If you aren’t planning on watching the Olympic opening ceremonies this Friday evening, our friends at the Evansville Civic Theatre are having a screening of a new film that was shot in the Evansville area called The Anathema Report.
The story, sort of a worst-case scenario of what could go wrong in America, takes place in one evening. Imagine life in the wake of terrorist attacks by unknown individuals, people fleeing for the heartland, an every-man-for-himself chaos, government militias and a strange epidemic on the scale of the 1918 flu pandemic.
There are two showings (7 and 10:15) with tickets going for $10 a pop. After watching the trailer, I’m not so sure it’s my type of flick, but if you go, be sure to come back and let me know how the flick is.
College football is my first love, but I enjoy going to a few UE games a year. The team just announced their non-conference schedule which should run up to the end of December. The schedule is very home-game friendly with 9 of the 11 games at Roberts Stadium. Sadly, the two highlight games are the away games: Butler and North Carolina.
The non-conference schedule seems to be very centralized in the area. My guess is that UE is trying to rebuild the fanbase by playing local teams and establishing rivalries with teams whose fans can make the trip to Roberts.
Ski Day is this weekend, so if that’s your thing have a blast. I’m personally allergic to the outdoors and water, so I’ll be inside scouring the Web for stuff to post here. The thing that stood out to me about the Ski Day announcement is this:
This year’s celebrity guest host will be Evansville native A.J. Alexander, an actress and model who was Miss May in Playboy magazine this year.
Someone in Evansville was the Playmate of the month? Who needs Don Mattingly when you have this type of local celebrity!?
A.J Alexander is the stage name of Amanda Herrmann according to a C&P story from a few months ago.
On her Playboy shoot:
She earned $25,000 up front and will make more from personal appearances in Las Vegas and elsewhere arranged by the magazine — and she’s counting on it boosting her career.
Like most that pose in Playboy, she is a budding actress hoping the pin-up life will lead her to her first red carpet. I don’t think making an appearance at Ski Day was what she had in mind for boosting her career.
I’d link up her myspace, official site and photo spread but the links are NSFW and I don’t want to be to blame for you being fired.
Speaking of football, let’s have some fun this football season. I’ve setup an free fantasy football league on Yahoo Sports for It’s Evansville readers. There are 16 spots available for this head-to-head league. There will be a live draft on Saturday August 30, 2008 at 2PM. If you can’t make the time, Yahoo does allow you to pre-rank your players for autopicking.
The Courier & Press put up a really great video tour of the new Mesker Zoo exhibit Amazonia. It’s great to see the zoo finally getting something fresh. I’m looking forward to going and seeing the exhibit in the next few weeks.
Over the next few weeks we’re going to feature some sports writing from people around the area. If you’re interested in talking sports on the site, get in touch. — justin
Brett Favre. Perhaps no athlete has meant more to a community than number four has to the people of Green Bay. The tiny Wisconsin town idolizes the three-time league MVP who brought them a Super Bowl championship in the 1996 season.
As a longtime Packer fan, though admittedly born and raised in Kentucky, I adore the gun-slinger from Mississippi. I always respected Michael Jordan’s abilities, but to me, Favre was god-like. I still have his replica jersey hanging prominently in my bedroom closet.
However, in recent weeks, the skies hovering over Lambeau Field haven’t been quite so sunny.
Looking to party? IU is the 14th best party school according to Princeton Review. Purdue didn’t make the list.
METS has already run out of money in their fuel budget. Shouldn’t affect anyone yet.
If you se a guy running around with almost 4000 lbs of copper bars, please notify the authorities.
The downtown meter maids have had to hoof it lately because their parking ticket mobiles are producing too much carbon monoxide. Your odds of getting a ticket for parking 4 hours in that 2 hour spot are now much less.
Indiana Senator Evan Bayh is apparently on Obama’s short list for VP. I don’t see it happening.
The last time I was downtown I noticed a few pieces of sidewalk art along the riverfront. Flickr user systemsrelaunch has snapped a few shots of them.
In Focus spotlights a photograph taken by a reader of It’s Evansville. If you’d like a chance to have your photo featured, upload your photo to Flickr and tag it with “itsevansville”.
Let’s face it. Outside of drug busts and people getting run over it’s been pretty slow around town lately. Taking queue from one of my favorite sports blogs, The Big Lead, let’s talk movies.
Enjoyed Adam Sandler’s career on SNL. Watch the re-runs all the time. Thought Billy Madison was humorous, and we won’t immediately click away from Wedding Singer if it’s on TBS. But starting with Waterboy in 1998, has a funny guy had a more unwatchable career than Adam Sandler? The guy’s making incredible loot, but can you honestly say you’ve walked away from a Sandler flick in the last 10 years and thought, ‘awesome!’?
I personally thought Waterboy was a funny flick after you’ve watched it a few times. It’s on the list of movies I will start watching on TV whenever I see it. After that, however, they are right. Garbage.
I think Will Ferrell is nipping at Sandler’s heels though. Let’s analyze his past 5 years:
Old School: Loved it
Elf: Eh
Anchorman: Pretty good
Kicking & Screaming: Awful
Bewitched: Horrific
Talladega Nights: Blech
Blades of Glory: Unbearable
Semi-Pro: Can’t make myself watch another Ferrell sports flick
Step Brothers: Waiting on DVD.
I’ve heard some good things about Step Brothers, but the recent string of sports parody movies has made my Will Ferrell stock drop. Whose worse than Sandler or Ferrell? Tell me in the comments.
I remember going to Showbiz Pizza back in the late 80’s when I was a younger lad. It was in the present Chuck-E-Cheese building. I was always creeped out by the giant robot gorilla, and some 20 years later, I can say that I am still creeped out by the gorilla.
A documentary is coming out this fall that tells the story of the Showbiz band, the Rocka-fire Explosion.
By far the greatest clip is the guy taking the costume off the robot and walking around in it.
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Speaking of football, let’s have some fun this football season. I’ve setup an free fantasy football league on Yahoo Sports for It’s Evansville readers. There are 16 spots available for this head-to-head league. There will be a live draft on Saturday August 30, 2008 at 2PM. If you can’t make the time, Yahoo does allow you to pre-rank your players for autopicking. 
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