The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio

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WEEKENDER - May 16, 2008 - A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Arts in brief
WEEKENDER for May 16, 2008
Final weekend for Ballet Theatre Ashtabula
There’s only three performances left for Ballet Theatre Ashtabula. "Subtle Escape" programs today and Saturday at the Ashtabula Arts Center start at 7:30 p.m. A Sunday matinee opens at 2 p.m.
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WEEKENDER - May 16, 2008
Places to visit
WEEKENDER — May 16, 2008
A time to dance to a ‘subtle escape’
WEEKENDER COVER STORY FOR MAY 8, 2008
‘Sweet Lorraine’ sweet but uneven movie
WEEKENDER FOR MAY 9: 2008: VIDEO VIPER
‘Wildest West’ fun play, unusual grub
Nothing says happy birthday like a dinner of sheep testicles and rattlesnake, but that is what I found myself eating at my husband’s 28th birthday dinner as we laughed our way through six courses of interesting eats and a really great show.
Lake Shore artists hold exhibit and sale
An artist's exhibit and sale of works by The Lake Shore Artists will be run through May at the Ashtabula Arts Center, 2928 West 13th Street in Ashtabula.
Places to visit
WEEKENDER for May 9, 2008
Summer offers Indy, Batman, Narnia, X-Files
Summer movie highlights
WEEKENDER May 2, 2008: Along with the major blockbusters, Hollywood offers loads of other films this summer. A look at the highlights:
‘Juno’ well-written story of teen pregnancy
WEEKENDER May 2, 2008: If you saw little Ellen Page in the film "Hard Candy" a few years ago, you were not only riveted by the storyline, that of a pedophile with the tables turned, but the performance of young, feisty actress.
Straw Hat opens another season June 6
WEEKENDER May 1, 2008: It all began in May of 1967 when the Ashtabula Fine Arts Center and the Ashtabula Playhouse announced that a summer theater program would be started in Ashtabula.
‘All Hail Hurricane Gordo’ dark but funny
WEEKENDER May 2, 2008: Imagine, if you will, two early 20s brothers — just a couple of years apart in age — having been dropped off in a parking lot when they were young and being left to fend for themselves.
Places to visit
Places to visit WEEKENDER May 2, 2008
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WEEKENDER May 2, 2008
A season of shows
The smell of Mesquite chicken and steaks on the grill waft through the Oak Room at the Landing, bringing the big-time, small-town wild west show with it.
'Resue Dawn' tells of life as POW
WEEKENDER from April 25, 2008: “Rescue Dawn” opens with a bunch of Vietnam soldiers watching a film about how to survive if shot down over the jungles.
The Good Life Singers sing the Rat Pack
WEEKENDER: April 25, 2008: The Good Life Singers will be bringing good times and great tunes in a show that's all about The Rat Pack today and Saturday at 7: 30 p.m. at the Ashtabula Arts Center
‘Funny Thing’ less funny with bad sound
WEEKENDER: April 25, 2008: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” a Sondheim musical, isn’t known as a warhorse, but those who enjoy slapstick and vaudeville will like the script and familiar songs.
St. Peter’s hosts Cleveland Orchestra Trio
WEEKENDER April 25, 2008
Calendar
WEEKENDER, April 25, 2008
Places to visit
WEEKENDER for April 25, 2008
A funny thing happens in Saybrook
WEEKENDER- April 18, 2008 - COVER STORY
Visit Wild West, it’s as close at GOTL
WEEKENDER - April 18, 2008: Oh damsel in distress!
Courtroom drama creates great evening
WEEKENDER: April 18, 2008- A REVIEW:
‘Into the Wild’ beautiful, thoughtful film
WEEKENDER - April 18, 2008: How often do you think during a movie?
Sinatra, Davis, Martin live in concert
WEEKENDER-April 18, 2008: They were the coolest cats of all time.
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WEEKENDER - April 18, 2008
Places to visit
WEEKENDER - April 18, 2008
Affleck shows other talents in ‘Gone Baby Gone’
WEEKENDER April 11, 2008: Gone Baby Gone
Jury in for ‘12 Angry Men’
WEEKENDER COVER STORY April 11, 2008
‘Forum’ opens at Lakeside
Arts in brief
WEEKENDER April 11, 2008
Places to visit
WEEKENDER April 11, 2008
CALENDAR
April 11, 2008
Hollywood legend, conservative activist Charlton Heston dead at 84
Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
‘Leatherheads’ combines romance, sports
WEEKENDER COVER STORY April 4, 2008: Don’t be fooled by the advertising. Just because “Leatherheads” looks, feels and smells like a wacky romantic comedy, that doesn’t mean it isn’t also a football flick.
‘Alvin,’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ out on DVD
New on home video
Classic football films
WEEKENDER April 4, 2008: You want uplift? You want striving? You want beefy guys knocking heads so they can get the respect they so obviously deserve? Check out these classics of football filmdom.
‘Waitress’ tasty as pies that dominate film
WEEKENDER April 4, 2008: “Waitress” is a wonderfully warm and satisfying film, much as the pies that are a profound part of the narrative certainly would be.
Austen fans will take ‘Pride’ in production
WEEKENDER April 4, 2008: The newly adapted stage version of Jane Austen's second book — and the favorite of her fans — “Pride and Prejudice,” is at the Bolton Theater in The Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave.
‘Twelve Angry Men’ battle it out on stage at arts center
WEEKENDER: April 4, 2008: At the local courthouse, 12 men have retired to a room to decide the guilt or innocence of a 19-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his stepfather after a late-night argument.
Places to visit
WEEKENDEr April 4, 2008
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WEEKENDER from April 4, 2008
Everything’s turning to gold
WEEKENDER March 21, 2008 COVER STORY: After a difficult decade in network TV comedy, writer/director/producer Judd Apatow has developed a Midas touch in films, with the uninterrupted successes of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and “Superbad.”
Costner a creep in ‘Mr. Brooks’
WEEKENDER March 21 2008: Oh is Kevin Costner creepy in the delicious melodrama “Mr. Brooks.”
Play ‘Doubt’ gives feeling of hopelessness
WEEKENDER March 21, 2008: ‘Doubt,’ celebrated because of its controversial theme of inappropriate priest/student relationships, has made its Northeast Ohio debut in the Drury Theatre at The Cleveland Play House at 85th and Euclid Avenue.

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