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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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Foodie Doc: SPINNING PLATES
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…
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(Philly) FREE SCREENING PASSES: GRUDGE MATCH (starring Sylvester Stallone & Robert De Niro)
Post Update 8/29/2016 – I’m not sure why, but suddenly this post from 2013 became a high traffic page. If you did a search for free screening passes and want to see movies in preview in Philly then sign up for Tinsel & Tine’s newsletter below: NEWSLETTER Subscribe for Free Screening Passes & Food Related Giveaways Win Passes to See Grudge Match before it hits theaters Christmas Day! Tinsel & Tine has 25 (admit two) Gofobo codes for the Grudge Match Preview Screening at The Prince Theater 7:30pm on Tuesday, December 3, 2013. Use the Rafflecopter widget below and Enter to Win! Note: Arrive Early! Screening passes do NOT…
