Echo Times

A style all their own

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

It's not flashy, but "Thunderbird" has style

A slice of small-town Texas life is on display in College of Marin's production of "'59 Pink Thunderbird: Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star" by James McLure. Set up as two plays in one, "Laundry & Bourbon" follows three women drinking and talking through an afternoon, while "Lone Star" relates their partners' evening conversation in the rough-and-tumble surroundings of a bar in Maynard, Texas: a one-stop-sign town.

I am Ironman

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

"I am Iron Man." Says Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) at the beginning of this year's hotly anticipated follow up to the first "Iron Man" film, cleverly titled "Iron Man 2". Downey is back in the armor again, at least when the armor isn't computer generated, and it's a good thing too, because Downey's wit and arrogant charm is the film's saving grace.

Their coming and we can not stop them

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

What's better than one baby? Four babies. Filmmaker Thomas Balmes had the right idea when he set off to make "Babies," a documentary about a year in the life of four babies from around the world. Cameras followed Ponijao (Namibia), Bayer (Mongolia), Hattie (San Francisco) and Mari (Tokyo) as they discover the world one crawl at a time.