http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ Eric Robinette keeps you updated on things to do throughout Butler and Warren counties, offers his perspective on the local entertainment scene and welcomes yours. Eric writes about arts entertainment for the the Middletown Journal, the Hamilton JournalNews and The Pulse-Journal newspapers in West Chester and Mason. en-us erobinette@coxohio.com 2011-04-18T12:14:56-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/04/18/burger_wars_ii_this_time_its_p.html First off, our thanks to everyone who participated in/commented on our Burger Wars story with Five Guys vs. Smashburger vs. Red Robin. You helped make that story a lot of fun - so much so that we’d like to start... 17389175@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-04-18T12:14:56-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/04/18/burger_wars_ii_this_time_its_p_1.html First off, our thanks to everyone who participated in/commented on our Burger Wars story with Five Guys vs. Smashburger vs. Red Robin. You helped make that story a lot of fun - so much so that we’d like to start... 17389176@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-04-18T12:14:56-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/04/12/pick_one_smashburger_vs_five_g.html One of my food writers, Teri Horsley and I had a lot of fun comparing and contrasting the three gourmet burger chains that are concentrated in the West Chester area: Five Guys, Smashburger and Red Robin. Check out the article... 17388824@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-04-12T15:20:30-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/03/14/la_comedias_seven_brides_for_s.html La Comedia’s Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was quite the engaging show, even if it wasn’t quite the diamond I hoped it would be. The fact that I’m a fiend for MGM musicals worked both for and against this... 17386875@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ La Comedia Dinner Theatre 2011-03-14T12:31:09-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/03/10/are_there_any_good_video_store.html The other day our Life section ran this New York Times story about the DVD eventually going the way of the 8-track tape. Brick and mortar video stores have shut down everywhere as video-on-demand services like Netflix, Amazon and Time... 17386522@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-03-10T11:09:24-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/03/09/broad_street_bash_announces_20.html The Broad Street Bash has announced its 2011 lineup. I’ll post a full story later today, but for now, here’s the schedule: May 18: The Swamp Bees and Gregg Clark/Darrell Sallee June 1: The Cleavers and The Exploding Toads June... 17386422@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ Middletown-area events 2011-03-09T10:32:10-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/25/oscar_contest_best_picturedire.html And now we come down to the final entry in our Oscar Contest, with two of the biggest categories: Picture and Director. All you have to do is correctly predict the winner in each category we present. And to do... 17385557@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-02-25T10:41:34-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/24/oscar_contest_best_supporting.html Here’s the next to last category in our Oscar contest before we wrap it up. All you have to do is correctly predict the winner in each category we present. And to do so, you comment on these blog posts... 17385479@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-02-24T12:38:32-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/23/more_oscar_contest_best_suppor.html Our Oscar contest continues, with today’s category being Best Supporting Actor. All you have to do is correctly predict the winner in each category we present. And to do so, you comment on these blog posts we’ll do all week.... 17385379@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-02-23T10:36:42-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/22/oscar_contest_best_actress.html We continue with our Oscar contest and another relatively sewn-up race. Again, here are the rules: All you have to do is correctly predict the winner in each category we present. And to do so, you comment on these blog... 17385291@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-02-22T11:18:18-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/21/enter_our_oscar_contest_the_be.html Your friendly neighborhood arts and Entertainment editor is putting on his Sir Critic hat again and presenting an Oscar contest! It’s pretty simple, really. All you have to do is correctly predict the winner in each category we present. And... 17385222@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ Contests 2011-02-21T11:16:54-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/19/randy_newmans_got_a_friend_or.html Randy Newman played to a sold-out Dave Finkelman auditorium Saturday night, and managed to make a 700+ seat venue seem like a small, intimate club. I attended Newman’s concert and will say without hesitation that it was one of the... 17385186@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ Miami University 2011-02-19T23:01:16-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/18/getting_behind_gone_with_the_w.html Last week I wrote about the Fairfield Footlighters’ play Moonlight and Magnolias, about the making of Gone with the Wind. The play speculates what happened when producer David O. Selznick, director Victor Fleming, and (uncredited) writer Ben Hecht locked... 17385125@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ Fairfield Footlighters 2011-02-18T12:40:14-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/11/whats_at_heart_for_valentines.html Another Friday has arrived, and people are taking stock of the things they’d like to do for the weekend. So what are you all up to? Taking a romantic date at Skyline or White Castle, maybe? I actually just got... 17384637@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ Holiday events 2011-02-11T11:52:21-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/entries/2011/02/09/help_middletown_find_another_e.html My colleague Rick McCrabb has written a story about the organizers of Middletown’s Derrico Easter Egg hunt stepping down after 15 years, largely citing health reasons. I join Rick’s call for someone to take up the gauntlet. Middletown has had... 17384484@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/butlerentertainment/ 2011-02-09T12:04:06-05:00 erobinette@coxohio.com