‘Trouble With the Curve’ has lost its fastball “Trouble With the Curve” is a baseball dramedy that telegraphs its pitches, an amiable, meandering character study whose big plot points hang there like the curveballs of its title. We see them com...
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By Roger Moore McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceThe Paducah Sun
The Go Guide Thursday Wine Tasting Celebrity Bartender: The Magic and Marketing of Todd Duff: 5 p.m., The Pasta House. Ladies Night: 5 p.m., Casa Mexicana, 4793 Village Square Dr. Like Water: Original ...
Coming to theaters this week ... “Cosmopolis” Based on the novel by Don Delillo, “Cosmopolis” follows billionaire asset manager Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) as he rides in his stretch limo to get a haircut from his father’s o...
Gourds offer artists an array of possibilities Most people look at gourds and see containers for water. Artists, however, see any number of possibilities. “Your imagination is the limit. ... Pretty much anything you can do with paper or wood...
Sep 13, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
Gourds: In support of an unlikely medium My first response to the All About Gourds show sounded something like this: “Really? Gourds?” The only experience I had had with gourds was through a friend’s aunt, who likes to spray paint them...
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
Intruder alerts that don’t stop anyone In August, Daniel Castillo’s JetSki broke down in New York City’s Jamaica Bay, forcing him to swim to the nearest shore — at JFK International Airport. As Castillo roamed the grounds, he somehow fa...
Paducah Symphony reassembles ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ For years, something has been missing from George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” As it turns out, that “something” is the music. More than 50 measures have been cut from Gershwin’s original comp...
Sep 06, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
A doctor’s overdose of evidence In August, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration dropped all charges against a doctor who has been at the center of a prescription-drug fraud case because, said prosecutors, they have too muc...
Finding a cure for earworms It started innocently enough: I turned on some Bob Dylan to keep me company as I unpacked boxes at my new apartment. It wasn’t until later, when all the dishes were in the cabinet and I was tucked ...
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BY LAUREL BLACK lblack@paducahsun.comThe Paducah Sun
Flicks Pick: ‘Lawless’ “Lawless” The Bondurant brothers run a backwoods establishment to hide their bootlegging business in Prohibition-era Virginia, and war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago tries to shut th...