overt or subtle local sensibilities.

Michael, Spy Kids, and Miss Congeniality are also mainstream films that are made here, and the diversity of styles and audiences for these films only gives more credibility to Austin as a place that can indeed represent a wide swath of culture and cultures. Of course, there are always more films on the way, and visitors here might find themselves wandering onto a film shoot, and rubbing elbows with stars and the next wave of geniuses in the film industry.

Secondary New York Ticket Companies

By Doug

Jan

6

Broadway is known for having the best shows and great stars performing. A Broadway play or musical have a certain flair to them, which makes them internationally known that it can be hard to find these Broadway tickets, not only hard, but these tickets can be extremely expensive; sometimes at a jaw dropping price.

Because there is a high demand for Broadway tickets, using the secondary ticket market is the best way to obtain these hot New York Broadway tickets. Most people feel that using a secondary ticket source will cost much more than the box-office price, due to the extra fees associated, but this is not necessarily true; there are still some cheap Broadway tickets available in the secondary market if one is diligent in their search.

To help the public see a Broadway musical, a play, a concert or other types of performances, there are several organizations that provide half-price tickets, discounts tickets for military or seniors, rush tickets, standing room only tickets and lottery tickets, Wednesday Matinees are cheaper and a day show is much cheaper than a night show, to name a few different ways to get a better price for shows. Discounts of almost 40 to 50% for Broadway tickets can be found offered by numerous secondary ticket companies.  A search on the Internet will give one a good way to compare and a look at various resources showing which secondary ticket company have the best offers for the particular musical, play, off-Broadway or concerts that are currently playing on Broadway. Walking about the theatre district will only become frustrating by finding out that the tickets are sold out for that day, or after waiting in line for an hour or longer that there are only tickets available for undesirable seats.

Using a secondary ticket company in New York saves time, money and provides the public a great resource for enjoying a Broadway show at the price they can afford and on the day they want to watch a performance.

Japanese Onsen and Portable Spas

By Doug

Sep

21

When you have your own spa at your disposal all the time, life becomes a little easier.  There is a source for natural stress relief in your very own home, and you can look forward to coming back to it at the end of a long day.  Parties and entertaining becomes a snap, and you can plan elaborate gatherings or watch as spontaneous festivities erupt in your own yard.  Portable spas can be a welcome addition to any home, becoming a center of social activity, and a place of solace.  The only limit here is your imagination, and even this will start to relax when you get to discover the new possibilities with your spa.

The benefits of the spa are well-known, and numerous.  So numerous, in fact, that it seems as though every week new studies offer new evidence about the healthy side effects of spending time in warm, bubbling water.  It probably doesn’t take much to convince most people why these are such a great thing, but it’s interesting to see how the human obsession with hot water extends across geographies and cultures.  In Japan, the bathhouses connected to natural hot springs are called Onsen, and it seems as though they well-understood the health benefits for centuries.

In Japan, the spa is approached very ceremonially.  There are specific rules for entering and for leaving, suggesting the importance attached to the hot water therapy.  The contemporary Onsen are very different than the originals, but still have the same functions.  In earlier times, there were instances when the bathers did not leave for a month at a time, and held stones on their laps to prevent their being carried away into the water while they were sleeping.  Now it is much more of a communal event, with a very conscious focus on health.  One of the important social aspects, however, which is true then as it is now, and also has a resonance with our own ideas of the spa, is the leveling effect.  When everyone is in a swimsuit, everyone is really rather equal, and societal anxieties melt away to allow for the calm humanity to come to the surface.

Avant-Garde Theater Tickets

By Doug

Aug

5

I was all abuzz about receiving my Theater Tickets to the avant-garde theater event: Fringe Theater Festival in Washington D.C. My friends managed to see several shows yesterday. They called me up and told me how much fun they had. They were trying to describe one show where two women, dancing up and down and then hanging from the ceiling. They told me they couldn’t wait for me to join them so that we may see many different kinds of performers, in so many different kinds of venues.

The intriguing part about the Fringe Theater Festival is you don’t know if you’ll pick a performance that could be great or that it could be atrocious. My friends told me at one small theater, the audience, one by one, made it’s way into a 30-seat black box room, and they were so close to the actress performing that they could, if they wanted to, reach our and touch her hair that was pinned up in the style of the 1940′s. In the play, she was reminiscing about the post World War II in London.

On another stage, my friends, an actor went on about how she left a bar late at night by herself, that was the play, her telling a story about her bar experience, but that the audience was spellbound by the story. In another theater, a tall fellow wearing blue jeans and a cowboy hat, acting all like John Wayne.

The Fringe Theater Festival, is suppose to be like the original Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where for 3 weeks in the months of August and September, Edinburgh is turned into a theater heaven where 1000 shows are being performed everyday, morning, noon and night in any venue they can find. The Fringe started up when actors were excluded from the traditional theater event, so they would camp outside the event and do their own performances, on the fringe, and all the performances were off-beat, edgy, political and avant-garde. And now, D.C. has it’s own Fringe. I’m looking forward to being a participant in tomorrows off-beat and edgy performances.