Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on May 25
“Military Appreciation Days” continues in Myrtle Beach with three activities. Details at 918-1188, www.militaryappreciationdays.com and www.myrtlebeachmayfest.com.
Best Bets for the Myrtle Beach area
Premier Exhibitions Inc. brings back its “Bodies Revealed” exhibit to Myrtle Beach for a second year.
Nightlife calendar for the Myrtle Beach area
Find what musicians, bands and other performers are up to this week at area clubs and restaurants.
Arts and cultural calendar for the Myrtle Beach area
DANCE JAM PARTIES, for adults 8-11 p.m. on last Friday monthly, including this Friday, with a lesson and food and beverages, at By the Sea Dance-Fitness-Music, 1145 Grissom Parkway, Myrtle Beach. $10. 800-299-9050 or www.bytheseadance.com.
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New this week in theaters
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Some British retirees decide to outsource their retirement to exotic and less expensive India. Lured by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and imagining a life of leisure in lush surroundings, they arrive and find that the Marigold is actually a shell of its former self. Though their new home is not quite what they had imagined, the retirees find that life and love can begin again when they let go of their pasts. PG-13. Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench.
Movie review | ‘Men in Black 3’
Josh Brolin impersonating the young Tommy Lee Jones is worth the price of admission to “Men in Black 3.” Dry, drawling, deadpan – he nails the flinty Texan in this sentimental sequel to the sci-fi comedies about secret agents in black suits who save the world from aliens.
This ‘Dictator’ has no clothes
“The Dictator” does for “Sacha Baron Cohen” what “The Love Guru” did for Mike Myers: Reveal that this sharp, revered comedian with an uncanny ear for absurdist humor is a mere mortal capable of great folly.
NBC bets big on comedies and ‘The Voice’
NBC will pack 10 comedies into four nights of its prime-time lineup in the fall, and two new dramas, from J.J. Abrams and Dick Wolf, have been scheduled on Monday and Wednesday nights, respectively, the network announced this month.
Talking with comedian and author Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer, 55, has an impressive resume. She started her career as a stand-up comic in the late 1970s and has written for “Saturday Night Live,” “Seinfeld” and “The Larry Sanders Show.” She won a 2012 Writers Guild Award for her work on the Emmy Award-winning show “Modern Family.” She was on the third season of “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2010 and has appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” with her longtime colleague Larry David.
Many ways to mark Memorial Day across Strand
Area observances to remember those who gave their lives in service to this country are numerous this Memorial Day weekend, as are things to do with the family.
Ripley’s Aquarium roaring with dinosaurs
A new exhibit continues roaring at Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, thanks in no small part to a tyrannosaurus rex’s greetings in the gallery entrance.
The Local Scoop | Dan O’Reilly
Saxophonist Dan O’Reilly attributes his success as a musician to the great mentors he had growing up. They have passed their craft on from generation to generation. I received it, and now it’s time for me to pass it along, he said.
XCon World V fills convention center
With enhanced marketing this year, covering such media as broadcast, print and billboards, along with show officials having attended about 10 similar shows from Chicago to Florida in the past year, Haines said he likes “everything that’s involved” in planning such an affair with co-chairman Robin Roberts, among about 40 volunteers.
Pattinson leaves vampires behind in 'Cosmopolis'
Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker - a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."
Kidman dry-eyed at Cannes ovation as co-star cries
The Cannes standing ovation brought Zac Efron to tears, but Nicole Kidman remained dry-eyed.
Kidman dry-eyed at Cannes ovation as co-star criesLady Gaga cancels Indonesian show after threats
Lady Gaga canceled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the youth.
Lady Gaga cancels Indonesian show over securityNicole Kidman's red carpet marriage
Nicole Kidman's red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes.
Nicole Kidman's red carpet marriageWill 'Amour' conquer all in Cannes prize race?
Love is in the air at the Cannes Film Festival, as the jury sits down Sunday to choose its prizewinners.
New music, new cds
“Off!,” the first full-length album by the Los Angeles band of the same name, contains some clues that it was recorded in the recent past, and not the late 1970s. The third word of Keith Morris' lyrics — in “Wiped Out” — is “disconnect” in noun form, which you probably wouldn't have heard 30 years ago outside of government or the telecommunications industry. And definitely not from the guy Morris was back then, a Hermosa Beach skate-punk whose father ran a bait shop.
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