“Elementarno, my dear Watson”

Recently the first three episodes of last year’s Russian Sherlock Holmes, set in Victorian London, have become available in English-”Baker Street 221B,” “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” and “Clowns“-with the rest of the thirteen to be translated soon.

But that's not all!
Compare this version to the earlier Soviet one ( Read more... )

First they came for the muppets, then they came for computer animated figures, , and now they've come for the wookies.

The trend is clear. Blockade your homes!

Is Awake the American version of Life On Mars done correctly?

(It's opposite The Mentalist here, a program I have almost no interest in, but I know I have a lot of friends who watch it. Therefore they won't know what I'm talking about.)

Live Theater

The 2012-2013 season for Lifeline Theater is its thirtieth, and they've announced their productions. Lifeline Theater does adaptations of novels, and happen to be very good at it.

• The Woman in White
  September 7 - October 28, 2012
  Based on the novel by Wilkie Collins
• The City & The CityFebruary 15 - April 7, 2013 ( Read more... )

A friend was visiting this weekend. Friday we saw Laurence Hopgood (jazz pianist who has performed with Kurt Elling and Robert Pinsky -- not at the same time, alas) at the Green Mill,.

Saturday we saw "Fuck You, I Love You, Bye: The Rahm Emanuel Story" at The Annoyance Theatre. And I wish to apologize to whomever I sprayed with water after a ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks old, but I don't read the forum that much.

Today is my last update for Calamities of Nature. And I'll be perfectly frank about the reasons. My full-time career is in academics, and I need to put everything I have into it if I'm going to have any chance of keeping it that way.

a) I'm currently re-setting my HP up after its motherboard fried and died, so I hadn't installed NoScript in Firefox yet when I went out on the web ( Read more... )

Heard about it on a BBC news broadcast. Its Wikipedia entry (The Killing (Danish TV series)) heightened my interest, but unfortunately only its American doppelganger seems to be available on NetfixI may put it on my queue anyway, but does anyone know of a North American source for the original Danish series? And if you've seen it, what did you ( Read more... )

Last night I was at the Detroit Institute of Arts to see Under The Poppy, a short performance piece based on Kathe Koja's novel of the same name.

It was interlinked with the DIA's Puppetry exhibit, and lasted about half an hour. If I had to guess, I think it was an overview/prologue of the book (Jeff Vandermeer did something similar with his book ( Read more... )

Trust me, and if you're reading this on a Friday night you need the distraction

Quantum Tic Tac Toe! Or, Quantum Tic Tac Toe for two players!

The first one requires HTML5 support in your browser. The second one is a Java applet, written by the creator of the game, Allen Goff.

I admit that I'm still working out the collapse rule.

The motivation ( Read more... )