Anne's Arts & Activities Blog

Bellagio from the Cafe by Marilyn Dunlap Purchase the painting here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bellagio-from-the-cafe-marilyn-dunlap.html

We are excited to kick off our February Line-up with JD Casper playing the hits with Dave McGarry on Drums and Jared Rosewell Hills on the keys! Mark your calendars, schedule the babysitter and call your friends because you aren't going to miss this trio!  

Join us for this special screening of Otto Preminger's "Carmen Jones." Based on Oscar Hammerstein's 1943 stage musical, "Carmen Jones" was adapted from Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen." Leading lady Dorothy Dandridge was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in this ground-breaking film featuring an all-Black cast. This event is presented in honor of African American History Month. (Marilyn Horne did the singing for Dandridge.)  

Grease will be performed in the Port Allegany High School Auditorium on May 12, 13, and 14. This will be the first spring musical since 2019.  

County Clare by Leigh Barry Purchase the painting here:  https://leighbarrywatercolors.com/products/county-clare-ireland-landscape-painting-irish-art-ireland-painting-irish-cottage-art-watercolor-painting-original-art-original-painting

 I watched the next episode of "How I Met Your Father" and the next two episodes of "As We See It." Both shows still get a thumbs up from me. "HIMYF" is cute and the characters are likable and relatable. It's not groundbreaking or anywhere even close to that, but if you just want to be entertained and not think about the world for half an hour, it's good. "As We See It" keeps getting better. I started out liking Violet and Mandy the best. Now I can't pick a favorite. They are all great, and for different reasons, and I have a variety of feelings for all of them. I'm definitely hooked on this one. I'm going to try to watch just one episode at a time now so I'll be able to look forward to it for a little while longer. Also, that'll be less time to wait for Season 2, if it's renewed.

 

 I wish I hadn't started Amazon's new series “As We See It” on a night I didn't have time to binge because I most certainly would have kept going beyond the second episode. The show centers on three 20-something roommates who are on the autism spectrum and their aide who are all try to navigate the world amidst its many challenges, some bigger and more complex than others, relatively speaking. One of the things I like best about the show is that the three main characters are played by actors who actually are on the spectrum. So far my favorite roommate is Violet (Sue Ann Pien), who works at Arby's, wants a boyfriend and has no filter. As she's working the counter at Arby's she propositions a customer (it's all innocent and honest as far as Violet knows), resulting in a tirade by he customer's wife and a demotion for Violet to sandwich technician. Later, she meets a man she found on Bumble. He doesn't know she's on the spectrum and ends up d