| Sleepwalkers At MOMA
Leave it to MOMA to reinvent the drive-in for New Yorkers. Filmmaker Doug Aitken's Sleepwalkers at The Museum of Modern Art is more of a walk-in. It's playing every night through February 12th and it's free. This night installation, produced by Creative Time, features eight large-scale moving images projected on and around the museum.
The images tell the stories of five New Yorkers (played by actors including Donald Sutherland and the incomparable Tilda Swinton) as they venture into the city at night. The five characters come together in different combinations throughout the course of each evening's viewing. Because the film is projected at eight locations around MOMA, viewers must circle the building to fully participate in the experience. You can even hear commentaries on your cell phone by calling 408-794-0886.
Random vandalism attack puts baby in danger
METHUEN - Michelle Pinto took the long way home Tuesday, thinking the evening spin up Pelham Street would give 7-month-old Skylar an extra 10 minutes to sleep.
But the baby girl's slumber was shattered when something smashed the back of the 2007 Mazda CX-7 she was riding in, sending Pinto rushing back down Pelham Street, wondering if Skylar and her 6-year-old brother, Dylan, were hurt.
"Everyone was OK, thankfully, but I didn't know," Pinto said. "My heart was just racing."
What had started as a calm nighttime drive after picking Dylan up from karate class had become a near tragedy for baby Skylar.
Pinto believes local teens broke the window, possibly with a BB gun, a rock or a snowball. She heard the crashing sound about 6:45 p.m., just after turning around at the intersection of Pelham Street and Hampshire Road, near the New Hampshire line.
For longtime Orlando fans, old and new a perfect fit
When Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Fla., in 1971, my parents wasted no time in taking my sister Nancy and me, and our best friend, Carolyn. We stayed in the Contemporary Resort, took the monorail to the Magic Kingdom, and could not imagine anything better.
Universal Studios Florida debuted in 1990 and I showed up soon after to check it out - this time pushing my own little boys in a stroller, and meeting Carolyn and her son at the gate. We spent a lot of time in Fievel's Playland.
Today, the original versions of the two destinations seem like relics of a distant era. Disney World now has five parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney-MGM, Animal Kingdom and Downtown Disney) and 22 resort hotels with a total of 25,000 rooms. Universal has three amusement areas (Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure and Citywalk) and can house 2,400 guests in its three hotels.
Bally's buys Boardwalk property for $38.5M.
ATLANTIC CITY — Aficionados of the Atlantic City-inspired Monopoly board game know there is no more valuable piece of real estate than Park Place other than the Boardwalk itself. Now that has been borne out in real life, too. Bally's Atlantic City, formerly known as Bally's Park Place, has shelled out $38.5 million for a Boardwalk property next to the famous Park Place address. The deal involves a nondescript, two-story retail pavilion that obscures the scenic courtyard of the Dennis Hotel. The Victorian-era Dennis is part of the Bally's casino hotel complex, which encompasses Park Place and four city blocks. Bally's bought the retail site from Abraham and Robert Schiff, the legendary brothers who enjoy Monopoly-like control of the Boardwalk, owning nearly 70 percent of the noncasino properties on the pedestrian promenade.
Reprints go digital at business
Steve and Melanie Woods of Rougemont are running a 50-percent off deal at their Beyond Color Photography, Inc., a photo-taking, -restoration, -sales, -reprint and -enhancing business for, as their announcement says, "preserving life's special moments.""We've been working on getting it started," Steve Woods said. "Just trying to get it out there."Centerpiece of their business is taking personal snapshots and putting them on DVD with corrected or enhanced color, music, captions and personalized introduction and conclusion. They also photograph weddings, reunions and other special events and sell prints of their own photos."What we're doing is all digital, on computers," Woods said. "It's a lot more involved than PowerPoint shows and a lot nicer product."See www.beyondcolorphotography.com.Celebrities comingBabies "R" Us, a tot-scale spinoff of Toys "R" Us, has opened at 7001 Fayetteville Road.
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