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Heated Fights and Hot Heads: OUT OF THE FURNACE
Out of the Furnace Comes Heated Fights and Hot Heads Tinsel & Tine Blog Contributors with varying perspectives Flood the Drummer® and DJ Reezey® review new crime thriller For men who love bare-knuckle brawls, that leave blood from jaws and the lone justice-seeking vigilante who becomes the law, then Director Scott Cooper’s nearly two-hour new crime thriller Out of the Furnace will be the adrenaline rush that leaves you satisfied. Opening in theaters nationwide today, November 6th, this R rated film stars British actor Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Casey Affleck (Tower Heist), the seductive and vivacious Zoe Saldana, and the legendary Woody Harrelson, in one of his grittiest roles…
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PNAA Presents: Josh Piven’s No Reservations
HOLIDAY PHILLY SPOTLIGHT Set of “No Reservations”. Set Designer: Ian Guzzone If your Christmas wish list includes camp, pop culture and farce, then you can check off all three at Philadelphia’s Adrienne Theater where The Philadelphia Non-Profit Advertising Agency (PNAA) have produced the World Premiere play by humorist Josh Piven called No Reservations. Josh Piven and Allison Heishman The title of course is a take on the biblical tradition of no room at the inn for Mary and Joseph at the birth of Jesus. The inn in this case is a bed and breakfast near Bethlehem PA, run by The Harris’ (Jared Michael Delaney and Wendy Staton) who are either…
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Grant doesn't so much cook or create food for Alinea, he masterminds it. It's all about presentation and aroma and atmosphere. Behind the scenes at Alinea, far more resembles a laboratory than a kitchen. You've heard of painters going blind, musicians going deaf, surgeons losing a hand and now here's a chef with tongue cancer, a fact that merely spurred Grant on to greater heights of single minded ambitious and art...
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Philly Food Truck: DIA DOCE Gourmet Cupcakes
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Last week at my day gig we got an email announcing when Dia Doce Gourmet Cupcakes would be in the parking lot. Seemed like the perfect opportunity to sample and profile another Food Truck for Tinsel & Tine’s Food Truck Series! Dia Doce is owned by Thais da Silva and her husband Michael. Their gourmet cupcakes are made from scratch every day with 100% natural ingredients and no artificial flavors. There’s no telling what inventive flavors might be next, but to give you an example of some of their popular, exotic menu items: Maple Bacon– Maple cake studded with bacon, topped with a real maple…
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Christmas in Harlem: BLACK NATIVITY
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor There are so many movies that have gone to the stage and so many Broadway shows that have become movies, that I could start a whole new blog just comparing the adaptations back and forth of both. Here’s another one – “Black Nativity” a staged musical originally written by Langston Hughes, the show was first performed Off-Broadway on December 11, 1961. It’s a stylized, gospel retelling of the Biblical Jesus, Mary & Joseph Christmas story told with a dark skinned cast. Now writer/director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Talk to Me) has put her own spin on the tale for her new movie Black Nativity starring…
