Judge for yourself when you read her review of Cameron Tuttle's book, The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road . E lizabeth reinforces her bad-girl image with a review of Joe Coomer's Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God . It is a character-driven novel with a distinct and engaging plot that doesn't have to play second to the characters he's developed within that plot. J anine Kauffman opens the Rambles cineplex with a review of last year's John Cusack hit, High Fidelity . T om Knapp closes down another edition with the big weather feature of last year, The Perfect Storm .
Actors serve only to give the storm a human context.
More details to come. This is a mixed- up season in this part of the world, so we'll strive for a bit of normalcy here with another big weekend update. C heryl Turner is up first with Time and Tide by Filska, a young band from Scotland's Shetland Islands. However, the spirit with which the band plays, the originality of their arrangements and their pleasant harmonies more than make up for any shortcomings. MacPhee did a marvelous job choosing classic material and singing it in a meaningful and soulful way.