Ben Towle

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Ed Bumgardner Must Get Stoned

Dylan concert hits bad notes First off, some clarification: Ed Bumgardner is a longtime Winston-Salem music critic, who’s currently writing for the Winston-Salem Journal’s weekly free arts and entertainment supplement, Relish. By “stoned” in the title of this post, I don’t mean stoned as in “under the effects of marijuana,” but rather stoned as in …

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Coolest Mini-golf Ever

The Somerville Open Mini-Golf 2006

Playing Wookie

From Yahoo via Bryan Fordham: Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre

Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre Check out these beautiful preview pages from the forthcoming Penguin Books classics series version of Jane Eyre. Darcy on the feature film she’s apparently making version of her graphic novel Gasoline: It’s an environmental movie about technology working with nature and it stars a family of witches in a …

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Sam Jackson on the Line

I just received a taped phone message from Samuel L. Jackson, imploring me to go see the forthcoming film Snakes on a Plane.  A quick google search reveals that you can sign up pretty much anyone for a good old Mace Windu-style phone pestering via the everlovin’ interweb: http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/