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Comebacks by musical legends are almost always a letdown, but there's one '60s icon that's performing, and looking, even better today than it did 40 years ago: the tube amplifier. Although almost made extinct in the 1970s by cheaper transistor-based amps, vacuum tubes (also known as valves...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as the full title has it, has quite a history. It's the film version of the hit Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical, which was based on a '70s play based on a 19th century melodrama. All of those appear to have drawn...
It's always a little tricky negotiating the road from Broadway musical to major motion picture, strewn as it is with the burned-out hulks of vehicles like 2005's The Producers and Rent. Viewers currently like their cinematic fantasy fairly realistic, the better to suspend disbelief. But in reality...
With Burton at the helm, for example, we know the film will be visually front-loaded. His London is very murky and dark, its citizens very pale and sickly, the better perhaps to complement all the blood they're about to be sloshing around in--or to remind us of...
Another option is to visit the State Historical Museum in Des Moines which has a special exhibit on the caucuses. The museum also is hosting the debut of a theatrical production filled with stock caucus characters including: an Iowa farmer named "Eldon Wise" and his family (a.k.a. typical Iowa caucus...