The Diana: A Celebration exhibit is currently on display at The Western Reserve Historical Society. The exhibit, which began out in Dayton, Ohio and has been traveling all over the world, is in Cleveland through June 10. The exhibit, brought straight from the Althorp Estate in England (the ancestral home of Diana Princess of Wales), features more than 150 of Diana's personal objects.
The first play I ever reviewed for The Cauldron was the Great Lakes Theater Festival's "Amadeus" in the fall of 2005. In it, I spent a full paragraph praising Andrew May's performance as Salieri. In future reviews I would attack May with the utmost of contempt for his staging of "A Christmas Carol" and his role in this past Fall's "Love's Labour Lost.
There have been times my opinion on a play has been questioned. There have been times I have been told my opinion is wrong. In one remarkable instance I was told I was entitled to an opinion, however the opinion I had arrived at was completely wrong. But, to the chagrin of my critics, The Cauldron asks me to form my own opinion, and not to poll the audience and gage the popular response to a given play and to become the mass body of the people and adopt their opinion as my own.
The next generation of gaming is in full swing now. The Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 are in their sixth month and new games, online downloads, and services are being announced weekly. Microsoft has announced the Xbox 360 Elite, a black version of their console with an HDMI video port and cable as well as a larger, 120 GB hard drive.
Grindhouse is more than just a movie. First of all, it's two movies. Second, it's an experience. The two movies Planet Terror, written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Death Proof, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, pay affectionate homage to the grindhouse movies of the 60s and 70s.