Monthly Archives: August 2010

All Movie Theaters Should Sell Beer and Wine

Eight years in Boston and I’ve never stepped foot inside the Coolidge Corner Theatre. On Saturday, I decided I needed to see The Kids are All Right before it left theaters, and the CCT was still playing it, so I made it a date. I had no idea what I was missing.

The CCT was built in 1906, and became a theater in 1933. It’s art deco all over the place, snd still runs in the vein of the old movie houses, with curtains opening right before the film starts, and movie shorts playing before the feature film.

On top of that, the CCT is clean, and less expensive than the other theaters in Boston. Lately, the disgustingness of the city’s movie theaters has really been getting on my nerves. It’s called a vacuum people! They play old films, cult films and indy films. They sell beer and wine, and just happen to be located next to Upper Crust and across the street from Brookline Booksmith.

If you haven’t been, visit. It’s awesome, I promise!

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Scenes from the Green Line

What am I supposed to do with this?

First of all, yes, I worry about all of these things. Probably unnecessarily, but I’m a worrier. Secondly, I don’t like the thought that my only hope is winning the lottery or moving back in with my parents (I already have like 50 jobs). These are terrible options, although I do daydream about winning the lottery and never having to work again. I’m aware this is a long shot. And, third, isn’t Plan B the name of the morning-after pill? Does this company really want to be associated with preventing unwanted pregnancies? Could you imagine if the Plan B morning after pill didn’t work, you got pregnant, lost your job, didn’t win the lottery and had to move back in with your parents. Why would you depend on another Plan B to do it’s job?

This is poor advertising. Why does the T torture me like this?

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Dancing with the Stars: The Cast is Announced!

Ahhh, I’ve been suffering through Bachelor Pad for you, and my gut feeling was right. It’s terrible! Who the eff names their kid Kovacs? Or Krisily? Or Tenley? There’s a bunch others, but I think I went into a coma. They played this game where they had to pick the girl who was most shallow. And the girl they chose said “I’m not shallow. I don’t even know what shallow means.” Crickets, crickets.

So they just announced the women contestants, and here they are:

Brandy
Jennifer Grey (whhhaaat!? excited about this one)
Margaret Cho
Audrina Patridge (ceiling eyes)
Florence Henderson
Bristol Palin (this pisses me off, but whatever, it’s good tv)

And the men are:

Michael Bolton
The Situation (Michael Bolton and The Situation couldn’t be at the announcement. I just used Michael Bolton and The Situation in the same sentence)
David Hasselhoff
Kurt Warner
Kyle Massey
Rick Fox (who dates Eliza Dushku,who knew)

Do we think Sarah Palin is going to come to the ballroom? Jennifer Grey is 50? Does that make Florence Henderson 100? Ok, I have to go to bed. My mind is reeling.

What do we think peeps?

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