four stars

Reviewed by Daniel E. Jennis

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four and a half stars

Reviewed by Kelly Joseph

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" is wonderful for kids, families, and adults.

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four stars

Reviewed by Kelly Joseph

Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) are Sales Reps for an Energy Drink.

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Open since April 2005, The School of the Wise in Victoria is a coffee and wine bar as well as a restaurant and a charming place to catch live music.

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Amy Adams: Photo courtesy Chanhassen Dinner TheatresBy Unsie Zuege

If you build it, they will come.

Forty years ago, Herb and Carol Bloomberg’s “Field of Dreams” was a Chanhassen farm. The Bloombergs wanted to bring musical dinner theatre to the village of Chanhassen. Conventional wisdom said “No one would drive all the way out to Chanhassen for a dinner and a show,” followed by, “Where IS Chanhassen?”

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Travel back in time with this marvelously unique and heart-warming show. The spirit of that bygone era, when the world was at war and pop music meant “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” is charmingly captured in this nostalgic, holiday show. The harried producer of WOV copes with a drunken crooner, the delivery boy who just wants his big chance, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the bass-playing military pilot who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

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Photo by Rob LevineThe world of Narnia comes to life when Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund embark upon incredible adventures in C.S. Lewis’s classic tale.

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Few musicians have a comparable laundry list of accomplishments like Dan Wilson.

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WALL-E
300
Bones: Season Three
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

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Reviewed by Janelle Martin

In the late 1970s, Argentina's Videla 'junta' carried out a campaign of violence against its population, a "National Reorganization Process" comprised of the illegal arrest, torture, killing or forced disappearance of thousands of people, primarily trade unionists, students and activists.

Set during this turbulent time, Nathan Englander's first novel focuses on a poor Jewish couple, Kaddish and Lillian Pozan whose only son, Pato, becomes one of the approximately 30,000 people that were lost during this time.

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By Forrest Adams

Twas the night before Christmas… and there’s a burglar in the house?! The burglar even claims he’s Santa Clause!

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Step right up ladies and gentlemen for “Quickies 2008: Human Curiosities.” Observe oddities of all orders: from (metaphorical) miniature horses, the surprising rigors of fishing, and radical female terrorists to the betrayal of Mother Time and the machinations of the modern business man. Now, as we pull back the curtain on these wonders, peer inside...if you dare.

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Ahmad Jamal: Photo by Frank CapriCelebrated for his use of rhythm and space, dramatic crescendos and innovative multi-melodic lines, Jamal’s music career spans over 50 years. He is an acclaimed jazz pianist, keyboard master and inventive composer. Time: 7 and 9 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, Nov. 24-26

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