| Raising the 'Roof': Tour launch in Plains is special for Montana Rep ...
The actors make their curtain call in front of enthusiastic applause from the Plains audience. After the show, the actors and crew are treated to a home-cooked meal that has become a traditional part of the Plains production.
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The Once Juggernaut: Rising Quickly
Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring. "They're a great story," says Steve Feldstein, a spokesman for Fox Home Entertainment, which released Once on DVD in December and expects to see a spike in sales at retailers mimicking the movie's ascent on Amazon. "There's nothing quite like the Oscars as a promotional vehicle. Their performance was wonderful. Their speeches were honest and fresh." Fox Searchlight launched the film in limited theatrical release in May with a 16-city bus tour. Screening the movie for local press and closing with live Swell Season performances, the tour built on the goodwill the film had established with critics at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Phoenix plants to produce biodiesel from cooking oil
Eating fried chicken wings and french fries might not clean out your arteries, but it actually could help clean up the air, now that two local companies are transforming waste cooking oil from local restaurants into diesel fuel. Amereco Biofuels Corp. expects its first deliveries this month to commercial customers in Tucson and Las Vegas, said Bill Sheaffer, executive vice president of marketing for the plant, located west of Phoenix in the town of Arlington. And soon Chandler-based AZ BioDiesel expects to pass fuel-testing standards and begin production, said Christopher Rees, vice president of sales and marketing. .
Tijuana cheers arrival of big-time soccer
The open end was a tangle of dirt and concrete and rebar, with yellow tractors parked on mounds of earth above. Brown patches in the grass were spray-painted green. The scoreboard had no game clock. But it didn't seem to matter to those lucky enough to see the game, or to dream what the 33,333-seat stadium will look and sound and feel like when it is completed later this year. "A great atmosphere," Mexico defender Patricio Araujo said. "I just wish we could have given them a goal." El Tri controlled the bulk of the possession and created several dangerous chances. Julio Cesar Dominguez had a short flick sail high. Edgar Andrade had a volley from just outside the penalty area acrobatically tipped over the crossbar by Paraguay goalkeeper Joel Silva. Second-half substitute Enrique Esqueda had a 40-yard blast slam off the left post.
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