http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight WHO WE ARE Entertainment editor Carl Hoover riffs on movies, theater, media and, well, stuff. Brazos Living reporter Wendy Gragg comments on music, television and anything else that bubbles up in pop culture. Brazos Living editor Catherine Atkinson dishes on movies, music and dining out. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Sound & Sight: XML. en-us choover@wacotrib.com 2008-09-05T10:16:50-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 WHO WE ARE Entertainment editor Carl Hoover riffs on movies, theater, media and, well, stuff. Brazos Living reporter Wendy Gragg comments on music, television and anything else that bubbles up in pop culture. Brazos Living editor Catherine Atkinson dishes on movies, music and dining out. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Sound & Sight: XML. For those of you who packed the Hippodrome two springs ago for “Rent,” this may be good news: One of the last performances of “Rent’s” Broadway run can be seen locally this month at the Starplex Galaxy 16. Sony Pictures... http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/09/05/broadways_rent.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight For those of you who packed the Hippodrome two springs ago for “Rent,” this may be good news: One of the last performances of “Rent’s” Broadway run can be seen locally this month at the Starplex Galaxy 16. Sony Pictures... 6599003@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-09-05T10:16:50-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/09/04/crash_at_crush.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight Apologies for not getting this up last weekend, which means this is the final weekend for the Dallas Hub Theater’s production “The Crash at Crush.” It’s playwright Jo Morello’s account of the famous/infamous 1896 railroad promotional stunt near West that... 6575603@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ On Stage 2008-09-04T13:38:35-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/09/03/new_dates_for_t.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight New dates for recently postponed “Tuna Does Vegas!” were set today: January 23, 24 and 25, 2009. That’s a Friday through Sunday night with weekend matinees, the same weekday/end performances of the original Sept. 19-21 run at the Waco Hippodrome.... 6551503@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ On Stage 2008-09-03T18:53:20-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/09/02/gustav_blows_tu.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight Hurricane Gustav did collateral damage to the Waco Hippodrome Theatre’s first fall production by causing postponement of the comedy “Tuna Does Vegas!” from Sept. 12-14 to January, 2009. The tour’s five Waco performances were the only ones unaffected by Gustav’s... 6519503@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ On Stage 2008-09-02T21:05:14-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/29/a_facebook_movi.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight I shouldn’t be surprised after seeing movies made from videogames (Resident Evil, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Super Mario Brothers, Final Fantasy, etc., etc. ) and Disneyland rides (Pirates of the Caribbean) that one of the Internet’s most popular social networking... 6418803@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-29T11:13:20-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/27/art_movie_alert_3.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight For you fans of Sideways, Alan Rickman or human-scaled films, Bottle Shock will come to Waco’s Starplex Galaxy 16 on Sept. 5, the theater chain’s PR rep tells me. It’s the true story of a father (Bill Pullman) and son... 6352803@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-27T10:24:22-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/22/cirque_du_solei.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight For those Cirque du Soleil fans who’ve had to drive up to Dallas or down to Austin to get their live fix of the eye-filling, jaw-dropping performing company, its film Delirium offers a reduced experience for a cheaper ticket. More... 6234803@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-22T15:51:09-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/22/rocky_horror_at.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight It’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I’ve forgotten the audience’s shout-back dialogue, but the Waco Hippodrome’s bringing in The Rocky Horror Picture Show for a pre-Halloween Oct. 30 screening. No word on whether Scott Baker and his... 6206503@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-22T06:00:00-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/21/happy_birthday.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight Waco musician Classie Ballou called me last week to give me a heads-up on a birthday gig he and his Family Band are doing tonight, Aug. 21, at Rosati’s Authentic Chicago Pizza on Hewitt Drive. It’s his 71st birthday, he... 6204203@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Music 2008-08-21T15:21:53-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/18/david_crowder_b_4.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight Waco’s David Crowder Band, the acclaimed Christian alt-rock band with a national following, releases its live DVD/CD combo from last year’s REMEDY Club Tour tomorrow, Aug. 19. Fans in 80 cities, including Dallas and Austin can get a preview tonight,... 6094403@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Music 2008-08-18T12:23:05-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/18/goodbye_harry_h.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight For those of you who are dual Harry Potter/Twilight fans, the sad news of the postponement of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie to next July has a little bit of a silver lining: The first Twilight film,... 6092803@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-18T11:57:29-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/14/harry_potter_mo.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight The Associated Press reports that the next Harry Potter film - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - will be bumped from its previous Nov. 21 release to July 17, 2009. The reason? The writers’ strike earlier in the year... 6027203@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-14T17:13:53-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/14/jazz_fest_lineu.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight The Jazz on the Square festival planned for Aug. 31 at Heritage Square already had a fairly full lineup, but it’s now bigger, even with headliner Wayman Tisdale scratching due to health issues. Flutist Althea Rene and saxophonist Joseph Vincelli... 6015103@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Music 2008-08-14T11:05:12-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/09/olympics_ceremo.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight My family did something Friday night we normally don’t do: watch a full evening of television together. The occasion was the opening night ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and I thought it might be like other ceremonies: Overblown, pompous and... 5889303@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ TV/Radio 2008-08-09T10:52:34-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/entries/2008/08/06/movie_box_offic.html?cxntfid=blogs_sound_and_sight To all those who wonder “How come movie XYZ lasted only a week in Waco?,” here’s a graphic that says a lot about how Hollywood works today and why we rarely see movies run more than a couple of months... 5812803@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/sound_sight/ Movies 2008-08-06T13:45:16-06:00