Mamma Mia, Here I Go Again A Prairie Home Companion, The new movie Mamma Mia, based on the ABBA musical, is a chick flick'no question about it. But I'm in touch with my feminine side, so I went with The Mrs. over the weekend without a second thought. Here's the trailer. As you can probably gather, Mamma Mia is relentlessly upbeat and silly, and several reviews I've seen criticize it for its pace. Had it run another 15 minutes, it could have become exhausting, but it clocked in at an admirable one hour and 48 minutes. There's an awful.

The Road North Over the next few days, I will be driving up to Detroit. It's a drive I have made several times before, and by now it has become somewhat of a routine. To pass the time in the car, I usually do the following: 20% listening to the radio 40% listening to cd's 39.9% thinking about stuff 00.1% talking on the phone This time, though, I plan to listen to several podcasts that I have downloaded, including some from the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, The Onion, Prairie Home Companion, Wait Wait. Tickets.

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Random Stuffs of Monday Madness Anybody besides me going to be in Dallas during the first week of August? I have to go to training for the drug education class I teach and Jackson will be in town starting work on his Phd. He's getting a doctorate in digital basket weaving or something like that. I think we're staying in Richardson. If you're interested, holler at me and we'll figure out a time to meet for dinner or something. I'm still kicking around a really pitiful little problem. I can take free classes at the local. Ticket.

Paul Thomas Anderson Directs Play With 'SNL' Members Paul Thomas Anderson Directs Play With 'SNL' Members by Eric Kohn Jul 21st 2008 // 6:32PM Filed under: Casting, New Releases, RumorMonger, Celebrities and ControversyFirst, he gets a mainstream comic actor to act in a contemplative art house narrative with Punch-Drunk Love. Now, he's putting two of them on a stage. According to cigarettes and red vines, Paul Thomas Anderson has written and directed a play in Los Angeles with Saturday Night Live stars Maya Rudolph (Anderson's partner) and Fred. A Prairie Home Companion estate.

Michael Doucet ? From Now On A Prairie Home Companion tickets, Michael Doucet is one of the artists responsible for the worldwide enjoyment of the Cajun music of south Louisiana. As the leader of the globally acclaimed Cajun ensemble BeauSoleil, Doucet introduced the world to the unique music of southern Louisiana. BeauSoleil won a GRAMMY award in 1998 for the Best Traditional Folk Album and Michael Doucet received.a National Heritage Fellowship award in 2005 from the National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to American culture and Cajun trad.

Mama Mia?This Was FUN! Have you seen this, yet? Born in the early seventies, I did not grow up knowing much about ABBA, other than Dancing Queen thanks to the radio on the school bus. I do love musicals'and this one is a real treat! Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan are no songbirds'but they did not disappoint in this flight of fancy tale of love lost and returned. Even a hard hearted Miranda Priestly,Meryl?s character (The Devil Wears Prada) would enjoy this flick.  She might even sing along to the upbeat ABBA tune. Wolf trap tickets.

Cthulhu ftagn! The Shadow Over Innsmouth radio play. I've been burning out lately on the music I have on my iPod.  I'm talking shitloads of tunes but none of it seems to thrill me.  So I'm always on the lookout for new podcasts.  Just for fun I thought I would toss this one out there because it was pretty good. The Atlanta Radio Theater Company did a live rendition of H.P. Lovecraft's seriously creepy story about a town down on its luck that gives in to the ancient gods of the sea and pays the price for it, The Shadow Over Innfmouth, at the 2004. A Prairie Home Companion ticket broker.

Updated: NPR Launches Open API; Major Shows Not Included Wolf trap ticket broker, Updated: NPR Launches Open API; Major Shows Not Included By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Jul 2008 03:19 PM PST Updated below: An interesting opening of sorts by NPR, which has been among the most progressive organizations online: it has launched an open API, which will allows user and developers to take NPR content and include and share on individual websites and blogs. This API will also allow the 860 NPR member stations around the country to incorporate more NPR news and info in their digital media.

Fitting Farwells: The Top Ten Great Final Films (Part One) We recently asked YOU what Top Tens you'd like to see here on The Screengrab and, among the many fine suggestions?Other Matt? proposed the Top Ten Ignominious Exits (i.e.films of an actor that are less than glorious and not [fitting] the last time we see them on celluloid?). a list we'll actually tackle NEXT week, since THIS week, in honor of Heath Ledger's final completed performance (as the Joker in The Dark Knight), we've decided to examine the other side of the Two-Face coin: acto. ticket brokers.