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Broadmoor restaurant soon to open for public
BY DUNCAN MCHENRY
The atmosphere in the classroom at the Broadmoor Culinary School is relaxed, for now. Senior Spencer Knipper sits back in a swivel chair while senior Jarrett Kirk puts his white apron on. Except for a stove, the classroom looks more like a place where students would come to learn math or English than cooking. Only astute observers would notice the old crock-pot stashed away on top of a cabinet, or the plastic mixing bowls stacked haphazardly in the corner.
Knipper and Kirk, who divide their time between East and Broadmoor, will be preparing practice dishes for the grand opening of the student-run Broadmoor Bistro on Sept. 17. This year marks the first time that the students will be cooking in the school’s new professional grade kitchen and bakery on opening night.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'Death Race' blows away competition
BY LANDON MCDONALD
You don’t walk into a movie called “Death Race” expecting motivated acting, moving dialogue or even a coherent plot. You just expect volatile, hard core action and plenty of it. In that regard, this absurd but lovable film is one of the most satisfying to be found in these dreary days of early autumn cinema, that unfathomable vortex between the big summer blockbusters and the prestigious, Oscar-targeted fare of late fall and winter.
Directed with a sledgehammer’s finesse by Paul W.S. Anderson, a man best known for throwaway video game adaptations like “Resident Evil” and “Alien vs. Predator” and based on B-movie maestro Roger Corman’s 1975 craptastic “Death Race 2000,” the new “Death Race” is a film for those who take their action raw and their car crashes burned to a crisp. Here’s a movie that knows exactly what it is and makes no apologies for it. And that simple but essential recognition begets a kind of gonzo joy, a sense of savage elation that even the most prudish viewer (or critic) would be hard-pressed to resist.
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Fall Movie Preview
BY LANDON MCDONALD
After a summer full of the good (“The Dark Knight”), the bad (“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Greedy Producers”) and the ugly (“The Happening”), it’s time to settle back into the tedious doldrums of early fall, a time where cinematic afterbirth like “The Clone Wars” (I refuse to call it Star Wars) and grotesque semi-comedies, like “Disaster Movie,” are allowed to ooze their way into our theaters like waste from an overflowing septic tank. But just hang in there beleaguered fellow film freaks. Starting in mid-September, the movies get good again. Here’s the eight I have the highest hopes for.
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