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Meet the Staff
Publisher Steven M Opsanic (steve@greatlakesfilm.org)
Editor Rob Taylor
Staff Writers T.R. Septaric, Raymond Czerwinski, Kasey Kolak
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THEATER
All An Act Theatre Columbus Square, 652 West 17th Erie PA
Upcoming Shows
February 13th - March 1st Neil Simon's The Prisoner Of Second Avenue
March 20th - April 5th No Sex Please, We're British
April 24th - May 10th Rounding Third
September 4 - 20th Primal Fear
October 9th - 25th Cabaret
November 13th - 29th Whose Wives Are They Anyway
For information call 450-8553 or visit website at www.allanact.net
The Station Dinner Theatre & Tavern 4940
Peach St www.thestationdinnertheatre.com
January 23 - February 21 The Night Court
March 13 - 22 Shenanigans
April 3 - 19 Danny And The Cats
May 8 - 27 Dick Clarkson's Jukebox Hop
June 5 - 28 Run For Your Wife
July 14 - 30 A Grand Night For Singing
August 7 - 26 Snake-Eye Sam's Saloon Showdown
September 5 - 26, October 9 - 31 The 29th Annual Canterbury Feast
September 15 - 30, October 2 - 29 Neil Simon's Fools!
November 20 - 29, December 4 - 20
20th Annual Christmas Memories
Directors Circle Theatre 1001 State St, Erie,
PA
"Pap's Funeral" a comedy by Monica Lewis. Directed by Carolin Lynn. Opens Jan 15. Plays Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM thru Jan 31, Matinee at 2 PM on Sunday, Jan 25th. 1001 State St, 2nd floor, Renaissance Centre. Reservations: 814 451-1153.
Warner Theatre 811 State St, Erie, PA 16501 (814) 452-4857
Riverside Inn Dinner Theatre 1
Fountain Avenue
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Weekend Notes
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Poetry Scene
13th and French... Lovell Place
Poetry Scene this and every Friday. Erie Book Store. 6:30-8. Always an open, often a feature.
Friday, January 23: Open reading
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LOCAL ART
Erie Art Museum Information
Updated
December
Every Wednesday is FREE admission to all four Erie Art Museum galleries from 11 am to 5 pm.
Glass Growers Gallery Upcoming Exhibits
Spiritual Thresholds
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Advertise In Spotlight Online
If you have a band, business or bar and you want a very affordable way to reach people in Erie, Spotlight Online is the place for you.
Between our e-mail magazine and our website more than 15,000 people a week will see your ad. Our rates are among the lowest in town and will include placement in both the email magazine as well as on the Spotlight Online website.
2x3 inch ad - $30 per month 3x3 inch ad - $45 per month 4x3 inch ad - $60 per month 5x3 inch ad - $75 per month
3 month contract - 10% off the regular monthly price per month 6 month contract - 20% off the regular monthly price per month
For more information about advertising in Spotlight Online call Steve at 814-873-5069 or email him at steve@greatlakesfilm.org or Rob at 814-566-8933 or email him at trobi1021@gmail.com.
Please have all press releases and information you would like printed in the weekly Spotlight Magazine to us by Monday of each week.
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The Metropolitan Opera Comes To Tinseltown
Fathomevents.com is bringing the world famous Metropolitan Opera to Erie’s Tinseltown, 1910 Rotunda Drive as well as Mercyhurst College. For more information on these or other events call 814-866-3390 or check out www.fathomevents.com for a complete schedule.
An encore presentation of Puccini’s La Rondine will be
shown at Tinseltown on
Wednesday, Opera’s charismatic real-life duo, Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna provide the star power to deliver this ravishing romance from the world’s most popular opera composer. Gheorghiu plays the kept woman who gambles on true love, and Alagna is the man who makes her question the cost of her glittering existence. Nicolas Joël directs the new production of this gorgeously melodic look at love. Marco Armiliato conducts.
Second is a live transmission of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice which will be shown for one day only on Saturday, January 24th at 1 PM.
This complete vision for Gluck, with production and
choreography by Mark Morris and costumes
An encore presentation of this performance will be exhibited in select theatres on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009, at 7 PM in all time zones.
Kellie Lynne, Cowboy Troy To Kick Up Their Heels At The BW Saloon
by T.R
Septaric
Country singing star Kellie Lynne with special guest and musik mafia member Cowboy Troy will be taking the stage at Erie’s BW Saloon at the Sterretania exit on Interstate Rt. 90 on Friday, January 23rd at 9:30 p.m.
Singer/Songwriter Kellie Lynne, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. As Kellie grew musically throughout her early school years, she also became interested in stage performance and soon was actively involved singing, acting and dancing in high school and public theaters. The summer before her senior year Kellie and her family made the tracked to Atlanta, GA, where Kellie auditioned for “American Idol”.
Kellie has recorded such songs as “I’m There”, “Do It All Over Again” and “Daddy Would Have Loved Him.”
Kellie and Cowboy Troy will also be joined by Coaltrain
…You Might Be An Erie Native If by T.R. Septaric
There are some things that Erie natives have picked up over the years. Here are just a few of the ways to tell if you are a TRUE Erie native.
1) If you walk into an out-of-town restaurant and order a Greek Dog and the waitress asks you what that is…you might be an Erie native!
2) If you go outside in a tee shirt in 45 degree weather…you might be an Erie native!
3) If you can see four Country Fairs within a few blocks of each other…you might be an Erie native!
4) If you can see a football, basketball and hockey game in one weekend, in the same building…you might be an Erie native!
5) If you pay an extra $9 to fish down the street
from your house…you might be an
Erie
6) If you drive to another state to save money on milk or gas…you might be an Erie native!
7) If you watch a Detroit Tiger baseball game and say “I saw him play at the Uht last year"…you might be an Erie native!
8) If you’ve driven a friend into Erie and had to try to explain the smoke stack outside of the library…you might be an Erie native!
9) If you know what a Seawolf or a Bay Hawk is…you might be an Erie native!
10) If you STILL use the Boston Store clock to tell time…you may be an Erie native!
11) If you still call Dobbin’s Landing the Public Dock…you may be an Erie native!
12) If you spend an entire summer looking for an open beach on Presque Isle…only to find one the last day of the season…you might be an Erie native!
Filmmakers, professionals, and those destined to be, here
is YOUR opportunity to show what you've got to Hollywood
Insiders! If you don't have a film but you have an idea, simply upload a video trailer on your idea. Nowadays, that's not hard for anyone to do. If you DO have a finished film that needs distribution - then boy do we have a showcase for YOU! You will love the flexibility and simplicity of what we offer. We made it easy for anyone professional or amateur to get their BIG opportunity to be discovered! The first 1000 who register for our American Film Market (AFM) pre-launch campaign will be included in the following
1. YOUR movie trailer or trailer idea will be on a looping reel in our booth at the market 2. You will be included in 7 drawings for a FREE day pass into the market 3. You will be included in a contest that will be judged by the public and the top 50 films & ideas will be taken to the market and directly pitched to the industry!! The
American Film Market (AFM) is the premiere global
marketplace where Pitch The Pros will also, continually through the year, have contests and industry related events such as providing Movie Premiere's of our TOP RATED films and MORE! Our website markets to Hollywood Insiders 24/7 for our members with innovative and creative ideas. We will never be stagnant, where there's a way to market your film, we'll be doing it! Membership only begins at $19.95 per month. So sign up today and don't miss out in this GREAT opportunity to pitch YOUR film or idea to Hollywood
No need for Terminex!
This is a sign you won't see at the Erie Zoo
Recipe Of The Week
Chicken And Mushroom Marsala
Ingredients
Directions
417
W 8
by Chuck
Joy
When
Kerouac was a nobody
he lived
there
with a
series of male roommates.
One was
Neal Cassady, he was a deejay
I think.
Worked at a station only played oldies
except of
course those songs were all new then.
Another
one was Allen Ginsberg. He wasn’t a poet
yet. He
played steel guitar
for one
country-western band and then another.
Charley
Parker lived across the street.
He used to
wander up and down the block.
Made you
wonder, what was he thinking?
One day a
couch appeared
along the
curb. I heard
an
abortion had been performed on it.
Those were
the days.
Greg Corso
roadied for this one band, the French Canadians
Jackson
Pollock tended bar at Shaggy Dogg’s.
Kerouac
himself sometimes appeared
depressed
by his lack of success, although
it may
have been instead a lack of alcohol and marijuana.
One day he
met that nurse,
what was
her name? Sylvia?
Orson
Welles did the movie of their wedding.
After that
they moved away. 417 W 8
remained,
a home for others even less famous,
until a
woman making chili burned the building to the ground.
January At Jr's Last
Laugh
Bizarre News
Stories
Angry husband throws cat at wife
The cat – which wasn't declawed, struck his wife on the back. Neither the cat nor the woman were injured in the cat-throwing, according to authorities.
Robber Caught After Putting Down Gun
Latte Art - making
art out of latte coffee
High Rise
Apartment
Spotlight
Magazine Seeking Writers The
Spotlight Magazine is looking for individuals to
submit their articles. We want to include our readers
and the community in our online magazine. All areas of
art and culture are welcome. Interviews
of local bands, artists, filmmakers, and local
organizations will be accepted and submitted in the
weekly letter. Have
questions contact Steve at steve@greatlakesfilm.org Submit
your article to trobi1021@gmail.com Subject:
Article
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Director's Circle Offers The Must See Funeral Of The Year by Rob Taylor
I have only been to a couple funerals in my life and both times I got
into the best discussions ever. When my mother died…I
didn’t spend the time mourning…I spent it discussing the
increasing length of my hair with my loving cousin. The
other was my dad. A friend and I spent a couple hours
discussing whether or not my second cousin was a cousin or
not. The Director’s Circle Theatre production of Pap’s
Funeral is about exactly that…the interaction between
three sisters after the death of the obviously overly
abusive grandfather.
The story is about sisters Juliana (Barb Sambroak), Catsy (Kirsten McCain) and Madeline (Teresa Testrake) as they gather at an Erie funeral home for the wake of their grandfather. The thing is, outside of a VERY old hooker, they are the only ones who show up.
Eventually, the stories of being locked in closets, being forced to serve the old man head to toe as well as physical abuse start to come out and you realize that the man in the coffin is lucky to even have his granddaughters show up. Basically the only thing that this old man didn’t do was sexually molest the girls.
It was easy to see the anger grow in all of the characters, especially Juliana, who had been holding everything in since she was a young girl.
I have got to say that the three women they cast in the lead roles were perfect. They worked together seamlessly and they played off of each other’s emotions as if they weren’t in a play. It was as if they were actually living the parts for real and that they weren’t on a stage. The way the four of them worked, especially in the final scene had me thinking, remembering and crying my eyes out. All I can say to the three of them…I hope to see the three of you together again in a future show. I also have to say that I have to give credit to the writer, Erie’s own Monica Lewis. Her script rocked. It took you from laughing to total anger to crying and back to laughter over and over again. If you add the directing talent of Caryl Unseld you have a show that isn’t a should see but it becomes a MUST SEE!
Pap’s Funeral is being billed as a comedy. The director told me it is a irreverent comedy. The Showcase called it a dramedy. Personally, I think that they are all wrong. Yes, there are more than a few laughs throughout Pap’s Funeral but it is a drama pure and simple. If you go in thinking of it as a drama you will enjoy this show a lot more.
Would I recommend it…definitely! It is well worth the trouble of finding a parking space, taking an elevator ride and walking a long hallway to get to the theatre. For two hours your emotions are going to be taken on a ride you will just love.
Directors Circle is located on the second floor of the Renaissance Building. Pap’s Funeral will be running until Jan 31st. Call 814-451-1153 for more information.
Mercyhurst To Host Dali Lama Documentary
The Mercyhurst College D’Angelo Performing Arts Center is hosting the
Remember Spring comes in just 2 months
InnovationErie: Design Competition Call For Entries
January 2009 Events At Gannon University
The Schuster Gallery will begin a new exhibit on Jan. 20. “The Artist Within” will feature works by the artists of Stairways Behavioral Health’s Center for Arts and Humanities. The exhibit will be on display through Feb. 20.
Schuster Gallery is located on the third floor of the University’s Nash Library, 619 Sassafras St., and is open during regular library hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m. to midnight; Friday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Sunday 12:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. Access to the gallery is free and open to the public. For more information on either exhibit, contact Gannon’s Schuster Program for the Arts at 814-871-5467.
GOOD LUCK STEELERS IN THE SUPERBOWL XLIII!
Mercyhurst College's Cummings Gallery 2009 Schedule
Celebrate Dance
Mercyhurst College Juried Student Show
Hateful Things
Mercyhurst College Senior Art Student Show
Erie County Art Faculty Exhibit
Mercyhurst College Interior Design Student
Show
Gallery Hours
Tuesday through Sunday 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Movies In Erie
Cinemark Tinseltown 17 1910 Rotunda Drive, Erie, PA 16509
New Releases Hotel for Dogs Inkheart Underworld: Rise of the Lycans My Bloody Valentine Notorious Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Returning Movies Bride Wars The Unborn Bedtime Stories Defiance The Revolutionary Road The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Last Chance Harvey Marley & Me The Spirit Valkyrie Twilight Grand Torino Frost/Nixon Twilight Slumdog Millionaire
Cinemark Millcreek Cinema 6
Four Christmases Transporter 3 Quantum of Solace Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Role Models Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fireproof The Dark Knight
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You Did What?
Thinking about getting a tattoo this weekend? Here's some ideas.
Weird Trees from around the world
Here are some really strange trees from around this weird wonderful world.
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January 21st, 2009
by Isaac Mizrahi, features the artistry of Stephanie
Blythe in the title role. The alluring Danielle de Niese
is Orfeo’s adored wife, Euridice, who inspires the hero to
face the underworld for her sake. Music Director James
Levine conducts.
native!
strong fan base around the country with his act inspired by stories from his Midwestern upbringing. Greg attracts a diverse audience spectrum, performing on networks such as BET (as a finalist on “Coming to the Stage”) and Country Music Television’s “Comedy Stage”. Greg is also a favorite on the nationally syndicated “Bob and Tom” radio show, which led him to tour theatres across the country with the “Friends of Bob and Tom Comedy Tour”.
Jeff Caldwell is known to audiences nationwide as a clean, clever comedian with one of the brightest
standup acts around. Whether at a comedy club or a corporate event, Jeff delivers smart, funny jokes
on topics ranging from the daily news to the daily grind, subtly tailoring his material to fi t any crowd. He’s made two appearances on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” just made his third appearance on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and made his Comedy Central debut on “Live at Gotham.” He is a regular on the nationally syndicated “Bob and Tom” radio show.
documentary
Dali Lama Renascence on Jan. 21st at 2:15 and 8:00
p.m. Narrated by Harrison Ford, this film follows 40 visionaries that set off for India to meet with his holiness, the Dalai Lama, at the cusp of the new Millennium. Director Khashyar Darvich and Dr. Thomas Forsthoefel, chair of the department of religious studies, will introduce the film.
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