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This is a listing of the events
open to the public in the Columbia
area for the weekend of Dec. 7 ?
Dec. 9.
Columbia Museum of Art
? 1112 Bull St. "Star of Wonder,"
the Christmas planetarium
show, will be playing at 2 p.m.
and 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays
through Jan. 6. The show will
look at possible biblical and scientific
explanations for the "Star of
Bethlehem."
Goat-Feathers ? 2017 Devine
St. On Sunday between 7
p.m. and 9 p.m., the Society of
Professional Journalists will be
having their annual holiday social.
Free food will be served. All journalists
are welcome.
Greenstreets ? 1101
Harden St. On Friday, the reggae
band I-Tal will be performing. The
performance is scheduled to begin
at 10 p.m.
Longstreet Theatre ? "Season's
Greetings," a play set in
present-day England about the
Christmas celebration at the home
of a young couple, will be on stage
Friday and Saturday. Performances
begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $9 for
the public, $8 for faculty, staff, senior
citizens and military personnel
and $5 for students.
The Punchline ? 634
Harden St. On Friday and Saturday,
Don Fox will headline. Performing
with Fox are Greg Hasfeld
and Becky Petigo. Performances
begin at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.
Tickets are $8.
Rockafellas ? 2112 Devine
St. Featured on Friday will be the
Other People. Blight O' Buddy
and Scatter House will perform Saturday.
Performances begin at 10
p.m.
Saint Martin's in the Fields
Episcopal Church ? 5220 Clemson
Ave. USC's chapter of Amnesty
International will sponsor renowned
guitarist Christopher Berg
in a celebration of International
Human Rights Day. Tickets, are $5
for adults, $3 for students, and
children ages Five and under are
free.
Trustus Theatre ? 520
Lady St. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead will ODen to
night and will run Friday and Saturday
and Dec. 12-15. The play
takes a comedic look at Shakespeare.
The box office and bar will
open at 7 p.m. for the 8 p.m. performance.
Tickets are $5 and $10
on Wednesday and Thursday, and
$6.25 and $12.50 on Fridays and
Saturdays.
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A+ Extraordinary; Masterpiece
A Very Good
B Entertaining; Worth the Money
C Flawed; Lots of Reservations
D Seriously Flawed; Not Recommended
F Horrific; Disgustingly Bad
By BRIAN SHELTON
Staff Writer
Folks, I've been gone for a long
time. To give you an idea of how
long, the last movie I reviewed
was Warlock, which is now a
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In my absence, I got to see
Sylvester Stallone on the Arsenio
Hall Show, where he made the revelation
that the Rocky films were
actually love stories about Rocky
and his wife Adrian.
Hearing Stallone say this kind of
shocked me. I had always figured
the main purpose of Rocky movies
was to see how much meaner they
could make the opponent than in
the film before it
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King that producers should be sued
for libel) can't convince Rocky
back into the ring.
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household. Adrian's numbskull
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comes across a boxer named
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