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Entertainment In This Issue

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Howard, Zwat and Friends
Friday, 12 March 2010
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Smart Talk: Doomed to Failure
Friday, 12 March 2010
SMART TALK by Dr. Viva Palaver DOOMED TO FAILURE:  Media monitors at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired have noticed this...
Funnies
Friday, 20 June 2008
 
John Brown's Body at Castaways
Friday, 26 February 2010
On Friday, March 12th, progressive reggae band John Brown's Body and West African-influenced quintet Toubab Krewe perform at Castaways. The two...
Music and Dance Fuse in Playful Performance
Friday, 20 November 2009
On Friday, November 20, Wells College will host “Stop Look Listen,” an evening-length work by Katherine Kramer Projects. This interactive...
Wells’ Choral Ensembles Perform
Friday, 30 October 2009
The Wells College Choral Ensembles will begin their 2009-10 season of performances with a Fall Concert for Friends and Family Weekend on Saturday,...
Giant Panda Goes Green
Friday, 23 October 2009
Ithaca, NY - On Thursday, November 5th, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad performs at Castaways. GPGDS will be releasing a new album titled LIVE UP...
Depression Era Music at TCPL
Friday, 09 October 2009
The Tompkins County Public Library’s usually quiet Ezra Cornell Reading Room will be filled with the sounds of Depression Era music, Sunday,...
Art
Graffiti Found at Library
Friday, 18 December 2009
The Tompkins County Public Library has confirmed reports of graffiti, and it looks like it will be there to stay through the New Year. The Library...
First Fridays Gallery Night
Friday, 30 October 2009
Mixed-media ranging from collages, paintings, sculptures and figurines, to prints and photography highlight downtown Ithaca’s First Fridays...
Premiere Exhibition By Area Artists
Friday, 23 October 2009
Aurora, NY— The Wells College Visual Arts Department is pleased to announce the second show of the 2009-2010 academic year,...
SufferJets Present Juried Art Show
Friday, 04 September 2009
The Ithaca SufferJets are sponsoring a juried art show to benefit roller derby in Ithaca and Ithaca Foodnet Meals on Wheels. The show, titled...
“Sun” And “Music” To Grace The SRC
Friday, 28 August 2009
Aurora, NY—The Wells College Visual Arts Department is announced the premiere exhibition of the 2009-2010 academic year, “Sun in an Empty...
Opera in the Kitchen: Women and their Telephones
Friday, 12 March 2010
'Women and Their Telephones' begins with Brad Hougham and Amanda DeMaris in 'The Telephone' by Gian Carlo Menotti, then Deborah...
'Cats' Opens at Lansing High School
Friday, 05 March 2010
They say it's impossible to herd cats.  If that's true audiences next week will witness a miracle when 47 Lansing High School students...
Cats Comes to LHS
Friday, 26 February 2010
This year Lansing High School perform the musical “Cats” March 10th through 13th.  The forty-six Jellicle cats of the Jellicle tribe...
Irish Dance Comes To Trumansburg
Friday, 26 February 2010
(Trumansburg, NY)  Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, third graders at Trumansburg Elementary School will learn Irish dances and culture...
Wacky 50s Sing-A-Long Gilbert & Sullivan Musical Is Back
Friday, 26 February 2010
The Kitchen Theatre Company's Family Fare series continues in March with an encore of Rachel Lamperts fun-filled I Have A Song To Sing O! If you...
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Friday, 24 July 2009
It's hard to make a movie from a well-loved book, because the fans impossibly want it all.  In the case of Harry Potter and the Half Blood...
Up
Saturday, 27 June 2009
If I start by saying this is a heartwarming story of love and redemption you might stop reading.  That would be a shame, because Pixar hit...
Star Trek
Saturday, 27 June 2009
J.J. Abrams vision of Star Trek takes liberties with the classic series' well loved story, but this movie is so packed with action you barely...
Ithaca Bakery Purchases Hope's Way
Friday, 05 February 2010
Foodies may have been disappointed when Hope's Way closed its doors last month.  They will be happy to know that the popular restaurant and...
Crossroads Restaurant and Bar
Friday, 29 January 2010
The corner of Triphammer and Peruville Roads has always been a Lansing focus of sorts.  It was a crossroads for passenger railroads at one time,...
Eagle Hotel
Friday, 22 January 2010
While the variety of dining choices is vast in Ithaca and the surrounding towns, there aren't many family restaurants that have good food at...
Food Bites: Lasagna!
Friday, 30 October 2009
Lansing Fresh Cafe
Friday, 18 September 2009
August 15 was a sad day for people who live and work in Lansing who love their coffee.  At the end of that day Gimme! Coffee closed the doors on...
Out and About in the Finger Lakes
Friday, 05 March 2010
Our apologies to our readers for the lack of a column recently. Mary spent a lot of time and effort on our Mardi Gras costumes and we had a fun time...
Out and About in the Finger Lakes
Friday, 19 February 2010
Mardi gras on the Cayuga Wine Trail fell on Valentines' weekend this year and, with the holiday on Monday for a lot of people, the wineries that...
Out and About in the Finger Lakes
Friday, 12 February 2010
This week is preparation for Valentines’ Day, Wine trail Mari gras, and Lunar New Year!! It is the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar....
Out and About in the Finger Lakes
Friday, 05 February 2010
We had a busy time a few weeks ago protesting shale drilling with friends in Albany. It was an extremely wet day with hard rain and a wind that blew...
Out and About in the Finger Lakes
Friday, 22 January 2010
The semester for one local LACS student started bright and very early in Albany last week. Our 17 year old, "grand daughter by mutual...
The Engagement Session
Friday, 12 February 2010
This is the eighth in a series of articles by Monroe Payne about weddings, photography, vendors and what you should look for - and avoid - in...
An Image That Tells a Story
Friday, 29 January 2010
I know I've mentioned this before, but when you are talking with a wedding photographer and viewing his or her images, listen for the stories. I...
A Fairy Tale Wedding
Friday, 09 October 2009
What little girl hasn’t looked at Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World, and thought how extraordinarily wonderfully awesome it would be to...
Homework and Attitude
Friday, 18 September 2009
I have this nightmare – I’m in college, it’s finals week, and I haven’t felt it necessary to go to classes all semester...
Stress
Friday, 04 September 2009
I have never met a Bridezilla. You see, I absolutely adore photographing weddings. By the time the wedding day arrives, we have spent enough time...
Entertainment
moviestar.jpgWelcome to the Entertainment Section.  New articles, reviews and events are posted here each week, so be sure to click on Music, Art, Theater, Movies, and all the pages in the menu above.  Tompkins County is a center for the arts, and we'll be bringing you more arts and entertainment content, so stay tuned!

Smart Talk: Doomed to Failure Print
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by Dr. Viva Palaver

DOOMED TO FAILURE:  Media monitors at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired have noticed this redundancy a lot, even on the few TV and radio stations that reach Underbelly, Texas.  As staff psychologist at the institute, I find this faux pas worrisome for more than linguistic reasons.

Partisan news writers and commentators can't just say the President's plan is doomed, which means headed straight to failure, but they must beat a dying plan and call it doomed to failure.  Is this linguistic impairment or sadism?

Or does this focus on failure say more about the speaker?  Perhaps he or she feels abiding fear and anger, which are clear symptoms of depression.

Either way, I hope they get help from a qualified professional.

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