Best Bets
Family Stinky Cheese Man. Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Fairy Tales on Saturday and next Friday. Based on the book by Jon Scieszka, the stage production is a comical performance of fractured fairy tales and their usual characters.
Family
Stinky Cheese Man.
Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Fairy Tales on Saturday and next Friday. Based on the book by Jon Scieszka, the stage production is a comical performance of fractured fairy tales and their usual characters.
Music
Wild Beasts, Wild Nothing.
Wild Beasts plays artfully sensuous tunes centered on Hayden Thorpe's falsetto croon. On Smother, the British quartet's excellent third album, they manage to sound both restrained and dramatic (think Junior Boys, Talk Talk, or Antony & the Johnsons). There's drama but little restraint in Wild Nothing, the band that began as a bedroom project of Virginia Tech student Jack Tatum. He builds on the dream-pop sound of the '80s - Ride, New Order, My Bloody Valentine - in propulsive, reverb-drenched confections. There's nothing overtly wild about either band, but that doesn't diminish (or tame) their appeal.
Film
New this week: Horrible Bosses
** (out of four stars) As a disgruntled employee who is slow on the uptake, Jason Bateman stands out in this frenetic and raunchy comedy about abused workers who plot to kill their employers. With Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, and a surprisingly funny cameo by Colin Farrell and a less funny one by Jamie Foxx. R (extreme raunch, drugs, sexual candor, profanity)