What I’m watching: Video game movie wasteland
Nothing in Hollywood is ever an automatic win — a fact the creative team behind the latest video game adaptation “Borderlands” is now painfully well aware of.
What I’m eating: A nourishing taco platter from 3 Amigos
AMHERST — Looking at the menu of 3 Amigos in Amherst is like being the general manager lucky enough to land that one five-tool baseball player who can do everything on the field.
Kae Alayah and Shane Dylan bring a graceful ambience to new EP
The first traces of Shane Dylan’s piano on he and Kae Alayah’s new EP, “Losing My Mind Over You,” are like an ocean mist on a hot summer day. The notes calmly wash over before steadying just in time for Kae’s sun-kissed vocals to gracefully emerge from the mist and embrace the listener with an ode to a love that never lost its “glitter and gold.”
Dinner and a Show: chicken breast and the wild wild west
As mentioned in my prior column, I frequent only two chain restaurants. One is Hot Table, a local franchise that quickly ascended to the top of the panini pantheon throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. The other is Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen. My ties with Popeye’s run deep; I have enjoyed countless fried meals over the past decade.
The Big 3: Some local tracks I’ve been listening to
With music becoming more and more decentralized by the day, the task of keeping up with it all can feel daunting, even on a local level.
Dinner and a Show: Twisting tornadoes and panini staples
I admit it: I am a snob when it comes to food, movies and most things in life.