If you’re in the Vancouver area, “Spectacular!” is holding an open casting call for “young trained dancers”:

Anyone who meets the following criteria may audition:
- men and women of all races and ethnicities between the ages of 17 and 25 years of age
- all applicants must have training in jazz, modern and hip hop dance

All applicants must arrive dressed ready to dance and be prepared to freestyle with any specialty or gymnastic moves.

Please bring a picture and resume if you have one!

DATE:
Monday, March 31, 2008

TIME:
Drop in anytime between 12:00 pm and 4:00 pm

As this is an open casting call there may be a wait for your audition dependent on the number of applicants ahead of you.

LOCATION:
Harbour Dance Centre
927 Granville Street
Vancouver
Third Floor

CASTING DYNAMIC, FUN FAMILIES FOR A NEW GAMESHOW!

From the network that brings you “Trading Spaces” and “Little People, Big World”
comes a brand new game show for families.

CALLING ALL FUN FAMILIES!

Is your Home in need of a little TLC? Do you have a tired old living room? Could your bedrooms use a little help in the style department? If you think your family has what it takes to win some new home furnishings… then Contact us NOW!

TLC is currently casting families who reside in the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Area to take part in a new television game show. Families must be outgoing, have some pop culture knowledge and be ready to compete!

SHOW YOUR FAMILY PRIDE AND CONTACT US TODAY, you have nothing to lose and only home furnishings to gain!

SEEKING:
- Families with at least two kids ages 8 - 18.
- Families must have a minimum of 4 members (two adults and at least two children, single parent households with 3 kids, etc.) Other family dynamics may be considered (grandparents living in hom, etc.)
- Families should own their own home

***Email our casting contact with your contact information, the names and ages of your family members, a picture of your family and why your family is perfect for us to:

CASTING CONTACT:
familygameshow@gmail.com
or call Tami and Andrea at 818-563-4131 ext. 225

Our 23 day shoot took place in one location: East Lousiana State Mental Hospital, a working mental hospital in Jackson, Louisiana (just outside Baton Rouge). With the film wrapped, director Adam Gierasch is now back home in Los Angeles cutting the film with our editor, Scott Smith.

Girls wrote their deepest secrets and most passionate experiences in journals and poems. Boys harnessed their inner Springsteen – crafting custom mix tapes and plucking out simple chord songs to their killer lyrics. CRINGE invites readers – armed with journals, mix tapes, and early songwriting attempts – to share their teenage selves with one another and the audience at home. A laugh riot, the readers reveal their most intimate, humiliating, and CRINGE worthy moments.

Think you have the material to make the cut? Check it out.

While you’re there, check out the Press on the Original CRINGE – Sarah Brown’s monthly reading series at Freddy’s Bar & Backroom in Brooklyn.

Read her brilliant website QueSeraSera and keep a look out for Sarah’s new book, CRINGE.

The TV movie, in development at Nickelodeon, is written by Jim Krieg (”PS 88 Blue”). Get ready for a singing and dancing extravaganza!

Our favorite fat, fearless redhead Zoe is headed to the small screen with her friends Wonka Boy, Plum Sweater, and foe Cherry Bitch along for the ride.

Writer/Executive Producer Jon Bernstein (MEET THE ROBINSONS, BEAUTIFUL) and Executive Producer Matt Dearborn (”Beyond the Break,” “Even Stevens”) have created a fanastic show based on the book and Jon is writing the pilot. The one hour drama is being developed for the CW network in production with CBS Paramount Television Studios.

Julian F. Thompson’s groundbreaking, best selling, cult classic.

Fasten your seat belts; this gets pretty rough. Your parents sent you to Coldbrook Country School to have you killed.

None of the members of Group 6 chose Coldbrook Country School for themselves. It was chosen for them by their parents. So when they were told to hike to a rough campsite deep in the woods as part of orientation, they didn’t ask questions. But Nat Rittenhouse, the assigned orientation leader, hadn’t exactly chosen Coldbrook either. His job was not to teach the members of Group 6 — it was to make sure they never came out of the woods alive. Who would have thought their own parents were footing the bill?

A brilliantly written and precociously perceptive teen memoir, this book originally published in short form by a small press when the author was 14. The complete work, Zoe’s coming-of-age diary ranting and raving through a year of high school, was published by HarperCollins in 2003.

Zoe’s entries chronicle her tortured search for truth in love and art, her faltering faith in the value of activism in the face of universal apathy, and her bottomless disdain for just about every figure and fixture in her high school life. The language is undeniably raw — a hip mixture of bold statement, cyberesque shorthand, and stream-of-consciousness prose. Her frank accounts of her transgender search for the perfect kiss and her first girlfriend who becomes her first boyfriend will surely shock certain audiences, but also speaks sincerely to the tortured misfits who need to know that they are not alone.

I wrote a story about you. Well, sort of, see, it’s mostly about me. Well, entirely about me, but here’s the catch: I’m you. No, really, I mean it. Not like that transcendentalism stuff we’re learning in English class, but really, truly, I’m you. I know what it feels like when your heart beats so hard against your white bone ribs, when you sing in the shower with soap in your eyes, when you run until you get a side ache. I wrote this story about you because I am so in love with you, your broken-fence teeth and your tissue-paper scars. I love you when you’re so exhausted it could topple you to the ground, so in love it could snap guitar strings, so sickly sweet it could make lips smile. This is a reckless love story. This is my shameless confession.

Also, check out Zoe’s own blog!

Now that seventh grader Griff Carter is at their school, neither hall patrol or PS 88 will never be the same again. Writer/Executive Producer Jim Krieg (”Monk,” “Clueless”) created the fun family comedy and is writing the pilot for Nickelodeon.

Elaine Marie Alphin’s Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner for Best Young Adult Mystery

The award winning young adult novel tells this haunting thriller from the perspective of fourteen-year-old Cameron Miller – who is pretending to be someone he isn’t. When Cameron’s father was killed resisting arrest, Cameron decided to pass himself off as Neil Lacey, one of the boys Pop had abducted. It was the only way Cameron could think of to distance himself from what Pop had done, to him, and to the other boys. It was the only escape he could imagine from his nightmarish existence.

Cameron thought it would be easy at first – playing the rich kid, sailing his own boat, as he’d always dreamed. But he hadn’t counted on Pop’s old accomplice, Cougar, getting out of prison. When Cougar tracks Cameron down, he presents an ultimatum: share the wealth or be exposed. But Cameron has grown to love the Lacey family – Neil’s mother who hugs and his father who listens instead of hits, even Neil’s prickly, suspicious sister and his spunky little brother.

Cameron wishes he could be part of Neil’s family for real, but he decides that he must give up his new identity or his desperate search for a new life will destroy the family he has grown to love.