Monster Trucks

Monster Trucks And Shakespeare

... and the Carpetbag Theatre are among the artists performing in the 6 p.m. Jan. 16 "A Night With the Arts: A Celebration Concert in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." The concert at the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay St., is free and tickets aren't required. The concert’s theme is “Honoring the Dream by Standing for Justice and Equality.” The KSO Chamber Orchestra and the Celebration Choir will perform. Members of Carpetbag will present a spoken word performance. Music includes gospel songs, selections from the film “Selma” as well as from Beethoven. In Maryville, the Blount County Public Library hosts a family-oriented Martin Luther King Kids and Families Fair from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14. The event incorporates educational displays and activities to remember King. The fair is in the meeting room hallway of the library at 508 N. Cusick St. in Maryville. Lovers of big ...

Don’t Let A 4-year-old Develop A Movie

... Bob Bacon, the head of Paramount Animation (whose next high-profile project, you might remember, is Monster Trucks), leaves the studio…and Paramount eliminates his position. As far as signs go, this isn’t a good one. In November 2015, Paramount moved the film one final time , to Friday, January 13, 2017. This. Is. Not. A. Good. Sign. On June 1, 2016, Paramount debuted the first trailer—more than a year after the film was originally set to hit theaters. And it was a doozy, featuring a teen mechanic (Lucas Till) taking selfies with an oil-guzzling “land squid”—a horrifying cross between E. T. and Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon—who powers his clunky pickup truck. No wonder the studio wanted to delay it for years. Till might be enjoying success on CBS’ remake of Mac Gyver right now, but this bomb looked like it was going the way of Mac Gruber. (Except Mac Gruber is amazing. —Ed.). Finally, in September, Paramount announced a $115 million write-down that trade publications almost immediately linked to Monster Trucks, essentially disavowing the film even though it would still try to recoup what few dollars it ...

Behind The Scenes As Monster Trucks Roll Into The Landers Center

... The Scenes As Monster Trucks Roll Into The Landers Center. By Tish Clark | __link__. Updated 01/13 2017 10:32 PM. MEMPHIS, Tenn. __link__). The Toughest Monster Trucks Tour is coming to the Landers Center in Southaven Friday and Saturday. Six monster trucks will compete to see who will be the toughest monster truck. "When Monster truck fans come to a show, they see the fun part. Trucks flipping, racing, and smashing stuff. As you're about to find out, there's more than a ton of work that goes into setting up the toughest monster truck tour,” says Brian Manson, the production manager for the Toughest Monster Truck Tour. "We've got trucks rolling in. We've got junk cars showing up. We've got loader tires. A lot of plastic and banners that get hung up.". Don't forget about dump trucks delivering the dirt. "It's mostly clay which makes it easy to work with and it holds it shape together,” says Manson. "There are 1200 cubic yards that will be in ...

Truck Show, Gospel Performance Among Local Weekend Events

... are Chris Taylor, left, Suzanne Taylor Hise and Jonathan Taylor. The two groups will perform 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Azalee Marshall Cultural Activities Center, located at 3011 N. Third St. in Temple. Tickets are $20 for reserved seating and $17 for general admission. Courtesy photos. Posted: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:16 am | Updated: 11:32 am, Wed Jan 11, 2017. by TDT Melany Cox. This weekend’s activities will feature something everyone can enjoy, from exciting and adrenaline-pumping to casual and low-key. There will be opportunities to support local businesses and artists, hear gospel music, participate in a 5 K, and watch monster trucks attempt to defy the laws of physics. Gospel music concert. Subscription Required. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety. Have an online subscription. Remember me on this computer. Need an account? Create one now. Choose an online service. __link__  or 254-778-4444 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Current print ...

Go For A Ride In A Monster Truck Speedster

... there wasn't a fire suit available for me to wear at the time, so I too had to sit this one out. But, because I consider myself a proactive problem-solver, I did ya'll one better. I mounted one of our 360-degree cameras inside athlete Camden Murphy's Monster Truck Speedster and asked him if he could race around the dirt track for me. How could he say no. Camden Murphy is the driver of Pirate's Curse and with his help, we put you inside the all-terrain vehicle, experiencing what it's like to ride in the Speedster on the field at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Murphy has been in the motorsports racing business since a young age, also driving and competing in Nascar. He says Monster Jam is his favorite event, much due to his adoring fans. The Monster Jam show is currently touring around the nation is a must-see event for all ages and level of Monster Truck familiarity. Who wouldn't want to see a 10,000 pound machine leap into the air off an dirt obstacle course in a race against time? (Sign me up!). In addition to monster trucks, the Triple Threat series included modified ATV races and Speedster races and obstacle course events. The action was ...

What's Up This Weekend

... shows to auto shows, here are some ideas for keeping busy in and around Boston this weekend. AUTO SHOW. The annual New England Auto Show rolls into the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center this weekend. January 12-16, you can check out hundreds of the newest vehicles around. It’s your chance to sit in the driver’s seat, pop the hood and kick the tires. There is also a Classic Car Showcase and Exotic Car Showcase featuring dream cars from Aston Martin, Lamborghini and more. INFO & TICKETS: __link__. WINE FESTIVAL. This weekend kicks off the months-long Boston Wine Festival. It’s a season filled with events for the wine lover, featuring some of the world’s best wineries. From January through March, there are seminars, intimate dinners, and receptions scheduled. It all kicks off with Friday night’s Grand Opening Reception featuring fine foods, and more than 50 wines. INFO & TICKETS: __link__. ANTIQUE SHOW. Is antiquing more your thing? The Boston Antiques, Vintage, Art and Design Show is at Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington this weekend. One hundred dealers will be showing and selling jewelry, ...

Dirt Is Down, Trucks Are Ready For Monster Jam At Raymond James Stadium

... in the monster truck sport but he won’t give himself credit. “As the years have gone on, my family has grown up with me with monster jam trucks and now my whole family is involved now. My oldest son Adam, my middle son Ryan and now my daughter, she started this year and I’m proud of all of them they do an awesome job for the fans,” said Dennis Anderson, driver of the Grave Digger. The fans and the families that’s what the monster truck jam is all about. “Go to the pit party. There is all kinds of fun and activities for the kids, for the whole family to do. You get to meet and greet all the drivers up close, touch them, take pictures,” said Anderson. You’ll see some of the biggest and baddest machines doing some of the toughest tricks. “Coming out here, strutting your stuff in your monster jam truck over all these big obstacles, big giant mounds of dirt, ramps, cross reds, big massive air, ...

Monster Trucks’ Review

... involving lots of squealing tires and catapulting trucks whose resale value drops to next to nothing when they spectacularly crash-land. However, it’s not all mindless fun and vroom-vroom games, as there is a way-obvious environmental message underlying the vroom vroom. The monsters — rubbery ugly-as-sin multitentacled critters — are peaceable inhabitants of a vast underground lake that — poor them — lies atop an even more vast pool of oil. A rapacious drilling outfit run by an odious executive (played with maximum smarm by Rob Lowe) aims to drill right down through the creatures’ home to get his mitts on the black gold, eradicating them in the process. Feel free to boo here, especially since the lower-than-low Lowe character is aided and abetted in his badness by a black-clad private-security thug (Holt Mc Callany) who addresses the monster-befriending boy thusly: “I’ll hurt you, kid.” Mr. Sadist, at your service. As I said: ...

Local Twins Are Monster Truck Stars

... they don't necessarily try to wipe out but. “You try to get close so that it’s cool, so that it looks good,” said Travis. “But then if you crash, you have to fix it – got a lot of work. But it's about the fans. The fans are the ones that love the crashes.”. And these guys know what the fans want because they are fans. “We have the yearbooks just like all the kids, the fans," said Travis. "And we go get 'em signed.”. They still have a wall of toys and souvenirs in mom's home.  Every year for her birthday, they'd go to monster jam at the Tacoma Dome. “One year we're looking over the wall as they're packing everything up and the boys said ‘mom, how do you think you get into this?’” said mom Kathryn Kleinwachter. “I said ‘I don't know, but pull open the gate and I'll squeeze through and I'm going to ask somebody.’”. They met a driver and started volunteering on his crew. Did that for two years on weekends and became drivers themselves in 2011. “I'm not surprised because they took the wheels off their wagon as three year olds to try to put bigger wheels on it and it just grew from there. They were very adventurous little boys,” said Kathryn. ...

Monster Amount Of Work Goes Into No Limits Show

... Andrew Carpenean. No Limits Monster Truck show. Spectators take a ride in the Paddy Wagon during the No Limits Monster Truck Show Friday night at the Heartland Event Center. (Independent/Andrew Carpenean). Posted: Friday, January 13, 2017 10:30 pm. by Kelli Rollin. A lot of dirt, grit and grease provide the fun at the No Limits Monster Truck show. The show, which is at the Heartland Events Center on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., had its first show on Friday night. But it takes a lot of work to have fun and compete. Login required. We have used your information to see if you have a subscription with us, but did not find one. Please click the button below to Start a new print or online subscription. Thank you for reading your allotted free articles on our site. If you would like to continue to read. Please sign in or create an account using the button below. Follow the instructions to create an online subscription. If you are already a print subscriber, an online subscription is FREE. If you need help, please contact our office at 308 382-1000. Screen Name or Email. Remember me on this computer. Or, use your linked account. Need an account? Create one ...