English Garden

English Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden

Back to Basics TEM500 Egg-and-Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poacher $52.99 *Multi-function toaster and egg cooker combination *Can be used as a traditional toaster, egg poacher or together to create the ultimate breakfast sandwich *2 slice bread, muffin or bagel *Variable toasting *Automatic pop-up mechanism *Cool touch sides *Automatic shut-off for toaster and egg poacher *Indicator light illuminates when appliance is on *Delivers a convenient breakfast sandwich in appr…

Chef Works CSBA-BCS Chalk Stripe Bib Apron with Pockets, 34-1/4-Inch Length by 27-Inch Width, Black/White $12.60 The Chef Works Chalk Stripe Bib Apron is an understated and stylish cooking garment. With its dark color and white strip accents, this apron is appropriate for dinner parties, or while cooking on any night of the week. The durable poly/cotton blend stands up to harsh cooking conditions, but will not shrink in the wash….

Chef’s Choice 677 Cordless Electric 1-3/4-Quart Teakettle $42.65 1700 watts. Lifts from corded base for easy filling and pouring. Auto shut-off when water boils. Boil-dry safety shut-off protection. Cord storage in base. Cool touch bottom. Brushed stainless steel. Boil 1.75-quart water for tea, coffee, hot chocolate or instant soup. Exterior water gauge for easy measuring. Cordless design allows the kettle to be lifted from its base for convenient filling and s…

Legends of Broadway: Liza Minnelli Live at Winter Garden $6.96 Liza Minnelli is Hollywood royalty, but it is on Broadway that she made her most distinctive mark, where her stage persona began to take shape and where she returned throughout her career to rediscover her adoring public. Live at the Winter Garden from January 1974 captures what may be the best of those memorable visits.Minnelli was already a Broadway veteran, winner of a Tony Award in 1965 follow…

The Secret Garden $3.19 A magical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic from director Agnieszka Holland (“Europa, Europa”) focuses on an orphan girl who leaves India to live with her uncle in a dreary manor in England. There she befriends her invalid cousin and discovers a garden with fantastic healing powers. Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, and Maggie Smith star. 102 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Sound…

Awesome, I Shot That $0.92 Directed by one “Nathanial Hörnblowér” and shot by 50 fans, Awesome is the Beastie Boys live and direct. (The full title includes a four-letter word in its six-letter-plus-apostrophe incarnation.) The place is New York’s Madison Square Garden. The date is October 9, 2004. The show begins with scratching from DJ Mix Master Mike as the amateur operators, armed with Hi-8 cameras, get busy–from the…

Mozart – Die Zauberflote [Blu-ray] $25.02 It’s hard to find a version of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte that’s as well sung as this 2003 Covent Garden production. Led by the eminent Mozartian, Sir Colin Davis, orchestra and singers present a warm, often intense vision of the opera, not as the fairy tale it’s often taken for, but as a human drama of the passage from misguided beliefs to mature knowledge of self. Diana Da…

Bizet: Carmen [Blu-ray] $17.72 This Covent Garden production of Bizet’s Carmen, makes a vivid musical and dramatic impression. Director Francesca Zambello creates a properly Spanish atmosphere, filling the stage with a profusion of detailed characters. In Act One’s town square each of the many soldiers, strollers, cigarette factory girls, and children are individuals, so there’s a bustle of continuous, realist…

Exit to Eden [VHS] $9.98 Garry Marshall, the man behind Pretty Woman, has made two movies here. One is based on Anne Rice’s erotic novel of a fantasy island where dreams are fulfilled and sexuality is open to all, led by a congenial dominatrix (Dana Delany) and a glowing new recruit (Paul Mercurio of Strictly Ballroom). The other is a farcical comedy-action movie, which is what you saw in the ads. Savoy Pictures must have…

The Notebook $3.78 When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it’s syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John–whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment–would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly i…

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