Friday, March 6

Calendar: Music

DRITA: The Albanian Folk Orchestra Fowler Museum Today, 6 p.m. DRITA, meaning “the light,” will perform Albanian traditional music and songs from all regions of Albania, using clarinet, accordion, violin, dajre, llaute and cifteli. Read more...


Calendar: Film & TV

“In America” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Today and Friday, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Though Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou were nominated for acting Oscars this year, the real star of the movie is Jim Sheridan’s screenplay, written with the help of his daughters Naomi and Kirsten. Read more...


Screen Scenes

“Coffee and Cigarettes” Directed by Jim Jarmusch United Artists Never has a little nicotine and tobacco been so filling. “Coffee and Cigarettes,” the new film by director Jim Jarmusch, presents a look at daily life in the form of many short black-and-white vignettes, all interconnected by the presence of the two little title addictions. Read more...


Group blends genres, ethnicities for style that pops

Eugene Hütz is like a wedding singer, birthday party clown and Jackass cast member rolled into one skinny Ukrainian man with a handle-bar moustache. With acrobatic flips, magic tricks and an indulgence in harming equipment and himself to embellish his rough musical act, the frontman of Gogol Bordello violently stretches the role of a singer. Read more...


Matthew Perry (Chandler)

Perry is perhaps the luckiest of all the cast members considering his jokester character on “Friends” is something he’s been able to successfully transplant to other projects. Read more...


Fans throw goodbye parties for their favorite “˜Friends’

Going all the way back to the days of standing in the junior high lunch line talking about the last night’s episode, it’s clear “Friends” has been more than just a TV show ““ it’s been a reason to hang out with friends Thursday nights, and has given us something to chat about with them the next day. Read more...


Matt LeBlanc (Joey)

And the winner of the pragmatism award goes to … Matt LeBlanc. Never able to transform his TV-star status into box office magic, LeBlanc is the only cast member who has already inked a deal for his own sitcom based on his “Friends” character. Read more...