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Candi’s Corner Review – Evil Dead: The Musical
by Blog Contributor Candace Cordelia There Will Be Some Blood….Evil Dead: The Musical On the fifth day since its opening, a healthy dose of people came out to see Evil Dead: The Musical, on a Sunday, which did not surprise me as Philly is a city filled with zealous horror lovers such as me, and from the looks of the crowd, I was surrounded by avid Evil Dead fans as well. I didn’t know what to expect with this musical, except a lot of singing, dancing, and blood. I was right! Well, except for the lots of blood part. I should have known better than to think that this musical…
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It’s Time for the 22nd Philadelphia Film Festival! #PFF22
Wow! Has it been a year already? Believe it or not, I lost a boyfriend over PFF21. We met on Labor Day weekend and mistakenly spent almost every moment with each other from that point on. I warned him that I’d be pretty busy for 2 weeks once the Philadelphia Film Fest started up, as I’d be trying to cover a number of films and events for Tinsel & Tine. He seemed okay with it in theory, but once I was in the midst of it all, he got resentful that it was taking up so much of my time, but also didn’t want to join me. There were of…
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Ode to: NATIONAL COFFEE DAY (Best Coffee To Go)
TODAY IS NATIONAL COFFEE DAY! Coffee is my drug of choice – I love the ritual of it, the smell of it brewing, the taste on its own, but particularly with a goodie or pizza or at a diner with a burger. In fact, I normally ask the waitress to hold my coffee until the meal comes because so many foods taste better with coffee. Drinking coffee gives me an elated feeling, not just alert, but for about an hour or so I feel actually happy and then a nice level off to normal. But… Later I crash and get weepy and moody or my adrenaline system feels on…
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What A: RUSH (Directed by Ron Howard)
I had every real intention of being a race car driver when I grew up. For my 6th birthday, I got the cutest yellow race car, the kind you can sit in and drive. Today it would have been electrically powered, but back then it had foot pedals. Then as I got older, each Christmas, I would ask for a bigger and better race track. Before drifting off to sleep, I’d imagine the controls in my hand and how great it was going to be to speed around that track and beat my sister. At the arcade, I cared not a wit for Pacman or Donkey Kong, I went…
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Acclaimed Broadway Musical ONCE Coming to Philly!
I’ve only seen the movie Once – well, once, in the theater in 2006, two years before starting Tinsel & Tine, so I never wrote about it, but it’s always stuck with me. There’s a strangely magical simplicity to this little love story between a Dublin guitarist / singer-songwriter (Glen Hansard) who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners and this Czech girl (Markéta Irglová) who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. The soundtrack also struck a chord with me – particularly the song “Falling Slowly”, which I still listen to fairly…
