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SIX The Musical is a ten at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
The hit West End and Broadway musical SIX has hit the road across the country and has taken up residence in Baltimore at the historic Hippodrome Theatre. While I do enjoy learning about the history of the Dark Ages and ...
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TV by the Decade :: May 7•13
As the traditional May 'sweeps' period gets into full swing -- and the traditional TV season is coming to an end -- none of the major broadcast networks are premiering any new TV series, reserving the all-important ratings period for ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: Come Fly With Me
Well it's life back to normal-ish at Grey-Sloan this week. No awesome visiting surgeons from other parts of the country, no chaotic people causing chaos in the ER ... but things are a little messy. Ish.Can someone remind me what ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a fitting end to the top tier trilogy
The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was a high top tier movie after I first saw it, and at that point, also easily topped the Marvel movies released to date. The sequel didn’t quite hit me as hard as ...
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Riverdale :: Peep Show
I am really curious to know exactly where this season of Riverdale is going. I'm a bit disappointed that Jughead lost all of his memories of the real world, and even more disappointed that we haven't seen Tabitha/The Guardian Angel ...
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Ted Lasso :: We’ll Never Have Paris
The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called 'We’ll Never Have Paris' in a cheeky reference to that famous Casablanca quote (which is a movie replete with them, naturally). This episode kicks off in the natural place from the last ...
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Schmigadoon! :: Over and Done
I really was concerned that Cinco Paul wasn't going to stick the Season 2 landing for Schmigadoon! with all of the balls left up in the air at the end of the fifth and penultimate episode, but turns out I ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #145 :: May 3•9
This is an interesting week for new movie releases as many of the more notable films were released in the early part of the century. Sadly, most of the bigger films from 1923 are gone, but 1933 had several films ...
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TV by the Decade :: Apr 30•May 6
Out of the new shows that premiered this week between 1983 and 2013, two of them were actually mini-series. One was a true crime story that garnered acclaim and Emmy nominations, the other was a thinly-veiled allegory about fascism in ...
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Riverdale :: Tales in a Jugular Vein
The creatives at Riverdale are really going all out in this final season, truly embracing the Archie gang's comic book roots by whisking (almost) everyone back to 1955 (the actual Archie comics debuted in 1941 but the visual aesthetic that ...
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Schmigadoon! :: Famous as Hell
I refuse to believe that after this week's episode of Schmigadoon! that there is only ONE episode left. How can that be, especially with all of the new situations that arise this week?!? Plus it just doesn't seem fair that ...
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Ted Lasso :: The Strings That Bind Us
The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called 'The Strings That Bind Us' which is a multifaceted cheeky reference to Roy’s tactic of comedically tying the players together by their most sensitive parts. There’s also a feeling about escaping the ...
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