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...April 24—chronicles one family’s journey on, appropriately, a traveling showboat in the South. Captain Andy Hawks (Trent Mills) directs the traveling troupe while his petulant wife, Parthy Ann (Shannon Martinous), keeps his compulsion and whims in check. Their 18-year-old daughter, Magnolia (Elizabeth Ann Berg), falls in love with Gaylord Ravenal (Adam Fenton Goddu), a handsome but incurable gambler who joins their troupe after misfortune strikes the company’s two leads. As the showboat continues to travel, Magnolia and Gaylord gain prominence as the two new stars and they eventually...
...experimenting with my own recipes, that there weren’t a lot of places in Boston to purchase things that were fresh-made.” Cupcakes have enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years, with stores like New York City’s Magnolia Bakery drawing credit for sparking the craze over the portable confections. The trend has also caught on in other major cities, like Los Angeles. Closer to home, Kickass Cupcakes in Somerville’s Davis Square opened in 2007, and many Boston bakeries offer gourmet twists on the childhood favorite. Forrester said that...
...crowds, and innumerable clubs, Manhattan became my cupcake haven. When friends came to visit, I unknowingly turned our tour of the city into a cupcake walking tour. Interested in eating brunch near the Upper West Side? I would transform this into a tasting tour of the petite cupcakes of Magnolia Bakery at Columbus and 69th, the overpowering cupcakes of Crumbs at Amsterdam and 75th, the cream-filled cupcakes of Alice’s Tea Cup at Columbus and 73rd, and the pastel-colored cupcakes of Buttercup Bake Shop at Columbus and 72nd (the tour could have continued, but our stomachs...
This Can't Be Good. Magnolia Bakery, the beloved New York City cupcake creator has opened an outpost in Rockefeller Center - a five-minute walk from this travel reporter's desk. The bakery's famous pastel-colored buttercream-frosted cupcakes are made on premises, along with flourless chocolate cakes, brownies and muffins. This is a take-out joint, but you can eat your treats on a bench in Rock Center; if it's cold out, head down into the nearby Rockefeller Center concourse. There's an entrance in the building a few steps from Magnolia, at 1250 Sixth Avenue...
...When Magnolia took on the films, they had a difficult choice: Package the two works together - like last year's Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse - or find a way to release them separately. Ray Price, who oversaw marketing and distribution for Wang's films, was charged with developing a strategy for the two movies. "We've already seen that the market is not friendly to double bills," he said, referring to the low $25 million box office total for Grindhouse. "People don't want to watch double bills, and it forced us to be innovative ... we wanted these films...